Enduring Planet

We offer simple, fast, founder-friendly capital for US-based climate entrepreneurs.  No dilution, no personal guarantees, limited collateral.  Apply in <10 mins, get a non-binding term sheet in a week (if you qualify), and get your funding in 30 days.

Come join us for SFCW 2025!

Come join us for next week's Community Event on "Navigating the Legal Landscape for Climate Startups and SMBs", sponsored by our friends at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP!

Super Champions can be a huge unlock for your climate startup – whether that’s training users, advocating for you with investors, or speaking at conferences on your behalf. So how do you get them on board? For this week's Insight, we sat down with Taylor Chapman of New Climate Ventures, to go deep on Super Champions. Check it out 👇

We're excited to announce another Government Advance transaction, this time with the amazing team at Bluemvmt! Huge thanks to Joe Wheeler for giving us the opportunity to join him and the Bluemvmt team on their journey to improve IoT interoperability and data management for critical infrastructure and commercial operations! Check out our case study here 👇

Super excited to announce that Enduring Planet has been selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2025 as an Emerging Impact Manager, for the second year in a row! We're proud to be selected among a diverse group of fund managers driving meaningful social impact around the world. More info here: http://bit.ly/IA502025 #IA50 #IA50EIM

It’s all fun and games...until you get to the contract. Whether it’s a financing term sheet or your customer’s offtake agreement, “legal” is too often an afterthought. In reality, legal/compliance is actually one of the most important things to get right, at every stage of building your climate company. So, come join us for our next Community Event, sponsored by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Tuesday, March 25th at 10:00a PDT / 1p EDT, where we'll cover all things Legal in Climate. We’ll discuss a broad range of questions across formation, structuring, financing agreements, customer contracts and common legal issues.  And as always, there'll be a ton of time for Q&A. The event will feature Sonam Velani at Streetlife Ventures, yours truly Dimitry Gershenson at Enduring Planet, and a Partner from Orrick (to be confirmed shortly) - moderated by Hannah Friedman at Mark1. Come one, come all!

Utilities are increasingly buying what climate startups are selling – but early-stage companies often struggle to break in to this market and convince their investors that the juice is worth the squeeze. To understand how climate startups can up their "utility game", we sat down with Grace Penders of Equal Ventures for this week's Insight, to dig deep into what utilities are looking for and the tried and tested practices to make them your customer. Check it out!

We're excited to announce another our new partnership with Mission Driven Finance®️ to expand our lending capabilities for climate startups with Indigenous founders!! With support from MDF, Enduring Planet is now able to offer government advance financing of up to $2 million for climate companies that have government grants or contracts (including those at the state and local levels) with (a) an Indigenous founder or (b) operating in Native communities. This is 4x our usual cap of $500k for first-time borrowers. We can lend up to 80% of the next 12-18 months of expected payments under any government grant or contract. If you have a reimbursement or milestone-based grant and need upfront capital before you get paid back, this is for you!

Climate Entrepreneurs impacted by the Trump Administration, do you need working capital? I'm excited to share something we've been quietly building for the last few weeks: the Enduring Climate Relief Fund!! First, some context: as federal climate funding faces freezes or potential terminations under the Trump administration, many climate-focused companies—particularly those with significant Federal contracts or grants—are at risk of severe cash flow disruptions. And we want to help! So, our team at Enduring Planet is building the Enduring Climate Relief Fund to provide critical and patient working capital to these companies, helping to ensure they can weather funding uncertainty, continue operations, and maintain momentum. The fund will be calibrated to provide concessional financing to these companies, ensuring they can deliver on their climate objectives unimpeded. It's still early days, but we're starting to build a database of folks who may be interested in capital in the next 6-24 months to navigate difficulties posed by the Trump Administration's current (or future) actions. If you're looking for a patient working capital solution to weather the storm, please fill out the jotform below and we'll be in touch as the fund goes live. NOTE: Our aim is to help, but keep in mind that a submission here does NOT guarantee funding from Enduring Planet. The information provided in this communication is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to provide financial services or products.