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Climatescape
Techstars '21Walnut, US · Founded 2020 · 1 known investors
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Climatescape is a community-driven database and index of organizations working on climate solutions, including companies, investors, and NGOs. The platform provides open access to a comprehensive directory of climate tech players to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.
Also known as climatescape.org
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Climatescape operates climatescape.org, an open database that indexes organizations working on climate solutions. The directory is organized by sector categories — Atmosphere, Buildings & Cities, Carbon, Climate Risk, Consumer Goods, Energy, Food & Agriculture, Health, Industrial, Transportation, Waste, and Water — and by capital and startup program types, including venture capital, accelerators, project finance, angels, private equity, incubators, grants, fellowships, and prizes. Individual organization pages aggregate a description, sector and stage tags, check-size ranges, location, and outbound links to homepages, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, and social profiles, with per-entry edit history and a "Suggest an Edit" path for the community.
The project states a mission of accelerating the transition to a sustainable global economy by supporting organizations that have a positive impact on people and the planet. It accepts public submissions through separate forms for companies (startups and larger firms working directly on climate solutions) and for "catalysts" (investors, accelerators, and fellowships supporting the business ecosystem), and recruits volunteer contributors on a rolling basis. Alongside the directory, Climatescape publishes a newsletter covering startup profiles, market deep-dives, and climate tech headlines.
The underlying dataset is published as an Open Data Airtable under a Creative Commons BY-SA license, permitting reuse and adaptation with attribution and share-alike terms. The website's source code is maintained in a public GitHub repository under an MIT license.
Founding story
According to the company, founding members created Climatescape to organize the complex and rapidly growing ecosystem of climate tech industry players into a structured, community-maintained index.
Business model
Climatescape runs as an open, community-driven platform: volunteers and the public submit and edit organization entries, which are reviewed and published free to access. The underlying data is released as open data under Creative Commons BY-SA, and the site's code is open source under an MIT license. Audience engagement is extended through an email newsletter. The sources do not describe a monetization mechanism.
Traction
The company reports thousands of contributions from hundreds of contributors and thousands of monthly users of the database. Its GitHub repository has 83 stars, 20 forks, 8 watchers, and 588 commits.
Latest developments
The public directory and about pages remain live, with open submission forms for companies and capital providers, an active contributor application, an Open Data Airtable, and a newsletter subscription offering.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Climatescape positions itself as an open, freely accessible index of the climate tech ecosystem spanning companies, investors, NGOs, and startup programs, distinguished by community-sourced contributions and openly licensed data.
The dataset is published openly under Creative Commons BY-SA and the site code under an MIT license, with public submission and edit-suggestion workflows and per-entry edit history — an open-contribution model rather than a closed proprietary database.
Technology
The website is built with Gatsby, a static site generator using React and GraphQL, which renders plain HTML/CSS/JS pages from dynamic data at build time. Rather than a custom backend, Climatescape uses Airtable as its content management system and API layer, exposed to Gatsby's GraphQL layer via the gatsby-source-airtable plugin, which lets the team change the data schema and admin workflows without writing code. The site is deployed to Netlify, with deploys triggered on every push to GitHub, and Zapier triggers a daily rebuild so new content publishes even when no code changes occur. The repository also contains backend, enrichment, and Hasura components.
Go-to-market
Growth is driven by open community contribution — public submission forms for companies and for capital "catalysts," a contributor application process, and an open-source GitHub repository — combined with free public access to the directory and a newsletter for recurring distribution of startup profiles, market analysis, and climate tech news.
People seeking to navigate the climate tech ecosystem, including founders, investors, job seekers, researchers, and journalists looking for companies, investors, NGOs, and startup programs, as well as contributors who submit and maintain entries.
Geography
The platform is accessible globally and indexes organizations internationally; contributors are described as coming from around the globe, and organization listings include entries based in the United States.
History
The about page states Climatescape was founded in 2019 as a community-driven index of organizations advancing climate solutions. Since then it reports accepting thousands of contributions from hundreds of contributors, with thousands of people accessing the database each month. The public code repository shows 588 commits, 83 stars, and 20 forks.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsClimatescape states it was founded in 2019 as a community-driven index of organizations advancing climate solutions, created by founding members seeking to organize the climate tech ecosystem.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Climatescapeclimatescape.org · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Climatescape do?
- Climatescape is an open, community-contributed database of companies, investors, and organizations working on climate solutions.
- Who are Climatescape's investors?
- Climatescape's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Climatescape headquartered?
- Climatescape is headquartered in Walnut, US.