Hi all, and happy summer!
I wish you all lots of sunshine and great fun.
Remember IPOs? Companies have raised just $4.9 billion via US IPOs this year, less than 6% of the record sum raised in the first half of 2021.

Summer has finally hit the NorthEast, and the various outdoor events we attended around Boston and Western Massachusetts have been fantastic.

The interest in Zero Emission Aviation continues to accelerate. In the past two years, we saw billions of dollars in new investments.

We love it when our customers succeed, and we are incredibly honored to be recognized as part of their success story. Thank you Zeptive team for the kind words, and thank you Forge team for connecting us!

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $175 million in investments for clean energy technology projects for 68 research and development projects.

Cleantech investment exploded in 2021 — the first half of the year alone saw over $60 billion flow to climate-tech startups. That momentum could continue this year. It’s estimated that 14% of VC dollars will go to climate techs.

It’s been super busy the first couple of weeks of 2022, which clearly delayed the release of our January newsletter.

Go check out this Web3 thing below. They are either all participating in psychedelic drug trials and upped the dosage, or I am just not buying it, but feel free to convince me otherwise.

As the year comes to an end, we want to thank and congratulate all the 2021 NPA’s Startups to Watch for their incredible accomplishments during this challenging Covid year.

Here is your chance to put a New England Startup with Hardware content on a winning pedestal for 2022. See more below.

And oh geeze, it’s just six weeks until Christmas! Start buying presents now as there won’t be much left in December.

Boom! Starry to go public via Blank-Check deal valued at $1.66B.