Greentown Labs
Founding Director Dings: “Addressing climate change is a moral imperative and an economic opportunity.”
A town-gown group is planning to launch a climate-focused tech start-up center in early 2023 in downtown New Haven.
The center is called ClimateHaven. It is registered for now as a for-profit corporation, but the plan is to form a nonprofit based in the former City Hall building at 770 Chapel St.
The group, which has been meeting for months, includes Joshua Geballe, Yale’s new top-level point person for promoting tech start-ups in town; SeeClickFix founder Ben Berkowitz; and representatives from the quasi-state venture capital firm Connecticut Innovations (CI) and Yale’s Elm Ventures and Center for Business and the Environment. Geballe last week described the emerging center to community leaders and others gathered at the New Haven Lawn Club…
