Tailwind Climate’s mission is to protect lives and livelihoods through the development and deployment of climate adaptation and resilience (A&R) solutions. They create products and services that predict, prevent, mitigate and enable recovery from climate impacts like floods, heatwaves, storms, and wildfires. They focus on field building to enable the growth of the innovation ecosystem, and investing, providing catalytic capital to early stage A&R companies.
Why We Partner
Despite the dire need for climate A&R solutions, and the estimated $1.8 trillion by 2030 market opportunity in the space, few A&R companies are founded and scaled. For prospective A&R companies that have formed, notable barriers exist. Today less than 5% of climate finance is being directed towards climate resilience and adaptation. Within the early stage investment sphere, less than 1% of existing climate venture dollars are going into adaptation and resilience companies. Across an ecosystem of over 45 climate focused incubator and accelerator programs, only 5 are dedicated to supporting A&R companies.
We are funding a playbook as a first-of-a-kind roadmap for the climate adaptation and resilience innovation space that will equip entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and decision makers with the insights they need to understand opportunities in this emerging market.
Tailwind will publish a Climate Resilience and Adaptation Innovation Playbook in November 2024 to provide guidance to investors and companies on adaptation and resilience investments.
Impact
Investors and entrepreneurs do not yet understand the landscape of innovation opportunities and needs in this space. We believe that by illuminating these opportunities and needs for these key beneficiaries, we can catalyze a 10X increase of early-stage funding for innovators in this space and an increase of 1000 new startups in this sector by 2030.