NY Climate Tech: Mar 12 - Mar 19
NY Climate Tech: Mar 12 - Mar 19
Deep tech, enterprise sustainability, climate demos, films, and more upcoming events!
Hi friends,
It’s another busy one! Here are our picks for the week:
Tuesday (today!) join 🚀 Deep Tech NYC/NJ in Manhattan for the best hard tech happy hour in the NY region, hosted by SOSV’s HAX and IndieBio
Spend Friday at NYU for a full-day conference on 🔐 Unlocking Enterprise Value through Embedded Sustainability with a heavy-hitting lineup of speakers
Join us next Monday at our quarterly 🗽 Climate Tech Demo Night at SOSV, presented by Streetlife Ventures, Climate Tech Cities, Amazon, and NYU Future Labs. Come see the latest and greatest climate innovations coming to life in our own streets and neighborhoods!
Finally, next Tuesday, head to downtown for a drink and a movie at CFF’s first 🎬 Climate Film Club, featuring Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go, a funny, and poignant short on climate anxiety.
As we often say, every job is a climate job! The week of March 25, join Climate Career Week for 5 days of free virtual events for anyone considering a career transition into climate. No matter your role, there’s a place in climate for you!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and The Climate Tech Cities Team
Events This Week
🚀 SOSV's HAX & IndieBio - Deep Tech NYC/NJ: Tue, Mar 12
💸 Wall Street Green Summit 2024: Tue, Mar 12
⚖️ CSW From Policy To Practice: Funding Locally-led Gender-Just Climate Action: Tue, Mar 12
🌱 Empowering Nepali Women in Agriculture: Climate-Resilient Financing: Tue, Mar 12
🍏 Green Apple Trivia: Tue, Mar 12
🗽 2024 Digital New York Summit: Thu, Mar 14
⚖️ Youth-Powered Green Future | Visions for a Just Transition: Thu, Mar 14
🔬 LEAP Research Updates: Florencio Portocarrero + Jaeyoung Jung: Thu, Mar 14
🧩 From Rhetoric to Reality in Building Climate Resilience: Fri, Mar 15
🔐 Unlocking Enterprise Value through Embedded Sustainability: Fri, Mar 15
🗽 Climate Tech Demo Night: Mon, Mar 18
🌅 Leaders in Impact Happy Hour: Mon, Mar 18
🌍 How to Save a Planet (Before it is Too Late): Mon, Mar 18
🎬 Climate Film Club: Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go: Tue, Mar 19
🍽️ Pratt Presents Food Equity: A Design Equity Event: Tue, Mar 19
👷♀️ Creating Jobs Out of the Green: The Employment Effects of the Energy Transition: Tue, Mar 19
🔮 An Uprising of Imagination: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors: Tue, Mar 19
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
🌎 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!
Community Shoutouts
👑 Columbia's 13th Annual Sustainability Symposium
Columbia's 13th Annual Sustainability SymposiumWhether you're a Columbia alum or a climate-conscious New Yorker, Columbia's 13th Sustainability Symposium is a full-day, student-run event focused on how we make real changes to our world today to meet future climate goals. Sign up to attend their event on March 22nd and learn from and network with leading voices in sustainable finance, circular economy, environmental art and storytelling, built environment, energy, fashion, climate careers and more.
🧑🌾 Regenerative NYC
Join us as we unite a diverse spectrum of voices, including farmers, students, academics, NGOs, startup founders, business leaders, bankers, investors, and more to initiate a groundbreaking conversation on regenerative agriculture. Our mission is to educate through scientific evidence, foster collaboration, and cultivate a community dedicated to driving positive change through regenerative agriculture.
🦚 Ray of Hope Accelerator from the Biomimicry Institute
We accelerate the growth of nature-inspired startups to scale systemic solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Each selected startup receives $15,000 in non-dilutive funding and over $50,000 worth of in-kind services. This incudes tailored coaching, investor introductions, a 4-day Nature Retreat, and comprehensive training materials covering topics such as Impact and Sustainability Business Training, Innovation Storytelling & Amplification, DEI, and Founder Mental Health.
Grant & Accelerator Opportunities
💸 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.Apply by
🤩 Brand New Brand (Due Mar. 22)
Brand New Brand! is a juried, pro bono initiative from Ideas On Purpose to rebrand a local nonprofit, at no cost. 🤩
🌇 $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)
🦚 Ray of Hope Accelerator from the Biomimicry Institute (Due May 3)
💸 The Insurance Innovation Prize (Due Q2)
⚒️ Pilots at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (Rolling)
🏢 Urban Tech XChange (Rolling)
Upcoming Events
🌿 Business Networking Event - SILC's Leadership Council: Tue, Mar 19
🎬 Climate Film Club: Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go: Tue, Mar 19
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn - March 2024: Wed, Mar 20
🦁 Columbia University Sustainability Symposium: Fri, Mar 22
🙋🏽♀️ Climate Career Week: Mon, Mar 25 - 29
🌦️ LEAP Spring 2024 Lecture in Climate Data Science: Andrew Gettelman: Tue, Mar 26
💰 Climate Change & Impact Investing: Wed, Mar 27
🌿 Stephanie Hanes on The Climate Generation at Hunter College: Tue, Apr 2
📊 ICGF- New SEC Developments- Climate Disclosure: Thu, Apr 4
💭 At the Crossroads of Data, Environmental, and Climate Justice: Wed, Apr 10
📉 Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis: Mon, Apr 15
🌱 The Bio-Inspired Green (BIG) Science & Technology Symposium 2024: Thu, Apr 18
⚖️ 2024 NYILR Spring Symposium: Fri, Apr 19
🍽️ FoodNiche Summit NYC: Mon, Apr 22
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