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Accelerating breakthrough climate technologies from prototype to market deployment
Even promising technologies can stall after early validation because project developers, investors, and customers lack the evidence, market signals, and/or financing structures needed to support and scale early-stage commercial deployments.
climate tech startups supported by RMI and Third Derivative
raised by our portfolio startups after joining the Third Derivative program
corporations are officially part of the Third Derivative network
Through the Third Derivative accelerator, RMI finds and helps the most promising early-stage climate tech companies and primes the market for their commercial adoption.
RMI connects leading corporations with emerging climate technologies to pilot solutions, validate performance, and create early market demand for breakthrough climate innovations.
RMI works with investors, development finance institutions, and corporate partners to unlock capital and reduce risk for first-of-a-kind commercial climate tech projects. Through initiatives such as Mark1, a developer-as-a-service platform, RMI helps later-stage startups plan, design, finance, and navigate regulation for particularly complex, capital-intensive first commercial-scale projects.
RMI works with heavy industry leaders and innovators to accelerate the deployment of technologies critical to decarbonizing and increasing efficiency in the “hard-to-abate” sectors including cement, steel, chemicals, fertilizer, maritime shipping, and aviation.
RMI supports climate innovation ecosystems across emerging markets by connecting startups with investors, corporations, and technical expertise to accelerate commercialization and scale breakthrough climate technologies.
Passive daytime radiative cooling materials reflect sunlight, reducing buildings’ indoor temperatures without using energy. RMI and Third Derivative are piloting new cooling solutions globally to validate performance, generate open-source evidence, and accelerate adoption of this promising, low-cost cooling technology.
Explore RMI and Third Derivative research, tools, and analysis advancing climate technologies from early innovation to global market deployment.
We are privileged to be working with some of the world's most brilliant innovators. It's our job to help them turn their incredibly exciting technology into the ubiquitous, boring, and bankable industry and infrastructure of the future.
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