(pre)NY Climate Week Founder Speed Matching
Looking for a co-founder to build a climate startup with? C2FM's founder speed matching format is going NYC-wide for the first time.
Here's how it works:
You'll apply by answering a few quick questions, and C2FM's founder matching algorithm will decide who you are most compatible with as a co-founder.
You'll go through 10 rounds of 5-minute conversations with founders who could be a real fit.
After each round, you mark yes or no on the people you met.
When it's a mutual yes, we make the intro.
This one's built for solo founders looking for a co-founder, operators with the itch to build something, exited founders getting back in the game, and grad students who are ready to jump in.
We've run this format 9 times with our members, with a 45% second meeting conversion rate. This is the first time we're opening it up beyond the C2FM community, and we're really excited to bring it to the wider NYC climate and biodiversity ecosystem right before Climate Week.
We're hosting this one with our friends at Ambition Capital, Collide Capital, Comma Capital, Powerhouse Ventures, Precursor, and Superorganism, in partnership with Anywhere Ventures, Goodwin, and Rho!
Bagels and coffee provided ☕️
See you there!
C2FM Membership is not required to attend this event
About the hosts:
Climate Co-Founder Matching (C2FM) is a members-only community that drives climate startup formation through intentionally curated IRL events and an online platform. To date, we have supported 6 founding team formations.
Ambition Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in critical technologies, including climate and energy innovation, advanced manufacturing, AI infrastructure, aerospace, and robotics. Our portfolio companies have raised over $4B in capital after we invest.
Collide Capital backs early-stage founders rebuilding how the world moves money, goods, and work.
Comma Capital is an early stage pre-seed and seed fund based in New York run by David Ongchoco & Adarsh Bhatt. Comma runs a community of early stage builders and hosts hundreds of community events and fellowship programs in NYC & SF. Comma is a generalist fund that invests across sectors including deeptech, energy infra, manufacturing, biotech, software, AI, healthcare and more.
Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage founders building the future power system across energy, infrastructure, and AI. Powerhouse Ventures is backed by some of the world’s largest corporations in energy, utilities, automotive, finance, and tech—including Constellation, American Electric Power, Microsoft, UBS, Toyota, TotalEnergies, and more.
Precursor is an early-stage venture firm focused on classic pre-seed and seed investing. Since our founding in 2015, we have invested in more than 400 companies across software, hardware, consumer and enterprise. Our focus is on entrepreneurs entering into new markets solving the toughest problems.
Superorganism is the first venture firm dedicated to biodiversity. We work with founders bold enough to imagine an abundant future for humans and nature alike.
About the partners:
Anywhere Ventures is a New York City-based climate tech innovation company. We accelerate the growth of startups focused on mitigation and adaptation — two essential approaches to addressing climate change.
At Goodwin, we live your business. We are a firm of insiders relentlessly focused on understanding the pulse within six industries: healthcare, investment funds, life sciences, private equity, real estate, and technology. This means that we deliver unprecedented client value through a unique combination of industry knowledge, legal excellence, and business advisory expertise – all powered by our high-performance culture. Learn more about our global law firm at www.goodwinlaw.com.
Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants supporting them. With banking setup in minutes, cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused, backed by support that goes to the end of the earth to help you win.