Climate Tech grants in Canada

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Runs a startup pitch prize for student teams with climate and energy ideas worldwide.

Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.

Grants and mentors early-stage clean energy start-ups worldwide toward net zero.

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Paid a $2 million purse to teams building affordable, accurate ocean pH and CO2 sensors.

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Paid a $1.4 million purse to teams that could skim spilled ocean oil faster and cleaner.

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Backs first-of-a-kind clean energy projects in hydrogen, storage, aviation fuel, and direct air capture.

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Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

Pays student teams up to €6,000 to design a locally-buildable clean energy solution that solves a real community's energy access, efficiency or reliability problem.

Pays $10,000 to $15,000 for promising non-patented clean-tech startup ideas in energy transition and the circular economy, with a chance to join A2A's venture-building program.

Pays $20,000 to $30,000 for patentable clean-tech products or processes in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the exclusive right once filed.

Pays $30,000 to $50,000 for already-patented clean-tech products or technologies in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the IP.

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Awards $100,000 cash plus up to $200,000 in piloting to mature desalination tech.

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Connects climate innovators to partner programs delivering climate, AI, energy, and built-environment acceleration.

Awards $25,000 each to eight winners tackling methane emissions from food and waste systems.

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Supports early-stage climate ventures through global competition, coaching, and investment readiness across all sectors.

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

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Supports climate leadership travel and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs across regions.

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Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

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Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

Backs youth-led renewable energy and climate ventures with a four-month acceleration programme.

Awards two $75,000 lump-sum prizes for water/sanitation or ocean environmental innovation.

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Funds student-led startup teams competing for investment, non-dilutive cash, and in-kind prizes at Rice University.

Awards early-stage climate tech and energy start-ups an equity-free cash prize, a fully-covered trip to Berlin, and investor exposure at the SET Tech Festival.