Prime Blog
Welcome to the Prime blog, where we share event highlights, reflections from our team, and exciting updates about our organization!
Keri Browder Attends White House Climate Capital Convening
Prime Coalition was honored to attend the White House’s Climate Capital Convening for an engaged discussion about driving capital to climate solutions, centered around the Biden administration’s Investing in America agenda, on May 30, 2024.
Resources for FOAK Project Preparation & Development
A guide on non-financial resources for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) project preparation & development, featuring readiness checklists, accelerators, workshops, project databases, and more.
Lara Pierpoint Interviewed on Climate Tech 360
Lara Pierpoint, Managing Director of Trellis Climate, joins Samia Qader on the Climate Tech 360 podcast to discuss the power of catalytic capital in bridging the FOAK financing gap and accelerating climate tech solutions.
Emily Lewis O’Brien from Trellis Climate Speaks at ARPA-E
Trellis Climate’s Emily Lewis-O’Brien recounts her experience speaking at the 2024 ARPA-E Summit in Dallas, Texas, joining a number of fellow catalytic capital providers for a panel called Bridging the Scale Gap with Concessionary Capital.
Catalyzing Development of First-of-a-Kind Climate Projects
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.
Highlights from Prime Coalition’s Events at SF Climate Week
Prime Coalition was honored to join the 15,000+ guests and 750+ organizations participating in this year’s San Francisco Climate Week (SFCW). The Prime team hosted and participated in 4 key events at SFCW, including two Prime hosted events, which were our Climate Finance Reception and our CRANE Tool launch at the panel discussion, Understanding the Future Impacts of Climate Tech — Today.
Additionally, Lara Pierpoint, Managing Director of Trellis Climate, also spoke at two other events, including LabStart’s discussion on how organizations are supporting climate tech entrepreneurs and the Scaling Hardtech Climate Solutions: a FOAK (First of a Kind) Summit. We’re excited to share our topline highlights from each of these events.