Innovators in the News
Fast Company: Want a heat pump or induction cooktop? These startups make it easier for you to switch
IMPEL Innovators Grant Gunnison of Zero (2022 Cohort) and Cooper Marcus of QuitCarbon (2023 Cohort) featured in this article about startups streamlining home electrification.
New York State: Governor Hochul Announces Round Four Winners of the Grow-NY Food and Agriculture Business Competition
2021 IMPEL Innovator Tommy Gibbons of Hempitecture featured as 2nd place winner of Grow NY's Food and Agriculture business competition.
Idaho News 6: Ketchum company looks to create housing material out of newly legalized crop
2021 IMPEL Innovator Tommy Gibbons of Hempitecture featured for new board and bat facility opening in southern Idaho.
Aeroshield News: AeroShield Materials Secures $4 Million for Novel Transparent Insulation that Enables the Next Generation of Energy-Efficient Windows
2020 IMPEL Innovators Elise Strobach and Aaron Baskerville-Bridges of Aeroshield featured as Aeroshield secures its seed fundraise.
NREL: First Cohort of Innovators Enter West Gate
2022 IMPEL Innovator Grant Gunnison of Zero featured as one of West Gate's new members.
CBS News: This is What Flower Power Looks Like
2021 IMPEL Innovator Daniel Farb of Flower Turbines featured on Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca.
Newswire: Flower Turbines Is An Innovation Winner of VERBUND X Program In Austria
2021 IMPEL Innovator Daniel Farb of Flower Turbines featured as winner of competition.
Architect Magazine: Award - Toward Carbon Neutrality—High-Performance Biochromic Window
2021 IMPEL Innovator Kyoung-Hee Kim of Ecoclosure featured as winner of 2021 American Institute of Architects R&D Award.
U.S. Department of Energy: Small Businesses Awarded $8.9 Million in Building Technology R&D Funding
2021 IMPEL Innovator Levon Atoyan of Active Energy Systems featured as SBIR Phase II grant awardee.
New York University News: NYU Tandon team advances to the American Made Challenges “E-Robot” phase II competition
2021 IMPEL Innovator Bilal Sher of EASEEbot featured as winner of prize through E-ROBOT competition.
U.S. Department of Energy: U.S. Department of Energy Building Technologies Office Awards $8.6 Million to Accelerate the Development of Building Technologies and Fast-Track Commercialization
2021 IMPEL Innovators Tanya Barham of Community Energy Labs and Tommy Gibbons of Hempitecture featured as 2021 CRADA awardees.
CalSEED: CalSEED Awards $6.6 Million in Grants to Early-Stage Clean Energy Innovations
2021 IMPEL Innovator Tanya Barham of Community Energy Labs featured as a 2022 CalSEED concept awardee.
Newswire: Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC Announce the Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup Participants
2020 IMPEL Innovators Elise Strobach and Aaron Baskerville-Bridges of Aeroshield and 2021 IMPEL Innovator Josh Cable of Inventwood featured as Healthy Buildings Challenge participants.
U.S. Department of Energy: BTO Announces its Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) Selections
2021 IMPEL Innovator Ayyoub Momen of Community Energy Labs featured as a 2021 BENEFIT awardee.
U.S. Department of Energy: American-Made Solar Prize Round 4
2020 IMPEL Innovators Elise Strobach and Aaron Baskerville-Bridges of Aeroshield featured as finalists for Round 4 of the American-Made Solar Prize 2020.
U.S. Department of Energy: Department of Energy Announces $33 Million for 2020 Technology Commercialization Fund Projects
2020 IMPEL Innovator Namit Singh of Microgrid Labs Solutions featured as a 2020 Tech Commercialization Fund recipient.
U.S. Department of Energy: DOE Announces 20 New Competitors for the American-Made Solar Prize
2020 IMPEL Innovator Daniel Gerber of Verify Energy featured as finalists for Round 3 of the American-Made Solar Prize 2020.
ACEEE: Thin Triple-pane Windows Brighten U.S. Market: Summer Study Author Describes How
2019 IMPEL Innovators Robert Hart and Howdy Goudey of Berkeley Lab featured as partnering with manufacturers for developing and scaling thin triple-pane windows.