Get funding and prototyping resources from the nation’s leading hardtech innovation & product development center.
We’re a passionate bunch of operators, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors and industry leaders with the right know how to guide our teams from point A to points B, C, and D.
Meet your mHUB Acceleration Team.
mHUB invests $75,000 in cash and $100k in services, programming, and hardware in a two-year, highly structured incubation program in exchange for 6% equity.
Potential incremental investment from participating corporate partners.
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Creating Solutions for Complex Industries
mHUB’s corporate partners have a firsthand view of the industry challenges most in need of solving. That’s why each accelerator cohort has different partners supporting it who help in the product market fit. Partners provide invaluable industry intel, connections, manufacturing supply chain, pilots and investment opportunities. They will become your biggest supporters.
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, heat sink technologies, distributed energy resources, sustainable buildings and the internet of energy. The team at mHUB is excited to hear your ideas for where you see opportunity for disruption.
01
Improve Utility-Scale PV Solar Technologies
Full DescriptionTo improve manufacturing, installation, or operation of utility-scale PV solar technologies, including PV cells, modules, racking, or auxiliary components by reducing costs, improving module breakage rates, easing installation, improving energy production, improving PV plant technology flexibility to mitigate long-term operational risk, or otherwise improving system performance
02
Improve Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage Technologies
Full DescriptionTo improve manufacturing, installation, or operation of utility-scale battery energy storage systems by reducing cost, increasing safety, increasing performance, eliminating challenging raw materials, or optimizing auxiliary systems
03
Improve Long-Duration Energy Storage Technologies
Full DescriptionTo enable economic long-duration energy storage (10-150 hour duration) by reducing cost, increasing safety, improving performance, eliminating challenging raw materials, or optimizing auxiliary systems
04
Improve Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies
Full DescriptionTo improve carbon capture technologies for natural gas power plants, hydrogen production facilities, end use customers (industrial, commercial and residential) or direct air capture facilities by reducing costs or improving performance
05
Improve Hydrogen Production Technologies
Full DescriptionTo improve water electrolysis, renewable natural gas and all “colors” hydrogen production, or other hydrogen production technologies, processes, and designs by reducing costs, improving safety, or improving performance
06
Improve Hydrogen Storage and Transportation
Full DescriptionTo improve hydrogen storage / distribution / transportation technologies, processes, and designs by reducing costs, improving safety, improving performance, or improving materials (e.g. accelerate R&D on hydrogen transport and storage via existing or new pipes)
07
Improve Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems
Full DescriptionTo improve efficiency or reliability of devices converting wind or PV solar energy generation to usable electricity (e.g. inverters, DC-DC converters, transformers)
08
Improve Natural Gas Energy Efficiency or Resilience
Full DescriptionTo enable the role of natural gas energy efficiency to enhance resilience of the customers (e.g. through fuel cell technology), especially with municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals, black starting capabilities, and other micro-grid/islanding approaches
09
Improve Site Development, Construction, or O&M Methods and Technologies for Onshore Wind, Offshore Wind, PV Solar, Battery Storage or Electric Transmission Projects
Full DescriptionTo improve ability to utilize renewable energy sites with challenging topography, geology, environmental, or other factors; To improve renewable energy construction costs, safety, quality, or timelines; To improve renewable energy operating project availability, performance, and operating cost (e.g. through automation, robotics, sensors, 3D printing, AI/ML)
10
Improve Circularity and Sustainability of Energy Supply Chains and Materials
Full DescriptionTo reduce carbon intensity, reduce environmental harm, improve traceability, and eliminate poor labor practices in production of materials used in energy components and to improve end of life solutions and recycling for those energy components, including wind turbine blades, wind foundations, PV modules, li-ion battery cells, compressors, and other components
11
Find New Energy IoT Applications for New Hardware Devices
Full DescriptionTo find new applications within onshore wind, offshore wind, PV solar, battery storage, hydrogen systems or electric transmission for new IoT devices and methods such as automation, robotics, sensors, 3D printing, AI/ML, and more
12
Improve Energy Infrastructure Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Other External factors
Full DescriptionTo 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
