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mHUB Climate & Energy Tech Accelerator

6-month program fast-tracks high potential startups through hands-on product development in state-of-the-art prototyping facility supported by world-class corporate and venture investors.

Boost Your Startup

Access startup funding and prototyping resources from the nation’s leading physical product development and hardtech innovation center. mHUB’s unmatched resources help exceptional energy, climate & clean tech startups turn their world-changing product ideas into commercialized, scalable product businesses.

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Rocket, Meet Fuel.

Are you the next medtech startup to join the mHUB Accelerator? mHUB has already made 46 high-growth hardtech startup investments in companies building disruptive solutions that align with industry needs. By partnering with industry leaders on each accelerator cohort, market demands are identified on the front end that leads to opportunities for pilots and investment on the backend.

Product + Business Acceleration

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Customer Discovery

Problem Validation
Customer Outreach & Development
Building Your Hypothesis
Validating Assumptions
Defining Your Value Proposition
Regulatory Aspects
Target Market

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Prototyping, Product & Manufacturing

Product Ideation
Proof of Concept
Prototype Development
Prototype Roadmap
Design for Manufacturing
Design for Sustainability
Supply Chain

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Business Viablity

Business Modeling
Financial Modeling
Unit Economics
Go to Market
Pilot Customers
Legal Structure
People and Leadership
Ethics

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Throughout

Mentor Matching
The Art of Pitching
Corporate Partner Access
Access to Investor Network
24 Month mHUB Membership
Access to Prototyping Facilities
Access to Industry Networking Events

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mHUB's Hands-on Venture Investment

mHUB Ventures and the mHUB Product Impact Fund support the acceleration of early stage hardtech innovation in the U.S. mHUB Ventures invests $200,000 initial investment, which includes $142,500 cash and $60,000 in-kind services for certain fees related to product development, resources, and programming during a six-month highly structured incubation (with two full years of support) in exchange for 6.5% equity in each startup. Approximately 30% of the fund’s capital is reserved for follow-on investments in a select set of our portfolio.

Read about investments into climate/energytech startups, sustainable manufacturing startups, and MedTech startups.

Six Months of Deep Dive Incubation

The mHUB Accelerator is a fast-paced program that’s designed to take your startup from concept or prototype to the foundation of a profitable, scalable and sustainable business. The 6-month, hands-on program connects surrounds teams with product engineering expertise and a hose of market and business intelligence leaders. Teams continue to receive support for an additional 18 months of continued  mHUB membership and access post program.

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Areas of Focus

mHUB is looking for early-stage startups working on hardtech and infrastructure solutions in renewable energy, hydrogen, carbon capture & sequestration, energy storage, vehicle-to-grid solutions, heat sink technologies, distributed energy resources, sustainable buildings and the Internet of energy. 

mHUB is excited to hear where you see opportunity for disruption.

Hydrogen Production, Storage and Transportation
To improve clean hydrogen production technologies, processes, and designs by reducing costs, improving safety, or improving performance; To innovate on materials, processes and approaches to store and transport hydrogen; To improve technologies to enable deployment of clean hydrogen in transportation, fuels and industrial sectors

Utility-Scale Renewable Technologies

To improve manufacturing, installation, or operation of utility-scale PV solar and wind technologies, by reducing costs, easing installation, improving energy production, or otherwise improving system performance; To improve efficiency or reliability of power electronics devices converting wind or PV solar energy generation to usable electricity (e.g., inverters, DC-DC converters, transformers)

Circularity/Sustainability of Energy Supply Chains
To reduce environmental harm, improve traceability, and eliminate poor labor practices in production of energy components; To improve end of life solutions and recycling for those energy components, including renewable energy systems, energy storage, compressors, and other components; To innovate on technologies to recycle or store spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear plants, and improve the economics of advanced nuclear

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies
To improve the performance and reduce the cost of CO2 capture; To innovate on the cost of deployment opportunities for carbon utilization; To innovate on new technologies to sequester carbon, and innovate on carbon management monitoring and tracking technologies

Utility-Scale Energy Storage Technologies

To improve manufacturing, installation, or operation of utility-scale energy storage systems by reducing cost, increasing safety, increasing performance, eliminating challenging raw materials, or optimizing auxiliary systems

Energy Production / Storage / Transmission Buildout

To improve ability to utilize energy sites with challenging topography, geology, environmental, or other factors; To improve costs, safety, quality, or timelines for construction of energy production and transmission systems; To improve availability, performance, and operating cost of energy production and transmission systems through new technologies (e.g., through automation, robotics, sensors)

Innovate in Electrification and Decarbonization

To improve the technical feasibility and reduce cost of electrification of hard to abate carbon intensive industries such as steel, cement and others; To innovate through alternative opportunities to reduce emissions across sectors (residential, buildings and industry)

Improve Grid Flexibility
To advance technologies to deploy distributed resources to manage grid reliability in current deployments and next generation deployments (DERMS, VPP, microgrids); To find new applications within renewable energy, battery storage, hydrogen systems or electric transmission for new IoT devices and methods such as automation, robotics, sensors, and more

Energy Infrastructure & Resilience to Weather/Unexpected Events
To improve energy infrastructure resilience to extreme weather events and other external factors. To improve preparedness and ability to maintain operations or mitigate equipment damage for renewable energy infrastructure through extreme weather events such as severe storm, icing, wildfire, flood, and, to improve ability to identify, assess, monitor and locate buried gas pipe, above-ground piping and meters at customer premises avoiding external damages

Meet Your Acceleration Team

Startup teams benefit from the guidance of seasoned entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, and industry leaders who’ve built businesses, raised capital, and helped founders realize their full potential. 

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Haven Allen                          CEO and Co-founder, mHUB, and Managing Partner of the mHUB Product Impact Fund I

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Bill Fienup
mHUB Co-founder and VP Innovation Services
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Thierry Van Landegem        Executive Director, Climate & Energy Tech Accelerator
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Melissa Lederer                    Chief Experience Officer, mHUB, and Managing Partner of the mHUB Product Impact Fund I

John-Domagalski

John Domagalski
Director, Market Analytics, Constellation Energy

Corporate Partner

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Dr. Uuganbayar Otgonbaatar, PhD

Director, R&D, Grants and Partnerships               Constellation Energy

Corporate Partner

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James Murphy

President and Chief Operating Officer
Invenergy

Corporate Partner

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Maggie Pakula

Senior Vice President, Strategy

Invenergy 

Corporate Partner

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Erik G. Birkerts
Chief Executive Officer
Evergreen Climate Innovations

Community Partner and Selection Support Committee

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Luis Serpa Andrade
Director, Client Innovation & Discovery
UL

Mentor

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David Arenas
President
David Arenas & Associates, Inc.
Mentor

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Jacob Babcock
CEO
NuCurrent
Advisor

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Corey Barnes-Covenant
Senior Manager in Strategic Sustainability Consulting
Ramboll Americas
Mentor

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Jian Cao
Director
Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation
Northwestern University
Advisor

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Sara Chamberlain
Managing Director
Energy Foundry
Mentor

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Ed Coleman
Founding President and CEO
West Side Forward
Advisor

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Carlos Correia
Board Member at Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (C2CPii)
Selection Committee & Mentor

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Alan Feinerman
Chief Technology and Executive Officer
Cleaner Slate, LLC
Mentor

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Deepak Kaimal
CTO, Exostar
Selection Committee

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Mark Karasek
Adjunct Professor
McCormick School of Engineering
Northwestern University
Mentor

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Karen Kerr
General Partner
Exposition Ventures
Selection Support Committee & Mentor

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Ushma Kriplani
Interim Associate Laboratory Director, Science & Technology Partnerships and Outreach
Argonne National Laboratory
Mentor

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Isaac McCoy
Dean - School of Business, Entrepreneurship, and CIS
Stillman College
Mentor

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Allison Myers
Co-Founder & General Partner
Buoyant Ventures
Mentor

 

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Victor Pascucci
Co-Founder, Managing General Partner
Energy Capital Ventures
Mentor

 

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Nik Rokop
Coleman Foundation Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Stuart School of Business
Illinois Institute of Technology
Mentor

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James Schulte
Partner
The Ad Hoc Group
Mentor

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Vikram Sharma
President
Crisp
Selection Support Committee

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Brian Tolliver
Corporate Development and Strategy Leader
Mentor

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Sunny Trinh
CEO
DevvESG Streaming Inc
Mentor

David-Weinstein

David Weinstein
Founder & CEO
Freshwater Advisors
Mentor

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Carrie Zalewski
Chairman, Illinois Commerce Commission
Mentor

Climate and EnergyTech Portfolio Teams

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Industry Partners

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Community Partners

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What portfolio founders have to say: 

“The mHUB Accelerator helped me learn many things, including how to tell a story around the technology I'm developing and what we are planning to do with it."

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Sanza Kazadi

CEO & Founder, 

Kazadi Enterprises

"Participating in the mHUB Accelerator, Blip has been able to connect with manufacturers, rapidly iterate, and develop strategies for the changing environment in manufacturing." 

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Sophia Wennstedt

Founder,

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“We are addressing the climate crisis and Hago Energetics has been fortunate through mHUB to meet potential industry partners for our technology."

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Wilson Hago

Founder & CEO,

Hago Energetics

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