从字面上看，有数百种甚至数千个技术加速器和孵化器程序 - 较小的子集专门针对从事软件，应用技术和与气候技术有关的新业务模型的公司。

我如何过滤哪些引起我的注意？在我看来，最有效的计划与大型公司坚定地保持一致，这些公司可以很快确定什么将在商业规模上运作，而什么将是什么。

Several programs jump to mind, such asTechstars, which partners with big companies to help run accelerators such as the one it supports forStanley Black and Decker. This year’s focus was electrification. At the top of my list is100+ Accelerator, launched in 2018 by Anheuser-Busch InBev with a mission to support "sustainable innovations in supply chains." As AB InBev CSO Ezgi Barcenas put it last week during the annual Demo Day for the accelerator: "Sustainability is the ultimate design strategy … this is not about building a sustainability strategy, but about a business strategy that is sustainable."

这种创新需要协作。全停止。这就是为什么一年前，这家大型酿酒公司从可口可乐公司，高露洁 - 帕尔莫利维和联合利华（拥有巨大消费者存在的公司）中增加了资金和资源。这很重要，尤其是当您认为后两家公司是竞争对手时。

"We face the same set of challenges," said Sudeep Banerjee, vice president of procurement for Unilever, pointing to issues such as how to ensure a fair living wage within supply chains. Banerjee and counterparts from all four corporate backers participated in a panel during the Demo Day event.

在小组讨论中，在可口可乐的开放创新，实验和新技术事业的全球负责人Faisal Zanjani指出：“我们面临的挑战是全球挑战。”“作为人类，我们有共享和合作的历史，我们应该在基础上进行基础。”

Ann Tracy, chief sustainability officer for Colgate-Palmolive, said the program is helping her company more explicitly embed innovation around sustainability in its core business plan. "We get to set these targets and don’t know how we’re going to get there … There are technologies that don't exist yet that have to be developed, that are going to ultimately be how we close these gaps."

Barcenas补充说：“这是关于拥有学习者的心态。我们不再相信我们拥有唯一的解决方案。”

70家创业公司和计数

在其一生中，有100多个加速器与大约70家公司（三个队列）合作，这些公司获得了指导和业务资源以及多达100,000美元的资源，以与一位公司赞助商一起在该领域进行技术。他们还有机会像我上周几乎看过的那样，在演示日将其技术或商业模式推销给投资者。据Barcenas称，该队列的1,700多个申请将于8月宣布。

上个月22号循环的与会者有机会与过去的参与者宴会会面，该公司提供服务，该公司在我举办的有关透明度和可食用性的主题演讲中，帮助个人为复杂供应链的贡献而获得信誉。这次采访集中在南非可口可乐的项目上，以帮助非正式的塑料废物收集者的贡献，并获得了更好的贡献。（你可以观看会议这里。）

The event last week featured close to 30 speed-pitches — including one by2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30Mi Terro的创始人兼首席执行官Honoree Robert Luo将食物浪费变成包装。（联合利华很感兴趣。）

在主会议期间，我能够审核其中大约三分之一。思想和创新从软件中进行了范围，用于跟踪工业能源效率，用水量指标等（更多）（Plutoshift) to pellets that remove phosphorus from water to reduce algae blooms (Water Warriors）为验证可回收塑料流的废物收集器的公平贸易塑料计划正在支付生活工资（Plastics for Change).

My inner geek was particularly awed by three of the startup pitches I was able to watch:

• 树木:Focused on the challenge of scaling food cultivation while harnessing as little land as possible, this venture from the U.K. and Portugal is turbocharging the photosynthesis process to produce protein from algae while sequestering CO2. It’s piloting the approach with AB InBev, which is using the captured CO2 in brewing processes.
• Chanzi:Hailing from Tanzania and Kenya, the company feeds organic waste (such as spent yeast from AB InBev’s breweries) to Black Soldier Flies to create an alternative source of animal feed. The idea is to replace feeds made out of soya bean meal, which is linked to rampant deforestation.
• MakeGrowLab:生物材料初创公司总部位于波兰，也正在升级食物浪费，并将其变成皮革和某些包装的替代品。它的重点之一是用于出售牙膏（Hello Colgate）等物品的大约200亿纸箱，以及可以溶于水中的液体的柔性小袋。

That’s the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the sorts of problems that the 100+ Accelerator startups are addressing. The earlier startups included approaches for using recycled electric vehicle batteries, green cleaning solutions, returnable packaging and solar thermal systems. As of April 2021, the first two cohorts had raised $200 million in funding, and I would suspect that number is much higher now. Mi Terro, for one, disclosed a $1.5 million round in March. I am sure others have escaped my notice.

As we continue to dig into climate tech coverage at GreenBiz, I’m looking forward to learning more about many of these companies, as well as the ones that will be announced in August. I also suspect that we will see more organizations become involved in supporting this initiative than the four I’ve already mentioned. During the discussion last week, the existing corporate backers of the program noted that they are open to getting the startup finance community involved more explicitly. After all, the program sends clear signals about the technologies and innovation these companies need to tackle their own sustainability agendas.

"We are informing the startup ecosystem about the problems that we are facing and that we can’t solve on our own," Barcenas said.