Friends, applications are open for our next cohort of ambitious startups that are addressing the world's most urgent environmental and infrastructure issues. Does your company — or a company you know — belong in our 8th cohort? Now is the…
What is Deal Day? Every year we see hundreds of amazing entrepreneurs and world-changing technologies, and while we can only fund 15-20 ourselves, we are thinking creatively about new ways to help you grow your company. We want to accelerate…
Entrepreneurs prize nimbleness. Established companies emphasize stability. Here's how to harmonize those two agendas.
California recently became the second state to pass a 100% clean energy standard, three years after Hawaii passed a similar law. As the fifth largest economy in the world, California has a tall order to fill in terms of making the transition…
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory selected five “Power Connectors” to help grow its American-Made Solar Prize, a $3 million competition designed to revitalize U.S. solar manufacturing. The Power Connectors support the prize by…
We think deeply about the different types of money our startups need to scale their world-changing solutions with speed: project finance, venture capital, and other flavors of debt and equity. We are excited to share that a handful of our companies all closed major deals in the last few weeks.
Friends, we are thrilled to welcome 20 new companies into the EEx portfolio. This is our seventh cohort, and it's bursting with what we call Earthshot ideas — technological and business innovations that have the potential to transform our world for the better.
On July 24th, we brought together over 200 investors and corporates (oh, and an astronaut!) with 37 of our portfolio companies at EEx Interactive in San Francisco.
We've got some big news to share. First, we are pleased to announce that the Office of Naval Research has committed an additional $30M to Elemental Excelerator, bringing its total funding commitment to more than $60M. The majority of the…
This week was VERGE Hawaii, an energy and innovation conference bringing together key stakeholders in Hawaiʻi’s clean energy future. Until this year, there was one key stakeholder missing, the youth, our future decision makers. In just three short days, ten…