Starting Monday, May 16th 2016 small companies and startups can raise as much as $1 million online from ordinary investors in a 12-month period. MF Fire and our modern wood burner will be one of those companies. Until now, federal securities laws allowed only wealthy individuals, or so-called accredited investors, to participate in such offerings. […]
An excellent new article from Adam Sharp about how MF Fire is in the equity crowdfunding sweet spot for investing in our smart stove technology. According to Adam: MF Fire falls into what I’d call the “sweet spot” for equity crowdfunding. By this I mean it is a company that: Would benefit greatly from having […]
Our beta-testing is well underway and we are incredibly excited to share some of the first footage from The Perfect Burn testing! Watch our new video here. We’d love to know what you think of the new look and the new fire in our clean-burning wood stove!
More exciting news, this time in a new article by Fast Company! Author Adele Peters talks about how the ultra-clean Mulciber can make a big difference in the rapidly growing wood heating market. Peters first explains the experience of a typical San Francisco resident. He or she will not be allowed to warm a living space by […]
How can you save the planet? Smithsonian Magazine thinks the ultra-clean Catalyst contemporary wood stove (previously named Mulciber) definitely helps. Rachel Kaufman, writing for Smithsonian Magazine, thinks that modern wood stoves might be part of the solution to foreign fossil fuels, but only if it is clean. “The problem with most wood stoves is not […]
Happy New Year Everyone! We hope everyone had a great 2015! As the year came to a close the MF Fire team was hard at work testing our brand new Mulciber smart electric stove. Early tests show super fast start-up, incredibly clean burning, and a beautiful full fire view.We put together a quick video for […]
The University of Maryland’s The Diamondback wrote a great article about us and how we got our start with lots of help from the University of Maryland.It hits on all of our highlights, including our company’s history and our EPA-compliant wood stove (NOTE: This article has since been archived as the Diamondback News website transitioned […]
We are very excited to be presenting that the first test units of the Mulciber, our ultra low-emission wood burner, will be installed by January 1st! Unfortunately, demand outstripped supply for our test round, and we could not provide a Mulciber to everyone who asked for one. If you didn’t hear from us and you aren’t […]
“University of Maryland alumni-founded startup company MF Fire, which has been working to commercialize the 93% efficient, almost emission-free Mulciber wood stove, took 2nd place in the national RECESS Pitch competition, held in Las Vegas in late May. The young company was also recently featured in The Washington Post. The June 21 story by UMD […]
RECESS is a music and ideas festival that brings together successful entrepreneurs, the coolest new startups, and the hottest acts in music to inspire the next generation of world changing entrepreneurs. In the first ever RECESS Campus Tour, MF Fire took first place in the University of Maryland leg of the tour and second place […]
“Taylor Myers, a University of Maryland fire science doctoral candidate, and alumnus Ryan Fisher are developing a prototype of an innovative wood burning stove.” The creators of the Catalyst stove were honored for innovation. Read more about our EPA approved wood burning stove in the Daily Record here.
GVH Live, an online media organization providing news targeted at millennials, profiles founders Taylor Myers and Ryan Fisher as part of their campus innovators series. The campus is University of Maryland. The innovation is the Mulciber stove, now renamed the Catalyst. This stove is digital, allowing the operator to adjust the temperature from his or […]
MF Fire won the MIT Clean Energy Prize for Energy Efficiency in 2014. The mission of the MIT Clean Energy Prize is to catalyze a new generation of energy entrepreneurs and great new companies. Each year, MIT runs a multi-stage student organized business plan competitor. It offers cash rewards to students who innovate in technology, […]
The ACC Clean Energy Challenge is a business plan competition. It encourages students from all universities throughout the southeastern United States to develop business plans for new clean energy companies focused on renewable energy, energy efficiency improvements and advanced fuels/vehicles. This program is supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and […]
The following is an excerpt from an article that once appeared on the University of Maryland Diamondback news about our energy-efficient wood stove heater. The article has since been removed from the website as it underwent a domain change & archiving process. “Last week, a university team traveled to the National Mall to compete in […]
The Capital News Service profiles the University of Maryland (UMD) student team at the 2013 Wood Stove Decathlon. Watch the video of how the team “heats up the Mall” with our highly efficient low-emission wood burning stove here.
The New York Times profiled the 2013 Wood Stove Decathlon, a contest that aims to find ways to “get twice as much heat out of a log of firewood”. The University of Maryland was just one of twelve teams competing to define technology for clean-burning wood stoves. This contest is important because 2.3 million American homes rely […]
In 2013, we were just students at the University of Maryland. Our team of engineering students entered the Wood Stove Decathlon, a contest designed to spur innovation for the product. At that time, we were underdogs, representing the only University among several large companies. National Geographic profiled us anyway. In the video, you can see […]
Popular Mechanics profiles all of the participants in the 2013 Wood Stove Decathlon. Here they talk with founder Taylor Myers about version 1 of the Mulciber, an electric wood burning stove that was a finalist in the contest. Read the full article here.