The Scale For ClimateTech program is designed to support entrepreneurs who are looking to further expand their current commercialization efforts with a focus on scaling hardware solutions for climate impact.
Donor Name: For Climate Tech
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 11/14/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Scale For ClimateTech program focuses on advancing manufacturing readiness and guiding teams through challenges such as growing their operations and increasing market impact.
This 6-month manufacturing scale-up program connects participating companies with hands-on manufacturing training and an unparalleled network of mentors, industry experts, investors, manufacturers, and suppliers. Scale For ClimateTech empowers companies to scale production with confidence, meet growing demand, and make strategic manufacturing decisions.
Participant Benefits
- Technical Expertise
- Subject Matter Expert office hours
- Market intelligence connections
- Customized accountability board for manufacturing roadmap projects
- Third-Party MRL Assessments
- Access To Supplier Network
- Tours of NY ecosystem partners and manufacturing facilities
- Access to vetted state suppliers and manufacturers
- Collaboration and business agreement facilitation
- Educational Resources
- Immersive workshops on MRL sub-threads
- Critical manufacturing decision navigation
- Peer-to-peer group sessions
- Access to manufacturing tools and materials
- Strategic Partnerships
- Connections to potential investors, corporate partners, and customers
- Annual Innovation Showcase participation
- Opportunities for:
- Pilot testing
- Engineering services
- Design services.
Applicant Criteria
Innovators selected for this cohort should have:
- A Climate Tech hardware product or innovation that supports decarbonization via a reduction of energy consumption, increase in resource efficiency, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and/or enablement of the transition to a sustainable and decarbonized economy.
- While any Innovator that meets the definition of “climate tech” is of interest to Scale For ClimateTech, a few sectors contribute the most to greenhouse gas emissions in New York State.
- Scale for ClimateTech is particularly interested in the following key sectors: Buildings, Grid, Transportation, & Industry.
- While any Innovator that meets the definition of “climate tech” is of interest to Scale For ClimateTech, a few sectors contribute the most to greenhouse gas emissions in New York State.
- Scale for ClimateTech does not support companies with technologies which support fossil fuels or extend the useful life of fossil fuel technologies and infrastructure.
- A minimum of a works-like / looks-like climate tech prototype that has a hardware component.
- A Letter of Intent (LOI)/Letter of Support (LOS), joint development agreement, contingent purchase order, or NRE commitment that indicates pilot testing, pre-sales, or other customer commitment to manufacture climate tech solutions.
- Operations or operational plan that will contribute to demonstrating a benefit(s) to New York State. Examples of activities that represent a “Demonstrated Benefit to New York State” include:
- Having some portion of a member company’s or organization’s workforce (beyond at least one employee), such as headquarters, research and development, or manufacturing, based in New York State.
- Benefiting manufacturers, supply chain partners, vendors, and/or service providers in New York State, including but not limited to having purchase orders for parts from a NYS based source or contracts for purchase for a NYS based location.
- Serving an addressable market of customers within New York State with climate tech solutions.
- Significantly reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in New York State.
- Financial resources sufficient to fund the next 12 months of progress towards product manufacturing.
- A Self-Reported Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 5 or higher to participate in Bootcamp. They expect to select companies for the cohort that will have an average TRL of 7. To assess the TRL level of your offering, take a TRL self-assessment here.
- A team in place with a dedicated technical or manufacturing lead who is authorized to make decisions on behalf of the company and can commit to regular programming. A willingness to learn and share, honor time commitments, and be an engaged member of the cohort.
For more information, visit For Climate Tech.
