SF Bay Climate Tech: Feb 27 - Mar 5
Hi friends,
It’s almost March, and you know what that means? It’s accelerator season!
We’ve rounded up almost a dozen programs with deadlines this March. There’s something for everyone: transit, energy storage, biodiversity, DAC, fellowship programs, nonprofits, and more. If you know of any programs we missed, send them our way and we’ll include them next week.
Here are our picks for the week:
Today at the Commonwealth Club in SF, join ClimateOne for 🌍 Kumi Naidoo: How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster
Get your feet wet on Wednesday with 🌊 Symbiosis | Ocean & Humanity networking an a panel in SF (Outer Richmond)
On Friday, head to 9Zero in SF for the inaugural ⚡️ SF ClimateHack Meetup: FOAK Yeah!
As always, you scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
Events This Week
🌱 Social Impact Summit 2024: Tue, Feb 27
🌍 Kumi Naidoo: How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster: Tue, Feb 27
🌊 Symbiosis | Ocean & Humanity: Wed, Feb 28
🏘️ Suds & Solutions: Will Turning Offices Into Housing Make Downtown Better?: Wed, Feb 28
🎬 Queer Ecology and Climate Justice Film and Workshop: Wed, Feb 28
📊 Tech, Social & Environmental Impact on Supply Chain Resilience: Thu, Feb 29
🎥 Environmental Justice Film Festival At Stanford University: Thu, Feb 29
⚡️ SF ClimateHack Meetup: FOAK Yeah!: Fri, Mar 1
💩 Free Urban Composting Workshops 2024: Sat, Mar 2
🥗 2024 SF Food Action Summit: The Road to Good Food: Sun, Mar 3
We’re experimenting with a new rearrangement this week: We’re bringing up the list of this week’s events, but dropping the detailed listings that normally follow. What do you all think? Do you like listings with blurbs or just the short lists? Reply and let me know! You’ll be able to find upcoming events at the bottom, as usual.
🌎 Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Platforms
Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures are launching new platforms to support climate founders, funders, and career transitioners! There is no shortage of great companies raising money for their groundbreaking ideas, great investors looking to support with capital, and great talent living the mantra that every job is a climate job. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Grant & Accelerator Opportunities
🚇 Transit Innovation (Due Feb. 28)
The Transit Tech Lab provides an accelerated pathway for early to growth-stage companies to solve public transportation challenges for the largest transit agencies in North America.
🌱 Venture for Climate Tech (Due Mar. 1)
Venture For ClimateTech is a non-profit global venture studio + accelerator program. We source the most promising climate tech innovators from around the world and offer them hands-on support until they are ready for first customers, pilot runs, and investment.
🌬️ OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge (Due Mar. 4)
The OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge is a worldwide challenge for students to create new processes, approaches and prototypes to remove carbon from the land, waters, or air. Student teams will design and build creative solutions to the carbon pollution problem. The very best approaches will be selected as finalists for an in-person showcase at the Carbon Unbound conference in May 2024.
🔋 Energy Storage Capital Challenge (Due Mar. 4)
This highly-targeted program brings together decision-makers across the capital stack, industry experts, and your innovative energy storage project in New York State. This best-in-class group will work collectively to refine your project strategy and align capital in order to advance the development of your project — and the energy storage market in New York more broadly — to ensure a more diversified pipeline of projects.
💸 Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab (Due Mar. 15)
Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab promotes financial inclusion and provides access to capital for early-stage tech companies, offering $250K to companies selected to their New York-based program in exchange for a 5% equity stake, along with access to networks, mentoring, and a tailored curriculum. Apply by March 15th.
🌇 $10M Empire Technology Prize (Due Mar. 24)
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.
📐Third Derivative (Due Mar. 26)
We’re looking for world-changing climate tech startups with significant climate impact potential, addressing billion-dollar markets bringing innovations in hard science, hardware, software and business models to the world. If accepted, you’ll take part in our virtual, 18-month accelerator program.
🦚 Biodiversity Accelerator (Due Mar. 31)
The world's leading capacity-building programme for early-stage companies creating biodiversity-positive impact. For tech enabled companies that are addressing the current drivers of biodiversity loss and/ or provide solutions to valuing, protecting and restore natural ecosystems.
☀️ Mária Telkes Fellowship (Due Mar. 31)
The Mária Telkes Fellowship is hosted by the Cleantech Leaders Roundtable and Clean Energy Business Network. Cleantech Leaders Roundtable (CTLR) is a community of peers including cleantech CEOs, investors, and influencers. This community facilitates trusted exchange of information, collective problem-solving through partnerships, and amplification of individual business and communications efforts. The Clean Energy Business Network (CEBN) is the small business voice for the clean energy economy, and partners closely with CTLR on events and industry collaboration.
🏙️ URBAN-X Accelerator (Rolling for Spring Cohort)
For founders building businesses in areas such as Mobility, Buildings, Energy, Circularity, and Community. Within those sectors, we are specifically interested in solutions that have an aspect of scalable climate mitigation and adaptation.
Rolling Deadlines and Upcoming
🚀 ERA Summer 2024 Program (Due Apr. 23)
Upcoming Events
🌊 Author Event: California Against the Sea by Rosanna Xia: Tue, Mar 5
🌍 Climate, Business, and Innovation Summit 2024: Wed, Mar 6
🏢 THE POWER OF VISIONS – Rethinking Cities and Homes: Thu, Mar 7
💧 CEU: Water, Wellness & Sustainability: Wed, Mar 13
🌍 Understand climate change in 3 hours: Sat, Mar 16
🔌 Alameda Electrification Fair: Sat, Mar 16
💼 Corporate Sustainability Measurement & Reporting: From Whether, to How: Wed, Mar 20
🙋 Bay Area Remake Monthly Meetup: Wed, Mar 20
🌳 Governor Jay Inslee: On Climate Action in the Political Landscape of 2024: Wed, Mar 20
🌲 Promise to Our Planet 2024: Thu, Mar 21
🌇 USGBC & AIA Happy Hour and Networking Night: Thu, Mar 21
👥 YPE New Member Meet & Greet: Thu, Mar 21
🌅 Climate Optimist Club presented by hypha.network: Thu, Mar 21
⛓️ Sustainable supply chain in IT, Pharma and Financial industry: Fri, Mar 22
🌐 Policy Equity Conference: Advancing Economic & Workforce Development: Fri, Mar 29