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Former Intellectual Ventures exec named CEO of startup destroying PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

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Aquagga Photo) After five years, four in-the-field clean-up demos, and more than a dozen lab tests, the “forever chemical” destruction startup Aquagga is ready to commercialize its technology with a new CEO at the helm. The long-lived chemicals are able to escape from products and now contaminate drinking water nationwide.

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‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

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Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

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With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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Hydrogen fuel startup spins out of Bill Gates-backed R&D effort, lands $7.8M

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Peregrine Hydrogen leadership and co-founders, from left: Friðrik Lárusson, CEO; Stefan Omelchenko, vice president of operations and strategy; and Matthew Shaner, chief technology officer. startup developing technology for producing clean hydrogen fuel, raised $7.8 Not pictured: co-founder and advisor Ian McKay.

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Seattle clean tech startup lands $1.4M for eco-friendly soy-based suds for shampoos, detergents

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Included are Chief Technology Officer Shawn Eady (far left) and CEO Christoph Krumm (center right, open lab coat). The tech: Sironix has developed a suite of surfactants, which are the chemicals that make shampoo foamy and lifts oily stains out of fabrics. million in new funding.

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

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Emerging carbon dioxide removal technologies that leverage the ocean’s vast size and natural chemical processes hold promise as tools to draw down carbon at scale,” said Ocean Visions’ senior program officer Nikhil Neelakantan, in announcing its latest “Launchpad” program cohort that includes Banyu.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.