BE Fellows — Innovator Fellowship Cohort 7
Supports climate founders with catalytic funding and mentoring to advance early technology ideas into deployment-ready ventures.
Breakthrough Energy Fellows is the flagship fellowship program of Breakthrough Energy Discovery, the early-stage innovation arm of the climate organization founded in 2015. The Innovator Fellowship is designed for scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs commercializing early-stage climate technologies with the potential to reduce or capture at least 500 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent per year a…
Climate technologies with potential to reduce or capture ≥500 million tonnes CO2-equivalent per year at scale, across all sectors (manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, buildings).
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All guides →TRL Levels Explained for Deeptech Founders
Learn what TRL levels mean, how to estimate technology readiness, and how TRL affects grants, EIC Accelerator, SBIR/STTR, funding stage, and application evidence.
DocumentsGrant Work Plan Template: Work Packages, Gantt, Milestones, and Risks
Use this grant work plan template to structure work packages, tasks, owners, deliverables, Gantt timing, dependencies, and risk registers.
Write proposalGrant Concept Note Example: Pre-Proposal Structure for Startups
See a practical grant concept note example, with a worked deeptech pre-proposal, section map, invite-to-full logic, and reviewer checks.
Start hereNon-Dilutive Funding vs VC for Deeptech Startups
Compare non-dilutive funding and venture capital for deeptech startups, including grants, SBIR/STTR, EIC Accelerator, dilution, timing, and stage fit.
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