Climate tech startups are playing a vital role in the fight against climate change.
This is their forum.
From energy and transport to food and industrial materials, climate tech startups are pushing the boundaries of science and technology in the race to decarbonize our economy and save planet earth.
The SOSV Climate Tech Summit aims to convene the climate tech startup ecosystem of founders, investors, technologists, corporates, policymakers and media to discuss the extreme challenges ahead.
Join us for a live, virtual and free event featuring fireside chats, panel discussions and breakout sessions with the founders and venture capitalists who are inventing our decarbonized future.
Founder and CEO, Verdox
Partner, Voyager Ventures
Founding Partner, Wavemaker Impact
Managing Director, S2G Ventures
Founding Partner, E²JDJ
Co-founder and Executive Director, Work On Climate
Managing Director, Prelude Ventures
Partner, Fifth Wall
Founder and CEO, Last Energy
Founder, Breakthrough Energy
CEO, LanzaTech
Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore
Director, Loan Programs Office at U.S. DOE
Managing Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
co-Founder & co-CEO, Climeworks
Vargas Holding, Northvolt, H2 Green Steel, Polarium
Professor, MIT, Co-founder, Form Energy & Desktop Metal
Founder and CEO, Helion
2023 Agenda Coming Soon
The Princeton, NJ-based venture capital firm SOSV has been producing the Climate Tech Summit since 2021. In 2022, the event brought together nearly 7,000 attendees from around the world to listen to the world’s top founders and investors in climate tech. The third SOSV Climate Tech Summit will take place on Sept. 26-27, 2023.
SOSV is a leader in early stage climate tech investing, thanks to its IndieBio (life sciences) and HAX (hard tech) startup development programs.
SOSV publishes yearly the SOSV Climate Tech 100, listing its most promising investments in the category. Pitchbook reported that SOSV was the #1 most active climate tech investor for the 2018-2020 period.
SOSV has more than 500 co-investors in its climate tech portfolio, and in June this year SOSV published an analysis on TechCrunch of those investors as a guide to help founders better understand the funding landscape. SOSV is deeply committed the the mission of “human and planetary health,” and the SOSV Climate Tech Summit is designed to improve the prospects for all startups and all investors in the category, as well as to attract new participants.
“Startups by their very nature take risks no normal business would,” says Sean O’Sullivan, the founder and managing partner of SOSV, “and that’s doubly true for the deep tech startups inventing radical, breakthrough approaches to decarbonization. The more investment we deliver to brilliant founders, the better our chances that we will produce the innovations we need to save the planet. The SOSV Climate Tech Summit will help us speed up the exchange of insights and deepening of networks that are fundamental to the rapid growth of any startup ecosystem. As we can all see in the daily news coverage, the increasing rate of climate-related disasters requires immediate action. We really can’t move fast enough.”
The executive producers are Ned Desmond, SOSV senior operating partner and former COO of TechCrunch, and Ben Joffe, an SOSV Partner. Norm Amandi is responsible for the video production.
Sept. 26-27, 2023, From 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST.
The event is virtual.
SOSV’s aim is to help the climate tech startup ecosystem by convening investors, founders, corporates, policy-makers and media to hear from the leading founders and VCs in the sector. Our belief is that startups will provide many of products and technologies that will help humanity address climate change, and as a leader in the category, SOSV has a responsibility to convene and educate all the interested parties in and around the climate tech ecosystem.
2021 and 2022 Summit speakers:
We are currently working on an agenda reflecting key issues and emerging topics in the climate tech space. In 2022 we covered mainly Energy, Food&Ag, Industry, Materials and Policy. We will have about 60 speakers including high-profile investors, unicorn founders, emerging startups and more.
If you would like to suggest a speaker, contact us here including details about the speaker and suggested topic(s).
The event is free to all attendees, but registration is required.
If you would like to suggest programming ideas or get involved in some other way, please contact Ned or Ben at climatetech@sosv.com
Yes, we welcome media participation. You can find event descriptions, details, and visual assets here. Also, we are happy to assist media in making connections to our speakers and setting up interviews with—or quotes from—our organizers. For more information, please contact Ned Desmond at climatetech@sosv.com.