Marissa BeattyFounder

United States - New York, New York

I'm a Columbia PhD turned climate tech founder, where my research and technology focuses on improving the adoptability of electrolysis into sustainable manufacturing.

I believe that the path toward rapid decarbonization lies in supporting existing systems to adopt sustainable practices, rather than building a new industry entirely from scratch. By understanding the unique challenges faced in industrial manufacturing, we can build sustainable technologies that replace the primary emitters in a process, while making use of the non-emitting support infrastructure that’s already been built. This approach lets us quickly reinvent these industries to be sustainable with the least amount of process complexity.

Through the support of the Activate fellowship program, I'm now pursuing this belief and applying my experience on resilient catalysis towards developing electrolysis technologies with longer lifetimes and better impurity resistance. Using electrochemical technologies, which can be more energy efficient and powered directly from renewables, we can produce valuable, carbon-negative chemical building blocks for the materials industry.