Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator Program

Focus Areas

• Energy efficiency
  • Innovations that can reduce energy needs on displays, cameras, and speakers. Specific areas of focus are sensors, microphones, networking equipment, and other components impacting power consumption.
• Displays
  • Innovations that can decarbonize displays or the components that support them across initial design, manufacturing, customer usage, and recycling.
• Device Batteries
  • Innovations for Amazon device batteries that can increase recycled content, promote efficiency, extend battery life, and/or reduce their manufacturing footprint.
• Low Carbon Materials
  • Innovative materials such as carbon-captured polyoxymethylene (CPOM), bioplastics, recycled carbon fiber, and bio-based polymers, recycled metals, and recycled alloys.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Innovations that can unlock new pathways to optimize product designs, extend device lifespans, and enable more energy-efficient customer product use.
• Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)
  • Innovations for PCBs that can increase recyclability, reuse, and waste reduction such as biodegradable PCBs and additive manufacturing processes.
• Circularity
  • Innovations that can facilitate Amazon’s shift towards closed-loop materials management and a more circular economy for its devices and packaging such as product lifetime expansion, recyclability, and component reuse.
• Devices Decarbonization Wildcard
  • Although the above are their primary focus areas, they are open to reviewing submissions for other decarbonization innovations for consumer electronics.

Benefits

• Fast Track to Mass Market
  • Opportunity to directly pitch to Amazon Devices and Services decision makers on how your innovation can be integrated into millions of Amazon devices.
• Personalized Coaching
  • Receive personalized coaching to perfect your pitch including technical deep dives, workshops, and access to free business resources.
• Growth Mentors
  • Be matched with industry and Amazon mentors to grow your company. Meet Amazon, MIT, and Newlab product and venture leaders.
• Up to $100K AWS credits
  • Easily test and build using Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits.
• Free Business Resources
  • Access free resources from MIT Solve including marketing support, legal resources, and more.
• Equity Free Support
  • Accelerate your company with equity-free support for the duration of the program.

Eligibility Criteria

• Have a developed hardware or software tech innovation that can help to further decarbonize Amazon devices products, services, and manufacturing supply chain. They are especially interested in cutting edge technologies to address areas in Energy efficiency, Displays, Device Batteries, Low Carbon Materials, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), and Circularity.
• Have a senior leader available and willing to participate in a hybrid 16-week accelerator that includes up to 3 in person events.
• Willingness to write an Amazon Press Release/Frequently Asked Questions (PRFAQ) and potential integration assessment for their technology (if selected as a finalist by the Amazon Devices team).
• Comfortable working in spoken and written English.
• Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator is open to anyone in the world, with the exception of United States embargoed countries: US law prevents MIT Solve from accepting applications from people who are ordinarily resident in Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Crimea, Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic regions of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, or from parties blocked by the US Treasury Department.

For more information, visit Amazon.

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