2025 Venture For ClimateTech Innovation Showcase
We’re kicking off Climate Week NYC with an exciting event featuring the latest climate technology solutions. Join the For ClimateTech team at Newlab for an immersive day of pitches, panels, and networking opportunities, bringing together over 100 innovators, investors, industry leaders, hardware experts, manufacturers, and more to showcase the latest advancements in climate technology.
Hear from 20 innovators from Venture For ClimateTech (V4C)'s 5th Cohort who are developing climate solutions across four key sectors: Buildings, Transportation, the Grid, and Industry.
We invite you to come learn and connect!
Agenda:
11:00 – 11:45 am: Brunch & Networking
11:45 - 12:15 pm: Opening Remarks and Keynote Addresses from
Brandon Owens, Vice President of Innovation & Research at NYSERDA
Ashley Grosh, Vice President at Breakthrough Energy
Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner at Third Sphere
12:15 – 3:00 pm: V4C Startup Pitches, Founders Tabling, and Networking
Presented by: For ClimateTech, NextCorps, and NYSERDA
This event is Day 1 of For ClimateTech’s 2025 Innovation Showcase, a two-day immersive experience featuring pitches, panels, and networking opportunities. For more information about Day 2, featuring Scale For ClimateTech, click here.
About For ClimateTech:
Supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and administered by NextCorps (based in Rochester, New York), Venture For ClimateTech helps fast track the commercialization of businesses with breakthrough climate technologies, and further strengthens New York state as a hub for climate solutions.
Venture For ClimateTech (V4C) is a non-profit global venture accelerator program. V4C sources the most promising climate tech innovators from around the world and offers them hands-on support to help them achieve their first customers, pilot runs, and investment.
For ClimateTech is brought to you by:
NextCorps
NextCorps is a non-profit helping innovative technology companies launch and grow. It supports tech startups and existing manufacturers in building their businesses through a variety of internationally and nationally recognized programs. In addition to its sector-specific startup accelerator programs in optics/photonics/imaging, climate tech, and B2B SaaS, NextCorps also operates a state-of-the-art tech incubator in Rochester, NY, in the heart of the Downtown Innovation Zone, as well as manufacturing specific programs to help grow existing small and mid-sized businesses. NextCorps is an affiliate of the University of Rochester.NYSERDA
NYSERDA, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, offers objective information and analysis, innovative programs, technical expertise, and support to help New Yorkers increase energy efficiency, save money, use renewable energy, and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. A public benefit corporation, NYSERDA has been advancing energy solutions and working to protect the environment since 1975.
About our Sponsors:
Climate Finance Solutions is a global, mission-driven consulting firm that helps climate tech companies identify and secure large-scale public grant funding. Since 2020, CFS has won over $1.6 billion in funding for its clients, plus €500M of European funding and $275M in grant management.
Photo & Video Consent Statement
Your entry and presence on the event premises constitutes your consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded and to the release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of any and all recorded media of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with the event organizers (NYSERDA and NextCorps) and its initiatives, including, by way of example only, use on websites, in social media, news and advertising.