Request for Startups: Climate Change
Reversing Climate Change and building our Long Term Future
Climate Change is one of those phrases that makes a terrifying idea sound harmless.
Next time you hear Climate Change, imagine heat you can’t stand, air you can’t breathe, water that poisons life, and floods, droughts, and storms that devastate. That’s where scientists say we’re headed.
Ramen Ventures exists to invest in startups that are “improving long-term outcomes for humanity.” So far we’ve invested in companies that are reinventing genetic testing, blood testing, designing drugs to cure cancers and bringing financial services to 1.2 billion Africans (to name a few).
All of these startups are creating a fantastic future, but we won’t get to enjoy it if Climate Change makes Earth uninhabitable (or at least miserable to live on). That’s why we think Climate Change is the most critical problem to work on right now.
Project Drawdown has created the World’s best list of solutions to Climate Change. Their team of two hundred scientists and researches has stack-ranked 100 climate change solutions by cost, savings, and CO2 reduction.
Some of these solutions require governments to act (which you can do!) But most are up to entrepreneurs and innovators to make happen. We need technical, business model, and cultural innovations to make living sustainably sexy.
Countless other moonshots — like fusion energy, ocean farming, solid-state wave energy, and repopulating the Mammoth Steppe — aren’t ready yet. Those, too, need brilliant inventors and innovators to make them a reality.
If you’re working on a solution to Climate Change, tell us about it at hi@ramen.vc. Let’s invent the future we need.
