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Climate and sustainability activity is ramping up across funding, technology deployment, and policy, with investors demanding clearer revenue paths and measurable carbon impact while governments tighten climate rules.[3][6][9]

1. Climate tech startups & funding

•Capital focus in 2026

- Nuclear (especially advanced fission and fusion) is attracting a disproportionate share of venture dollars, with nuclear startups taking about 20% of climate venture funding in the first nine months of 2025, and major investors signaling plans to “double down” on nuclear (including fusion) in 2026.[3]
- Investors expect strong business cases beyond emissions reduction alone, emphasizing unit economics, offtake contracts, and risk management.[3][6][9]

•New funding & accelerator programs opening now

- A global deep‑tech challenge is offering S$1 million grants each to the top two “Decarbonisation” and “Cool Earth” urban‑climate solutions, targeting waste‑to‑resource, renewable energy, energy efficiency, passive cooling, and nature‑based resilience.[1]
- An Indian clean‑energy facility is providing no‑interest loans up to USD $70,000 for SMEs and startups delivering distributed clean energy, agri‑energy, mobility, waste, textiles, and bioenergy solutions for micro‑enterprises.[1]
- A climate RFP is allocating USD $10 million across ~6–7 projects (multi‑year), with an emphasis on climate justice, gender‑responsive climate action, and community mobilization, up to 50 grants (max 5 per country).[1]
- Venture For ClimateTech has opened applications for Cohort 6, a global, non‑profit accelerator that offers initial funding, commercialization support, and a pathway to first customers and pilots for early‑stage climate hardware and deep‑tech founders.[5]
- Accelerator programs such as Startupbootcamp Energy & Climate are recruiting early‑stage teams in renewables, storage, alternative fuels, waste‑to‑value, efficiency, smart grids, and GHG capture/MRV, giving access to investors and corporate partners.[7]

•Key startup themes & examples (early‑2026 lists)

- Curated lists of top climate tech companies highlight fusion (Helion Energy), carbon credit analytics (BeZero Carbon), circular materials (CYCLIC MATERIALS), advanced recycling and sorting (Sortera Technologies), flared‑gas‑to‑compute (Crusoe Energy), solid carbon storage (Solid Carbon), AI‑driven grid storage (Terra One), SAF and e‑fuels (Aether Fuels), and ad‑supply‑chain decarbonization (Scope3) as representative “execution‑phase” plays in 2026.[8][9]
- Y Combinator and other top accelerators continue to expand climate cohorts across sectors such as climate software, carbon markets, and hard‑tech, giving early‑stage founders non‑dilutive support plus early funding.[4][5][7]

2. Clean energy & deployment trends

•Technologies scaling in 2026

- Climate investors expect geothermal power and district‑heating projects and grid‑scale batteries / thermal energy storage to be ready for larger‑scale deployment in 2026, especially where they can serve data centers and industrial load.[6]
- Nuclear (including fusion) is seen as a leading candidate to meet AI‑driven electricity demand, with multiple large funds raising capital specifically for fusion.[3]

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