Accelerate the clean energy transition with us.

New Energy Nexus is a global nonprofit, providing funding, accelerators, training, and networks to drive clean energy innovation, deployment, and adoption.

We’re celebrating 21 years supporting entrepreneurs around the world.

Check out our impact

1,398

Businesses & startups

9,586

Entrepreneurs supported

US$

3.7

Mobilized in funding

Women entrepreneurs
in 2023

US$

Distributed in grants, investments, loans, vouchers

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How we do it:

Launch

These programs are designed to inspire new clean energy solutions and form startup teams.

Bootcamps
Hackathons
Educational courses

Accelerate

Providing startups with the training, mentorship, and networks to grow locally and internationally.

Accelerators
Incubators
Commercial partnerships

Fund

Providing capital resources to clean energy startups at various stages of growth

Impact funds
Grant programs
Voucher programs
Loan programs

Connect

Activities that connect entrepreneurs, corporations, education institutions, civil society, and financial organizations to accelerate startups and remove barriers for entrepreneurs.

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Who we are

New Energy Nexus is the world’s leading network of funds and accelerators supporting diverse clean energy entrepreneurs.

Our vision is 100% clean energy for 100% of the population, in the shortest possible time.

As a global non-profit organization, we deliver this vision with a laser focus on clean energy entrepreneurs. They are the agent of change the world needs in this critical decade.

Diverse entrepreneurs are essential to the clean energy transition due to their ability to innovate and deploy solutions as close to the ground as possible.

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Solutions
Spotlight

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USA

Enzinc

They use Zinc that provides a safer, more cost effective alternative to lead-acid & lithium-based batteries.

Nigeria

Reeddi

Reeddi’s energy generation and distribution technology system integrates smart data harvesting and analytics technology.

Vietnam

Wiibike

See how Wiibike, part of New Energy Nexus Vietnam’s Cohort 2, provides green urban transport solutions with smart motors & batteries.

Testimonials

“Nexus was instrumental in helping 75F make key connections in the New York City marketplace. We completed a high-impact installation with Bright Power – a nation-wide leader in strategic energy solutions for building professionals – and our hiring plans are moving swiftly.”

Deepinder Singh, Founder & CEO at 75F, USA

‘The enthusiasm and trustworthiness along with the effective capacity building training activities of the Nexus Vietnam team have made us feel more stable and much happier on the road to starting a green transport business.”

Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Co-founder and CEO at Wiibike, Vietnam

“The Women in Energy program provided us with tremendous support in building AgriVijay as a global agri-tech startup. We’re honored and glad to be part of the accelerator program, which has helped shape us as an organization with a vision to empower farmers and rural households to fight climate change.”

Shobha Chanchlani, Co-Founder & Director at AgriVijay, India

“CalSEED was an instrumental program supporting Sepion’s early stages finding product market fit and retiring technical risk…New Energy Nexus genuinely care about supporting climate focused entrepreneurs…”

Peter Frischmann, CEO at Sepion, USA

“If scaled widely, the Takachar technology can enable rural communities to create significantly more value from their unmerchantable crop and forest residues, thereby reducing the risks of wildfires, air pollution, and carbon footprint. The CalTestBed program has drastically cut down the costs of laboratory testing of some of our mission-critical samples and enabled us to go a lot further.”

Kevin Kung, Founder and CTO, Takachar, USA

“ElectronVibe (a program by NEX India) was a great opportunity to hear directly from Indian Discoms about their challenges and have no-holds barred feedback about the problem we are solving for the electricity distribution grid…”

Meenakshi Vashist, Founder & CEO, TekUncorked, India

“New Energy Nexus and The Clean Fight positively impacted Radiator Labs’ growth by way of supportive programming and high-level corporate and investor introductions. The team at The Clean Fight was terrific to partner with in the mission to decarbonize the world’s legacy buildings.”

Marshall Cox, CEO of Radiator Labs, USA