Issue #44: Last Issue of 2022!
Our team is growing, DEI Stats, Featured companies
ClimateRaise is a newsletter for our network that showcases early-stage climate startups led by women, non-binary and gender non-conforming founders, and connects them with climate ecosystem partners. Startups featured are actively raising. The newsletter is short and to the point. We want to provide you with useful information, not flood your inbox with yet another lengthy publication.
How it works:
🔎 We find vetted, actively raising women-led climate startups.
📝 Our biweekly newsletter then highlights a diverse selection of those startups.
🔗 We give investors, founders and ecosystem partners the opportunity to opt-in for 1:1 introductions to the featured founders.
📩 Submit companies, opportunities and founder friendly resources here.
Our team is growing!
ClimateRaise is seeking Directors and Fellows who are passionate about ClimateTech and supporting gender equality. Please share with your network, or apply! Here is the opportunity description and the application form.
First things first, data
While our focus is on gender inequity, it would be delusional to solve it without considering its intersectionality.
Earlier in 2022, we redesigned our founder submission form to allow for more granular self-identification. We keep up the work to scout and feature more founders from traditionally excluded groups. We also recently signed the EDICT pledge to build a more diverse, more inclusive, and stronger sector. One of the pledge’s commitments include data transparency to hold ourselves accountable and encourage others to do so.
Here is our founder and founding team diversity data for S2 2022.
15 out of 21 companies featured in 2022 are led by founders who self-identify as belonging to traditionally excluded groups1. Since launch, this represents 40 out of 131 featured companies.
Most of S2 2022 featured companies are led by at least one founder who identifies as white, Asian, or belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community.
In S2 2022, half of the featured companies were led by all women teams, the other half by mixed gender founding teams. Half of these teams are led by a CEO who identifies as a man.
Featured companies
🏗️ Built environment
New Money Eco: NYC buildings owners to reduce GHG
Mortar IO: Buildings decarbonization software
Tangible: Tool for sustainable building materials
Krosslinker: High performance insulation materials
🌱Agriculture & Food
Future Acres: Robotic farming
Raiz: Vertical, urban farming
Sunjul: Agrivoltaic
SomaDetect: Milk and disease management
Novel Farms: Cruelty-free & marbled pork loin
Inwit: Reusable containers
🔥Climate risks and biodiversity
Vibrant Planet: Forest & biodiversity resilience
Prisere: Risk mapping
ReefVitalize: Coral restoration
🚃Transportation
ChargeNet: EV charging
Epoch Boats: Electric boating
⚡Energy
Parallel Carbon: Low-capex Direct Air Capture
Amped Innovation: Power solutions for emerging markets
HelioRec: Near-shore floating solar
👖Fashion
Vert Science: Apparel supply chain decarbonization
Simple Switch: Ethical and sustainable marketplace
GIFTD: Gamified second-hand apparel marketplace
Resources
For everyone
Climatescape’s op-ed from Hannah Bercovici, who offers a slew of ideas for low-impact gifts.
This amazing database of events at the intersection of food & agriculture, DEI and VC, shared by Supply Change Capital.
For founders
LACI Incubation Program: LACI is launching a new recruitment cycle for their Incubation Program. Applications are open until **January 6th, 2023**. The program’s benefits can be found: here. Startups are invited to apply: here
Harvard Circle
Building a climate venture? Harvard student or alum? Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle is a selective incubation program for climate ventures with emerging traction. Apply for the Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle. Applications due Jan 8th.
West Gate Now Accepting Applications for Cohort 2
West Gate seeks talented scientists, engineers, inventors, and innovators with promising technologies. Throughout West Gate’s two-year runway, innovators work with scientists in NREL and Colorado School of Mines' world-class laboratories to de-risk their technologies, ready them for market, and grow their startup companies. West Gate supports selected innovators with stipend assistance worth up to $225,000 and $175,000 technical assistance funding redeemable at NREL. Interested in applying? Learn more by registering for our Dec. 7 informational webinar and visiting the West Gate website.
Resources for founders, from legal templates to team building, work life balance and productivity tools are available here, thanks Ryan Kushner of Third Derivative.
How you can help
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Thanks again for your trust and support, and happy holidays to all!
Charlotte
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👀 Resources
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💡Consult the list of previously featured companies.
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Traditionally excluded groups or historically excluded groups refer to individuals who identify as not being members of a dominant social identity group, and who have been experiencing discrimination, harassment, oppression, underrepresentation and exclusion because of unequal power dynamics. This includes people who belong to the BIPOC communities, the LGBTQIA communities, Veterans and people who live with a disability.