Watt It Takes
with Leah Ellis

Leah Ellis is Co-Founder and CEO of Sublime Systems. Cement contributes 8% of global CO2 emissions alone, but it’s indispensable our economy. Leah and her team at Sublime built a solution, replacing fossil fuels with electricity in cement production and cutting emissions by 90%.

 
 
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Leah Ellis

CEO & Co-founder
Sublime Systems
 
 

 

Leah Ellis is the CEO and co-founder of Sublime Systems, a company revolutionizing the cement production industry through its breakthrough low-carbon process. With a pilot plant in Somerville, Massachusetts capable of producing 100 tons of decarbonized cement annually, Sublime recently secured a $40 million series A funding to drive growth. Leah and her co-founder, Yet-Ming Chiang, developed the technology while she was an NSERC/Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Leah holds a PhD in chemistry from Dalhousie University, where she worked with Professor Jeff Dahn on lithium-ion battery optimization in partnership with 3M and Tesla. Leah is an Activate Boston Entrepreneurial Fellow and has been recognized as one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators under 35.

 
 
"Our mission is to have a swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions so that we can mitigate the worst of climate change."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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