“I’m a software engineer and I want to work on solving climate change — where do I start?”
A few months ago I soft-launched ClimateTechList to help answer this question, primarily for my friends and network. At the time, I wanted to get a v0 out quickly, so I used no-code tools to build the site. It didn’t look the most polished….
…but the site has gotten more traction than expected — thousands of visitors and at least two engineers found jobs at ClimateTechList companies as a result
I recently redesigned the website from scratch (not using no-code, more on that in a subsequent post) to be more usable and have more content, and now have a few dozen curated companies on the site.
Every company on ClimateTechList.com has been assessed for the following:
- High potential impact on reducing greenhouse gases
- High growth potential (which results in high potential GHG impact)
- Software is mission-critical to the company, even if the company isn’t a pure software company
More on our methodology here.
On the new site, each company has its own page, and for some companies, complete with detailed notes from company interviews I conducted, and photos of the product and team.
In addition, we have several blog post resources, such as this primer for those new to climate tech (the most popular blog post so far), this article about software engineering career growth, and this article about the bits vs atoms framework for thinking about climate tech sectors.
Be sure to check out the other articles here
If you are sharing with friends, you can share predefined searches, such as this one for “all climate tech companies focusing on transportation” https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/Transportation
As you type into the filter pane/search box, the URL will change — you can directly copy this as a predefined search URL for sharing/bookmarking, such as this one https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/text/smart/vertical/Transportation
We have a whole list of predefined searches in the footer, such as these:
By location:
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/Remote
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/Austin
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/Boston
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/India
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/NewYorkCity
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/SanFranciscoBay
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/location/Seattle
By stage:
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/stage/Seed
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/stage/SeriesA
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/stage/SeriesB
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/stage/SeriesC
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/stage/SeriesD
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/stage/Public
By vertical:
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/AgricultureFood
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/CarbonAccounting
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/CleanEnergy
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/EfficiencyReduction
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/Financing
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/NatureRestoration
- https://www.climatetechlist.com/search/vertical/Transportation
If you’d like to submit a company, use this link: https://www.climatetechlist.com/submit
Hope you find this site useful, and please share it with a software engineer data scientist, or product manager friend :)
Feel free to contact me using https://www.climatetechlist.com/contact for any feedback/collaboration.
And if you’d like to help promote ClimateTechList, please comment/react to/reshare/retweet this LinkedIn launch announcement post or this Twitter post
