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Insights from the front lines of climate innovation

The Power of 83: A Beacon of Hope for Climate and Humanity

The past year was, at times, a rollercoaster of emotion related to climate progress and pitfalls....

Powering the Future of Entertainment

Third Derivative announces our newest cohort alongside Netflix and the Walt Disney Company in the...

Really cool roofs: How breakthrough materials can save lives, carbon, and money in a warming world

As this year's scorching northern hemisphere summer comes to an end, we cannot let it recede from...

Introducing the Clean Mobile Power Initiative

Entertainment industry leaders, including Netflix and The Walt Disney Company, have made a bold...

Top Entertainment Leaders Come Together to Develop Zero-Emissions Power Through Clean Mobile Power Initiative

Denver, CO – June 22, 2023 - Today, entertainment and studio leaders Netflix and The Walt Disney...

Hydrogen Produced from Methane Pyrolysis: Key Considerations for Investors

As we look to a net-zero future, we believe that clean hydrogen is a promising energy source....

Reality Check: Silicon Valley Bank placed some risky bets, but climate tech wasn’t one of them

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has brought out the doomsayers. The demise of the bank,...

D3 Announces Its First Cohort of 2023

After a landmark year in 2022 for global momentum in climate commitments, legislation, and...

Spotlight: TekUncorked Bringing Reliability and Resilience to India’s Grid

In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies...

Low-Carbon Cement: Key Considerations for Investors

Concrete is one of the planet’s most used materials, second only to water. No other material can...

D3 Announces Two New Cohorts, Including First Focused Group on CO2 Removal

As part of our effort to move the needle—and the market—on climate tech, Third Derivative (D3) is...

Three Pathways to Innovation in Low-Carbon Cement

Concrete and cement have helped form the complex and varied built environment of the 21st century....

Celebrating Cohort 417: D3's Inaugural Startups Move On

Congratulations are in order for Third Derivative’s inaugural group of trailblazing entrepreneurs—...

Bringing Low-Carbon Cement To Market

Cement is quite literally the glue that holds much of the modern world together. It is the most...

Ecosystem Spotlight: The long-duration energy storage solutions we need now

Solar and wind energy may be practically limitless—but we’re still limited in the ability to...

Three Approaches to Ocean CDR

In the 200-plus years since the industrial revolution began, human-caused carbon emissions have...

Announcing Cohort 22-1

Comprised of 16 startups working on some of the most important emissions categories, today we're...

How (And Why) We Measure Climate Impact

Many new and promising climate technology startups are emerging today, but investors do not yet...

The Future Is Electric: BasiGo’s Vision for Bus Transit in Africa

In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies...

Announcing First Gigaton Captured

We’re thrilled to announce that Third Derivative (D3) is joining forces with the preeminent Jeremy...

Three Areas of Innovation for Direct Air Capture Startups to Seize This Decade

Direct air capture, or DAC, is a fledgling technology that essentially reverses that...

Ecosystem Spotlight: Reeddi’s Clean Energy-as-a-Service Solution

In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies...

A Look at the Philippines’ Clean Energy Ecosystem

The Philippines is one of themost vulnerable countries in the worldto climate change. Sea level...

Why Aren’t More Grid-Edge Startups Investable?

In today’s era of energy transition buzzwords, “decarbonization” is the belle of the ball. But...

Driving Window Innovation to Combat Climate Change

From urban construction trends to aesthetic appeal and the many benefits of natural light indoors,...

Why Deploying Climate Tech at Scale Is So Hard

The science is clear. To combat climate change, we need to deploy trillions of dollars a year into...

Climate Tech’s Four Valleys of Death and Why We Must Build a Bridge

For such technologies, it’s an especially challenging path from idea to first product to broad...

Why We Need Faster Climate Tech Innovation

In 2014,Reinventing Firemapped a path to greater than 80 percent reductions in carbon emissions,...

Innovating to Solve Two Crises at Once

COVID-19 is a cataclysm of epic scale that has disrupted life as we know it globally.