The university spinout platform for climate tech innovators & their first believers.

We accelerate lab-to-market & student entrepreneurship outcomes through increased connectivity with capital allocators, structured programming, & founder resources.

University Climate Ventures

Universities are engines of climate innovation. Breakthroughs in energy, materials, carbon, and industrial systems are born in labs and classrooms every day — yet too few translate into venture-backed companies at the speed the climate crisis demands. University Climate Ventures exists to close that gap.

Purpose-built for innovators and investors.

Innovators

Founders and researchers receive warm introductions to top climate investors (> $4B AUM) actively backing early-stage companies and who understand technical risk and long timelines. They participate in investor workshops on fundraising, commercialization, and company building, as well as investor and university spinout AMA sessions.

UCV also offers curated networking with founders who have successfully navigated the lab-to-market journey, along with mentorship resources and playbooks built from real university spinout experiences. Early team-building is supported through a centralized university hiring portal connecting founders with motivated student talent.

Investors

UCV provides investors with a high-signal on-ramp into leading university climate innovation ecosystems. Through our network of Campus Venture Partners, we surface screened deal flow as companies form, maintain a continuously updated database of founders, pre-founders, and researchers, and produce ecosystem maps, spinout data, and quarterly research briefs on emerging technical and commercialization trends.

Investors also gain direct pathways into university ecosystems through curated introductions, on-campus dinners, and small-group gatherings with founders, researchers, and key institutions.

Universities

UCV plugs directly into university innovation ecosystems, supporting entrepreneurship courses, accelerators, and research programs with structured investor engagement. We increase connectivity between campus founders and aligned climate capital allocators through curated introductions and high-signal programming.

By embedding within existing initiatives, UCV strengthens the lab-to-market pipeline and helps translate more climate innovation into funded companies.