TUESDAY | SEPT. 24 - 3:30-5 PM ET
How can new technology and innovative business models solve environmental challenges?
Hear how two startups from SEAS, and incubated in Greentown Labs, have turned their research into products that reduce environmental harm.
Where: Harvard Science and Engineering Complex, Room: LL2.221 (Lecture) + LL2 Atrium (Reception)
Please RSVP to let us know if you plan to attend. Registration does not guarantee a seat in the lecture. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis until the room is at capacity.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Fleet Robotics is a Harvard University and VC-incubated green-tech startup developing its first product, an underwater robot to inspect and maintain ship hulls. Ocean shipping contributes to 3% of total greenhouse gas emissions, and inefficiencies from fouled hulls can increase a single ship's emissions by up to 30%. Our fully autonomous robots can operate while ships are underway, eliminating costly downtime. We have a core team of roboticists who have designed robots for use in underwater inspection and navigation, and who were the world’s first to deploy tracking tags to sperm whales with autonomous drones. We are a passionate team that cares deeply about solving significant environmental and ocean-based problems with cutting-edge robotics.
Tender Food is a food technology company based in Somerville, MA. Our mission is to become the manufacturing standard for the alternative meat industry, rapidly accelerate its adoption, and replace animal agriculture. We were founded in 2020 by four PhD co-founders who spun out of Harvard University. While there, we developed high-throughput, ingredient agnostic fiber spinning technology (think an advanced cotton candy machine) that can convert any input any plant protein into fibers a – the building block of animal muscle. These patented platforms allow us to create incredible products that fully replicate the experience of meat, across any format (shredded, whole cuts, steaks), animal type (chicken, pork, beef, seafood), with simple, recognizable ingredients, at extremely low cost. We believe these platforms will become the new standard of manufacturing by solving the industry's key pain points – quality and cost.
Michael Bell co-founded Fleet Robotics out of the Harvard Microrobotics lab in 2022. Michael received his PhD in the Harvard Microrobotics Lab for an underwater sea-star robot that adhered and navigated on ferrous surfaces. Michael previously led Project CETI as the Program Manager, developing whale tracking tags and automated drone tagging and recovery methods to translate sperm whale communication in the Caribbean. Michael has successfully spun out two companies from Harvard labs, Voxel8, and Electroninks. Voxel8 focused on 3D printed electronics, received Harvard accelerator funding, was a finalist in MassChallenge, raised more than $30M, and was acquired. Electroninks raised $700k on Kickstarter from more than 12,000 backers, and has millions in revenue today. Michael holds 6+ patents from industry and academia.
Christophe Chantre is the co-founder and CEO of Tender Food, a food technology company making alternative meats. Meat is one of the most destructive and polluting industries on our planet, so at Tender Food, they're working to make the most delicious, healthy, and affordable meat alternatives possible. Chantre Previously worked as a program lead at the Wyss Institute to develop and validate functionality of regenerative heart valve bioprosthetics in preclinical studies. He also supported various other efforts to commercialize technologies developed at the Wyss/Parker Lab, ranging from sustainable foods to textiles and medical devices.
