D3: Incoming General Cohort 25-3 - Newsbrief
Innovative companies join 280+ strong portfolio working to solve the world’s most pressing decarbonization and emission reduction challenges
DENVER, CO — Third Derivative, RMI’s global climate tech accelerator, welcomed 18 new startups from six countries across four continents this week — including the accelerator’s first-ever startup from New Zealand.
“From scalable bamboo building systems to modular green hydrogen, recyclable wind turbines to zero-emission cooling, these startups represent the cutting edge of global climate tech innovation” said Rushad Nanavatty, Third Derivative Managing Director. “Our class-leading portfolio continues to stay ahead of the emissions – by focusing on the industries, sectors, and geographies that are going to be the most consequential for our planet in the decades to come.”
LEARN MORE ABOUT COMPANIES IN THE NEW THIRD DERIVATIVE COHORT:
- Aris Hydronics: Delivering fully integrated heating, cooling, and hot water systems that intelligently adapt to each building’s unique thermal needs.
- Carbon Signal: Accelerating building decarbonization with scalable, high-fidelity energy intelligence that cuts analysis time from months to minutes.
- ChemFinity Technologies: Creating new sorbent-based ways to efficiently refine over 20 critical minerals, projecting lower costs and a 99 percent reduction in energy use and carbon emissions compared to traditional methods.
- DTE Materials: Accelerating concrete decarbonization through low-cost, low-capex bioaggregate solutions that directly reduce emissions by ~40 percent.
- Dynami Battery: Enabling 5x faster charging and higher capacity batteries using patented micro-structuring technology that enhances battery physics.
- EnKoat: Transforming building envelopes with adaptive coatings that cut HVAC energy use by up to 30 percent, extend roof life, and reduce emissions across climates.
- Enzinc: Delivering high performance, safe, recyclable, and cost-effective energy storage globally using existing legacy lead-acid battery factories.
- Greengine Environmental Technologies: Decarbonizing global industries and institutions through low-cost, modular, scalable, and sustainable microalgae-based carbon capture technology.
- HYDGEN: Enabling industries to switch from fossil-derived hydrogen to on-site, zero-emission alternatives using anion- and proton-exchange membranes that enable faster deployment and lower cost.
- Mirico: Giving unprecedented insight into the "what, where, when and why" of greenhouse emissions from industrial infrastructure.
- NoPo Nanotechnologies: Enabling energy-efficiency in batteries, electronics, membranes, and polymers using single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), highly conductive materials with exceptional strength and thermal conductivity.
- Ocean: Reinventing building materials with high-performance bamboo systems that cut emissions, preserve biodiversity, and scale sustainably around the world.
- Octolife: Scaling low emissions cooling globally by delivering modular, energy‑ efficient‑ AC systems engineered for affordability and high thermal performance.
- Oort Energy: Enabling scalable green hydrogen production for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like aviation and heavy industry using high-efficiency, low-cost proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers.
- Renkube: Using advanced glass geometry that harvest and delivers more light to PV cells, offering a 40% increase in energy yield from solar panels at a 20% increase in capital cost. This offsets 0.56 metric tons of CO2 emissions/GW/annum.
- Rewind Turbine: Enabling fully recyclable, modular wind blades that cut costs, simplify logistics, and unlock new markets for sustainable, scalable wind energy
- Torus Robotics: Delivering ultra-efficient, compact axial flux motors and drives that drastically reduce energy use in industrial HVAC and mobility applications.
- Zincovery: Enabling net-zero critical minerals with a novel hydrogen-based metal refining process that slashes cost, energy use and carbon emissions without compromising performance.
THIRD DERIVATIVE’S PORTFOLIO STARTUPS:
View Third Derivative’s portfolio of 286 climate tech startups: https://www.third-derivative.org/portfolio
Its portfolio represents 27 different countries, with over $3.7 billion raised by companies since their acceptance to Third Derivative, and over 4,400 jobs created.
ABOUT THIRD DERIVATIVE:
Third Derivative, RMI’s global climate tech accelerator, is accelerating the rate of climate innovation. Third Derivative’s inclusive ecosystem rapidly finds, funds, and scales climate tech globally. By uniting and aligning investors, corporations, and experts with the world’s most promising climate tech startups, Third Derivative bridges finance and resource gaps to increase the speed to market. The flexible and highly curated remote accelerator program enables startups to focus on their unique needs and opportunities. Together, we are moving markets to achieve an equitable climate future. Learn more at http://www.third-derivative.org.
ABOUT RMI:
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit founded in 1982 that transforms global energy systems through market-driven solutions to secure a prosperous, resilient, clean energy future for all. In collaboration with businesses, policymakers, funders, communities, and other partners, RMI drives investment to scale clean energy solutions, reduce energy waste, and boost access to affordable clean energy in ways that enhance security, strengthen the economy, and improve people’s livelihoods. RMI is active in over 60 countries. More information on RMI can be found at www.rmi.org or follow us on LinkedIn @RMI.