HQ Function

The Somerville headquarters serves as Greentown Labs' flagship incubator, housing a significant portion of its member startups, extensive lab facilities, event spaces, and the primary administrative and operational teams. It's the nerve center for program development and partner engagement.

Notable Features:

A 100,000 sq. ft. facility featuring state-of-the-art wet labs, dry labs, a machine shop, electronics lab, prototyping space, co-working areas, and large event spaces. The building is a repurposed former manufacturing plant, reflecting a commitment to sustainability through adaptive reuse.

Work Culture:

Highly collaborative, mission-driven, and innovative. The HQ fosters a strong sense of community among startups, staff, corporate partners, and investors, with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and mutual support to tackle pressing climate issues.

HQ Significance:

As the original and largest Greentown Labs location, the Somerville HQ established the model for climatetech incubation in North America. It has been instrumental in nurturing hundreds of startups and serves as a global example of a successful climatetech ecosystem.

Values Reflected in HQ: Innovation, collaboration, community, sustainability (demonstrated by the adaptive reuse of an industrial building and focus on clean technologies), and impact-driven entrepreneurship.

Location:

While Greentown Labs' physical incubators are located in Somerville, MA, and Houston, TX, its influence and network are global. Greentown Labs supports startups with international ambitions and collaborates with a worldwide network of partners, investors, and climatetech ecosystems. They run global programs and facilitate connections for their member companies to scale solutions internationally, thereby supporting climate action on a global scale.

Street Address:

444 Somerville Ave

City:

Somerville

State/Province:

MA

Country:

USA