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Pascal, spun out of Harvard's Mason Lab, develops barocaloric solid refrigerants that use pressure-driven phase changes to replace HFC gases, starting with commercial beverage coolers and aiming at air conditioning and large chillers for data centers and industrial cooling.
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- 2026-10-21Seed$9M
Investors · Sazze Partners, LB Investment, KDB Silicon ValleySource · techcrunch.com ↗
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