
Supercharging Breakthrough Technologies to Solve the Climate Crisis
Earth Tech: 2050 accelerates the technologies we will need to avoid climate catastrophe. We’re supporting Canada’s top climate tech startups with the potential to each reduce or remove half a gigatonne of CO2e by 2050.
Meet the CohortWe Urgently Need to Manage, Reduce, and Remove Emissions
While we rapidly deploy the technologies currently available to meet 2030 targets, we also need to support the emerging climate tech with the potential to massively reduce or remove emissions by 2050.
Enter Earth Tech: 2050, an impact accelerator for climate tech startups with huge impact potential.
How We Support Them
To best serve the ventures, we build a custom accelerator around each one, tailored to their needs and goals.
Deep Dives
We use Deep Dives with each venture along with teams of experts to set Objectives and Key Results, and then provide the entrepreneurs with advisors, mentors, capacity, introductions and more to fast-track their success.
Custom Experience
Based on the Deep Dives, we design a custom accelerator for each venture, offering a range of supports tailored to their Objectives and Key Results to increase and accelerate their impact.
Investor Matchmaking
We help ventures get ready, and then provide curated introductions within our 550+ investor network. We also support ventures in securing non-dilutive funding.
Industry Connections
We help ventures land key meetings by leveraging our network of decision makers at large companies – their potential pilot partners, customers, or strategic investors.
11 Ventures, 9 Months, Over 5.5 Gigatonnes of CO2e Cumulatively Cut by 2050
Meet our first Earth Tech: 2050 cohort below, and read up about them here
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Carbon Lock Tech
Carbon Lock Tech is a carbon removal startup focused on converting organic matter into stable biocarbon and sequestering it long term in agricultural soils, sustainable construction materials, and green infrastructure projects. It is currently focused on scaling up its patented technology and advancing its research on biocarbon applications.
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Cascadia Seaweed
Cascadia Seaweed is North America’s leading seaweed cultivation and processing company, supplying biostimulants for crops to increase growth and resilience, while reducing fertilizer use and feed additives to improve productivity and lower methane. Alongside its First Nation partners, Cascadia Seaweed is tackling climate change and food security with its nature-based solutions.
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Circulus Agtech
Circulus Agtech upcycles organic waste to produce sustainable fertilizers. The Circulus System and its proprietary monitoring system allow users to manage organic waste and turn it into a valuable product for crop producers as an alternative to conventional fertilizers, to increase soil health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Cycle Carbone
CycleCarbone offers a proven CO2 capture technology to large emitters. The technology runs with thermal energy left unused by the host site, making it a simple, safe, and low-cost solution with no environmental harm.
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Exterra Carbon Solutions
Exterra is a global leader in surface carbon storage technology, transforming mineral waste into large-scale carbon sinks. Providing turnkey solutions for industrial emitters and direct-capture companies, they ensure permanent, verifiable CO2 storage. Their process also extracts carbon-neutral critical minerals from waste, supporting worldwide decarbonization through the mineral value chain.
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GreenLIB
GreenLIB specializes in decentralized, modular lithium-ion battery recycling, championing sustainability, efficiency, and tailored solutions for the evolving e-mobility landscape.
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Kinitics Automation
Kinitics Automation produces motion control products using shape memory alloys. Their new electric valve actuator replaces methane-venting equipment commonly used in the natural gas industry, thereby eliminating methane emissions at the source.
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NanoTerraTech
NanoTerraTech is creating bio-graphite from forestry biomass waste for the EV battery market. The transition to electromobility is a generational opportunity, and their bio-graphite is a sustainable, scalable, drop-in solution that also permanently captures carbon.
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Rockburst Technologies
Rockburst is a mining startup developing a new comminution (the crushing and grinding of ore) technology called Transcritical CO2 Pulverization, which has the potential to slash 2% of the world’s electricity consumption and associated GHG emissions.
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SolarSteam Inc.
SolarSteam delivers renewable heat through enclosed concentrated solar technology, and offers a game-changing solution for industrial clients by reducing their costs and emissions.
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TerraFixing
TerraFixing is a Canadian startup that has developed the only Direct Air Capture (DAC) process for capturing CO2 in cold climates. Their innovative IP-protected technology enables them to deliver affordable and scalable carbon removals at the gigaton scale <$100/tCO2.
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Apply
If you're interested in applying to join Cohort II and believe you are a good fit, please reach out. In the meantime, you can view and apply to our other accelerators through Accelerate from Anywhere.
Earth Tech: 2050 News
News surrounding Earth Tech: 2050 and about our ventures
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September 19, 2023 Article Earth Tech 2050: Announcing Our First Cohort of Top Climate Tech Startups Earth Tech: 2050, a nine-month program delivered in partnership with SI Canada, is helping accelerate these 11 top climate tech startups with the potential to each cut half a gigatonne of CO2e by 2050. View Article
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August 30, 2023 Article Charting the Path Forward for Canadian Carbon Tech Foresight’s, Canada’s Ventures to Value Chains: Carbon Technology database and report is an all-in-one resource that leverages data from technology companies and other key stakeholders to map, categorize, and analyze strategically important industry value chains for Canada in the clean economy. View Article
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August 9, 2023 Article Cleantech Coast to Coast: GreenLIB Founded in 2022, GreenLIB is a cleantech startup focused on lithium-ion batteries and the refining of raw materials in order to address the escalating problem of battery waste management. View Article
Our Partners
Earth Tech: 2050 has been made possible by the RBC Foundation, the Peter Gilgan Foundation and Bullfrog Power.