Climate Software and Data grants — page 11
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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. Listed below are the open climate software and data grant calls in that landscape, taken from each funder's own notice and re-checked on every refresh.
Funding for the enabling layers, data, software, finance infrastructure and community-facing work, comes from innovation agencies such as Innovate UK, the European Innovation Council and Horizon Cluster 4, environmental protection agencies, and a significant amount of foundation money on the justice and equity side. Software-only proposals are eligible far more often than teams assume, though several programmes still require a hardware or deployment partner.
This page lists open climate software and data grants currently tracked by Raise Lens — 573 of them right now, sorted with the soonest deadline first. Every listing has been classified against the sustainability taxonomy rather than matched on keywords, so what appears here is climate software and data work rather than anything whose description happens to mention it.
The funders publishing climate software and data grants here include Antler, Endeavor Catalyst Africa, Geovation Scotland - Cohort 8, among 2 others. Who is funding matters as much as what: eligibility, reporting burden and the realistic timeline to a decision vary far more between funders than between individual calls.
Geographic coverage on this page spans GLOBAL, NORTH-AMERICA, MENA, ASIA, AFRICA. Eligibility is usually tied to where the work happens or where the applying organisation is registered, and the two are not always the same — worth checking before investing time in an application.
Venture Capital Growth-Stage / Follow-On Fund
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The funder provides follow-on capital and operational support to accelerate growth of portfolio companies across pre-seed through Series C stages, with cumulative investment capacity up to $30 million per company. The fund backs technology-enabled ventures in climate, fintech, marketplace, and SaaS sectors.
A Global Pre-Seed Investment Residency
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The funder is a highly selective pre-seed investment and residency programme for exceptional early-stage founders across 20+ global locations, investing up to $500,000 per cohort alongside structured mentorship and support. The programme targets founders building technology, climate, fintech, marketplace, and SaaS ventures from inception, with less than 0.2% acceptance rate.
Emerging-Market Tech Co-Investment Fund II
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Endeavor Catalyst Fund II is a rules-based co-investment fund that deploys capital into Series A stage companies led by Endeavor Entrepreneurs across fintech, commerce, marketplaces, and smart-city-climate sectors globally. The fund targets growth-stage startups with proven business models and experienced founding teams.
PropTech Innovation Challenge
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An innovation challenge programme that funds property technology solutions leveraging location data and open innovation to solve real-world proptech problems. Eligible for startups, SMEs, and other innovators working at the intersection of property, technology, and geospatial data.
Scottish Geospatial Innovation Hub
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The funder is a regional innovation programme supporting startups and early-stage companies in Scotland that leverage location data and geospatial technology to solve problems. The programme provides funding, mentorship, and support to help geospatial tech ventures scale and commercialise.
a UK geospatial-data accelerator programme
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An Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry initiative that funds startups developing innovative geospatial and proptech solutions to address industry challenges using location data. The programme supports early-stage companies in geospatial, property technology, and related sectors through an accelerator model.
Early-stage investments in AI infrastructure including photonic computing, integrated hardware-software platforms
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Google Ventures is making early-stage equity investments in AI infrastructure technologies that enable climate and sustainability applications, including photonic computing, integrated hardware-software platforms, data labeling, and inference systems. This targets startups and deep-tech teams building foundational AI compute and infrastructure layers.
a US venture fund pre-seed and seed programme
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The funder invests $500K–$2M in pre-seed and seed-stage software and smart-systems companies across Enterprise, Climate, Consumer, FinTech, Healthcare, Infrastructure, and Vertical AI sectors. The fund targets North America-based startups with at least one technical founder and aims for 10% ownership in small rounds valued under $15M post-money.
Major Foundation Fellowship Programme
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The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to individuals demonstrating extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative work, with a focus on climate solutions. Fellows receive flexible funding to pursue innovative projects that advance climate action and sustainability.
a US venture-capital fund focused on aviation and travel
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SKY VC provides early-stage equity investments in startups developing enterprise and frontier technologies that reshape travel, transportation, and aviation sectors. The fund targets companies across travel, hospitality, aviation, and adjacent industries, leveraging a network of 100+ airlines, MROs, and OEMs.
Intelligence: Investment focus on integrating the physical and digital world within the global food system
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The funder is seeking investment opportunities in agtech and digital agriculture solutions that integrate physical and digital technologies within the global food system. The fund targets companies and projects advancing food-systems innovation through technology integration.
Climate Story Labs
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Climate Story Labs funds locally organized networks of cross-sector climate allies who explore and communicate how local-led climate solutions can influence global policy. The programme is designed for organizations and coalitions working at the intersection of climate storytelling, policy advocacy, and community-led action.
Broader Programmes
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The funder offers broader programmes beyond individual prizes to nurture radical ideas and partner with ambitious clients to solve large-scale problems across climate, global health, cities, and technology. The fund supports innovation-driven solutions from ideation through scale, with flexible funding amounts and structures.
Longitude Prize
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Longitude Prize is a major challenge prize initiative run by the funder that invites solutions to pressing global problems across health, climate, cities, and technology sectors. The programme is open to innovators and organizations worldwide to submit ideas and compete for prize funding to address systemic global challenges.
Intensive Validation Workshop Series
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An intensive workshop series for early-stage teams to test and validate their ideas across DeepTech, Health, and Climate tracks. Designed to support founders in the earliest phases of venture development through structured mentorship and peer learning.
Early-Stage Venture Fund
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The funder provides pre-seed and seed-stage equity investments to early-stage founders and teams building frontier technology, software, fintech, climate, marketplaces, and developer tools. The fund backs solo founders and the earliest-stage companies across these sectors.
Impact Organisation SaaS Platform
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A white-label SaaS platform enabling impact organizations to deploy discovery and due diligence tools across sectors and geographies. Available as a subscription service (£10k/year) with a 60-day free trial for peer impact platforms.
Activist Training and Networking
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This grant funds further education, training, and professional networking for activists and practitioners working in climate divestment and climate litigation. It is designed for individuals and organizations already engaged in these climate advocacy and legal strategy areas.
Nature and Science
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The funder supports nature and science projects and organizations through grants. The fund targets initiatives advancing environmental conservation, scientific research, and related sustainability work.
Science & Environment Programme
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ICESCO's Science & Environment Programme funds research and technological innovation projects that address environmental and scientific challenges across the Islamic world. The grant supports applied science and technology solutions with environmental impact in member states.
Tech X Impact
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Tech X Impact supports startups and innovators using technology to drive positive social and environmental outcomes. The program targets early-stage ventures at the intersection of tech innovation and sustainability/social impact.
Venture Studio: A venture studio programme from a climate investment fund
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The funder operates a venture studio programme alongside its main investment fund, targeting early-stage companies in climate, industrial, and enterprise software sectors. The programme provides hands-on support and capital to portfolio companies, though specific terms and eligibility criteria are not fully disclosed.
Forecasting: Improving how critical decisions are made through better forecasting methods and tools
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This grant funds research, tools, and methods to improve forecasting capabilities for critical decision-making across domains. It targets organizations and researchers developing better forecasting methodologies and platforms that can enhance decision quality in high-stakes contexts.
Finverse: A resource platform helping social impact organizations in South and Southeast Asia
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Finverse is a resource platform providing data tools, case studies, datasets, and AI prompts to help social impact organizations across South and Southeast Asia improve their financial health and solve data challenges. The grant funds access to this platform and related resources for eligible organizations in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore.
Advisory Services
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The funder provides tailored advisory services to social impact organizations to help them navigate data and AI challenges, develop data strategies, and improve organizational data maturity. The grant is designed for nonprofits and social enterprises seeking capacity-building support in data governance and AI implementation.
Data and AI Fellows
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A fellowship programme that embeds data and AI specialists within social impact organizations to build internal capabilities and drive measurable impact. Eligible organizations gain access to expert talent and technical expertise to strengthen their data and AI infrastructure.
Innovation Challenges
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Competitive funding challenges that support data and AI innovations addressing social good, with a track record of catalyzing over $85M in follow-on funding. Eligible for organizations developing data-driven and AI solutions that create measurable social impact.
Research and Advocacy
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This grant funds research and advocacy initiatives that amplify youth voices on climate education and drive systemic change. It targets organizations working at the intersection of climate advocacy, education, and youth engagement.
Investor Services & Business Support
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The funder provides integrated business support—funding, licensing guidance, and market connections—to help global companies establish and scale operations in Abu Dhabi across priority sectors. The programme targets companies in energy, agriculture, life sciences, digital technology, and logistics seeking to enter or expand in the UAE market.
A US Venture Capital Fund
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The funder invests in early-stage startups using data, AI, and robotics to digitally transform large industrial sectors like construction, energy, and transportation. The fund targets companies addressing physical infrastructure challenges with relevance to national security and economic stability.
Annual Diversified Funds: 20-30 high-quality startup investments deploying capital over ~12-18 months
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The funder deploys 20-30 high-quality startup investments annually across pre-seed to later-stage companies, with ~20% reserved for follow-on funding. The fund covers diverse sectors (technology, AI, biotech, fintech, climate), geographies, and lead investors.
Global Deep-Tech and Climate-Tech Venture Fund
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The funder Core Fund invests globally in seed, early, and growth-stage companies developing novel technology solutions to human problems, with support spanning product development through exit. The fund targets deep-tech and climate-tech ventures across all development stages.
A Youth Climate Innovation Network
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The Earth Alliance is a community ecosystem that supports youth climate innovators through networking, skill-building, and collaborative impact opportunities. It targets young people working on environmental solutions and aims to accelerate positive climate and sustainability outcomes.
Nystartet (Early Stage)
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Nystartet provides early-stage capital to Danish pre-seed and seed startups with limited operating history to develop products, customer bases, and business models. The fund is sector-agnostic but prioritizes deep-tech, green-transition, and general innovation.
Lebanon 2023 – Humanitarian Tech Incubator
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A humanitarian technology incubator programme based in Lebanon that supports early-stage ventures developing technology solutions for humanitarian challenges. The programme targets entrepreneurs and technologists building innovative tools to address urgent humanitarian needs in the region.
Moldova Startup Ecosystem Development 2025
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A startup ecosystem development programme in Moldova that supports tech-enabled social-impact and humanitarian startups. The grant funds early-stage ventures building technology solutions for social and humanitarian challenges.
Online courses covering foundational GHG accounting frameworks to advanced topics on verification, sector-specific metho
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Online educational courses in greenhouse gas accounting, from foundational frameworks to advanced verification and sector-specific methodologies, offered by the funder. This appears to be a training/capacity-building programme, likely for professionals, organizations, or practitioners seeking to build GHG accounting and MRV competencies.
European Growth Investment Fund
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The funder provides patient capital to early-stage and growth-stage technology-enabled businesses across Europe and the US, with focus on healthcare, software, and climate sectors. The fund invests across all company growth stages, from idea through scale.
Bavarian Digital Agriculture Special Programme
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A Bavarian state programme supporting digital transformation in agriculture, funded by the German federal government. The grant targets farmers and agricultural businesses adopting digital technologies and precision farming practices.
European High-Performance Computing Initiative – a European public computing infrastructure programme
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EuroHPC Joint Undertaking funds high-performance computing infrastructure and research across Europe to support scientific and industrial innovation. The initiative is open to research institutions, universities, and eligible organizations in EU member states and associated countries.
Grants for Investments in Building Digital Distribution and Control Structures in Public Local Transport (ÖPNV) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (InvestDigiÖPNVRL)
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This grant funds investments in digital distribution and control infrastructure for public local transport (ÖPNV) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It supports modernization of public transit systems through digital technologies to improve operational efficiency and service delivery.
European cleantech venture fund closes fourth edition
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eCAPITAL IV is a venture capital fund investing in early to growth-stage technology companies developing solutions in software, IT, cybersecurity, industry 4.0, new materials, and cleantech. The fund targets entrepreneurs building scalable tech-enabled businesses across these sectors.
Incubation Programme
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This is an incubator programme providing co-working space, mentoring, workshops, and networking to high-technology startups across deep-tech sectors including AI, renewable energy, agri-tech, and biomedical. It offers flexible month-to-month access to facilities and expert guidance to help early-stage companies develop and scale.
Built-Environment Technology Fund
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The funder invests in early-stage companies developing technology and innovation across the built environment sectors—architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate. The fund targets entrepreneurs building solutions that reshape how humans design, construct, operate, and experience buildings and infrastructure.
Early Stage Venture Capital Investment
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The funder is an early-stage venture capital fund investing across climate, fintech, developer tools, frontier tech, and marketplaces, with a focus on backing solo founders and experimental companies at the earliest stages. Applicants can seek investment capital for pre-revenue or early-stage ventures in these sectors.
World Risk Poll
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The World Risk Poll is a global research initiative that surveys populations on risk perception, resilience, occupational safety, climate change, and related safety themes. It funds data collection and analysis to understand public attitudes toward risk and safety across diverse populations worldwide.
Accelerator Program
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A 12-week mentor-driven accelerator program providing up to $250,000 in direct investment, co-working space, and access to 400+ investors and 250+ mentors for early-stage companies. The program focuses on lean product development and global go-to-market strategies across software, travel-tourism, sustainability, gaming, AI, and ocean-tech sectors.
Start-Up Incubation
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This is an incubation programme for early-stage startups developing Data Analytics and Predictive Technologies (DAPT) solutions, operating under India's National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems. It supports ventures across multiple sectors including telecommunications, health, defence, power, and agri-tech.