A warmer world demands more cooling, but with EVs, data centers, and industry set to increase electricity demand, any cooling technology must begin with efficiency top of mind...
Introduction As the world encounters another hot summer, cooling is becoming an even hotter topic. Cooling demand is skyrocketing, driven primarily by the Global South and fueled..
Last week, Third Derivative welcomed 31 startups to our Industrial Innovation Cohorts alongside our first general cohort of 2025. Today, we’re excited to highlight 26 new startups..
An exciting class of technologies is poised to revolutionize the cooling landscape — solid-state, or those that use solid materials and an applied field or force to generate..
Today, we celebrate a major milestone with the graduation of 35 startups from Cohort 23-2 (our second cohort of 2023) and Third Derivatives' First Gigaton Captured (FGC) program...
Third Derivative announces our newest cohort alongside Netflix and the Walt Disney Company in the Clean Mobile Power Initiative, aimed at accelerating the deployment of..
When you sit down on the couch to stream your latest show, climate change and the urgency of the energy transition may be far from your mind — even when the latest season of Love..
Nonprofit RMI, its climate tech accelerator Third Derivative, and deep tech venture creator Deep Science Ventures, alongside founding partner Builders Vision, created Mark1 to..
In 2019, there were only three companies using electrochemistry for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As of March this year, that number had grown to at least 24, with some companies..
We are excited to share that entertainment industry equipment suppliers, The MBS Group, Sunbelt Rentals, and Quixote by Sunset Studios, have joined the Clean Mobile Power..
About Cohort 24-1 RMI’s global climate tech accelerator, Third Derivative, was built to accelerate the rate of climate innovation. Cohort 24-1, our tenth cohort to date, helps us..
The past year was, at times, a rollercoaster of emotion related to climate progress and pitfalls. Every week seemed to bring conflicting messages of, somehow, both hope and..
As this year's scorching northern hemisphere summer comes to an end, we cannot let it recede from view. With every possibility that the summer of 2024—and each summer beyond..
Entertainment industry leaders, including Netflix and The Walt Disney Company, have made a bold pledge to approximately halve their carbon emissions by 2030. This commitment will..
Denver, CO – June 22, 2023 - Today, entertainment and studio leaders Netflix and The Walt Disney Company launched the Clean Mobile Power Initiative with the participation and..
As we look to a net-zero future, we believe that clean hydrogen is a promising energy source. Traditionally hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel, petrochemicals, shipping,..
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has brought out the doomsayers. The demise of the bank, which counted hundreds of climate tech startups among its customers, has raised..
After a landmark year in 2022 for global momentum in climate commitments, legislation, and investments, Third Derivative (D3) is excited to start 2023 by welcoming 15 impactful..
In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies that are—together—accelerating the rate of climate innovation to address the..
Concrete is one of the planet’s most used materials, second only to water. No other material can match its durability, cost, or flexibility — it plays an irreplaceable role in our..
As part of our effort to move the needle—and the market—on climate tech, Third Derivative (D3) is proud to announce Cohorts 22-2 and 22-3. Alongside a general cohort (22-2)..
Congratulations are in order for Third Derivative’s inaugural group of trailblazing entrepreneurs—Cohort 417—who recently became our first cohort to make the transition to D3..
Concrete and cement have helped form the complex and varied built environment of the 21st century. The problem is, the process of producing cement also produces large amounts of..
Cement is quite literally the glue that holds much of the modern world together. It is the most widely used industrial commodity today, and the world consumes about half a ton of..
Solar and wind energy may be practically limitless—but we’re still limited in the ability to decarbonize until we can effectively store surplus energy for use at night, and when..
In the 200-plus years since the industrial revolution began, human-caused carbon emissions have raised the acidity of the surface layers of our oceans by a whopping 30 percent...
Comprised of 16 startups working on some of the most important emissions categories, today we're welcoming Cohort 22-1 into D3's portfolio as our third official cohort.
Many new and promising climate technology startups are emerging today, but investors do not yet have all the tools they need to assess the impact of those startups.
In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies accelerating the clean future, together. Today, we’re featuring Jit Bhattacharya,..
We’re thrilled to announce that Third Derivative (D3) is joining forces with the preeminent Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust to find, fund, and scale the most..
Direct air capture, or DAC, is a fledgling technology that essentially reverses that process—capturing CO2 out of the air so it can be used or returned underground to be stored..
In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies that are—together—accelerating the rate of climate innovation to address the..
The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Sea level rise is three to four times faster in this island nation than the global average,..
In today’s era of energy transition buzzwords, “decarbonization” is the belle of the ball. But increasingly, so is “decentralization.” Nowhere is this more apparent than within..
From urban construction trends to aesthetic appeal and the many benefits of natural light indoors, windows are dominating more wall space in buildings than ever. And this global..
The science is clear. To combat climate change, we need to deploy trillions of dollars a year into new, gigaton-scale climate solutions. Some of these solutions involve existing,..
For such technologies, it’s an especially challenging path from idea to first product to broad deployment. Solar PV, wind, or electric vehicles experienced long and arduous..
In 2014, Reinventing Fire mapped a path to greater than 80 percent reductions in carbon emissions, at a cost $5 trillion cheaper than business as usual, while requiring “no new..
