The AID Demonstration program provides funding as an incentive for eligible entities to accelerate the implementation and adoption of innovation in highway transportation. AID Demonstration funds can be used in any phase of a highway transportation project between project planning and project delivery, including planning, finance, operation, structures, materials, pavements, environment, and construction.
The Keeling Curve Prize, awards $50,000 annually to 10 projects that demonstrate the ability to reduce, replace, or remove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and oceans. Since 2018, $1.75M has been awarded to 60 nonprofits, for-profits, and startups, and more than 1,130 viable solutions have been vetted. Eligible categories include carbon sinks, energy, finance, social and cultural pathways, and transport and mobility
We’re a hands-on lab for tech providers, developers, educators, & researchers committed to fostering resilient cities by cross-pollinating ideas, pioneering new technologies, & democratizing data. UTX exists for folks who are doers – those who want to test their ideas, make mistakes, and ultimately, solve urban challenges through the development and collective scalability of hardware and software solutions. Our lab creates opportunities to pilot emerging technology in a low risk, turn-key, real-world setting.
Through the Pilots at BAT program, NYCEDC is excited to activate its flagship asset, the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT)—a vital 60-acre industrial campus on the South Brooklyn waterfront—to pilot new and emerging technologies for climate innovation. This will play a key role in advancing public sector partnerships that support and grow promising new technologies for communities and for the city’s future economy. The BAT team has allocated several pilot zones throughout the BAT campus to serve a variety of technologies. These include:
A signature program of NYCEDC’s Venture Access NYC initiative, the Founder Fellowship is designed to improve access to capital and networks for underrepresented founders across all tech-enabled sectors. Each year, the Founder Fellowship supports a diverse community of New York City tech startup founder teams with much-needed access to resources and networks to help them grow their companies. Selected teams are placed in Founder Fellow cohorts led by NYCEDC’s program operators. All Fellow teams receive unique value and offerings including:
DOE will invest approximately $3.9 billion across three programs covered by this FOA for the Fiscal Years (FY) 2024 through FY 2025 to deploy technologies to increase grid reliability and resilience. Together DOE refers to these programs as the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) program. The GRIP Program focuses on these topic areas:
The 2024 BENEFIT FOA will invest up to $30M (subject to appropriations) across four topic areas: Topic 1: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning and Water Heating Technologies with improved materials, components, equipment design, and engineering, lower cost manufacturing processes, and easier installation. Topic 2: Innovative, Replicable, and Low-Cost Roof and Attic Retrofits Technologies for affordable and scalable roof and attic retrofits that improve energy efficiency and address air and water infiltration. Topic 3: Building Resilience and Capacity Constraints Novel approaches to maintain essential loads during blackouts and add power capacity to buildings without the need for major infrastructure upgrades; localized thermal management systems and thermally resilient building envelopes to provide cooling and overheating protection against extreme heat events. Topic 4: Commercial Lighting Retrofit Advancements Low-cost, high-quality retrofit solutions for lagging sectors in energy-efficient lighting adoption (schools, certain commercial buildings).
The Empire Technology Prize is focused on finding groundbreaking solutions to tackle the greatest single source of GHG emissions from New York’s tall buildings – heating. Solutions that will be significantly easier for tall building owners to adopt – in short, high GHG reduction, minimally disruptive to install, with a path to cost competitiveness. To win, by the end of the 1 year program, teams must develop at least a tested prototype for a heating, or distribution system, that can be more easily installed than current solutions for existing New York State residential or commercial buildings 7 stories and higher.
In its 29th year, the Industry Growth Forum (IGF) is the premier event for climate tech and cleantech entrepreneurs, investors, and experts from industry and the public sector to build relationships, showcase innovative technologies, and identify disruptive business solutions. Presenting companies are chosen from applicants vetted by a selection committee of more than 100 climate tech and cleantech investors and industry experts. This rigorous screening process provides beneficial feedback to startups that apply. The top 40 companies are invited to present.
Breakthrough Energy Fellows (BEF) flagship program, the Innovator Fellowship, is designed to accelerate the development of promising early-stage climate technologies. The Fellowship is a full-time commitment for innovators committed to commercializing their climate technology. Typically, Innovator projects have raised less than $2,000,000 in dilutive funding and are legally incorporated prior to program start date of September 2024.
The Explorers Fellowship offers funding for developing breakthrough climate solutions that are earlier stage, higher technical risk, and may not yet be ready to incorporate. Explorers’ projects are typically in a university lab or research entity, and are overseen by professors, faculty members, or full-time researchers who can remain in position for this part-time opportunity.
This FOA will further reduce risk and improve environmental compatibility of U.S. offshore wind energy and marine energy deployments. It will do this through research into the integrity and monitoring of mooring lines for floating offshore wind
energy systems and marine energy converters, as well as reducing noise generation and propagation during the installation of fixed-bottom offshore wind foundations.
Powered by Launch Tennessee, InvestTN manages two equity capital programs totaling $58M for Tennessee-located early-stage startups: Regional Seed Fund and Technology Fund. Startups at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A or B stages are eligible for an initial investment of $25k to $3M.
