Apply now: Halcyon Climate Fellowship 2025

Deadline Date: February 16, 2025

Donor Name: Halcyon

 Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000

https://www.halcyonhouse.org/programs/climate-fellowship-2025

Applications are now open for Halcyon’s Climate Fellowship Program to 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.

Sectors

• Solutions addressing climate mitigation, adaption, and resilience, including but not limited to:
  • Renewable energy generation and storage
  • Green building technologies
  • Climate data and analytics
  • Climate-smart agriculture and food systems
  • WaterTech
  • Blue economy 

Benefits

• $10K in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits
• Professional advisors
• Workshops with experts in leadership development, investment readiness, and product-market fit
• Networking with investors and varied stakeholders in climate
• Pro bono legal support
• A global community of nearly 600 impact-driven entrepreneurs
• And more

Funding Information

• $10K equity-free stipend per venture.

Eligibility Criteria

• They’re looking for (for-profit) startups that are building scalable solutions that are tackling challenges related to climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.
  • Location: Global
  • Stage: Must have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that has the potential to scale. Must be working on your venture full-time. 
  • Team:
    • May apply with up to one co-founder
    • Applicant must be the CEO and/or hold primary decision-making power
    • Must be fluent in English
    • Must be at least 21 years of age by the start of the program
  • Program Engagement: Must be able to participate in all activities and programming sessions
  • Impact: Must be developing a product and venture which contributes towards 1 or more of the UN’s 17 SDGs

Selection Criteria

• Impact
  • To what extent will the solution, if scaled, have a meaningful impact on society and/or the environment?
• Scalability
  • Could this venture scale to reach hundreds of thousands or millions of users in a 5-10 year time horizon?
• Innovation
  • Is the solution a novel approach to tackling the issue in their context?
• Talent
  • Is the team uniquely qualified to tackle the challenges they’ve identified?

For more information, visit Halcyon.