Reverse Pitch
Virtual Event
Thursday, October 19th 12pm PST | 3pm EST
Attention Founders, co-founders, entrepreneurs, CFOs and business development leaders! We’re flipping the script! A couple dozen representatives from the entrepreneur support, investor, and banking community who prioritize sustainability and environmental solution businesses will be pitching to you. Find your funding match during this event.
WCS members who attend this event will get priority attention, however this event is open to all.
Those pitching will range from grantors and pre-seed investors to venture capitalist and angel investors to specialty banks. Each of these organizations prioritizes sustainability and the environment.
Visit the event page for the list of who’s giving their elevator pitch and a link to their organization’s web page.
Event Agenda
12:00 pm – 12:05 pm Introductions, Housekeeping
12:05 pm – 12:40 pm Pitches
12:40 pm – 12:55 pm Announcements and Next Steps
12:55 pm – 1:00 pm Thank You and Wrap Up
Ticket price
- $15 non-members
- FREE for members
VertueLab
VertueLab is nonprofit fighting climate change by providing funding and holistic entrepreneurial support to climate tech startups.
Ideaship
Ideaship™ is a patent capital fund providing in-house patent department services, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support for early stage startups.
Energy Foundry
Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy & cleantech innovators, and they work with the world’s leading companies to build and scale new ventures.
Elemental Excelerator
Elemental Excelerator is on a mission to redesign the systems at the root of climate change.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
LACI is unlocking innovation through startups, transforming markets with partnerships and enhancing community inside our campus and out in our neighborhoods.
The Urban Future Lab (UFL)
The Urban Future Lab (UFL) is New York City’s hub for smart cities, smart grid and clean energy. Their space hosts several programs focused on educational, policy and market solutions to the issues of sustainability.
Powerhouse
Powerhouse is an innovation firm that works with leading global corporations and investors to help them find, partner with, invest in, and acquire the most innovative startups in clean energy, mobility, and climate.
Prime Impact Fund
Prime Impact Fund invests in transformative technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact.
FarmHand Ventures
Farmhand Ventures is a venture studio backing entrepreneurs building the future of work in agriculture.
The Climate Pledge Fund
The Climate Pledge Fund is a $2 billion venture investment program supporting the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon to meet our net-zero carbon goal.
Biomimicry Institute
The Biomimicry Institute is on a mission to help solve humanity’s biggest challenges through the adoption of biomimicry (nature-inspired innovation) in education, culture, and industry.
Earthshot Ventures
Earthshot Ventures invests in entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change.
Pangaea Ventures
Pangaea is a hardtech and impact investor. They invest in start-up companies using advanced materials to make our world better by creating products to tackle tough problems in hard tech.
Avesta Fund
Avesta Fund is a Seed-stage venture capital firm focused on the defining challenges of our generation – climate change and inequality – while prioritizing diverse entrepreneurs.
Third Sphere
Third Sphere works for founders transforming global systems.
Antin Infrastructure Partners
Antin Infrastructure Partners targets majority stakes in the energy and environment, telecom, transport and social infrastructure sectors.
SBIR/STTR
SBIR/STTR is a $4 billion competitive grant/contract program for US small businesses to engage in Federal R&D.
United States Department of Energy
The Department of Energy manages the United States’ nuclear infrastructure and administers the country’s energy policy.
