First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Project Funding for Climate Tech
How big is your potential funding gap?

There are an ever-increasing number of entrepreneurs around the world working on innovative industrial decarbonization and climate tech projects that can often be capital intensive. 

It's clear that current risk capital pathways such as venture capital often aren't the best fit for these types of projects, and yet these projects often struggle to attract financing from existing debt capital providers due to lack of evidence of past performance on which to base repayment expectations.

In order to design more creative financing tools, we need a better sense of who is out there and what capital is needed.  This survey is meant to be a simple starting point to help us baseline current market needs.  Please feel free to skip any questions that may divulge more information than you are comfortable disclosing.

We will not share any company-specific information in a public forum, though we may aggregate and share results for public learning and market catalysis.

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Company Name
Sector
Category 

i.e., Batteries, Hydrogen, DAC
What are you working on?
Stage of Prior Funding Round
How much dilutive funding have you received to date?

Approximate and feel free to keep this confidential. Please report in Millions of USD.
How much non-dilutive funding have you received to date?

Feel free to include awarded grants that you will receive in the future. Please report in Millions of USD.
Deployment Stage
TRL Level
How far along are you with your product?

Looking for high level information here such as "our electrochemical process works in a 10 cubic ML vessel; we have extracted 10g of lithium; we have run computational designs for our catalysts."

Are you earning revenue?

If so please indicate the nature of revenue, i.e., $200K USD co-development revenue for proof-of-concept delivery of 10g of catalyst. 
Where did your technology come from?

Are you a university spin out? A serial entrepreneur? Etc

CAPEX needed for technical demonstration / FOAK?

Roughly how much funding do you / will you need for your first demonstration facility? Please report in Millions of USD.
CAPEX needed for commercial demonstration / SOAK?

Roughly how much funding will you need for your first commercial facility? Please report in Millions of USD.
Are you eligible for DOE Loans? If so, what pathway/program?

How much have you applied for, and what phase are you in?
What is your production goal for this FOAK facility?

Example: 500 grams per day of catalyst, or 5000 pounds of kelp processed per year.
What is your production goal for your likely SOAK / next phase?

Example: 5000 kg per day of catalyst, or 5000 tons of kelp processed per year.
Are there signed commercial milestones tied to your FOAK facility?

Example: Signed LOI for $3M USD upon delivery of X amount of product, or signed advanced market commitment for $500K USD upon sequestration of Y tons of CO2.
Do you have any other financing options lined up? If so, what do they look like (roughly)?
How do you feel about your ability to prove your technology if you do not secure significant financing?

This is very optional, and meant to be a simple reflection.
Where is the company HQ?
Where do you plan to build your FOAK facility?
Do you have a sense of the local permitting and/or EPA requirements for your FOAK facility?
If comfortable, please share a contact email
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