Climate Startup Funding
8.9
(15 ratings)
5 Days
·Cohort-based Course
In 8 hours of live class, 500+ resources, and personalized group coaching, we'll teach you a 5-step capital raising process.
8.9
(15 ratings)
5 Days
·Cohort-based Course
In 8 hours of live class, 500+ resources, and personalized group coaching, we'll teach you a 5-step capital raising process.
Get notified about the next cohort
Hosted by
Dr. Chris Wedding (lead) and Jennifer Wagner (guest)
Course overview
We want to help you get your piece of that.
Can you also avoid $100,000+ in opportunity costs in the process?
We'll help you leapfrog costly mistakes and find the right investors.
You can't afford that risk. Ditto for the planet.
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Entrepreneurs
Pre-seed. Seed. Series A. CEO. COO. CFO. Business development. Strategy leader.
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Future entrepreneurs
Freedom seekers. World changers. Climate experts who want “MBA skills.”
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Career Switchers
Got experience in other sectors but want to help climate tech startups find the right capital? Join us!
Did you know that 2021 saw $40 billion invested in 600+ companies across 1,400 climate-curious investors?
If your blinders are on, you'll miss the climate megatrends, wasting time and money.
Learn which sectors are most crowded, and which big problems still need solutions.
The days of a 40-page business plan are dead.
The world is changing quickly. So is your team. And so are you.
It's time to rethink old assumptions.
Create a process for gathering the wisdom of your team, without just settling for group think.
40+ climate tech companies have become unicorns, raising $45+ billion.
But thousands of impact entrepreneurs want to tackle climate change.
Don't just be another green lemming.
Build your moat of competitive advantage. Define your most likely exit strategy.
45% of businesses fail in the first five years.
But you don't need to step in the same dung patties as everyone else.
Conduct a pre-mortem analysis.
Define ways to mitigate key risks — before they happen.
"A new bus comes for investors every 5 minutes."
That is, they see A LOT of pitches.
Yours needs to be simple, clear, and convincing.
You'll practice pitching to peers and get access to dozens of sample pitch decks.
99% of investors are likely to say no.
Yet many people think that finding growth capital is easy and only done every 18 months.
Not true.
It is an evergreen process with proven rules for greater success.
With this course, you'll get...
Plus, this course is new and improved since the last cohort:
Founder, Entrepreneurs for Impact
I’m on a mission to tackle climate change through investment, startups, and education.
To get there, we need more shots on goal:
More solutions. More companies. More investments.
That’s where you come in.
I want to help you fund your current (or future!) climate tech startup.
Why me?
I have made too many mistakes in this sector to keep them all to myself.
This experience comes from $1B+ of investment experience as a former environmental PE investor and impact investment banker, 3x founder, climate CEO coach and mastermind leader, and professor with 60,000 students taught at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Coursera.
Want to learn more?
Climate CEO Mastermind peer groups that I lead – Current members manage $8+ billion in market value:
My newsletter – A weekly 3-minute summary of climate tech, startups, better habits, and deep work:
My podcast – Interviews with climate investors and CEOs where we cover business insights, life lessons, and personal growth:
So, who's going to solve climate change by funding the growth of new businesses?
You are!
Climate tech executive
Jennifer Wagner is on a mission to help launch, nurture and scale innovative startups with massive climate change mitigation potential.
(Um, that's you, my dear founders reading this bio!)
She is an experienced startup advisor, investor, thought leader, speaker, and team builder.
Jennifer has been recognized as one of 20 Women Driving The Future of Climate Tech, Business Insider’s Clean Energy Rising Stars, Canada’s Clean50 Emerging Leaders, and the Climate Action Summit’s Climate Trailblazers.
As the former President of CarbonCure Technologies, a high-growth climate tech startup, she was responsible for overseeing the company’s operations amidst a period of rapid growth, launching the carbon removal credit business, shaping and nurturing the company’s team culture, and helping to recruit and retain top talent, while attracting the world’s most sought-after climate tech investors.
She also led Team CarbonCure to win the grand prize for two major global innovation competitions: the Carbon XPRIZE and Grand Carbon Challenge.
Jennifer is a dedicated advocate committed to fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive climate tech sector.
Special VC Investor Guest Teacher
Our second visiting instructor is a surprise climate tech VC investor managing over $130M in capital for early-stage companies. He brings experience as a software engineer, angel investor, and mentor with Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy program.
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Blake Sturcke
Prageet Nibber
Brent Beerley
April Mendez
Scott Frazier
Elena Cavallero
Jack Sullivan
Daniel Lie
Chris Shugart
L. Julian Keniry
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Mr. Quick Money
"I'm into climate tech just for the profits. The mission stuff is for tree huggers."
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Mrs. Know It All
"I'm a savvy business pro, so I really have nothing new to learn."
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Mr. What's In It For Me
"I'm too busy to give feedback to my fellow entrepreneurs. I'm #1."
After this course, you'll have...
Interviews with climate tech CEOs and climate investors via Entrepreneurs for Impact. Listen here.
My 3-minute weekly summary of climate tech, startups, better habits, and deep work. Read it here.
I've taught 60,000+ students in my "Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship" course, with 4.7 out of 5.0 stars. View it here.
I know, I know. Kind of boring. But worth a scan if you're having doubts about signing up for this course. See it here.
Active, not passive
This course focuses on live workshops and hands-on projects
Learn with a cohort of peers
You’ll be learning in public through breakout rooms and an engaged community
Learn with a cohort of peers
Surround yourself with like-minded people who want to grow alongside you
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