Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle is a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. Climate Circle participants have access to world-class coaching, legal counsel, warm connections to industry leaders, and a peer group of ventures that are all working on innovative solutions to tackle climate change.
The American-Made Program facilitates prizes that help to create partnerships that connect entrepreneurs to the private sector and the DOE national labs. The AMC program currently represents more than 16 offices within the DOE, 300+organizations, and more than $100M in cash prizes and support. This program supports 30+ unique prize challenges consisting of prizes that advance numerous energy technologies including solar, water, geothermal, hydrogen, buildings, transportation, wind, and more. These prizes also advance community development, clean energy capacity, new business creation, technology commercialization, and energy justice initiatives.
NREL is seeking sponsors to engage with American-Made and DOE in several specific ways:
As a leader in the pan-renewables sector, ACORE is uniquely positioned to help emerging innovators working across the renewables spectrum access capital, pursue transformational business partnerships and work with policymakers to support their business. Through a cohort approach, ACORE Accelerate focuses on supporting small emerging renewable energy companies owned and/or operated by leaders who identify as women, Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic, or Native American. Accelerate members receive a complimentary two-year ACORE membership, an education stipend, dedicated staff, free access to ACORE paid events, targeted industry briefings, pro-bono legal and advisory services, and networking events with potential funders, developers, and ACORE members and partners, among other benefits.
4ward’s main goal with its accelerator program is to help companies make serious progress, meaning getting traction, customers, revenue etc… so you can raise your round – or even grow to profitability without needing VC.
4ward focuses first on business models and growth .It provides resources, guides and proven growth hacking strategies and tailored outreach templates to help you land landmark clients and/or pilots, build your pipeline and power your growth. Adding 2-3+ big name corporate customers or pilots is the goal of this intense 10 week program.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) is seeking white papers from prospective Partnership Intermediaries for the Partnership Intermediary Pilot. Through this Pilot, DOE is seeking to broaden the Department’s engagement with new organizations, increase cooperative or joint activities between DOE and small business firms, institutions of higher education, educational institutions, and non-traditional contractors and rapidly develop, scale, commercialize, and deploy technologies relevant to DOE’s mission.
A partnership intermediary (PI) is a state or local government or a nonprofit entity that is owned, funded, chartered, or operated in whole or in part by a state or local government.
Potential PI activities include facilitating and/or managing innovation hubs and/or public-private partnerships; performing technology and market research and scouting; acting as an independent facilitator between DOE programs and projects, DOE National Labs, and external solution providers; and facilitating rapid prototyping, demonstration, deployment, and/or manufacturing, in furtherance of DOE’s mission.
White papers are due January 3, 2023.
Incubatenergy Labs is built for startups to engage EPRI and electric power utilities in paid demonstration projects. A utilities summit and collaborative demonstrations program in one, the program links startup companies leading the advancement of electrification, decarbonization and grid modernization with utilities from around the world that have the capacity and desire to demonstrate and scale those innovations. We structured the program to give you maximum exposure to utilities and ensure that the results of a successful demonstration with one utility turns into opportunities with many. New for 2023 startups now have the possibility of demonstrations in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, or Latin America.
Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) are requesting applications from innovative startups with founding and executive teams that are primarily made up of BIPOC leaders who are developing climate solutions for sectors including electricity, transportation, buildings, manufacturing, and agriculture. Startups will focus on product and technology development, market development, capital raising, and management & team development throughout the accelerator, all while having access to Greentown Labs’ incubators and world-class mentors from both Greentown Labs and BGS’s networks.
Black Venture Institute, co-created by BLCK VC, Operator Collective (OpCo), and Salesforce Ventures, is a unique fellowship and ongoing community designed to create opportunities for mid to senior-level Black operators and executives in the tech industry.
You’ll learn the foundations of investing and join a community of high-powered Black operators and technology executives who, together, will represent the future of black fund managers and angel investors across the country.
We are currently taking rolling applications for the Winter 2022/2023 cohort.
West Gate supports innovators who have a technology concept in prototype stage at minimum that is aligned with NREL research and development areas and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy strategic goals in the areas of advanced materials and manufacturing technologies, industrial efficiency and decarbonization, building efficiency, and solar energy production. Once selected to participate in West Gate, you will be uniquely matched to NREL and Colorado School of Mines expertise and capabilities to identify projects that will significantly de-risk your technologies in meaningful ways—leading to improved opportunities for your startup company to raise public or private funding.
Innovation Crossroads, supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, and Building Technologies Office, as well as the Tennessee Valley Authority, is an innovative program that serves as a platform for supporting and mentoring entrepreneurial researchers whose early-stage innovations are presently too challenging or technically uncertain to pursue in a venture capital-financed startup. Innovation Crossroads embeds innovators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for up to two years through entrepreneurial mentorship and cooperative research and development. Technology areas of interest: advanced manufacturing, atmospheric decarbonization, building technologies, digital economy, electrification and energy infrastructures, energy technology innovation, industrial decarbonization, intelligent systems and facilities.
