Call for Climate Tech Founders Who Just Won’t Give Up

“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett

It’s never been a better time to build a startup, and we’re very interested in working with more founders in a new model for building: seedstrapping. We’ve quietly been encouraging this trend, but now we’re ready to lean all the way in. More on why we think seedstrapping is the new Plan A for company building in our Seedstrapping playbook.

Why is it a great time to build a climatetech startup? Yes there are less resources; less investors able or willing to invest, less consultants, less events — but all of this means there are less distractions too. Additionally, with AI and automation tools, there’s never been a more efficient tech stack and more pathways to build a successful company.

Yes there is more confusion; “what’s going on with tariffs, grants, consumer and business spending, and climate action commitments?” — but this means that true market signal is more important and clear than ever.

There are also fewer founders getting in or staying in the effort to build startups. That’s fine. We’re very interested in working with the folks who despite all of this want to jump in the frey, or stay in and find a way.

What are we offering?

1. A very fast decision, clear terms, and strong, reputation backed, commitment to helping you succeed.
2. Leverage on everything we’ve built and learned over our 10 years building TS and over 20 years building and supporting tech companies before that.

 

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

  • We invest up to $1mm and earmark up to $2mm more for your next (and hopefully last) round.
  • Over the next 6 months we speed run sales to $1m ARR or $10m in pre-orders.
  • You have access to all of our AI workflows and personal coaching on how to build your own workflows. We’ve built critical AI workflows (we call them robots), starting with:
    1. QUEST – Qualitative & Unbiased Evaluation Scoring Tool
      A “robot score” that ranks and qualifies companies against everything we’ve ever seen—not for decisions, but for identifying what questions to ask
    2. VANTAGE – Visual Analysis of Narrative & Trajectory Against Goals & Execution
      Portfolio monitoring that extracts real-time data from emails and calls, comparing plans vs. progress
    3. MATCHA – Matching Alternative Capital to High-potential Applicants
      Non-dilutive capital matching system that automatically connects companies with the right alternative capital providers
    4. NOVA – Networked Opportunity & Value Alignment
      Talent matching system that automatically connects people with the right opportunities within our portfolio
    5. ALIGN – Automated List of Investors & Growth Narratives
      Investor list generator that describes the growth story of the startup, describes ideal investors, and identifies top matches from the people we know and like to work with.

      With more to come including marketing and founder led sales automation.
  • You get access to our community of talent & early adopters and advising on building for not needed VC (including using alternative funding to finance your journey)

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • People who believe they are absolutely unstoppable.
  • A climate / planet positive component of your startup.
  • Willingness to go all-in on using AI to minimize burn and demand 10x faster outcomes in everything from customer discovery to product development.
  • We don’t care about company history; whether this is your very first month or you’re on the brink and this would’ve otherwise been your last month. We’ll even invest post bankruptcy.

 

Apply to the Third Sphere Seedstrap Program