“Propelling green innovation forward” With internal servicing to the Cleantech Commons research park site at Trent University in Peterborough mostly complete, a bustling Cleantech Innovation Portal, strong value-adding partnerships in place, and several companies exploring tenancy options, 2022 has been pivotal to Cleantech Commons…
In our “People of the Portal” series, we highlight innovative and entrepreneurial members of the Cleantech Commons Cleantech Innovation Portal and celebrate the outstanding achievements of Portal members. This week, we are delighted to let you know that a Cleantech Commons Cleantech Innovation Portal client –…
We have had several occasions recently to celebrate the successes of a number of Cleantech Commons Cleantech Innovation Portal client companies. This week: please join me in celebrating a Cleantech Innovation Portal client AND a future Cleantech Commons tenant, Carbonix. “Energy Examined” has profiled…
According to a newly-published article, “Trent Researchers Driving Innovation in Industry,” three private-sector ventures that are collaborating with Trent University researchers could soon see new opportunities for innovation at Cleantech Commons, the green technology research and innovation park being built on Trent’s Symons Campus…
At the signing of a new research collaboration between Trent University and Karbon Brewing Co., Karbon Brewing announced that it is also looking to deepen its ties with the university through tenancy at Cleantech Commons. See: Carbon-negative brewer eyes locating at Cleantech Commons at…
We are excited to let you know that an innovative Cleantech Commons Cleantech Innovation Portal client company, Carbonix, has just been announced as the winner of $900,000 in CRIN funding. Carbonix is a winner in the Reducing Environmental Footprint Technology Competition. Please join me in…
Food security and ensuring a resilient food system are some of the leading challenges of our time. Two Trent University researchers are helping bring the university into the national spotlight by contributing to FarmFood360°, an award-winning virtual platform that offers Canadians a behind-the-scenes look…
We are excited to announce that a Cleantech Commons Cleantech Innovation Portal client company has just been announced as an OAFRI winner! One of the successful OAFRI applicants is the Cleantech Innovation Portal company, Noblegen. Congratulations to the entire Noblegen team! The Cleantech Commons Cleantech…
NutriAg Launches M-BOS™ Biological Plant Supplement in Canada Demonstrating the power of collaboration between researchers, academics, and the business sector, a new range of biological nutrient solutions for the agricultural sector has hit the Canadian market. The collaboration between the NutriAg Group and the…
A Cleantech Commons “Cleantech Innovation Portal” innovator, PKA Softtouch, recently celebrated raising $750,000 from over 400 individual investors. (You can join PKA on the portal by registering your cleantech innovation here.) The company tells us that this pool of shareholders are now “PKA SoftTouch Co-owners“, with each investor…
In a world increasingly seeking both sustainability and solutions to the global food crisis, Noblegen is a young company driven by a vision to promote healthy lives and a healthy world. That is why Noblegen is working to “reinvent the future” and restore health…
A Cleantech Commons “Cleantech Innovation Portal” innovator, and a “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant”, Noblegen’s work with euglena was recognized internationally during the QUORN Foods Innovation Challenge at the 2021 Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins Summit. QUORN put a call out to start-ups that are leveraging technology to create realistic whole…
A Cleantech Commons “Cleantech Innovation Portal” innovator, PKA Softtouch, has launched its latest equity crowdfunding campaign. (You can join PKA on the portal by registering your cleantech innovation here.) Hosted by leading Canadian equity crowdfunding platform Frontfundr of Vancouver, B.C., this campaign is focused on…
As long as needles have been around health care delivery, fear of them has been a constant! However, thanks to a Cleantech Commons “Cleantech Innovation Portal” innovator, a solution may be at hand. Lakefield, Ontario-based research and development company, PKA, a “Future Cleantech Commons™…
The Solar Impulse Foundation has awarded “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant,” Noblegen, an advanced digital biology company, the “Solar Impulse Efficient Solution” Label, furthering its mission to help create a balanced ecosystem by solving the environmental and nutritional challenges of our global food system. Disclosure: Noblegen…
FoodForwarding, which presents the FoodTech 500, has nominated a “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant,” Noblegen, as one of its 2020 “FoodTech 500” finalists. Disclosure: Noblegen is registered on our Cleantech Innovation Portal. You can join Noblegen on the portal by registering your cleantech innovation here. Inspired by the…
Food Navigator, which provides news & analysis on food & beverage development, has identified a “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant,” Noblegen, as one of its “Food Tech Company To Watch in 2021“. Noblegen is an advanced nutritional ingredient company, Read the full Food Navigator story here!…
A “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant“, PKA SoftTouch Inc., has been awarded a “Top 10 Best Invention” award at the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN 2020) for their Micro-Needle Device. The award was the only one made to a Canadian company, and the invention…
In an article titled “Peterborough Watertech Company Rainmaker Seeing Major Growth Through Pandemic“, our friends at Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development profile Peterborough-based air-to-water and water-to-water cleantech company and “Friend of Cleantech Commons“, Rainmaker Worldwide. “The Peterborough-based water technology company,” PKED writes, is…
In a recent Yahoo! Finance article, “20 Entrepreneurs Changing The Way Canadians Do Business“, a good “Friend of Cleantech Commons“, Aclarus Ozone, was highlighted and profiled. Congratulations! The article notes that while the Coronavirus has put a variety of businesses at a standstill, entrepreneurial…
A future Cleantech Commons tenant, Rainmaker Worldwide Inc., has just been announced as the winner of a significant international award for sustainability. Rainmaker was given the award for “Best Community Impact Water Solutions Global 2020” by U.K.-based CFI.co. Congratulations! In making the award, CFI.co said…
A future Cleantech Commons tenant, Rainmaker Worldwide Inc., has announced the signing of a Water-as-a-Service (WaaS) agreement with Jamaica’s Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Rainmaker will supply up to 5,000 litres of water per day for 3 years through their established Air-to-Water technology (See video below!)…
A future Cleantech Commons tenant, Carbonix, has been profiled by Alberta Innovates, which says that the cleantech company “has been working to help forestry, mining, and oil and gas industries remediate their residues and return land and water to its original, natural state“. Carbonix…