CleanTech Founder Resource Kit - Altitude Accelerator

Free Resource Kit for CleanTech Founders

Know Your Climate Impact. Explore Curated Clean-Tech Solutions.

Get Altitude Accelerator's Environmental Resource Kit featuring climate-focused investors, non-dilutive funding sources, clean-tech industry leaders, strategic partners, and growth opportunities to help bring your innovation to market.

Plus, get 10 free tools to measure, verify, and communicate your environmental impact, helping you build credibility, secure funding, and demonstrate real-world results.

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✓Built by Altitude Accelerator ✓Free for founders ✓No consultants required

"What's your carbon impact?" "Which standard did you use?" "What's your TRL?"

Investors are asking harder questions.

Most cleantech founders build strong technology but haven't translated it into the structured impact story and credible numbers that climate investors expect. This kit closes that gap.

What's inside the kit

Two resources built by our cleantech team, free for founders.

Resource 01

Cleantech Directory for Funding, Events and Support

One directory covering the capital and the community you need to commercialize:

35+ climate-focused investors with stage, sector focus, portfolio examples, and typical cheque size ($100K to $50M)
15 non-dilutive funding opportunities to extend your runway without giving up equity
30+ cleantech organizations and conferences: support programs, strategic partners, and industry events
Sector coverage across climate tech, energy, water, advanced materials, industrial decarbonization, and circular economy

Resource 02

Environmental Impact Analysis Framework

10 frameworks and tools to measure and communicate your climate impact, almost all free, each scored by cost, stage fit, time to implement, and expertise required:

BDC GHG Calculator Toolkit: a real emissions baseline in under an hour
GHG Protocol: the standard investors and RFPs expect you to name
MaRS Cleantech Impact Toolkit: turn your tech into an investor-ready impact story
Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA): validate the economics before you scale
Plus Life Cycle Assessment, Social Cost of Carbon, B Impact Assessment, Clean Growth Hub Navigator, and more

35+

Climate-focused investors

Non-dilutive opportunities

30+

Cleantech organizations & conferences

Impact frameworks & tools

$100K–$50M

Cheque sizes covered

Cost to you

Built for cleantech founders at every stage

Pre-revenue

Establish your first emissions baseline and impact narrative before your first pitch.

Early revenue

Back up your claims with recognized standards and find seed-stage climate capital.

Growth

Benchmark with ESG frameworks and target growth investors writing $5M+ cheques.

Accelerate Your CleanTech Journey

Access a curated ecosystem of climate investors, funding opportunities, support organizations, and industry events designed to fast-track growth and commercialization.

Bonus: 10 free tools to quantify, validate, and share your environmental impact.

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From Altitude Accelerator's Cleantech Practice

Altitude Accelerator has helped hundreds of Ontario startups commercialize, raise capital, and scale, with dedicated cleantech expertise and a network of 100+ expert advisors. This resource kit was developed by our environmental impact team to give cleantech founders the same tools we use inside our programs.

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Client Testimonials

Working with the team at Altitude Accelerator has provided Rove with knowledge, counsel, and a network to anticipate what challenges lie ahead and be better prepared to overcome them. Our Entreprener-in-Residence steered us through very challenging growth stages by asking the right questions at the right time and advising us on what our focus should be at each step of the journey.

Many start ups fail because they run out of time. Altitude Accelerator helps accelerate a company’s progression and get through the challenging years faster, essentially increase the odds of success.

Thank for you being a great partner.

James SauterRove

Where my Entrepreneur-in-Residence lacked in knowledge of my industry he was well invested in how my presentation came together and what investors are looking for which I really appreciated. He was also very open to having conversations around what makes sense for my next steps and if investment is right for me at this stage.

Nadine WoodsMayana

Your team’s support has pushed us to move faster, showcase our data, and become investor-ready. This has been invaluable for Allowide Health and can make a real difference for other startups as well.

Ehsan VelayatiAllowide Health

Altitude Accelerator’s Market Readiness program was precisely what we needed, offering invaluable insights that refined our approach to achieving product-market fit. It enabled us to pinpoint new channels to tap into core and adjacent customer segments, streamline our sales conversion pipeline, and prioritize activities in accordance with the variations in customer purchasing cycles.

Phillip MohabirVivo Surgery

“We loved Altitude’s Investment Readiness programme and benefited from it tremendously. Having established, supported and engaged with several accelerators in Canada and overseas, I can say with confidence that Altitude has a world-class program. The information sessions were very useful, the team was responsive, and the tools, resources, and mentors were just what we needed. I would recommend Altitude to any GTA based startup, especially those founded by minority entrepreneurs, who have found good product-market fit and are now planning to attract investors.”

Tauseef RiazCofounder, Considracare

When I first started, I felt like an outsider. Dalcini didn't fit the traditional tech model for venture funding, and I assumed that meant we weren't a candidate for investment. Working with Bryan Duarte changed that perspective. He has been exceptional and has helped me see there are many paths to raising capital, giving me the confidence to pursue the one that's right for the business. His mentorship, knowledge, and support have helped propel Dalcini Stainless to the next stage of growth.

With Bryan's encouragement, we attended Startupfest in Montreal last week. It was the perfect venue for us to take our first steps into the investment community where we hosted a booth on the investment floor, pitched to a panel, and met investors face to face. The event was the ideal environment to test our story, refine our pitch, build confidence, and make meaningful connections that have already led to follow-up discussions with funders. It was an excellent stepping stone that has prepared us for even larger investor events in the future.

Thank you again for investing in entrepreneurs like us. The Altitude Accelerator program has given us the knowledge, confidence, and network to pursue opportunities we never thought possible, and I look forward to sharing many more milestones ahead.

Nita TandonDalcini Stainless

Frequently Asked Questions

Why was the Investor Readiness program created?

Raising your first round is the most difficult. Founders often struggle with telling their story, preparing a data room, and bringing together the right pieces to raise external capital. We’ve partnered with experts in investment and funding to help you through this process. Scaling tech startups to new heights is our area of expertise, and our focus on sales and marketing, financial modelling, IP strategy, and pitch practice will get you ready to present in front of any investor. Successful graduates get 1:1 support in investor introductions

Program Topic Breakdown

Marketing & Sales: Create a sales & marketing model customized to your clients and industry

Financial Model: Create a customized financial model adjustable to various inputs

Intellectual Property: Identify how to protect your IP competitive advantage

HR Planning: Build and adaptable strategy plan that grows with you

Pitch Perfect: Weekly feedback to adjust your pitch

Due Diligence: Create a sharable data room on our private blockchain

Investor Matching: Our team will match investment opportunities for you from our 500+ list and provide a direct introduction upon the completion of the program & deliverables

What does an online program experience look like at Altitude Accelerator?

Sessions will all be run virtually but have been designed to maximize engagement between our companies and our subject experts. We encourage peer to peer discussions and questions so that you can get feedback not only from the expert but your peers. We’ve run three other cohort programs since we transitioned to virtual in March 2020.

What are the 6 components that will be assessed in the application?

You will be assessed based on the following 6 components:

Strength of Entrepreneur/Team
Size of Opportunity/Competitive Environment
Product/Technology
Business Stage
Marketing/Sales/Partnerships
Revenue Model and Financial Plan

This will help us assess if the Investor Readiness program is the right fit to help you grow.

Do I have to be a Altitude Accelerator client to apply?

You can apply before you register with us as a client; however, to take part of the program, this will be a requirement. Register here.

Registration is free and will bring you into our network opening up partner offers/discounts, access to MaRs resources, open workshops and events, and etc. We have over 600 clients in various industries that we support.

Does Altitude Accelerator find investors for you?

At the end of the program you will be invited to present to the Investment Review Panel for feedback and recommendations to matching funds.

If its the right fit, we matchopportunities with client needs from our curated VC list and provide a direct introduction to appropriate investors/funds.

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