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🚀 Big News from Active Surfaces! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Active Surfaces has successfully secured $5.6M in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round! Led by Safar Partners, and supported by a diverse group of investors including QVT Financial LP, Lendlease, Type One Ventures, Umami Capital, Sabancı Climate Ventures, New Climate Ventures, SeaX Ventures, and others, this funding will propel us forward in our mission to transform the solar industry. Our pioneering technology creates lightweight, flexible solar panels that can be integrated into any surface, making solar power more accessible than ever before. As we scale our R&D efforts and move towards mass production with our innovative roll-to-roll semiconductor printing techniques, we are excited to lead the charge towards a sustainable future where every surface has the potential to generate clean energy. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to advance the future of solar and create sustainable solutions for our planet!  . . . . . . We wouldn't be here without the tremendous support from Third Derivative, Greentown Labs, For ClimateTech, Cleantech Open Northeast / NECEC, Cleantech Open, Swissnex, Saint-Gobain, Browning the Green Space, MIT.nano, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT School of Engineering, Forbes, The Nobel Prize, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO), MIT EECS, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, DOE Office of Technology Transitions, Rice Business Plan Competition, The Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition . Matthew Duff, Austin Fehr, Elyse Barré, PhD, Jay Sandlin, Jeremiah Mwaura, Mohamed Abdalla, Thomas Luly, Jeanne Pidoux, Khalid McCaskill #ActiveSurfaces #CleanEnergy #SolarPower #Innovation #Sustainability #StartupFunding #RenewableEnergy #Climatetech #MIT https://lnkd.in/ekiaAJx7

Active Surfaces Secures $5.6M in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Solar Technology

Active Surfaces Secures $5.6M in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Solar Technology

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Stwart Peña Feliz

Co-founder of MacroCycle | Breakthrough Energy Innovator Fellow | MIT Sloan MBA '23 | Siebel Scholar

2mo

To the moon (or sun!) 🚀

Shiv Bhakta ♻️

Founder at Active Surfaces | MIT MS+MBA | Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy

2mo

Only the beginning, time to make every surface active! ☀

Congrats team and excellent work! Amazing news to kick off the week.

Beth Zonis

Senior Director at Cleantech Open Northeast / NECEC

2mo

Congratulations, Shiv Bhakta ♻️ and the whole Active Surfaces team! Very exciting news, especially after being the Cleantech Open National Grand Prize Runner Up in 2023! Cleantech Open Northeast / NECEC NECEC #CTOAlumniSuccess

Congratulations on this huge milestone, Active Surfaces team!

Hugh Satterthwaite

Energy & Climate | Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group

2mo

Congratulations guys - fantastic news and well deserved

Maddy Dinsdale

Accelerating Climate Tech @ Third Derivative | Social Innovation | Entrepreneurship & Impact

2mo

Huge congratulations to the whole team!

Abraham Gerzeghier

MIT Leaders for Global Operations Fellow '24 | Sloan MBA and MS in Mechanical Engineering

2mo

Congrats Shiv and team!

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