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How to Lead and Grow a Cleantech Startup

Clean Energy Trust

At Clean Energy Trust , we have seen some truly impressive startups grow into successful businesses and are proud to have invested in some of the most promising ones. Many cleantech startups have strong organizational alignment on environmental impact. Seek mentorship and support Leadership should never have to be lonely.

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So What If Your Climate-Saving Solution Is Better?

Michael Grossman

It pains me to see promising climate tech startups with novel ideas fall into old constructs to sell their solutions where no white space exists. Another construct polluting our atmosphere is the confusion of inputs with outcomes. An excellent example in the climate tech space is selling energy efficiency products.

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Helix Earth Technologies Deploys Space Tech for Earth’s Climate Challenges

Greentown Labs

Only rocket scientists could develop a technology that solves three distinct climate challenges: energy-efficient air conditioning, small-footprint carbon capture, and cost-effective pollutant filtration. Rawand Rasheed —the CEO of Helix Earth Technologies , a Ph.D.

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I Converted a Home Fully to Electricity. Here’s How It Worked — and What It Cost

GreenTechMedia

It is more cost effective to add solar and storage than to improve the efficiency of the building shell, or to replace existing HVAC equipment prior to its end of life with new high efficiency equipment. In operation this high efficiency inverter-based HVAC system was almost impossible to hear. Time to burn that bridge to natural gas.

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Can ACs cool the world without warming it?

Grist

How will it change the HVAC units and window ACs we’ve grown to rely on? Spencer Platt / Getty Images “There’s this kind of idea that HVAC products are boring and not exciting and ugly and hard to use,” Romanin says. This week, we start with the tech side. What will that future-friendly AC look like?

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What we’re looking to fund in Cohort 10

Elemental Excelerator

For Cohort 10, we’re looking for 15-20 startups from anywhere in the world focused on addressing key challenges in energy, mobility, agriculture, water, or the circular economy. Eliminating pollution in frontline communities and creating local job opportunities. Improving energy resiliency. Waste to value solutions.

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WCS Talks 2018 Pitch Competition Winner

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Artveoli Wins First Startup Pitch Competition for Women-Led Cleantech and Sustainability Companies in the United States. Typical air filtration systems mostly draw air in from outside, which is often times polluted,” said Artveoli co-founder and CEO Alina Adams. Artveoli Inc.’s