4.5
(19 ratings)
5 Days
·Cohort-based Course
With 250+ funding resources, group coaching, and peer feedback, I'll teach you my 5-step capital raising process and 20 mistakes to avoid.
4.5
(19 ratings)
5 Days
·Cohort-based Course
With 250+ funding resources, group coaching, and peer feedback, I'll teach you my 5-step capital raising process and 20 mistakes to avoid.
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Course overview
And last year, we saw $40 billion invested in 1,000+ startups across 4,000 climate-curious investors.
I want to help you get your piece of that.
And avoid $100,000+ in opportunity costs due to common mistakes in the capital raising process.
You can't afford that risk. Ditto for the planet.
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Entrepreneurs
Pre-seed. Seed. 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!
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.
Climate Tech Startup Funding
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The Warm Up
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Venture Capital Funding
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Project Finance
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The Tools
4.5
(19 ratings)
With this course, you'll get...
Plus, this course is 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, 4x founder, 4x Board member, climate CEO coach and CEO peer group leader, and professor with 80,000 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 2-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!
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...
120+ interviews with climate tech CEOs and climate investors via Entrepreneurs for Impact. Listen here.
100+ summaries of climate tech, startups, finance, better habits, and deep work. Read it here.
I've taught 70,000+ 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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