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City of Somerville puts a price on listening
A missed pickup becomes a service request. A neighborhood idea becomes a budget line. Inside the Massachusetts city trying to make public input produce something you can actually use.
Greentown Labs and the value of a useful neighbor
Four startups shared a warehouse to make the rent manageable. They discovered that the person next door could be worth as much as the equipment - and built a climate incubator around that discovery.
Janji Built a Running Brand on a Promise - Then Had the Nerve to Rewrite It
Two college runners turned $35,000 in competition winnings into colorful performance gear and a million-dollar clean-water promise. Fourteen years later, Janji is testing a harder idea: a mission can change without becoming marketing mush.
Addis Energy
Addis Energy is a Somerville, Massachusetts climate-tech company turning the Earth's subsurface into a chemical reactor to make ammonia. By injecting nitrate-bearing water into iron-rich underground rock, its process uses natural heat and pressure to convert nitrogen into ammonia without hydrogen feedstock, added electricity, or CO2 emissions. Spun out of MIT research and paired with deep oil-and-gas engineering experience, the company aims to produce clean ammonia - a fertilizer and potential fuel behind more than 1% of global emissions - at a fraction of conventional cost.
Aeronaut Brewing Company
Aeronaut Brewing Company is a Somerville, Massachusetts craft brewery founded in 2014 by three grad-school roommates who brought MIT and Cornell science backgrounds to beer. Known for propagating its own house-cultured yeast and experimental recipes, Aeronaut pairs adventurous ales and lagers with a Somerville taproom that doubles as a food hall, live-music venue and community hub. In 2024 it merged with Dorchester Brewing Company under a new parent, Tasty Liquid Alliance.
VIA
VIA (VIA Science, Inc.) is a Somerville, Massachusetts Web3 company building a decentralized, quantum-resistant, passwordless platform that lets governments and enterprises share and analyze sensitive data without exposing it. Backed by 18 issued patents, VIA is the first blockchain application to earn U.S. Department of Defense-wide cybersecurity accreditation, and its tools protect data and identities for the DoD, Fortune 100 firms, and energy utilities worldwide.