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Elemental Impact

Elemental Impact · United States, climate
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Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor that provides catalytic capital plus wrap-around support—project expertise, local partnerships, and investor mobilization—to entrepreneurs building first-of-a-kind and early commercial climate technologies across energy, industry, food and agriculture, nature, water, and transportation. It also recently launched a Data Center Innovation Initiative with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to accelerate sustainable infrastructure technologies.

Programme terms

Amount
Not a fixed amount stated; page says for every dollar invested, companies unlock an additional $110 in follow-on funding, totaling $11.8B in follow-on funding across the portfolio.
Funding type
Grant
Stages
Early Traction, Growth
Industries
CleanTech / Climate, Hardware / IoT
Regions
North America
Applications
Rolling intake
Who can apply
Entrepreneurs building first-of-a-kind and early commercial technologies in energy, industry, food and agriculture, nature, water, and transportation sectors; also includes a separate Data Center Innovation Initiative for next-generation infrastructure technologies.
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