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Can your technology work outside the lab, and will anyone adopt it when it does? For climate founders, those are two different questions—and answering only the first is one of the most expensive ways to lose a…
A climate startup can have strong technology and still fail environmental due diligence. The failure point is usually…
A climate founder can spend six months proving that a new sensor, battery control system, carbon accounting method, or…
The popular version of climate startup customer discovery is simple: find a sustainability-minded buyer, describe the…
When a climate tech founder asks, “Is our technology not ready yet—or is our business model wrong?”, the answer is…
Climate tech funding has become less forgiving. The correction was visible in the year-over-year drop reported for…
A climate software MVP rarely fails because the founder could not build enough technology. More often, it fails because…
The most persistent myth in climate tech is that “green” demand is already waiting for you. Find a company with…
Can your climate startup idea become a real business, or is it only a technically interesting response to a very large…
A climate technology can fail before the first prototype reaches the market. The failure point is often not the…
A founder I worked with once had enough cash for one serious prototype—not three, not a leisurely round of iteration…
What would have to be true for your climate product to work—and which of those assumptions could quietly kill the…
Co-founder conflict accounts for 65% of high-potential startup failures, according to research by Harvard Business…
Last quarter, a founder in our cohort sat in her car outside a venture firm’s office for forty-five minutes after a…
When does a climate MVP spreadsheet stop being a useful model and start becoming a product risk?
Climate tech funding has become more selective, but the harder problem is usually earlier in the funnel. A prototype…
A climate startup can fail before it reaches a technical failure.
You've spent eighteen months in the lab. Your bench tests are clean, your pilot data looks beautiful, and your…
In 2023, climate tech startups absorbed $44.5 billion in venture capital. Software captured $5.8 billion—13% of the…
A climate founder usually does not choose a legal structure because the distinction feels intellectually interesting…
Most climate tech founders do not lose investors because their emissions model is wrong. They lose them because the…