Accelerator Investors in Climate Tech

AirMiners is a leading platform advancing the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) industry through community, education, and early-stage venture support. Founded in 2017, the organization brings together scientists, founders, investors, and operators to accelerate the development and deployment of carbon removal solutions. Through its Launchpad accelerator and Kiloton Fund, AirMiners supports early-stage startups building technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The platform also operates one of the largest communities in the CDR space, helping talent, capital, and ideas converge to scale the industry.

Finance Earth is a UK-based impact investment firm and FCA-regulated fund manager focused on unlocking private capital for conservation, climate solutions, and community development. The organization designs and manages innovative environmental finance vehicles that help scale projects delivering measurable benefits for nature, climate, and people. Founded on the belief that philanthropy and public funding alone cannot address global environmental challenges, Finance Earth develops blended finance structures that attract institutional, philanthropic, and private investors into high-impact environmental projects. The organization works across fund management, advisory services, and accelerator programs to create investment opportunities that support biodiversity restoration, sustainable land use, natural capital, climate resilience, and community prosperity. Through its specialist expertise in environmental markets and impact investing, Finance Earth helps governments, nonprofits, businesses, and investors build financing models that generate both environmental outcomes and sustainable financial returns.

Greentown Labs is the world's largest climatetech and energy incubator, operating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs developing climate solutions. They provide incubation services, membership programs, and resources to startups working across various sectors including agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, transportation, and resilience adaptation. Their mission centers on catalyzing climate solutions at speed and scale by bringing together entrepreneurs with innovation, corporate leaders with scale, investors with capital, and philanthropists with support. They operate as a community-driven organization with locations in Boston and Houston, fostering collaboration between startups, corporations, and other stakeholders in the climatetech ecosystem. Greentown Labs serves as a critical hub in the climatetech ecosystem, connecting entrepreneurs with the resources, mentorship, and partnerships needed to transform society through energy innovation. Their comprehensive approach to supporting climate entrepreneurs positions them as a key player in addressing the climate challenge through technological innovation and community building.

MIT Solve is an initiative of MIT that provides social impact and entrepreneurship services, connecting startups with funding and resources to address global challenges. The organization launches open calls for exceptional and diverse solutions to pressing global problems from innovators anywhere in the world, focusing on areas including climate, economic prosperity, health, learning, indigenous communities, youth innovation, and innovative financing. MIT Solve operates on the belief that building a better future requires new voices and ideas from diverse sources. They run challenges to identify groundbreaking solutions, then provide selected innovators with the backing of MIT and their community of supporters to scale their impact and drive lasting change. The organization has established itself as a platform that bridges the gap between innovative solutions and the resources needed to implement them at scale. Over its ten-year history, MIT Solve has become a significant force in the global innovation ecosystem, having run over 100 challenges and received more than 26,800 applications from 185 countries. Their community of innovators and solutions have reached over 370 million lives worldwide, demonstrating tangible impact from refugee education in Lebanon to agricultural improvements in Ethiopia. The organization has mobilized over $80 million and forged over 1,000 partnerships, establishing itself as a crucial connector between social entrepreneurs and the resources they need to create meaningful change.

Moonshot Platform is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit leadership accelerator and global community supporting young changemakers closest to the world’s most urgent challenges. Through its two-year Moonshot Journey, the organization provides grants, mentorship, scholarships, capacity building, peer community, and access to global networks that help emerging leaders scale social and environmental impact. Founded by Yemi A.D., Moonshot Platform supports young innovators building projects, nonprofits, startups, and community initiatives across climate, education, health, economic opportunity, technology, and social justice. Its programs include the Moonshot Awards, Moonshot Camp, Moonshot Summit, Impact Labs, and mentor pathways.