Are you driven to help communities thrive in our changing world?
Have you founded a startup to solve a challenge in agriculture, water, or the built environment?
Have you founded a startup to solve a challenge in agriculture, water, or the built environment?
Verticals
CSVS supports entrepreneurs as they launch and scale startups that help make the Coastside and the world more resilient. We do not charge fees or require equity to participate. We provide access to funding, technical resources, and targeted introductions to a network of Silicon Valley scientists, engineers, investors, commercial partners, and fellow entrepreneurs. We offer entrepreneurs the freedom to explore and define their own business strategies. In some cases, in-resident entrepreneurs can apply for stipends and additional benefits.
CSVS startups work across three verticals: Ag-tech, Water-tech and the Built Environment (as well as a fourth category for local initiatives). All affiliated startups, whether in-residence or virtual, align with our broader mission to address climate change and other global challenges by reinventing our economy to be resilient, sustainable, and equitable. In each of these sectors, CSVS assembles coalitions of funders, commercial partners, industry advisers, and technology experts to help guide and grow each venture.
CSVS startups work across three verticals: Ag-tech, Water-tech and the Built Environment (as well as a fourth category for local initiatives). All affiliated startups, whether in-residence or virtual, align with our broader mission to address climate change and other global challenges by reinventing our economy to be resilient, sustainable, and equitable. In each of these sectors, CSVS assembles coalitions of funders, commercial partners, industry advisers, and technology experts to help guide and grow each venture.
AG-TECH
Agtech companies hope to solve some of the agricultural industry’s and world’s biggest challenges, such as labor shortages and food insecurity, as well as circumvent issues brought on by climate change. Examples of Agtech startups include technology and software companies that help agronomists scale yield, improve decision-making around farm management, and provide financial resources for operations. These tools aim to disrupt conventional agricultural practices that can be costly and inefficient. Startups in this industry also leverage advancements in data analytics in biotechnology, sensors, machinery, AI, indoor farming equipment, and automation.
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WATER-TECH
Water tech is broadly defined as any technology solution that has water at the core of its value proposition. Think of it as any technology (software and hardware) that reduces freshwater use (including protection and recycling) and generates more H20 (desalination and atmospheric water generation).
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BUILT ENVIRONMENT
The built environment touches all aspects of our lives, encompassing the buildings we live in, the distribution systems that provide us with water and electricity, and the roads, bridges, and transportation systems we use to get from place to place. It can generally be described as the man-made or modified structures that provide people with living, working, and recreational spaces. Creating all these spaces and systems requires enormous quantities of materials.
The infrastructure, buildings, and core of our developed environment are essential to our way of life, and they are ready for rapid evolution in their design, materials, construction, efficiency, embedded carbon, and longevity. |