Date: Mar 13, 2014 Author: Gillis Bernard Source: CrunchBase (
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One man's trash is ... this Boston cleantech startup's treasured chance to optimize energy production. Loci Controls announced on Thursday that it has scored $765,000 in seed funding to refine its technology for automating the harvest of methane from landfills. CommonAngels, Launch Capital and several other local angels participated in the round, much of which will go toward commercializing Loci's green technology and powering its pilot program, planned for this April.
The company, which is currently working out of local seed-stage fund and hardware accelerator BOLT, has developed hardware and software that monitors the methane gas characters generated from decomposing organic waste in landfills. After the gas is collected with a vacuum extraction system, it can then be processed and used as fuel to generate electricity, which can be used on-site, or sold to the grid.
Loci was founded by MIT graduates Andrew Campanella and Melinda Hale. While Hale was completing her PhD in mechanical engineering, Campanella was finishing his master's in system design and management. Prior, Campanella worked at WiTricity, another local cleantech company. "I basically went back to school to meet a co-founder and start something of my own," Campanella told BostInno via email. And shortly after the two like-minded innovators met at their alma mater's entrepreneu
