PROTO VENTURES CHANNEL:
Fusion &
Clean
Energy
MISSION
To accelerate the creation of energy ventures from MIT.
BACKGROUND
MIT has a track record of big, bold, clean energy spinoffs. Innovation is guaranteed; now the challenge is, how can we make more of these potentially world-changing companies — and how can we accelerate ideas that can solve Earth’s most pressing challenges?
The Fusion & Clean Energy channel launched under the Office of Innovation in 2022 in partnership with MIT’s Plasma Science Fusion Center (PSFC).
This channel focuses on creating groundbreaking new opportunities in clean energy by leveraging MIT’s top-tier talent and core competencies, including superconducting magnets, artificial intelligence, robotics, plasma science, high-power radio frequency systems, cryogenics, advanced materials, electromagnetic sensors, and high energy physics.
WHO WE ARE
VENTURE BUILDER
David Cohen-Tanugi
LinkedIn
FACULTY DIRECTOR
Dennis Whyte
Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Gene Keselman
Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Director, Mission Innovation Experimental (MIx)
Michael Short
Class of ’42 Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Associate Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
INTERNAL ADVISORS
Fiona Murray
Associate Dean of Innovation and Inclusion at the MIT School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Michael Cima
David H. Koch (1962) Professor of Engineering
Faculty Director, Lemelson-MIT Program
Andrew Lo
Charles E. & Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT School of Management
Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
EXTERNAL ADVISORS
Francesca Ferrazza
Naimish Patel
Jono Goldstein
Ally Yost
Badar Khan
Louis Carranza
Francis O’Sullivan
Nagarjuna Venna
Stephanie Connaughton
Dan Goodman
Luis Soenksen
CLEAN ENERGY
NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
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Proto Venture Fellow Brings ‘Passion for Incubating Ideas’ to MIT’s Venture Studio
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Hee Yau Phoon brought decades of experience in renewable energy sector when he partnered with Proto Ventures to find his next venture.
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MIT Proto Ventures’ New Fellows Are Reducing Carbon Emissions For Long-Haul Trucks
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Sayandeep Biswas and Alexis Huynh seek to commercialize MIT tech to replace diesel with hydrogen in tomorrow’s trucks
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Proto Ventures Fellow Brings Fusion Energy Tech to Space Travel
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Proto Ventures fellow Theo Mouratidis was awarded the Activate fellowship to launch a new propulsion startup Hyperion Transport Systems, a collaboration with Proto Ventures—MIT’s venture studio.
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5 Clean Energy Projects Unveiled
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Proto Ventures has identified five promising opportunities in clean energy to promote into team projects, a key milestone that will culminate in the formation of one or more new ventures from inside MIT.