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Climate Vine is a curated membership community that combines elements of a continuous conference and an action-oriented lab. Our experts have diverse backgrounds, ranging from policy, investment, corporate, non-profit, entrepreneurship, and tech & science. Members spend about 1-3 hours a week in curated small groups, socials and off-the-record conversations with climate leaders.
Connect with diverse, interdisciplinary experts
We assemble each onboarding cohort via a competitive application process to create a diverse collective.
Enjoy off the record conversations and meetups
Share knowledge with your peers, build a supportive community across silos, and exchange ideas with the best in climate.
Explore your next steps with intention
Our Members find new roles, fresh ideas and mission-aligned collaborators thanks to the connections they make.
You’ll meet the Climate Vine team, your fellow Members, and get to know the tools used throughout your membership.
We'll show you how to actively engage in our Slack community and pro-actively reach out to other Members.
You'll refine the primary outcome that would make this membership a success. Accountability buddies help to keep you on track.
We curate small groups by stage, industry interest, and location across the globe. Weekly brain trusts are fully opt-in and were often a highlight of our past communities’ members.
Join the world's best climate entrepreneurs, policy experts, investors and scientists, both in and outside of the community, in off-the-record conversations.
Build your dream climate network by joining our weekly socials, engaging with the curated matches we’ve sent your way or scheduling 1-on-1 connections with other Members.
Optional showcase of what you grew on the Vine. Example outcomes might be a research or grant proposal, pitch deck, or prototype of soft or hardware based on new collaborations.
You will have access to the community, curated resources, and expert sessions for a year, with the option to continue engagement beyond.
Climate Vine Members come from diverse backgrounds, ranging from academia and research to policy, foundations, corporations, activism, tech, and entrepreneurship
You’ll meet the Climate Vine team, your fellow Members, and get to know the tools and resources used throughout your membership.
You'll refine the primary outcome that would make this membership a success. Accountability buddies help to keep you on track.
Join the world's best climate entrepreneurs, policy experts, investors and scientists, both in and outside of the community, in off-the-record conversations.
Optional showcase of what you grew on the Vine. Example outcomes might be a research or grant proposal, pitch deck, and prototype of software or hardware based on new collaborations.
We'll show you how to actively engage in our virtual platforms and pro-actively reach out to other Members.
We curate small groups, often called masterminds, by stage, industry interest, and location across the globe. Bi-weekly brain trusts are fully opt-in and are often a highlight of our Members.
Build your dream climate network by joining our weekly socials, engaging with the curated matches we’ve sent your way or scheduling 1-on-1 connections with other Members.
You will have the option to renew your access to the community, curated resources, and expert sessions for years to come.
Members report getting out of our community as much as they put in. We expect you to engage with the community for ~3 hours a week during the 1-month onboarding. In that time, you can choose to engage in weekly small group masterminds, join social events, have curated 1-on-1 calls with other Members, and/or participate in expert talks.
Once you are onboarded, you will be able to optimize the time-to-value in Climate Vine through a minimum of a ~1 hour a week commitment.
Our team will help you navigate it all through our tools, resources, and curated suggestions.
● Through our competitive application and interview process, we curate a diverse, global community of experts selected to complement each other.
● Members foster deep connections curated and facilitated by the Climate Vine team, that are often not possible during shorter conferences.
● If you are an entrepreneur, we don't take equity in your company. We are here to support you in your journey, no matter where that journey takes you.
● We catalyze unconventional mixing and matching of otherwise disconnected experts, similar to MIT’s Media Lab. This action-oriented and time-bound Membership creates a space for impactful collaborations, the best of which could not have been planned or imagined.
Climate Vine Members receive the networking benefits of a rolling conference and the collaborative benefits of a lab. We also work closely with other ecosystem builders and often invite them into the Climate Vine community.
Climate Vine is a remote-first community with informal local chapters and the potential for annual retreats outside of the core cohort. This unlocks diversity that is not often possible in local members’ communities. Climate Vine’s team brings years of experience to this space, having built successful remote-first climate communities since 2020 and worked with other ecosystem builders on the best tools and processes for online collaboration.
Climate change is a global issue with solutions needed at every level. As such, we encourage and accept Members from around the world. Given the global nature of this community, managing virtual events can be tricky. The majority of live remote sessions will be in the GMT-5 time zone, but recordings will be available to Members at any time.
We are also building out more robust in person offerings, focusing on niche, small group gatherings.
These are the core values we practice and actively look for throughout the application process:
1. Giving Back
Climate Vine thrives because we believe in giving 2x more than we hope to receive. We’ve seen that when everyone does that, magic happens.
2. Celebrating and respecting our individuality in the community
Climate Vine Members welcome, sticking together and respecting one another regardless of cultural background, personal identifications, generational differences, and field of expertise.
3. Default to Permission
While we publish resources that can be helpful to the larger climate community’s benefit, many of the expert conversations and interactions amongst Members are off-the-record. For this reason, please honor that everything you hear from others in Climate Vine is confidential by default, unless you have explicit permission to share.
4. Building together
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Our team actively builds this community with our Members, listening to your requests and iterating quickly to make the membership more impactful for all. Help us help you build together.
5. Stubborn Optimism & Gratitude
We are working to accelerate climate impact together with a group of fascinating people. Use the cohort to bolster your stubborn optimism and gratitude that we can drive solutions, as a community, for a just and sustainable economy.
Our goal setting workshop will help you refine the climate impact goal that you believe can be best accelerated through collaborations. Example goals:
● Build relationships with potential co-founders, partners, customers, advisors and/or collaborators
● Inform, elevate and broaden your climate organizing, activism and network
● Take the next step to commercialize a scientific innovation, find a new climate job or scale your business
● Raise investment funds or discover new investment opportunities, including grants or non-dilutive financing
● Deepen your understanding of the climate solution landscape and where you fit in
Many of our Members’ proudest outcomes come from collaborations they could not have predicted coming into the cohort. Regardless of your individual goal, you can be sure to leave with a personalized network of similarly driven and accomplished leaders and a keener grasp of how to maximize your impact.
The selection process consists of a written application and an interview, during which we look for three things:
1. Depth of experience
We look for candidates with world-class experience and expertise, favoring depth over breadth.
2. Timing
We prioritize people with a bias for action. Those ready to commit to and work toward their goals gain the most value from the cohort.
We are stage agnostic. For example, if you are entrepreneurial, you may come into the cohort exploring your own or others’ ideas, working on a specific idea or prototype, or building, fundraising for, or hyper-scaling your company.
3. Give-first mentality
Community is core to Climate Vine. We look for individuals who show a "give-first” mentality and are excited to contribute to the success of other Climate Vine Members.
The annual Climate Vine Membership is $2,990 (or four installments of $750) for most members and $1,490 for those in academia, policy, and non-profits. When relevant, we help our accepted applicants work with employers to cover some or all of this membership fee.
We encourage you to apply, regardless of financial need. To ensure that ability to pay is never a barrier to entry, we extend offers before asking about scholarship needs. We are able to provide need-based scholarships thanks to Members and organizations, often funds, foundations and corporations, who generously contribute more than our listed price. They are recognized in our community and help us welcome exceptional Members who make the experience and outcomes better for everyone.
Climate Vine brings public and private forces together with the following types of experts:
● Scientists with ready-to-commercialize scientific innovations
● Policy and government actors looking to connect with more innovation communities
● Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders
● Private Investors in venture capital, private equity, and project finance
● Frontline community advocates at the forefront of community development who understand the requirement and need for community involvement
● And interdisciplinary strategic advisors who bring a breadth of knowledge and experience across these categories
As long as you have clear expertise or a unique perspective in climate, we encourage you to apply to be considered, regardless of your background!
Applications are rolling and you can apply in 5 minutes with the Apply Now button at the top right of this page!
After the conclusion of the cohort, you can choose to renew your membership to stay connected, engage with future cohorts, join IRL events and more.
We are committed to creating value for you longterm so we hope you will remain a Member of this community for years to come!
was the founding Director of the trailblazing On Deck Climate Tech Fellowship which brought together 650+ people across the climate ecosystem in multiple cohorts. Fellows raised over $350M+ in venture funding, more than two dozen companies emerged, and hundreds of emerging contributors transitioned to the climate innovation space. Climate Vine's methodology brings together her 10 years of experience and learnings in community strategy building. She maintains deep vertical knowledge as an active investor and advisor to emerging climate tech companies. Candice holds degrees in environmental policy and business and an MS in biostatistics, focused on the ethics of AI, from the University of Michigan. She has lived and worked globally in microfinance, business and tech in places ranging from Cambodia to Singapore and London.
has depth of experience in information science research, project management and communications. Her passion lies in organizing ideas into actionable plans to help make a direct impact on important issues and communities. And as an early stage climate founder herself, she understands the need to break down the barriers within climate innovation and solutions. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Ania is finishing up her PhD in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies in the next couple of months.
began her career in science education programs and has since honed her skills on crafting processes, automations, and platforms for online communities. Her driving force is to uplift people's lives, particularly those in Latin America and my homeland, Guatemala.
is a seasoned operations expert with years of experience in both operations and project management. She plays a pivotal role in orchestrating seamless operations and attention to detail for Climate Vine's back-end operations.
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Candice Ammori was the founding Director of the trailblazing On Deck Climate Tech Fellowship which brought together 650+ people across the climate ecosystem in multiple cohorts. More than two dozen companies emerged, Fellows raised a combined $250M+ in venture funding and hundreds of emerging contributors transitioned to the climate innovation space. Candice's new methodology for Climate Vine brings together her 10 years of experience and learnings in program and community strategy building. She maintains a hands-on approach and deep vertical knowledge as an active investor and advisor to emerging climate tech companies. Candice holds degrees in environmental policy and business and an MS in biostatistics, focused on the ethics of AI, from the University of Michigan. She has lived and worked globally in microfinance, business and tech in places ranging from Cambodia to Singapore and London.
Candice Ammori was the founding Director of the trailblazing On Deck Climate Tech Fellowship which brought together 650+ people across the climate ecosystem in multiple cohorts. More than two dozen companies emerged, Fellows raised a combined $250M+ in venture funding and hundreds of emerging contributors transitioned to the climate innovation space. Candice's new methodology for Climate Vine brings together her 10 years of experience and learnings in program and community strategy building. She maintains a hands-on approach and deep vertical knowledge as an active investor and advisor to emerging climate tech companies. Candice holds degrees in environmental policy and business and an MS in biostatistics, focused on the ethics of AI, from the University of Michigan. She has lived and worked globally in microfinance, business and tech in places ranging from Cambodia to Singapore and London.