With funding from Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND), Evercloak is leveraging its revolutionary nanomaterials to give frontline workers a powerful new layer of protection. In 2020, DND issued a challenge through its Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program: find ways to allow frontline workers to reuse gloves, gowns, face shields and other…
As air-conditioning season approaches in Canada, Evercloak is on track to make cooling systems way more sustainable Around the world, the hum of A/C has become a ubiquitous sound. And that noise will only get louder as climate change dials up the global thermostat, triggering a growing number of deadly heat waves. Ironically, the more…
“IP is really the cornerstone of what enables us to be competitive as a company,” Evelyn said. “Having an IP strategy and a roadmap is really important … especially in Canada. Having access to funding to support that is really valuable. With early stage funding for startups – there’s limited funding for IP, but it’s…
Evercloak’s been accepted into the prestigious NYC clean-tech accelerator – Scale for ClimateTech. The program will help Evercloak bring its game-changing nano-films to market-sooner. Check out the program here -> https://forclimatetech.org/scale-for-climatetech/
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged Canadian tech entrepreneurs like never before. But through great resolve and business savvy, Canada’s innovation community weathered the storm, adding roughly 100,000 STEM jobs between February and October, with many startups transforming their everyday practices to fight the coronavirus. With the end of the crisis now in sight, we’ll need our tech leaders to create…
Air conditioning is expected to represent 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050″ says Evelyn Allen, CEO and Co-founder of Evercloak Inc. Evercloak is helping address the world’s most pressing environmental challenge, climate change, by offering disruptive product solutions. Check out the video here -> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6740640086397992960/
“A million times thinner than a strand of hair.” That’s how Evelyn Allen (née Jackson), BEng’03 describes graphene, the nanomaterial that could play a big part in the solution to greenhouse global gas emissions. She and another McMaster grad, Dr. Michael Pope (BEng & BioSci’07), have teamed up to form Evercloak Inc., a cleantech startup commercializing…
Our team is growing! Thrilled to announce that Anna Ziolecki has joined our team as Director of Operations. Anna is an advocate for solutions to climate change challenges and her experience in financial management, strategic planning, and organizational leadership will support Evercloak’s strategic growth, accelerating our path to commercialization. Read more here -> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anna-ziolecki-joins-evercloak-evelyn-allen/
The Naval Material Technology Management (NMTM) section of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) has partnered with ZEN and Evercloak Inc. (Evercloak) as a testing organization, and has agreed to provide in-kind donations of test services from the Naval Engineering Test Establishment (NETE). The tests will compare the efficiency of an HVAC unit produced with the…
In mid-September, residents of Waterloo Region and much of the east coast of Canada received a stark reminder of the catastrophic consequences of climate change. For several days, the smoky haze of the California and Oregon wildfires hung in the local air, despite this region being more than 4,000 kilometres away from the raging blazes…