Stanford Climate Ventures

A powerful climate-specific network and toolkit to help students explore climate white spaces.

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The Fierce Urgency of Now

Climate change presents the largest systemic challenge and opportunity of our lifetime.

While some of the current gaps will be closed by scaling up and deploying existing technologies like solar and wind, a large portion will require breakthrough technologies.

Solving the global climate challenge will require the creation and successful scale-up of hundreds of new ventures. Because of how long it takes these companies to get to market and the scale they need to reach, we need to launch the companies that will scale by 2050 today.

Stanford Climate Ventures

Stanford Climate Ventures (SCV) is a three-quarter project-based course sequence that practices the creation of transformational climate ventures and innovation models. SCV provides a powerful climate-specific network and toolkit that helps students explore climate white spaces.

Unlike many other entrepreneurship classes, SCV is a venture discovery class, encouraging students to get out of the classroom and interact with experts and practitioners in industry, driving up-to-date domain knowledge on real problems and whitespaces in climate.

Climate-Tech Startup Skills & Playbooks
Learn how to identify, assess, analyze, design, build, and launch climate-tech ventures.

Real World Teamwork
Learn how to work effectively with teams on real-world projects.

Ecosystem Building
Build a strong Stanford climate-tech ecosystem and accompanying network.

Launching Startups
Create new companies to tackle high-impact climate problems.

7 Years

85 Projects

45 Companies

$725M

Total Follow On Funding
Private Funding: $633M
Non-Dilutive Funding: $92M

668

Employees
Across 24 US States,
14 Countries, 5 Continents

Alumni Companies

Almost all of these companies started as embryonic “discovery” projects.

Stanford Climate Ventures gives students the opportunity first to explore high climate impact white spaces before diving into a project where a specific topic and venture space are explored.

Prospective Students can learn more here.