A guide on non-financial resources for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) project preparation & development, featuring readiness checklists, accelerators, workshops, project databases, and more.

Prime Coalition's 2022 report highlighted the scaling issues climate startups face, especially in obtaining infrastructure finance. It pointed out the lack of capital to commercialize climate technologies, including development capital for pre-construction activities. In 2023, Trellis Climate examined this capital gap further, deploying philanthropic catalytic capital as a solution. This note summarizes the insights from Trellis' work.

To understand what exactly is needed for climate technologies to move beyond their hatchling stages into large-scale deployment, Prime Coalition, Schmidt Futures, and Blue Haven Initiative came together to launch a research project at Prime: Barriers to the Timely Deployment of Climate Infrastructure.