A business accelerator providing startup support, mentorship, and access to capital for climate economy entrepreneurs.
The DeltaClimeVT business accelerator is a Vermont-based program serving startup and seed-stage ventures focusing on climate economy innovation across multiple industries.
As a proven leader in sustainability, Vermont offers participants access to a large number of entrepreneurial climate economy and energy experts throughout the program.
Our three immersive sprints help companies refine their vision, solidify their strategy, and enable rapid growth. Participants graduate with improved business plans, new tools to attract investors, and the potential to grow their business opportunities in Vermont and beyond.
Founder Stories
- Qilo: Crunching the Numbers on a Green Energy Transition
- Medley Thermal: Medley Thermal Pilots Clean Energy Solution at Jay Peak
- COI Energy: Paying it Forward: An Interview with SaLisa Berrien
- Infisense: Vermont Startup Bets on Better Data to Decarbonize Buildings
- Grid Fruit: Founders Focus on Refrigeration to Help Cool the Planet
- WexEnergy: Slowing Climate, Change One Window at a Time
- EVmatch: Pilot Programs to Expand EV Charging in Vermont
- Dynamic Organics: Buildings as Batteries?
- Agrilab Technologies: Compost for a Cleaner Planet
Latest News
Accelerator Winners
ENERGY2025
The Energy 2025 winner, selected through a peer-review process, is RioNadi receiving a $25,000 non-equity award, and they also secured a pilot project with BED to test its electric vehicle monitoring and payment system technologies. Additional Vermont companies and utilities are in talks with cohort companies to implement further pilot projects. Click to learn more.
ENERGY2024
The Energy 2024 winner, selected through a peer-review process, is Rock Rabbit receiving a $25,000 non-equity award. BED also awarded a pilot project Moduly. Additional Vermont companies and utilities are in talks with cohort companies to implement further pilot projects. Click to learn more.
ENERGY2023
The Energy 2023 winner, selected through a peer-review process, is ProsumerGrid receiving a $25,000 non-equity award. Pilot projects with Burlington Electric Department were also announced. Click to read the recap.
ENERGY2022
The Energy 2022 winner, selected through a peer-review process, is Halitra receiving a $25,000 non-equity award. Pilot projects with Vermont utilities were also announced. Read the recap here.
ENERGY2021
The Energy 2021 winner, selected through a peer-review process, is Neothermal Energy Storage receiving a $25,000 non-equity award. Three pilot projects with Vermont utilities were also announced. Read the recap here.
ENERGY2020
The Energy 2020 winners, selected through a peer-review process, include Pecos Wind Power receiving a $25,000 non-equity award, Medley Thermal receiving a $15,000 non-equity award, and Wex Energy receiving a $10,000 non-equity award. Plus five pilot projects with Vermont utilities announced. Read the recap here.
ENERGY2019
$25,000 Winner – Onboard Data of Massachusetts. Burlington Electric Department Pilot Project Winners: EV Match, Go Together and DCC. Green Mountain Power Pilot Project Winner: EV Match. Read the recap here.
AG & FOOD TECH2018
ENERGY2017
Winners – Emrgy Inc. of Georgia and A.F. Mensah of New Jersey.
“This experience with DeltaClimeVT has been valuable, especially the feedback we received from the cohort companies. This experience helped us to really focus on our messaging and to think about what the business is all about.”
“It’s just incredibly humbling, to say the least. The corporate partners and the mentors of the DeltaClimeVT program have been incredibly generous with their time. I’ve never experienced anything like that. Everyone said yes to having a conversation. And then they were very candid about providing feedback, even if sometimes it wasn’t always the feedback you wanted to hear but it helps make your company better and it helps make you develop a product that’s better so that’s been incredible. We’ve been in a few accelerators – this has been the best by far.”
“This is the best accelerator that we have participated in. Specifically, this program has a unique curriculum that’s designed to create a collaborative competition and allow us to sit across the table from electric utilities, planning directors and CFOs.”
“The DeltaClimeVT program is unique because sponsors are actual customers that are looking to fund pilot projects. The learning that we garnered from our cohort peers was invaluable and the resulting friendships will be long-term. The curriculum from ecosVC has equipped us with tools that we will continue to adapt as we move from lab to pilot to commercialization. We are grateful to VSJF for allowing us to participate.”
DeltaClimeVT
By The Numbers
“This program clearly demonstrated that there is no better place in the United States to convene startups, investors, and industry leaders to solve important climate problems than Vermont.”
Industry expertise, a network of established climate economy enterprises, and access to potential partners and growth capital are available to all DeltaClimeVT participants.
Participants are guided through the world-class ecosVC curriculum, designed to test assumptions, expose and remediate business vulnerabilities, prepare for significant investment, and provide a platform for rapid scale. All cohort Members will have the opportunity to forge meaningful relationships with high quality investors and potential customers.