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…
What if we applied our model that accelerated 63 startups to government agencies and nonprofits? Transcending Oil, a quantitative analysis of Hawaii's path to a clean energy economy, taught us that we can move much faster off of oil, 84% renewable…
In November 2017, we announced a $100k funding opportunity for three EEx portfolio companies that were looking to accelerate access to clean technology in some of California’s low-to-moderate income neighborhoods. We requested proposals for projects in CalEnviroScreen 3.0/ disproportionately-polluted and…
For the stats lovers among you, a data snapshot of our most geographically dispersed, technologically diverse, and mature applicant pool to date.
In honor of our planet completing another successful twirl around the sun, and to mark a decade of progress on the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, Elemental Excelerator gathered some old friends and welcomed some new ones at the Earth Day Energy Summit.