Francesco M. Benedetti
Osmoses
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Francesco Benedetti is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Osmoses. Osmoses develops clean solutions to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with industrial separation processes. Under his leadership, Osmoses won the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition in 2021, the 2021 Cleantech Open Northeast Accelerator, the Carbon Sequestration Prize, The Eddies 2022, and completed the Carbon 2 Value program. Osmoses is funded by top venture capital firms, inclusing The Engine and Fine Structure Ventures, and supported by state and federal government organizations such as ARPA-E, MassCEC, and NYSERDA. Benedetti earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a 2019/2020 MIT Energy Fellowship, a 2021 Activate Fellowship, and was an NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead in 2021.
