Call for Applications: Venture for ClimateTech 2025 [Cohort 5] – YOA

Deadline: March 27, 2025

Applications for the Venture for ClimateTech 2025 are actually open. Join an ecosystem of innovators, buyers, and consultants to scale your affect and speed up your innovation. Venture For ClimateTech is designed that can assist you rapidly and successfully deal with the largest dangers in launching your enterprise. It’s a 3-part, six-month program that seeks that can assist you construct the workforce, data, and private community you want to succeed, whereas offering the capital, group, entry to expertise, and connections to make the journey quicker and smoother.

The aim of Venture for ClimateTech is to speed up improvements prone to have substantial local weather impacts for all, and which have potential for adoption in NYS. In explicit, they wish to provide a path to assist entrepreneurs whose extremely impactful improvements face distinctive obstacles to commercialization by means of regular processes resulting from lengthy paths to market and excessive capital depth, together with different extra conventional startups.

Benefits

• Validate the Market OPPORTUNITY: Conduct buyer discovery to check your innovation inside true market realities.
• Get Comprehensive Support: Turn your imaginative and prescient into actuality with instruments, mentor-pushed training, connections, and training.
• Secure Funding: Launch your ClimateTech enterprise with as much as $50,000 in non-dilutive funding.
• Access Free or Discounted Services Through the Perk Partners: Prepare your stock, distribution, high quality assurance, logistics, and success plans to ship excessive-high quality merchandise, on time.
• Build a Robust Team: Tap into their numerous ecosystem and get assist with early hires.
• Gain a Pathway to Scale: Get manufacturing help by means of Scale for ClimateTech and introductions to different packages once you’re prepared to maneuver your prototype into manufacturing.

Eligibility

• Applicants will be positioned wherever on the earth however will need to have plans for how their answer may help New York State attain its local weather objectives as acknowledged within the Climate Leadership and Protection Act.
• They work with early-stage entrepreneurs and solo founders, a few of whom is not going to but have shaped a authorized entity. They are wanting for pre-seed, that means you’ll have raised cash by means of grants however no vital quantity from institutional buyers. They are joyful to have a dialog about different assets of their ecosystem which may be acceptable, or whether or not you may be a match for the Scale For ClimateTech program!
• They broadly are thinking about corporations creating applied sciences which have the potential to considerably scale back GHG emissions globally, and within the state of New York specifically. The fifth cohort will deal with decarbonizing 4 key sectors: Buildings, Transportation, Grid, and Industry. Companies with options that positively assist communities impacted by local weather change are strongly inspired to apply.

Selection Criteria

Startups can be evaluated on the next standards:

• The potential carbon equal discount affect of the expertise or service.
• The enterprise alternative is sensible, is substantial, and there may be proof of market curiosity.
• The founder or founding workforce is sharp, motivated, self-conscious, and coachable
• The firm is of an acceptable stage, and is positioned to profit considerably from participation in this system.
• The startup services or products has a transparent match with the NYS ecosystem, by way of having the chance for a presence, partnerships, or a market inside the stage.
• The answer addresses and/or entails underserved communities in growth or application.

Application

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For extra info, go to Venture for ClimateTech.