Driving Climate Tech Innovation
Climate Edge is an innovation studio that partners with organizations to build impactful climate ventures and innovation ecosystems
Our Mission is to restore the Earth’s carbon cycle by accelerating the development and deployment of climate technologies.
What We Do
Strategy
We develop climate tech innovation strategies through a comprehensive needs assessment, identifying your organization’s decarbonization gaps and climate tech opportunities.
Build
We design and manage climate tech startup programs. If existing startups don’t address specific decarbonization gaps, we build in-house ventures in collaboration with key partners.
Innovate
Leveraging our global network of innovation partners, we source top startups, facilitating partnerships, pilots, and capital deployment between startups, corporates, and investors.
Invest
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Focus Areas
Climate Deploytech & Fintech
Many technologies to solve the climate crisis already exist. How can we use AI, tech and new business models to finance and deploy billions of small and medium sized climate projects around the world?
Carbon Free Electricity
How can we switch to a 100% carbon free, smart and resilient electricity system whilst doubling output?
Electrify Everything
How can we decarbonize and electrify transport, space heating, industrial heat, chemical processes and even food production?
Carbon Removal & Utilization
How can we develop energy efficient and financially viable carbon removal approaches, utilizing CO2 as a natural resource for healthier soils or feedstock for new synthetic carbon based materials?
Bridging the gap between the edge of innovation and mainstream adoption.
We accelerate climate tech adoption by facilitating relationships between the edge of climate innovation and mainstream adoption.
Climate Edge has an extensive global network of hundreds of innovation and ecosystem partners that provides us with an exclusive insight into the edge of climate innovation around the world.
We are always looking for investors, innovation partners, startups, associates, mentors and experts to join our network of collaborators.
About Us
Climate Edge is comprised of a global network of climate tech innovation experts, entrepreneurs and investors.
Hendrik Tiesinga - CEO & Founder (Lisbon & San Francisco)
Hendrik has two decades of experience working in sustainability, innovation and startup ecosystem building.
He previously was the co-founder & chief strategy officer at New Energy Nexus, the world’s largest clean energy startup accelerator and funder. He also co-founded Free Electrons a startup innovation platform backed by global utilities, and was part of the founding team of The Finance Innovation Lab in London.
Through his work he has engaged with hundreds of climate tech entrepreneurs around the world. Having lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Africa and North-America, he divides his time between Lisbon and San Francisco.
