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Techstars Sustainability Accelerator

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Techstars Sustainability Accelerator © The Nature Conservancy

Techstars & The Nature Conservancy are seeking for-profit entrepreneurs with commercially viable technologies to rapidly solve conservation challenges globally.

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The Time is Now to Build Tech For Nature (1:17) The Sustainability Accelerator will ensure that we innovate to make the world a better place for both people and nature.

The Techstars Sustainability Accelerator, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, will ensure that we innovate to make the world a better place to live.

The mentorship-driven accelerator program based in Denver, Colorado connects entrepreneurs, conservationists, corporate partners and investors to deliver products that can put the world on a path to sustainability. In addition, conservationists will learn from entrepreneurs how to quickly innovate and scale commercially viable businesses.

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Solving Problems That Matter

Our Techstars Sustainability Accelerator aims to find world-class entrepreneurs who are building tech solutions that help us solve our food, water and climate challenges.

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Take a Deeper Look

Group shot of all ten startups at the Techstars and TNC Sustainability Accelerator demo day 2019

Now, More Than Ever: We Need Technology to Help Solve Our Food, Water, and Climate Challenges

Calling all for-profit tech startups that help solve our food, water and climate challenges:

By Niraj Swami

TNC scientist Lauren Alleman, in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Reserve, New York, USA.

Smart Solutions for Sustainability

Tech companies can help us find the best new ideas for saving the planet and bring them to scale quickly.

The 2019 start-ups pitch their ideas (1:44:19) To take on the world's biggest challenges facing humanity today, the Nature Conservancy and Techstars have launched the Sustainability Accelerator. Watch the CEOs of the 2019 cohort present how they are speeding up the pace of innovation to solve conservation challenges on a global scale.