Pitch your business case in front of an international investor audience from home.

WHEN: November 19th, 11:00 ET

WHO: 6 promising startups selected by the Solar Impulse Foundation
Exclusively for labelled solutions

AUDIENCE: 50 to 100 international VCs, Corporate VCs, Cleantech Funds and Impact Investors tune in to listen to the pitches. In the past, examples of participating investors were BNP Paribas, Demeter IM, Barclays, ZAZ Ventures, Suez Ventures, Engie New Ventures, P&G and Schneider Electric.

PITCH FORMAT: Online, 7 mins + 2 mins Q&A

REQUIREMENTS: Must have received Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label by November 1st and offer a game changing Cleantech Solution in energy, water, industrial innovation, smart city & mobility, circular economy, or agriculture.

The Clean Fight NY, is a new not-for-profit clean energy accelerator for growth-stage companies looking to scale in New York. First up, Clean Buildings: high-impact solutions to decarbonize NY buildings, at speed. Powered by New Energy Nexus, supported by NYSERDA.

• Focused on business development with corporate and investor partners
• $1.25M/cohort, up to $500k/company in grants to support partnerships resulting from corporate matchmaking
• $25k-$30k/company in technical support to help scaling
• No relocation for the program, no equity stake
• US or international growth-stage companies welcome

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, and co-invest in the research, development, piloting, and scaling of innovative and cost-effective interventions to support the advancement of self-reliant energy sectors in developing countries.

USAID invites organizations, companies, government agencies, academic and research institutions, and investors to propose innovative approaches to address the diverse set of challenges faced by countries that are striving to achieve universal access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy services. USAID developed this BAA for Energy Sector Self-Reliance to expand the Agency’s ability to engage with a wide range of implementing partners and service providers within the global energy sector, and develop new means to rapidly deliver tailored, best-in-class assistance and technologies to help strengthen national and regional energy systems.

This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications that will accelerate the development of new or enhance/increase existing anaerobic digestion capacity and infrastructure in the United States. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the natural process in which microorganisms break down organic (plant and animal) materials. Food waste diverted from landfills and incinerators can be managed at AD facilities. The AD process generates renewable energy (biogas) and a product that can improve soil health (digestate).

Each year Women Founders Network creates a unique opportunity for Female Founders. What makes their pitch competition different than other fast pitch competitions is the valuable leadership and in-kind sponsorships that offered as part of the program. This individualized attention allows the top women entrepreneurs to become pitch-ready in a way that sharpens their plans to scale their companies and makes their business more appealing to Angel and VC investors.

The American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize is a multi-stage prize competition designed to accelerate the development of low-cost desalination systems that use solar-thermal power to produce clean drinking water from saltwater. Each stage of the competition will have increasing prize amounts, totaling millions of dollars.

The Innovators Program is a core LACI (Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator) accelerator program serving early-stage cleantech startups in Southern California. Funded by the California Energy Commission’s Regional Energy Innovation Cluster (REIC), the program aims to support early stage entrepreneurs in launching their venture in California’s growing cleantech innovation ecosystem.

-Monthly opportunity updates and curated resources email
-Check-in’s with LACI expert every other month
-Lunch & Learns: Curriculum development opportunities
-Visibility in LACI’s network and ecosystem
-Discounted access to the La Kretz Innovation Campus (LKIC)

Startups must:
-Have a cleantech solution that addresses one of our three priority areas: Clean Energy, Zero Emissions Transportation and Smart & Sustainable Cities: Circular Economy.
-Be early stage: as early as pre-seed or pre-prototype, with a proof of concept.
-Own or license a novel proprietary technology.
-Operate out of one of the four counties in our Southern California territory.

Third Derivative is a joint venture of the world-renowned energy think-and-do-tank Rocky Mountain Institute and the premier global clean energy startup accelerator network New Energy Nexus. They are a next-generation accelerator with committed venture capital, a curated ecosystem of global corporations, and unparalleled market, regulatory, and policy insights.

By linking together startups, corporates, investors and our own technical experts, they’ll “accelerate the rate of change” (a.k.a. the third derivative) for how the world takes climate tech innovations from the lab to the market. Their vertically-integrated accelerator model will find, hone, fund, and scale promising energy technologies to achieve larger, faster reductions in greenhouse gas emissions globally.

They are looking for startups who are working to drive the energy transition, including those at the earliest stages of commercialization. There are only two criteria for applicants: 1) the startup must intend to be a for-profit entity, and 2) the startup must have at least two full-time employees at time of application.

ARPA-E seeks to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with commercial air travel at minimum economic cost by developing elements of an ultra-high efficient aircraft propulsion system that uses Carbon Neutral Liquid Fuels (CNLFs). Since these fuels generally either have lower specific-energies (kWh/kg) or are projected to have higher cost than traditional fossil-based jet fuels, ultra-high conversion efficiency is critical for the economic viability of this approach. An electrified propulsion system framework postulated by ARPA-E could potentially leverage multiple sources of stored energy (e.g. CNLF, batteries, etc.) to facilitate emerging propulsion concepts (e.g. distributed propulsion) and enable net-zero carbon emissions for long range, narrow-body, commercial aircraft.

The objective of the Range Extenders for Electric Aviation with Low Carbon and High Efficiency (REEACH) program is the development of one element of the electrified propulsion system framework: a system for the conversion of chemical energy contained in energy dense CNLFs to electric power for aircraft propulsion and hotel loads.

The Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) program supports the development of novel lightweight and ultra-efficient electric motors, drives, and associated thermal management system (collectively referred to as the all-electric powertrain) that will facilitate net-zero carbon emissions in the single-aisle, 150-200 passenger commercial aircraft segment. This FOA represents part of a wider ARPA-E effort in the development of enabling technologies for long-range (≥ 2,800 nautical miles), carbon neutral commercial aviation. The goal is to reduce the emissions from commercial aviation by developing cost-competitive systems for the efficient conversion of the chemical energy of carbon-neutral liquid fuels (CNLFs) to delivered electric energy, which is then further converted to thrust via propulsors driven by electric motors and associated motor drives. The focus of the ASCEND program is the development of an all-electric powertrain as the prime mover for long-range, narrow-body aircraft such as the Boeing 737. Current electric powertrains do not have high enough power density and efficiency to enable competitive and fully decarbonized aviation for the narrow-body class of aircraft.

An enduring challenge to ARPA-E’s mission is that even technologies that achieve substantial technical advancement under ARPA-E support are at risk of being stranded in their development path once ARPA-E funding ends (averaging $2.5M over three years).

The SCALEUP FOA builds upon ARPA-E-funded technologies by scaling the most promising. Stranding promising ARPA-E-funded technologies in their development pathways leaves substantial intellectual property developed with American taxpayer dollars vulnerable to adoption by foreign competitors, who can and do capture it for continued development – and economic benefit – overseas. This harms national competitiveness, as U.S. industries often lose the lead on the development, scaling, and manufacturing of technologies necessary to compete in rapidly evolving global energy markets. These scaling energy technology projects will meet ARPA-E’s statutory direction to achieve the above goals by “ accelerating transformational technological advances in areas that industry by itself is not likely to undertake because of technical and financial uncertainty”.^[2]

Advanced computational infrastructure and the ability to perform large-scale simulations and accumulate massive amounts of data have revolutionized scientific and engineering disciplines. The goal of the CDS&E program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering breakthroughs through new computational and data analysis approaches. The intellectual drivers may be in an individual discipline or they may cut across more than one discipline in various Directorates. The key identifying factor is that the outcome relies on the development, adaptation, and utilization of one or more of the capabilities offered by advancement of both research and infrastructure in computation and data, either through cross-cutting or disciplinary programs.

Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport (CBET): includes the use of high performance and emerging computational tools and environments – beyond that supported by core programs – in advancing mathematical modeling, simulation and analysis to describe and analyze with greater fidelity, complexity and scale, engineering processes in chemical, biochemical and biotechnology systems, bioengineering and living systems, sustainable energy and environmental systems, and transport and thermal-fluids systems. Some topics of special interest: 1) Advanced modeling and analysis for water resources, earth systems, built environments, sustainable manufacturing, energy systems, food systems, and regional, national and/or global material flows, 2) Innovative modeling methodologies for turbulent flows and for flows of complex fluids and suspensions, 3) Developing advanced modeling capabilities for thermal fluids and combustion, 4) Extending validated molecular and/or macro-molecular models to the prediction of applications-level engineering problems