Climate Tech Accelerator Program

The pre-accelerator, Climate Ready, are specifically tailored to support student-entrepreneurs and women-led startups. The two-stage accelerators, Climate Launch and Climate Runway are designed to help startups validate their market fit, and strengthen their go-to-market strategies and their access to funds.

The Climate Accelerator (tCA) is an integrated set of accelerator programmes dedicated to helping early-stage climate tech startups from the Global South enter the market, grow, and succeed.

It is a multi-stage integrated accelerator programme that has emerged from the leading accelerator programmes that they have been running since 2017 in the climate tech space. tCA has three programmes:

• Climate Ready is a pre-accelerator for women and students (for South Asia only).
• Climate Launch is the accelerator programme (for South Asia and the Gulf region).
• Climate Runway is an advanced stage of the accelerator programme.

Focus Areas

Two broad areas of sustainability

• Climate Change
  • Clean energy
  • Energy optimization
  • Future mobility
  • Carbon
• Circular Economy
  • Waste to resources
  • Natural resources
  • Pollution
  • Clean industry

Duration

• The length of the Climate Accelerator varies depending on the specific program. The Climate Ready program spans for 6 weeks and Climate Launch program usually spans over 3 months.

Eligible Countries

Climate Launch is accepting applications from only one of these 12 countries: (2 regions: South Asia and the Gulf)

• South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Gulf: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates for the year 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Climate Accelerator (tCA) is a program for early-stage startups focused on developing climate solutions. Teams of entrepreneurs who started their venture after 2016 — regardless of whether they are incorporated or not — are eligible to apply for Climate Launch.
• For Climate Ready (for women and students), the additional condition is that the venture must be led by either women founders or student founders.
• The criteria for selection in the Climate Accelerator program includes: Team strength, expertise and experiences, Idea (innovation), traction achieved, fitness for the program.

For more information, visit Climate Collective Foundation (CCF).