THE EMERGING STARTUP ECOSYSTEM

September 26–27
8am–12pm PST

LIVE, VIRTUAL, FREE

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The Summit Mission

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.

2023 Speakers

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

Past Speakers

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

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2023 Agenda Coming Soon

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About.

The SOSV Climate Tech Summit is a virtual, free event designed for the climate tech startup ecosystem and open to all. The venture firm SOSV, a leading investor in climate tech startups, is producing the event.

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Talk Climate Tech with Investors From DCVC, Pale Blue Dot, and TDK Ventures

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FAQ.

Why is SOSV producing this event?

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:

  • Alex Greenhalgh, CEO, Spintex
  • Alex Kopelyan, Senior Director & Partner, SOSV IndieBio
  • Alex Wilhelm, Editor-in-Chief, TechCrunch+
  • Allegra Kowalewski-Ferreira, Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
  • Allison Kopf, Chief Growth Officer, IUNU
  • Amanda Little, Professor of journalism and science writing, Vanderbilt University
  • Amy Harder, Executive Editor, Cipher by Breakthrough Energy
  • Arturo Elizondo, Founder and CEO, The EVERY Company
  • Arvind Gupta, Partner, Mayfield; Founder, IndieBio; Co-author, Decoding the World
  • Audun Abelsnes, Managing Director, Techstars Energy
  • Ben Joffe, Partner, SOSV
  • Bill Gates, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Author, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
  • Bill Gross, Founder Idealab, Heliogen, Energy Vault, Carbon Capture
  • Candice Ammori, Founding, The Climate Vine
  • Carl-Erik Lagercrantz, CEO, Vargas Holding, Vice-Chairman, Northvolt & H2 Green Steel, Chairman, Polarium
  • Carlos Araque, CEO, Quaise
  • Casey Crownhart, Climate Reporter, MIT Technology Review
  • Catherine Shu, Senior Reporter, TechCrunch
  • Chris Sacca, Managing Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
  • Christina Chang, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
  • Christoph Gebald, PhD, co-Founder & co-CEO, Climeworks
  • Clea Kolster, PhD, Director of Science, Lowercarbon Capital
  • Cody Simms, Partner, MCJ Collective
  • Connie Loizos, Silicon Valley Editor, TechCrunch, Author, StrictlyVC newsletter
  • Danny Crichton, Head of Editorial, Lux Capital, Former Managing Editor, TechCrunch
  • Daria Saharova, Founding Partner, World Fund
  • Darrell Etherington, News Editor, TechCrunch
  • David Kirtley, PhD, Founder and CEO, Helion
  • David Rowan, Founder Voyagers.io, Founding Editor-in-chief, Wired (UK), Author, Non-Bullsh*t Innovation
  • David Tze, CEO, NovoNutrients
  • Dawn Lippert, Founder and CEO, Elemental Excelerator
  • Deep tech investors on how founders survive the “valleys of death”
  • Duncan Turner, General Partner, SOSV, Managing Director, HAX
  • Emily Reichert, PhD, CEO, Greentown Labs
  • Etosha Cave, PhD, Co-founder and CSO, Twelve
  • Francesco Matteucci, PhD, Program Manager in Green Technologies, European Innovation Council (EIC)
  • Frederick Teo, CEO, GenZero
  • Gabriel Kra, Managing Director and Co-founder, Prelude Ventures
  • Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore
  • Gwen Cheni, Partner, SOSV / IndieBio
  • Inja Radman, PhD, Co-founder and CSO, New Culture
  • Ira Ehrenpreis, Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners
  • Jason Jacobs, Host, My Climate Journey
  • Jason Pontin, Partner, DCVC; Former Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology Review
  • Jason Prince, Co-Founder, Electricity Lead, Third Derivative
  • Jason Thompson, CFO, Redwood Materials
  • Jeff Johnson, Managing Director, Temasek
  • Jennifer Gerbi, PhD, Acting Director, ARPA-E
  • Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, Lanzatech
  • Jesse Jenkins, Lead, Princeton University ZERO Lab
  • Jigar Shah, Director, Loan Programs Office at U.S. DOE
  • Joe Luttwak, Founder and CEO, Lingrove
  • John Diener, Co-founder and CEO, Vertical Oceans
  • Jonathan Shieber, Chief Editor & Venture Partner, Footprint Coalition, Former Climate Editor, TechCrunch
  • Josh Santos, CEO, Noya
  • Josh Silverman, CEO, Aromyx
  • Karsten Temme, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder, Pivot Bio
  • Kathy Hannun, Co-Founder and President, Dandelion Energy
  • Katie Rae, CEO and Managing Partner, The Engine
  • Kevin Martin, Co-Founder, unspun
  • Kevin Samy, R-Zero
  • Kiersten Stead, PhD, Managing Partner, DCVC
  • Kim Zou, Co-founder, CTVC
  • Larissa Zimberoff, Writer on Food and Technology; Author, Technically Food
  • Leah Ellis, PhD, CEO, Sublime Systems
  • Lily Wachter, CFO, Biomason
  • Lisa Dyson, PhD, CEO, Air Protein
  • Mark Windeknecht, PhD, Climate Tech Investor, World Fund
  • Mateo Jaramillo, CEO, Form Energy
  • Matías Muchnick, Founder & CEO, NotCo
  • Matias Viel, Founder & CEO, Beeflow
  • Matt Peterson, Director, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund
  • Michael Peither, Co-Founder and CTO, VoltStorage
  • Michael Selden, CEO, Finless Foods
  • Miranda Wang, Co-founder and CEO, Novoloop
  • Mona Alsubaei, Investment Team, Union Square Ventures
  • Neal Stephenson, Author, “Termination Shock”
  • Nina Heir, CEO, Katapult
  • Pae Wu, PhD, General Partner, SOSV & CTO, IndieBio
  • Patrick O’Riordan, Global Head of BioBrew, AB InBev
  • Po Bronson, General Partner, SOSV & Managing Director, IndieBio
  • Raffael Jovine, PhD, Founder & Chief Scientist, Brilliant Planet
  • Rajesh Mehta, PhD, SBIR/STTR Program Director, Environmental Technologies, NSF
  • Rajesh Swaminathan, Partner, Khosla Ventures
  • Robin Millican, Director of U.S. Policy and Advocacy, Breakthrough Energy
  • Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, Partner, Innovation Endeavors
  • Sandhya Sriram, PhD, CEO Shiok Meats
  • Sarah Hunter, Director of Global Public Policy, X (formerly Google X)
  • Sarah Sclarsic, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Voyager
  • Scott Jacobs, CEO & Co-Founder, Generate
  • Sean O’Sullivan, Managing General Partner, SOSV
  • Shayle Kann, Partner, Energy Impact Partners
  • Sophie Purdom, Co-founder, Climate Tech VC, early stage investor
  • Stanley Chan (Chen Qiufan), Cli-Fi Author, The Waste Tide, A.I. 2041
  • Susan Schofer, Partner & Chief Science Officer, HAX
  • Suzanne Fletcher, General Partner, Prime Movers Lab
  • Tadeu Carneiro, Chairman and CEO, Boston Metal
  • Tim De Chant, Senior Climate Reporter, TechCrunch
  • Toni Wendt, Co-Founder & Head of Technology Development, Traitomic (Carlsberg A/S)
  • Tony Fadell, Principal, Future Shape
  • Tulika Raj, Co-Founder and CEO, SunGreenH2
  • Uma Valeti, MD, CEO and founder, Upside Foods
  • Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, US Business Editor, The Economist
  • Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
  • Viraj Puri, Co-founder & CEO, Gotham Greens
  • Yet-Ming Chiang, PhD, Professor, MIT, Co-founder, Form Energy & Desktop Metal
  • Yin Lu, Partner, MCJ Collective
  • Yishan Wong, CEO, Terraformation

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).

Yes, we will publish all the main stage sessions after the event and notify all attendees by email when they are ready. Sessions of 2022 and 2021 are already available.

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.

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