For Q1 of 2025, we’ve handpicked a selection of grants, incubators and accelerators specifically designed for founders in the climate tech sector. These opportunities provide crucial funding, resources, and mentorship needed to scale innovative solutions and make a tangible impact. Each program is an excellent pathway for founders to accelerate growth, gain industry exposure, and drive meaningful change in the climate tech landscape. Make sure to check the details for each opportunity and mark your calendars for these critical deadlines:
JANUARY
Jan 31st
Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities Programme 2025
Africa
This open call will accept applications from enterprises seeking to pilot innovative. PURE business models in sub-Saharan Africa in sectors including (but not limited to) solar water pumping for irrigation, cold storage for food, agro processing of crops (e.g. milling, drying, oil press), food value chain processing activities, electric mobility for taxi drivers and fishing boats, and more. These can be start-ups at advanced concept stage or operational small and medium-sized enterprises.
Jan 31st
The OML Fellowship Program
Remote
The OML MENA Fellowship Program aims to recruit young talents from the MENA region on an annual basis. Fellows participate in a nine-month training program that covers various topics such as Leadership, Sustainability, Social Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship. Beyond their training, fellows have the opportunity to share their knowledge and mentor younger community peers, known as “Pioneers,” who are eager to engage in community-based projects.
FEBRUARY
Feb 3rd
Remote
We are using our proven early-stage accelerator playbook to put AI to work for climate and nature. Our focus on diverse AI founders and high-impact priority areas will level the playing field and accelerate environmental outcomes.
Feb 4th
Horizon Europe Programme: Critical technologies for the Future Ocean Energy Farms
Europe
Projects are expected to address at least one of the following areas:
- Components and systems used in ocean energy devices need to be resistant to corrosion and the heavy loads they are subject to. Develop new sustainable materials with improved fatigue, damping, stiffness, sustainability and bio-fouling management or other cost-reducing characteristics. Materials such as reinforced concrete, polymers, composites, and concrete-steel/composite-steel hybrids systems have demonstrated some advantages such as reduced costs. Demonstrating the potential benefits of these new sustainable materials in ocean energy converters, moorings and foundations whilst ensuring structural integrity, durability and circularity is required.
- Advance the design of sustainable tailored mooring and connection of electrical or other power transmission systems for floating or subsea wave and tidal devices. Advance combined mooring and electrical connectors or hydraulic power transmission to reduce component cost and number of connection operations, included in systems for sharing an anchor between devices in arrays. Develop novel systems for safe and quick connection/disconnection that do not require large vessels and/or diving teams.
- Instrumentation for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of ocean energy devices. Apply recent advances in condition and structural health monitoring from other sectors to ocean energy – particularly those currently developed for offshore wind. Apply latest sensor technology to existing ocean energy deployments. Document and share experience on sensors performance and reliability, and methods for adapting them to the harsh ocean energy environment. Improve transmission or storage of data collected from sensors, such as underwater data transmission.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ocean energy technology development. Develop or apply advanced simulation of ocean energy systems. Use of big data with analysis of data streams, application of big data methods and machine learning, including artificial intelligence, or digital twin models for the design, installation, operation and decommissioning of ocean energy devices.
Feb 14th
Anticipatory Action Accelerator
Worldwide
How can we design a humanitarian aid system that can preemptively identify crises and reduce the negative impact of shock events, allowing low-income populations to build resilience?
Our goals are:
We will provide grants of up to $100,000 to qualifying proposals. Alongside capital, MCV will also provide mentorship, impact measurement advisory, access to partnership opportunities, knowledge exchange, and brand exposure.
Feb 16th
Climate Fellowship 2025
Worldwide
The program will bring together entrepreneurs from across the U.S. and the globe, empowering them to address climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. Founders will receive expert training, critical resources to accelerate their ventures, and an 8-week in-person residency at Halcyon in Washington, DC.
Feb 17th
The Entrepreneurship Impact Fund
Ireland
Strand 2 will support up to two organisations over two years to run new or existing youth entrepreneurship incubators, supporting young people aged 16-25 to bring their social or environmental business ideas or social enterprise from concept to reality. Cash grants of up to €150,000* annually per organisation over the two year period will be awarded. 25% of the total value of each award should be made in the form of a seed fund cash grant between €5,000 and €10,000 to participating young entrepreneurs.
Feb 17th
Ocean Grants
United Kingdom
Feb 28th
Vienna Planet Fund
Austria
Do you want to help make the city climate-neutral? Do you have a business idea to reduce greenhouse gases, and are you eager to bring it to life in Vienna? Are you working on a development proposal for more efficient use of resources and energy, or are you planning to implement environmentally friendly machines in the future? Are you planning to launch a circular product, or are you looking to conserve biodiversity? We provide the Vienna Planet Fund to assist companies, both local and international, as well as founders from all business sectors, in developing climate-friendly products, technologies, or services. Bring your national or international company to Vienna and book a cost-free consultation with us.
Feb 28th
Food & Beverage Accelerator
Canada
The Food and Beverage Accelerator is a five-month accelerator focused on supporting high-growth consumer packaged goods ventures in scaling up their operations and acquiring new distribution channels.
It is key that the founding team stays committed to the program to get the most out of it. We believe that at the core of all successful ventures are its founders. As such our program is designed to provide critical knowledge needed in the complex CPG landscape to founders who are open and committed to learn.
MARCH
Mar 5th
Mass Challenge 2025
Switzerland
By design our program makes businesses sustainable – both financially and for the climate & nature. We only accept startups whose solution will add value to society (for example, Millions of Tones CO2 eq. removed/avoided, Millions of Litres of water saved, lives saved), and all startups in the accelerator will be advised about how to make their business climate responsible and must intend to offset their emissions or actively reduce GHG to be considered. We’ve asked our cohort if they would recommend the program to other startups; in 2024, the average score was 9+ out of 10, from 99 responses.
To maximize their benefit from the program, Startups will need to travel and be present in Switzerland 2 times: for our Bootcamp and Halftime activities. These events generate connections and facilitate collaboration with our partners, mentors and investors. The remainder of the program operates online.
Mar 13th
2025 APAC Sustainability
ASIA
For the 2025 Sustainability Edition, we’re looking for sustainable APAC startups eager to innovate, grow, and refine their solutions.
Our collaborative, pilot-focused program accelerates early-stage innovators with grants, PepsiCo value chain pilot opportunities, and mentorship from PepsiCo experts.
LOOKING FORWARD INTO Q2 2025...
April 11th
Driving Sustainability in Agri-Food Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
LATAM
The FONTAGRO has announced the call for proposals to co-finance innovative projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The objective of this call is to identify regional research, development and innovation projects with a strong impact on the ground that promote efficiency and resilience, and reduce the environmental footprint in the agri-food systems of Latin America and the Caribbean.
April 15th
Green Transition Projects
Europe
Interreg NEXT MED brings together 15 countries towards a smarter, greener, more inclusive, and better governed Mediterranean region. The Call for Green Transition Projects provides €83.7 million in European Union’s funding to tackle climate challenges across the Mediterranean region.
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