- Grant Amount – $15,000
- Deadline – April 25, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Calling all nature-inspired startups! Join a diverse cohort of high-impact visionary leaders. Receive personalized support, access to funding, attend a Nature Retreat and more. Apply today and be part of a community driving positive change!
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They accelerate the growth of nature-inspired startups to scale systemic solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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Every year, they support a cohort of 10 high-impact nature-inspired startups, spanning from Pre-seed to Series A stages and representing various sectors and regions.
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Funding Information
- Each selected startup receives $15,000 in non-dilutive funding and over $50,000 worth of in-kind services. This includes tailored coaching, investor introductions, a four-day Nature Retreat, and comprehensive training materials covering topics such as Impact and Sustainability Business Training, Innovation Storytelling & Amplification, DEI, and Founder Mental Health.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, you need to meet a certain number of requirements:
- Nature-inspired solutions are a broad classification of innovation that encompasses a great number of technology categories. At their accelerator, a nature-inspired solution draws inspiration from the natural world, often adapting biological principles and properties, ecological relationships or other aspects of nature’s strategies to address humanity’s greatest environmental challenges.
- Your Nature-Inspired Solution(s) may be:
- Grounded in deep scientific research – like Retein
- Evolved from an understanding of biological systems – like Mycocycle
- Enabling bio-inspired solutions – like Fusion Bionic
- Historically, the nature-inspired startups they support fit within at least one of the following verticals:
- Chemistry and Materials
- Built Environment
- Manufacturing and Advanced Robotics
- Renewable Energy
- Transportation and Mobility
- Food and Agriculture
- Conservation and Remediation
- Life Sciences and Medtech
- Biotechnology
- Consumer Products, Cosmetics, Textiles
- Water
- BlueTech
- Climate Tech
- They support early-stage startups at the Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stages. Most startups entering their program have a working prototype (i.e.: achieved a Technology Readiness Level of 4) and secured between $250,000 and $5M in funding (friends and family, grants, private investor, VC). There are exceptions, however, and they encourage you to apply as they will evaluate your fit within the program holistically.
- As a global accelerator program, they welcome applicants from all over the world.
- Your startup must be established with a legal entity before entering the accelerator program and receiving the allocated non-dilutive funding. Historically startups they have supported have two or more full time team members.
- At least one founder/executive team member must actively engage with the accelerator by participating in the program, submitting deliverables and attending the mandatory in-person week (including a 4 day Nature Retreat).
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