The Global Network powered by Undaunted
Together against the climate crisis: what is The Global Network?
The Global Network will help members grow stronger pipelines of well-prepared innovators and accelerate market access – connecting solutions to the right markets at the right time to achieve global scale and impact.
The Global Network is also integrating key stakeholders from across the wider climate and nature innovation landscape, connecting innovators, corporate partners, investors, funders, and policy makers to unlock new opportunities for collaboration, broaden funding access for ESOs and their innovators, and foster market conditions essential for scaling impactful solutions at pace.
Wider benefits
The Global Network will work collectively to make the climate and nature innovation ecosystem more transparent, connected and navigable, enabling high quality innovation to thrive wherever in the world it is founded and scaled, benefitting stakeholders across the board:
- Innovators will gain access to the right end-to-end support wherever they are, at any stage, and for any type of innovation, and be able to access new markets more easily.
- Corporate Partners can identify, connect, and collaborate with ESOs and innovators to solve specific challenges and address systemic issues, building stronger, more resilient business models and supply chains.
- Investors will access better deal flow from ESOs worldwide, supporting ventures that are more developed, internationally scalable, and investment-ready than they would otherwise have been.
- Funders – including philanthropy and NGOs – can deliver greater impact by easily identifying and collaborating with better-resourced, more effective ESOs aligned with their goals.
- Policy Makers will gain valuable data and input to improve innovation policy and build resilient economies, with The Global Network acting as a collective voice for members to influence and shape policy.
Membership
The Global Network is being shaped by 21 initial members spanning the globe, bringing established Entrepreneur Support Organisations alongside new and emerging players, buzzing with energy and fresh ideas and opening up support to under-served innovators on the front line of climate change.
With a curated waiting list poised to expand membership to over 100 ESOs in early 2026, The Global Network is perfectly positioned to collaborate with industry leaders, investors, funders and policy makers to deliver real impact on the urgent climate and nature challenges we face.
Join us unlocking truly global innovation in the vital fight against climate change.
Initial members
Ara Ake
ASBhive at the Asia School of Business
Breakthrough Energy
brinc
Canopy at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Climate Collective
Climate Ventures
Echoing Green
Hatch Blue
Impact Hub Accra
Kinjani
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
Leading Cities
Ninety One
OceanHub Africa
Sustainable Ventures
Tech Nation
The Mills Fabrica
Third Derivative
TUM Venture Labs
Undaunted
And you?
Network founders
The Global Network is powered by Undaunted, which is a partnership between Imperial College London and The Royal Institution.
Launched in November 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa, during Earthshot Week 2024, The Earthshot Prize was instrumental in The Global Network’s conception and early development, and it continues to support and endorse our work.
“Like The Earthshot Prize, accelerators exist to speed solutions to scale. Scaling enough climate solutions across the world will require entrepreneurs to successfully take their solutions from one market to the next. This network offers new hope that we can collectively increase the speed and likelihood of startups achieving scale and global positive impact.”
Hannah Jones, CEO of The Earthshot Prize
“It’s brilliant to see that the number organisations dedicated to supporting green innovators globally is flourishing – we are seeing the emergence of a thriving world-wide web of action to create a sustainable and just future. This kind of tailor-made support for green founders is vital in our efforts to tackle the world’s climate and environmental challenges in intelligent ways, at pace, at scale, and taking all of the world’s citizens with us on this journey.
What’s missing is a way to harness the power of these hubs across countries and continents. We need to work together to more equitably distribute opportunities and resources; to channel the vital expertise and infrastructure, funders and markets, that these accelerators offer towards the right founders at the right time, to maximise our collective impact. The new network brings together world-leaders in climate innovation support to make this happen. Join us!”
Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Innovation at Imperial Grantham Institute and Director of Undaunted
Undaunted
Since 2012 Undaunted has refined a model for accelerating applicable, practical and adaptable solutions that make a difference on a global scale. We envision a world with a healthy, global climate innovation ecosystem, with diverse innovators leading businesses of all sizes that are delivering significant emissions reductions and climate resilience sustainably and at scale.
Our programmes create new routes into green entrepreneurship; nurture the next-generation of high-potential pre-seed startups; enable innovators in the challenging early stages of scaling and commercialisation; draw together a strategic network of climate innovation supporters across Imperial, London, the UK and beyond.
Imperial College London
Over the past decade it has produced more climate change innovation startups than any other UK university, creating an entire ecosystem to support startups at its campus in White City, one of London’s thriving innovation districts.
The Royal Institution
Since 1799, The Royal Institution’s many eminent scientists, whose discoveries helped to shape the modern world, recognised the importance of sharing their work with the wider public.
Today, the Ri’s vision is that science is for everyone. And as an independent charity, the Ri is dedicated to bringing the public and scientists together to share their interest and passion for science, empowering people to explore and get involved. The Ri is a home for science and everyone is welcome.