CLEANTECH OPEN MIDWEST ANNOUNCES GLOBAL FORUM FINALISTS

Cleantech Open Midwest is pleased to announce the Global Forum Competition finalists for the 2017 Cleantech Open Midwest Region Awards & Innovation Showcase. On Nov. 2nd-3rd, 2017, the award ceremony hosted by the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis was the culmination of the CTO-MW annual acceleration program for early-stage cleantech companies. Finalists advance to Cleantech Open’s Global Forum to be held January 28-30, 2018, in downtown Los Angeles.

Third place winner is Emergy, a startup working in the Chain Reaction Innovations program based at Argonne National Laboratory.

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