Pioneering Clean Energy at Netflix — and Across the Entertainment Industry
When you sit down on the couch to stream your latest show, climate change and the urgency of the...
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Insights from the front lines of climate innovation
RMI, Deep Science Ventures, and Third Derivative Team Up to Launch Mark1, Developing First of a Kind Climate Tech Projects
Nonprofit RMI, its climate tech accelerator Third Derivative, and deep tech venture creator Deep...
Navigating Innovation in Electrochemistry-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: Key Insights From D3’s Latest Deep Dive
In 2019, there were only three companies using electrochemistry for carbon dioxide removal (CDR)....
Ecosystem Spotlight: Reeddi’s Clean Energy-as-a-Service Solution
In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies...
Third Derivative and RMI Launch Industrial Innovation Cohorts to Accelerate Decarbonization of Steel, Cement, and Chemicals
RMI and Third Derivative are launching the Industrial Innovation Cohorts initiative supported by a...
Why Aren’t More Grid-Edge Startups Investable?
In today’s era of energy transition buzzwords, “decarbonization” is the belle of the ball. But...
Driving Window Innovation to Combat Climate Change
From urban construction trends to aesthetic appeal and the many benefits of natural light indoors,...
Powering the Future of Entertainment
Third Derivative announces our newest cohort alongside Netflix and the Walt Disney Company in the...
Introducing the Clean Mobile Power Initiative
Entertainment industry leaders, including Netflix and The Walt Disney Company, have made a bold...
Climate Tech’s Four Valleys of Death and Why We Must Build a Bridge
For such technologies, it’s an especially challenging path from idea to first product to broad...
The Clean Mobile Power Initiative Adds Key Entertainment Industry Equipment Supplier Partners
We are excited to share that entertainment industry equipment suppliers, The MBS Group, Sunbelt...
Introducing Third Derivative’s Cohort 24-1
About Cohort 24-1
RMI’s global climate tech accelerator, Third Derivative, was built to accelerate...
The Power of 83: A Beacon of Hope for Climate and Humanity
The past year was, at times, a rollercoaster of emotion related to climate progress and pitfalls....
Really cool roofs: How breakthrough materials can save lives, carbon, and money in a warming world
As this year's scorching northern hemisphere summer comes to an end, we cannot let it recede from...
Top Entertainment Leaders Come Together to Develop Zero-Emissions Power Through Clean Mobile Power Initiative
Denver, CO – June 22, 2023 - Today, entertainment and studio leaders Netflix and The Walt Disney...
Hydrogen Produced from Methane Pyrolysis: Key Considerations for Investors
As we look to a net-zero future, we believe that clean hydrogen is a promising energy source....
Reality Check: Silicon Valley Bank placed some risky bets, but climate tech wasn’t one of them
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has brought out the doomsayers. The demise of the bank,...
D3 Announces Its First Cohort of 2023
After a landmark year in 2022 for global momentum in climate commitments, legislation, and...
RMI Appoints New Lead for Climate Tech Accelerator Third Derivative
Boulder, CO – November 22, 2022
Spotlight: TekUncorked Bringing Reliability and Resilience to India’s Grid
In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies...
Low-Carbon Cement: Key Considerations for Investors
Concrete is one of the planet’s most used materials, second only to water. No other material can...
D3 Launches First Cohort of Innovative Carbon Dioxide Removal Startups
Oakland, CA – July 19, 2022
D3 Announces Two New Cohorts, Including First Focused Group on CO2 Removal
As part of our effort to move the needle—and the market—on climate tech, Third Derivative (D3) is...
Bringing Low-Carbon Cement To Market
Cement is quite literally the glue that holds much of the modern world together. It is the most...
Celebrating Cohort 417: D3's Inaugural Startups Move On
Congratulations are in order for Third Derivative’s inaugural group of trailblazing entrepreneurs—...
Three Pathways to Innovation in Low-Carbon Cement
Concrete and cement have helped form the complex and varied built environment of the 21st century....
E-Fuel: Decarbonizing Aviation with Sustainable Drop-In Fuel Alternatives
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Ecosystem Spotlight: The long-duration energy storage solutions we need now
Solar and wind energy may be practically limitless—but we’re still limited in the ability to...
D3 Appoints Managing Director to Accelerate Tech Solutions and Innovations for Climate Change
Boulder, CO – April 27, 2022
Three Approaches to Ocean CDR
In the 200-plus years since the industrial revolution began, human-caused carbon emissions have...
Announcing Cohort 22-1
Comprised of 16 startups working on some of the most important emissions categories, today we're...
How (And Why) We Measure Climate Impact
Many new and promising climate technology startups are emerging today, but investors do not yet...
The Future Is Electric: BasiGo’s Vision for Bus Transit in Africa
In Third Derivative’s “Ecosystem Spotlight” series, learn about the people, ideas, and companies...
Announcing First Gigaton Captured
We’re thrilled to announce that Third Derivative (D3) is joining forces with the preeminent Jeremy...
Three Areas of Innovation for Direct Air Capture Startups to Seize This Decade
Direct air capture, or DAC, is a fledgling technology that essentially reverses that...
A Look at the Philippines’ Clean Energy Ecosystem
The Philippines is one of themost vulnerable countries in the worldto climate change. Sea level...
Why Deploying Climate Tech at Scale Is So Hard
The science is clear. To combat climate change, we need to deploy trillions of dollars a year into...
Why We Need Faster Climate Tech Innovation
In 2014,Reinventing Firemapped a path to greater than 80 percent reductions in carbon emissions,...
Innovating to Solve Two Crises at Once
COVID-19 is a cataclysm of epic scale that has disrupted life as we know it globally.