The Syracuse Surge Accelerator is a one-year in-person accelerator to provide direct resources and support for Black-Indigenous-Persons of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs who want to launch and accelerate tech-related and tech-adjacent startups in Syracuse, New York. ​

The program is looking for advance startup concepts and early-stage tech businesses or tech-adjacent services that are founded and operated by a BIPOC founder. They welcome both technical and non-technical founders and their teams who are ready to execute their tech product/service ideas or take their early-stage startups to the next level.

The EPIC Buildings Accelerator is a six-month Clean Tech program, providing a suite of business incubation supports to early-mid stage companies targeting energy hardware innovations in grid-interactive and energy-efficient building technologies, that complement traditional accelerator services. Accepted companies receive a monthly 1:1 meeting, held virtually with the accelerator staff.

This program is offered by CenterState CEO’s NYSERDA Clean Tech Center, in collaboration with the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE), with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions and the Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC), as well as DOE’s Building Technology Office.​

The Innovation Hot Spot program provides five years of corporate, personal income, and sales tax incentives to qualifying tech or manufacturing companies. These eligible companies receive entrepreneurial services during their enrollment through The Tech Garden as the regional Innovation Hot Spot, or through our incubator partners, to help companies grow in Central New York.

The DOE Office of Technology Transitions Lab MATCH (Laboratory Making Advanced Technology Commercialization Harmonized) Prize is a $620K, three-phase competition aimed to accelerate national laboratory intellectual property (IP) licensing and commercialization. Lab MATCH provides an opportunity for innovators and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to work directly with national labs and their researchers to accelerate technology commercialization.

Participating national labs include:

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Join the movement for impact across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through the MENA Fellowship. This program features two dynamic residencies, AWS cloud credits, mentorship, and a $5,000 USD stipend. Harness the power of cross-regional collaboration as you build the future of Health, Climate, and EquityTech. Cohort of up to 10 ventures from across the MENA Region receive training in Halcyon’s methodology on business fundamentals, leadership, investment readiness, and impact.

We’re looking for world-changing climate tech startups with significant climate impact potential, addressing billion-dollar markets bringing innovations in hard science, hardware, software and business models to the world. If accepted, you’ll take part in our virtual, 18-month accelerator program.

We’re here to help you accelerate the path to commercialization and bridge the gaps to access the financing and resources you need to succeed. We do so by connecting the world’s most promising climate tech startups—like yours—with Third Derivative’s network of committed investors, corporate partners, market experts, and mentors.

The US Department of Transportation is announcing a funding opportunity for a Climate Change and Transportation Research Initiative to advance the research and technology needed to tackle the Nation’s climate and transportation challenges. The initiative will be led by a university or nonprofit and funded at $2.5 million in the first year, subject to renewal up to five years. US DOT seeks proposals focused on advancing research and technologies that support the Nation’s goals to decarbonize the transportation sector by 2050, strengthen resilience of the Nation’s transportation infrastructure, and address adverse environmental impacts created by the transportation system.

This FOA will award up to $30 million for research, development, and demonstration projects in thermochemical storage via solar fuel production and local thermal energy storage (TES) for dispatchable energy.

Specifically, this FOA will implement two approaches to energy storage in concentrated solar-thermal (CST) systems: thermochemical storage via solar fuel production and local thermal energy storage (TES) for dispatchable energy. The two technologies will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in collaboration with the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), announced a request for proposals for projects that enhance the cybersecurity framework within American manufacturing. This initiative seeks to combine energy-efficient practices with robust cybersecurity measures, showcasing the U.S. commitment to technological innovation and resilience in the manufacturing domain.

IMPEL is a Department of Energy tech-to-market program focused on building technologies, funded by the Building Technologies Office and implemented by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our program helps early-stage individuals from business, academia, and DOE’s national labs translate the premise and promise of their technology into the language of business, boosting their chances of bringing it to market.

The Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics FOA will focus on accelerating the capabilities of two thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies: metal-halide perovskite PV and cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV technologies. It will fund innovative industrial research and development (R&D) projects that will enable future commercialization of hybrid tandem perovskite PV, defined as a perovskite PV in combination with another technology such as silicon or CdTe. It will also fund industrial research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects across the materials, equipment, installation, and performance monitoring sectors to improve the competitiveness of the domestic CdTe PV industry.

The objective of this FOA is to solicit and competitively award university-based R&D
projects that address and resolve fundamental scientific challenges and applied
engineering technology issues associated with thermal management of combustors and hot gas path components for gas turbines. Specifically, R&D projects will conduct fundamental and applied research to develop advanced materials and advanced hot gas path components which utilize these advanced materials, advanced cooling architectures, and advanced manufacturing methods.
The FOA will seek to solicit and competitively award laboratory/bench-scale R&D in the following areas of interest (AOI):
AOI 1: Fundamental Materials Development for Hot Gas Path Hydrogen Turbine
Components
AOI 2: Applied Materials Development for Hot Gas Path Hydrogen Turbine Components
AOI 3: Fundamental Materials Development for Hydrogen Rotating Detonation Engines
(RDEs).