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2024 COHORT APPLICATIONS CLOSED APRIL 7. SELECTION BEGUN!

 

Click on the above to open a PDF of our March 7 Info Session presentation.

 
 

APPLICANT PROFILE

Key Focus Areas

  • Waste (reduction, recycling, upcycling...)

  • Water (conservation, treatment, capture, monitoring, reuse...)

  • Energy (efficiency, generation, storage...)

  • Carbon (sequestration, reduction, reuse/integration, drawdown....)

  • Related (such as infrastructure, landscaping, indoor air quality, clean construction, and more…)

Technology Focus Areas

  • All early-stage companies with building technologies that support a net positive future are welcome to apply.

  • Relevant sectors include: PropTech, BuildingTech, UrbanTech, and even AgTech.

  • While not limited to these alone, we’re of course focused chiefly on solutions that will move a person, building, community, an entire city, even our big green world toward net zero carbon, energy, water and waste … and beyond, as ultimately we’re aiming for net positive across the board.

  • This year we’re also planning a sector focus on water.

Stage of Development

  • Note that we’re not an incubator for pure startups. We’re here to accelerate the growth you have begun or are otherwise prepared for and anticipating.

  • Secured from Seed up through Series A investment (or equivalent).

  • Ready to pilot technology commercially, or already in market.

Mutual Expectations

  • No equity required to participate (uncommon with accelerators), but a modest fee (common with accelerators), graciously subsidized by our partners, and with some scholarships available based on need.

  • 6-month commitment to dedicate the time and resources to complete the program.

Headquarters & Markets

  • Domestic and international companies are invited to apply. In fact the majority of our 2022 cohort members were outside of Los Angeles, with several headquartered in Canada.

  • Los Angeles and California geographic markets must be a strategic priority. But hey, you’re scaling the adoption of a green building solution … we’re of course partial, but the Greater Los Angeles is definitively one of if not the best markets to capture. Let’s go!

    For more information please email Colin@USGBC-LA.org.

WE’RE EAGER TO INCREASE AND CELEBRATE YOUR SUCCESS

Together, we’ll spread the word and work hard to build broad awareness of cohort solutions. We’ll deliver Stories and Case Studies that showcase the cohort, pilot sites, partners and sponsors, and pilot results to our community of proven green business leaders—over 3,000 USGBC-LA members, key officials with the City and County of LA alone—as well as green building advocates in the broader sustainability world.