Calling All Climatetech Startups and Entrepreneurs!
Applications are now open for Uptake’s venture development program. Our program is dedicated to supporting climatetech startups to scale and reach the market as quickly as possible.
Submit applications here. Applications close May 10, 11:59PM EST.
Uptake Alliance
Market adoption. Climate impact.
Uptake is creating the market conditions for frontier climate ventures to thrive. Our global venture development program connects organizations with technical challenges to startups with novel solutions — making a regenerative impact on business performance, technology scaling, and our shared climate future.
Our difference
Today, the climate solutions market is fragmented and inefficient. That’s why Uptake Alliance is bringing the most innovative players together in a radically supportive, intersectional community to create win-win-wins. Our global venture development program is where it all happens.
We facilitate innovative commercial deals.
We help startups scale on their own terms.
We drive market adoption and climate impact.
For Corporations
Uptake helps you clarify your strategic roadmap and identify technical barriers. Then, we connect you to startups with relevant solutions, help you run productive pilots, and scale market-ready solutions. Uptake also facilitates innovative commercial agreements that maximize corporate growth while protecting venture tech.
For Startups
Our global venture development program helps market-ready startups pilot with target customers, land deals, grow revenues, build your team, secure non-dilutive funding, and raise investor capital — on your own terms. All this through a community of weathered entrepreneurs, subject matter experts and climate champions who have your back.
Our community
We are an intersectional community creating the market conditions for frontier climate ventures to thrive.
Startups
join Uptake to launch their frontier solutions, grow revenues, secure non-dilutive funding, and raise capital.
Corporations
illuminate and broadcast market demand, shape solutions, and elevate both their business performance and climate impact.
Investors
empower proven climate ventures to grow, scale, and maximize their positive impact on the market and the planet.
Policymakers
create supportive policies and incentives, share guidance, and provide non-dilutive funding through grants and prizes.
Upcoming events
On our own, we’re strong. Together, we’re unstoppable. Experience the power of our community for yourself.
POWERED BY
ADL Ventures develops and launches clean infrastructure innovations. By bridging the gap between incumbents and the entrepreneurial ecosystem, we deliver the full innovation life cycle from strategy to development to launch.
SUPPORTED BY
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) works to advance clean energy innovation and investments to combat climate change, improve the health, resiliency, and prosperity of New Yorkers and delivering benefits equitably to all.