Acceleration and Scale

This page is about acceleration and scale.

Scaling solutions for transformative impact and long-term sustainability
Acceleration functions primarily to provide key resources and capacities to refined products or ventures so that they can quickly and effectively break into new markets, expand within an existing market, or franchise the core technology.

Scale is a metric of both sustainability and impact. Without widespread application, innovative solutions will not help solve conservation problems. To ensure ideas get to scale, we will bring together social innovators and serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, donors, and foundations to provide innovators with services such as seed funding, grants, incubation and accelerator services, networking opportunities, operational business support services, knowledge exchange, and technical assistance. We will also facilitate access to equity, debt, and other capital, in addition to our own investments.

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 * Host large kickoff event, progress updates, and pitch events that can mark the timeline of the incubator’s annual schedule and allow innovators to measure and share progress with investors and the broader community.
 * Showcase innovators’ products to investors and the broader conservation community to garner support for their scaling and adoption through an annual conservation tech fair and conservation technology conference (potentially in partnership with a major innovation conference, such as SXSW Eco).
 * Assist conservation entrepreneurs in raising capital to achieve scale through direct investments, grants, financing, and acquisition.
 * Connect innovators to companies and investors who can help bring their innovations to scale.