{"id":866,"date":"2017-09-14T15:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=866"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:01:42","slug":"vermont-business-accelerator-launched-for-climate-change-focused-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/09\/14\/vermont-business-accelerator-launched-for-climate-change-focused-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Business Accelerator Launched for Climate Change-Focused Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accel-vt.com\/\">A new business accelerator program<\/a>, aimed at supporting entrepreneurs and startups focused on technology, services, and products addressing climate change challenges &#8212; particularly in the area of energy &#8212; has been launched in Vermont following <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/2017\/09\/12\/national-climate-economy-summit-comes-to-uvm\/\">the recent national Catalysts of the Climate Economy Summit held here in early September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-867 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/09\/Accel_VT_Vermont_Business_Economy-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/09\/Accel_VT_Vermont_Business_Economy-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/09\/Accel_VT_Vermont_Business_Economy-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/09\/Accel_VT_Vermont_Business_Economy-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/09\/Accel_VT_Vermont_Business_Economy.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accel-VT is inviting startup or seed stage ventures from across\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>\u00a0interested in solving one of the most pressing electric grid issues facing the U.S.\u2014integration of distributed renewable energy, efficiency, and storage technologies with the grid &#8212; to apply. Participants will be selected based on their ability to help solve the challenges related to the monitoring and control of distributed energy (e.g., storage, electric vehicles, solar, community scale wind, combined heat and power) to improve their value while providing safe, reliable, and affordable electric service to all customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re building a cluster of climate innovation companies and we offer an entrepreneurial support system that includes access to business planning services, networks, and growth capital\u2014in a state known for its high quality of life in an idyllic and recreational setting in the Green Mountains,&#8221; says\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Geoff Robertson<\/span>\u00a0of Accel-VT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/vermont-seizes-climate-change-economic-growth-and-resource-renewal-opportunities-300518427.html\">Read the full press release<\/a>. Or, learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accelvt.com\/\">Accel-VT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new business accelerator program, aimed at supporting entrepreneurs and startups focused on technology, services, and products addressing climate change challenges &#8212; particularly in the area of energy &#8212; has been launched in Vermont following the recent national Catalysts of the Climate Economy Summit held here in early September. Accel-VT is inviting startup or seed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/09\/14\/vermont-business-accelerator-launched-for-climate-change-focused-entrepreneurs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vermont Business Accelerator Launched for Climate Change-Focused Entrepreneurs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46457,221,427000,426992,425622],"tags":[17503,41478,6901,4433,551],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-life-in-btv","category-renewables","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-networking","tag-sustainability","tag-vermont"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-dY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}