Cleantech Open

Fostering Entrepreneurship and Clean Technology, Worldwide

The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The Cleantech Open has established itself as the leader in developing clean-technology startup entrepreneurs addressing these challenges.

Since its inception in 2006, hundreds of promising teams have availed themselves of the Cleantech Open’s one-of-a-kind hands-on workforce development, nurturing, and funding programs, with impressive results:
• Cleantech Open alumni companies have raised over $300M in private capital,
• 80 percent remain economically viable today, and
• More than 2,000 new clean technology jobs have been created.

The Cleantech Open has created these jobs at a cost of less than $5,000 per job based on the organization’s spending to date. This is far below the cost estimated for job generation under state and federal programs or the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

We believe that the solutions to the most critical challenges facing the U.S. today, related to energy, environment and the economy will come from the creativity, dedication, and passion of entrepreneurs and inventors.

Specialties

mentoring, funding, training, entrepreneurship, cleantech, renewables, electric vehicles, energy efficiency