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Evergreen Climate Innovations
Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impact
About Evergreen Climate Innovations
Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, provides catalytic capital and support to entrepreneurs and startups that bring impactful climate technologies to market. The nonprofit pioneered its 501vc® Investment Fund to align philanthropic and corporate contributions to deliver environmental, economic, and social impact. Evergreen advances and expands access to innovation across the Greater Midwest and cultivates an ecosystem of investors, donors, and collaborators. For over a decade, Evergreen Climate Innovations has invested in startups that have raised $41 for every $1 invested. Learn more at evergreeninno.org
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Signals from Evergreen Climate Innovations
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Presence & Recognition
Evergreen Climate Innovations CEO Michelle Carr, Kara Rodby (Lost the Plot), and Matt Orsagh (Arketa Institute) are hosting a fireside chat on alternative climate financing at the Climate Action Museum in Chicago on Wednesday, September 9th, 5:30–7:30 PM.
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Capital & Finance
Evergreen Climate Innovations noted that project capacity grew 20x between 2023 and 2025.
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Capital & Finance
Evergreen Climate Innovations noted that companies like Microsoft are already buying credits.
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Capital & Finance
Evergreen Climate Innovations noted that Carba's modular and mobile reactor allows processing biomass on-site instead of long-distance trucking.
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Capital & Finance
Evergreen Climate Innovations made an investment in Carba, a company that buries wood waste through a low-temperature pyrolysis process to fight climate change.
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Capital & Finance
Evergreen Climate Innovations made an investment in Carba, which checks all the boxes in the DAMS framework.
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Presence & Recognition
Evergreen Climate Innovations was recognized as a 2026 DRW grant recipient in economic resilience.
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Presence & Recognition
Evergreen Climate Innovations is participating in a fireside chat at the Climate Action Museum during Chicago Venture Week on alternative climate financing.
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Presence & Recognition
Evergreen Climate Innovations announced that mHUB has launched the mHUB Powered Challenge, a national innovation competition for startups, researchers, entrepreneurs, universities, national laboratories, corporations, and innovators from across the country to submit technologies, pilot concepts, operating models, and infrastructure solutions.
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Presence & Recognition
Evergreen Climate Innovations partner mHUB landed at #14 out of 80 in the first-ever list of America's Best Incubators and Accelerators, with Chicago showing up in a big way.
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