In SaaS, scaling has a playbook.
In ClimateTech, it’s still chaos.

Founders face:

• Complex hardware + software integration
• Regulatory barriers and financing gaps
• Hybrid capital needs (grants, VC, infra, debt)
• No clear milestone frameworks from Seed → Series A → Series B

Even game-changing tech gets stuck — because there’s no common map for moving from innovation to commercial scale.

Only 10% of climate tech startups today reach commercial viability.

ClimeNow LaunchPad solves this by building on the insights from The Climate Brick — translating them into operational, execution-ready founder tools.

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📉 The Problem: No Unified Scaling Strategy for ClimateTech

Unlike SaaS, ClimateTech founders can’t just scale on revenue growth metrics alone.

The hurdles:

• Product validation doesn't match capital timing
• Funding sources (grants, VC, infra) don't match maturity
• Team scaling and GTM motions aren’t synced to fundraising

Result:

Founders get caught chasing mismatched funding paths — losing time, control, and investor trust.

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🧠 The Shift: What The Climate Brick Introduced

The Climate Brick, developed by EQT Ventures and Contrarian Ventures, offers a breakthrough:

• 7 scaling archetypes structured around capital needs, risk profiles, and growth pathways
• A shared strategic language for ClimateTech fundraising and scaling
• A structured pathway to guide founders across Seed, Series A, B, and infrastructure phases

It brings ClimateTech closer to what SaaS founders have long enjoyed:
✅ Clearer capital roadmaps
✅ Smarter milestone setting
✅ Stronger founder–investor alignment

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🌍 About The Climate Brick Initiative

The Climate Brick was created after analyzing over 3,000 ClimateTech companies and interviewing dozens of scaling and capital experts.
It provides a foundational framework for ClimateTech founders, investors, and partners to align faster around execution, funding, and scaling milestones.

Learn more about the Climate Brick here.

At ClimeNow, we build on these insights — turning strategy into operational capital-fit tools for founders scaling climate impact companies.

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📘 How LaunchPad Applies Climate Brick Insights

At ClimeNow, we don’t stop at frameworks —
We operationalize Climate Brick insights inside LaunchPad, making them founder-actionable.

Here’s how:

✅ Archetype Mapping:
We map your business model against Climate Brick scaling patterns — Climate SaaS, DeepTech, Project-Based Hardware, Infra-Led.

✅ Capital Stack Design:
We align your funding path (VC, non-VC, blended) to match your scaling complexity — not to hope.

✅ Execution Blueprint:
We build LaunchPad Masterplans with OKRs synced to your Brick-based scaling model — helping you scale operationally while fundraising.

✅ Investor-Grade Readiness Reports:
We benchmark your readiness and KPIs aligned to both your Brick type and expected capital stage — so investors instantly recognize your capital-fit story.

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🔧 What Founders Get by Leveraging Climate Brick Insights Inside LaunchPad

• Clarity on your business model scaling rhythm
• Better capital-fit strategies for each funding round
• Stronger GTM and operational readiness
• Cleaner, more credible exit narratives

You scale smarter.
You fundraise faster.
You stay in control.

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🚀 The Outcome

• Smart capital alignment
• Stronger scaling milestones
• Higher Series A/B/infrastructure readiness
• Faster founder-led growth without strategic drift

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📣 What to Do Next

Run the free Funding-Impact Calculator—plug in your round and see the cash, equity, and runway you’d leave without ClimeNow.

Or watch our 8-minute product demo to see the engine in action.

Ready when you are—let’s close the Readiness Gap.