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.
FALL
ENERGY 203A
1 Unit
Weekly speaker series exploring high GHG-emitting white spaces
Small group session with speakers
Open enrollment
Auditors welcome
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WINTER / SPRING
ENERGY 203
1 - 3 Units
Project-based course practicing design and launch of new climate ventures
6 teams (30-40 students) per quarter
Team Leads: Apply by February 22 for Spring 2023
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*Note - Students can take any combination of Fall/Winter/Spring courses and do not need to take all three
Thank you to our sponsors!
Tom and Johanna Baruch
Breakthrough Energy Fellows