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Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator Announces 2023 Channel Partner Strategic Awards to Catalyze Innovation and Inclusion

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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Today, the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN²), a technology incubator funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced its seventh cycle of Channel Partner Strategic Awards.

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  • Today, the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN²), a technology incubator funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced its seventh cycle of Channel Partner Strategic Awards.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230511005219/en/
    The winners of the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN²)'s 2023 Channel Partner Strategic Awards.
  • "The Wells Fargo Foundation is proud to support the diverse group of entrepreneurs who are innovating in this space with this year’s Channel Partner Awards."
  • Since its inception, the IN² Channel Partner Strategic Awards program has distributed more than $6 million, supporting 55 Strategic Awards and 174 Ecosystem or Connector Awards.

PRophet, a Stagwell (STGW) Marketing Cloud Product, Wins 2023 Innovation SABRE Award

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Thursday, January 12, 2023
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NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell's (NASDAQ: STGW) PRophet, the first-ever AI-driven PR pitch platform built by and for PR professionals that predicts media interest and sentiment before a pitch is sent, has been named the winner of the Innovation SABRE Awards North America 2023 in the PR Software and Services category.

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  • The Innovation SABRE Awards celebrate the full breadth and scope of the creative content produced by modern public relations professionals.
  • The awards also recognize innovation in a wide range of categories essential to the future development and direction of the public relations profession.
  • Presented by PRovoke Media, the 2023 Innovation SABRE Awards North America shortlist was selected from more than 750 entries, with submissions evaluated by a jury of more than 35 industry leaders.
  • PRophet is part of the Stagwell Marketing Cloud , a suite of technology products that support in-house marketing transformation for modern businesses.

FORGE and IN2 Announce Grants for Cleantech Companies

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Monday, September 12, 2022
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The latest edition of the FORGE Product Development Grant program will award non-dilutive grants up to $25,000 in partnership with the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2).

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  • The latest edition of the FORGE Product Development Grant program will award non-dilutive grants up to $25,000 in partnership with the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2).
  • IN2 is funding FORGE through a Channel Partner Strategic Award, said Kimberlee Ott, Wells Fargo Innovation Network Manager.
  • More than 90 percent of the 500+ startup companies that have engaged with FORGE have matured and thrived.
  • FORGE has helped to add more than $34 million to the local economy and more than 5,000 innovation and manufacturing jobs.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Leads $20M Series A for Blue Frontier's Game-Changing Sustainable, Energy-Storing Air Conditioning

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Thursday, July 28, 2022
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BOCA RATON, Fla. , July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Frontier, Inc., the leading innovator in ultra-efficient sustainable air conditioning technology, announced today that it has raised a $20M Series A equity investment led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, 2150 Urban Tech Sustainability Fund and VoLo Earth Ventures. Blue Frontier's commercialization partner, Modern Niagara, also participated in the funding round. The Series A financing will accelerate Blue Frontier's ability to bring its product to market, thereby helping to propel the company towards its goal of creating gigaton reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by decarbonizing building cooling.

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  • Blue Frontier's AC system reduces electricity use by up to 90% by combining dew-point-style sensible cooling with liquid desiccant dehumidification.
  • Brian Mayers, of Breakthrough Energy Ventures, will serve as a board observer.
  • "Cooling is already a significant part of our global energy consumption and is expected to eventually surpass heating demand," said Carmichael Roberts, Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
  • "Blue Frontier's innovation is important because it can provide cooling with higher efficiency but also improved flexibility reducing overall load and better utilizing renewable energy.

Transparent PV Windows Demonstrate Energy-Efficiency Performance in NEXT Energy Building Technology Project at NREL

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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Additionally, windows represent 30% of a commercial buildings heating and cooling energy, costing US building owners about $50 billion annually, according to DOE.

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  • Additionally, windows represent 30% of a commercial buildings heating and cooling energy, costing US building owners about $50 billion annually, according to DOE.
  • Our project data shows these windows can help buildings reduce energy consumption by improving the efficiency of windows and generating electricity for the building.
  • NEXTs transparent energy harvesting technology allows architects and building owners to turn windows and glass facades into producers of low-cost, on-site, renewable energy for buildings.
  • In the IN2 NEXT project, NEXT windows were modeled and tested against traditional commercial windows, tracking performance based on their respective Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC), an industry-standard performance metric for commercial windows.

Solis Agrosciences Delivers Specialized Research Services for AgriFoodTech Innovators

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Monday, May 16, 2022
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With its proprietary Plant Pipeline as a Service(PPaaS), Solis creates transgenic and gene-edited plants reliably and resource-efficiently, delivering expertise and technology to startups in AgriFoodTech.

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  • With its proprietary Plant Pipeline as a Service(PPaaS), Solis creates transgenic and gene-edited plants reliably and resource-efficiently, delivering expertise and technology to startups in AgriFoodTech.
  • "Solis is launching an exciting and new model for R&D services to support the expanding AgriFoodTech startup ecosystem," said Robb Fraley, PhD., former CTO Monsanto Company and 2013 World Food Prize Laureate.
  • Solis was founded by BioGenerator , the startup arm of BioSTL, in collaboration with startup executives Martha Schlicher , Mary Fernandes , and David Smoller to fill a need for specialized research support.
  • Solis Agrosciences is a pioneering plant sciences startup company bringing specialized research services to AgriFoodTech innovators.

Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator Announces Its First Demonstration Cohort

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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Today the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced the programs first cohort focused on demonstration projects.

Key Points: 
  • Today the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced the programs first cohort focused on demonstration projects.
  • Accelerating clean-technology innovation and commercialization is essential to align the economy with the goals of the Paris Agreement, said Robyn Luhning, Chief Sustainability Officer at Wells Fargo.
  • The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) is a $50 million technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation.
  • News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories .

Walker Sands Expands Leadership Team as it Looks to Build on a Year of Strong Growth

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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Walker Sands , a full-service marketing agency focused on accelerating the growth of B2B brands, has promoted four core employees to new positions on the senior leadership team.

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  • Walker Sands , a full-service marketing agency focused on accelerating the growth of B2B brands, has promoted four core employees to new positions on the senior leadership team.
  • The promotions follow a year of impressive growth for Walker Sands.
  • Now the agency is looking to build on that momentum, strengthening its leadership with these recent elevations to continue providing award-winning work for top B2B brands.
  • Walker Sands has an outstanding senior leadership team that is primed to take our agency and our services to the next level, said CEO Mike Santoro.

NREL finds Blokable's model for vertically integrated housing development can eliminate 60% of GHG emissions and 91% of material waste from new multi-family housing creation

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
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In the study, NREL compared Blokable's prototype designs with its scaled up, full production engineering model.

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  • In the study, NREL compared Blokable's prototype designs with its scaled up, full production engineering model.
  • Moreover, when Blokable adopts this model, it can achieve these metrics without any added manufacturing or development costs.
  • As a program participant, Blokable received $250,000 in non-dilutive funding and hands-on technical assistance for additional technology development and validation.
  • Blokable then installed a single Blok module on NREL's Golden, Colorado, campus for performance testing and experiments by NREL.