Climate Software and Data funders — page 2

Climate software is the hardest sustainability category to fund non-dilutively, most public-money programmes require capex deployment or hardware, and software-only plays compete in narrower calls. The strongest options are EU Horizon Cluster 4 (Digital), Innovate UK Smart Grants, EIT Climate-KIC, EU Pathfinder, ARPA-E SCALEUP, and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Software. ARIA UK is opening to software-led decarbonisation in 2026. The organisations listed below are the climate software and data funders behind that picture, each with what it backs, where it operates and how it prefers to be approached.

Funders span innovation agencies, environmental regulators, financial-sector bodies and a large group of foundations funding community and justice work. The foundations in this group are among the most open to unsolicited approaches in the whole directory, and they typically fund organisations and programmes over several years rather than single projects.

This page lists every funder in the Raise Lens directory whose stated focus includes climate software and data. There are currently 59 of them: a mix of public agencies, foundations, development finance institutions, corporate programmes and climate investors. Each profile records what the funder backs, where it operates, whether it is open to unsolicited applications, and the opportunities it has published through Raise Lens.

Funders active in climate software and data include STING - Stockholm Innovation & Growth, Sustainable Ventures, The Climate Hub, SGEIC SA and 2 others. The mix matters when you are planning a raise: a public agency and a corporate venture arm fund the same climate software and data work on very different timelines, at different cheque sizes and against different eligibility rules, so the right first approach is rarely the same one.

Funder records are refreshed continuously and enriched from each organisation's own published material, so focus areas and application routes reflect what the funder currently says rather than what it said when the directory was first built. Where a funder runs named programmes, those appear as individual opportunities you can track and save.