The sustainable materials revolution is here
NYC’s first
open-source, open-door hub for sustainable materials
Catalyzing the Future of Sustainability
A partnership between the City and several of its premier academic institutions, Gotham Foundry is becoming a catalyst for the sustainable materials revolution.
Built on a foundation of innovation and science, leading with bio-fabrication, Gotham Foundry is an open-source, open-door, sustainable materials innovation hub whose geography, facilities, and strategic network span multiple academic institutions and scientific communities.
STUDENT INNOVATORS
Turn Ideas Into Impact
From concept to commercialization, watch your sustainable material ideas take hold.
For students, including biotech inventors, artists, and designers, we remove barriers and provide a frictionless experience that offers technical expertise, facilities, and equipment to aid in hands-on learning, discovery, and creation. Additionally, we provide connections to companies, funding, and investment to help take their ideas from concept to commercialization.
ENTREPRENEURS
Build. Test. Launch.
Take your sustainable materials idea from concept
to commercialization.
For early-stage inventors, we remove barriers and provide a frictionless experience from concept to commercialization with access, technical expertise, facilities, and equipment to aid in discovery and creation. Additionally, we provide connections to companies for co-development, funding, and investment. At Gotham Foundry there is little or no IP burden, and for all parties, we establish benchmark materials and standards.
Companies
Reinvent your future
NYC’s first sustainable materials hub gives you access
to everything you need to reinvent your company’s future. And ours.
For companies focused on sustainability, we remove barriers and provide frictionless access to co-development with innovators and technologies to introduce new concepts and processes for commercialization. Gotham Foundry also establishes benchmark materials and standards to ease due diligence and trains new talent to build the workforce you need.
