Buildings need energy. Energy Needs Buildings.
And we need to build both.
Fortify Buildings & Energy is the next strategic initiative of the ClimateHaven team. Building upon the success of the Water Innovation Hub, Fortify will tackle the tension that lies at the heart of the built environment: can you create the buildings and energy systems that are both sustainable and affordable?

We believe the answer can be “yes” – with the right innovation and the right capital stack.
Engineer your technology and your capital stack
One of the challenges with physical technologies, especially those in infrastructure and the built environment, is identifying the right type of capital to ensure these technologies can scale. Venture capital may be the right way to start, but institutional capital is the way these technologies must all finish if they are to achieve scale in the physical world. The key to institutional equity and debt – bankability.
Intoducing the Founder Bankability Framework
Founders shouldn’t hope the capital they need will show up when they need it, they build with bankability in mind from the start. The Founder Bankability Framework is designed to share the key elements of bankability with founders in a digestible format so they can design, develop, manufacture, and sell their products in a way that will attract institutional equity and debt, not repel it.
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Exploring three enabling themes that matter
With bankability as a guiding principle, we’ll tackle the technologies that unlock the tension between sustainability and affordability in infrastructure and buildings:
Construction technologies
That enable means and methodologies to deliver better
performance for equivalent or lower cost
Building systems
That manage the resources buildings consume and generate andcreate connectivity to optimize building and grid performance.
Hardware & materials
That fundamentally changes the user/owner experience, making better buildings more accessible, more affordable, and more prevalent.
Startups - stay tuned for upcoming innovation challenges tackling these themes!
Building with Great Partners

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