Climate Drinks for Women in Climate

​Climate Drinks for Women in Climate, anchored by Third Derivative and hosted by the Women in Climate Entrepreneurship initiative during Delhi Climate Innovation Week, is an invite-led networking gathering for a curated group of women and allies shaping the climate innovation ecosystem. The evening is designed as an informal, off-record space for conversation beyond panels and pitches.

This edition builds on earlier Climate Drinks hosted in Delhi and Mumbai, as well as closed community gatherings convened around major climate moments, including COPs. It brings together founders, investors, operators, policy professionals, and ecosystem enablers working across climate tech, finance, and implementation.

There is no formal programming. The intent is to slow things down, creating space for honest conversations, peer exchange, and meaningful relationship-building among people who are actively building, backing, and shaping climate solutions.

Attendance is limited and carefully curated to maintain the quality of conversations.

Open to:
Women founders and startup leaders
Allies supporting gender equity in climate innovation
Investors and funders, including gender-lens and climate-focused capital
Senior professionals from corporates, policy, and development organisations
Ecosystem builders and platform leaders

Invite-only. Limited capacity.

About the organisers

​Third Derivative

​Third Derivative, a program of RMI, is a global climate tech accelerator that identifies and supports the most promising early-stage startups and primes the market for their adoption. Third Derivative has a robust climate tech ecosystem with nearly 300 startups from 27 countries, each with gigaton-scale emissions abatement potential. The Future Industries Partnership, funded by HSBC and delivered by Third Derivative and Founders Factory, is a three-year initiative designed to accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies decarbonizing heavy industry across Southeast Asia, India, and the Middle East.

​Climate Collective Foundation 

​​Climate Collective Foundation (CCF) is India’s largest non-profit climate tech ecosystem orchestrator. Founded by clean tech entrepreneurs in 2016, CCF works at the intersection of start-ups, industry, capital, and policy to accelerate climate solutions from idea to deployment.

​CCF has supported over 1450 early-stage climate tech start-ups through 96+ programs, enabled industrial pilots and partnerships, facilitated access to capital, and built one of the largest climate innovation communities in the Global South. CCF’s work focuses on reducing fragmentation, aligning stakeholders, and enabling collaboration to achieve climate outcomes at scale.