Pre-scheduled, curated one-to-one meetings with investors through our Invest Connect programme — so you arrive with a full calendar, not a hope.
Startups at The Nest Campus
Where the world’s most promising resilience economy startups meet the capital and customers they need to scale.
The Nest Campus brings together the largest gathering of climate and resilience startups under one roof at New York Climate Week — alongside the investors, enterprise buyers, and global leaders who can help you grow. This is not a networking event. It is a launchpad.
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The room that changes everything
ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION
Rewiring global energy and industrial systems for electrification, decarbonization, and scalable growth.
WHO YOU’LL MEET
Energy utility executives, grid operators, clean power developers, industrial OEMs, infrastructure investors, federal energy program leads, and the startups they're evaluating.
AI & TECHNOLOGY
Powering the resilience economy through data, AI, and intelligent systems.
WHO YOU’LL MEET
AI founders, climate-tech CTOs, enterprise technology buyers, institutional and venture capital, and the data and platform companies powering grid optimization, climate risk modeling, and emissions monitoring.
CITIES & INFRASTRUCTURE
Building the next generation of resilient urban environments.
WHO YOU’LL MEET
Chief Resilience Officers, city sustainability directors, mayors, real estate developers, insurance and reinsurance leaders, federal infrastructure program officers, and the firms designing the built environment for what's coming.
SUPPLY CHAINS
Transforming how goods are produced, moved, and reused.
WHO YOU’LL MEET
Heads of Procurement, supply chain leads at Fortune 500s, circularity and traceability platform founders, logistics innovators, and the corporate sustainability teams shifting from reporting to operations.
FOOD, WATER & NATURE
Securing critical global resources through innovation and restoration.
WHO YOU’LL MEET
Agtech founders, startups, municipal water leaders, regenerative agriculture operators, food system innovators, and the impact and venture capital funding all of it.
RISK & FINANCE
Unlocking capital and managing risk to scale resilience globally.
WHO YOU’LL MEET
Institutional investors, asset allocators, venture and growth capital, private equity, family offices, climate-focused funds, banks, and the insurance and reinsurance firms underwriting the resilience economy.
Four things you will not find anywhere else at Climate Week
Search and connect with investors, potential customers, advisors, and leaders before you arrive. Hit the ground running from day one.
Selected startups pitch on the main stage in front of top investors and resilience economy leaders. In front of 10,000 people. Nothing compares.
An invite-only Startup × Investor Reception bringing together the most promising founders and the investors actively looking to deploy capital.
Structured investor access. Not luck
Fundraising at conferences is usually chaotic — you hope you bump into the right person. Invest Connect changes that.
HOW IT WORKS
Apply and be accepted to the Nest Campus Startup Programme
We match you with investors whose mandate fits your stage and sector
Meetings are scheduled before the event — you arrive with a full calendar
Walk in prepared. They walk in interested. The rest is up to you.
The only technology-powered community at Climate Week
The Nest Campus is the only event at Climate Week using technology to connect its community. With 10,000 attendees on our event app, you can search the entire audience — filter by investor type, sector focus, company size, or role — and send a connection request before you even land in New York. By the time the doors open, your meetings are set and your conversations have already started.
Through engaging activations, executive masterclasses, investor engagement, and strategic matchmaking, The Nest Campus is built to move the conversation from ambition to execution.
The biggest stage at the biggest event at Climate Week
Selected startups are invited to pitch on the Nest Campus main stage in front of top investors, Fortune 500 leaders, and resilience economy decision-makers. This is not a demo day in a side room. It is the centrepiece of the world’s largest resilience economy gathering — in front of 10,000 people who have the capital, the contracts, and the connections to change your company’s future.
By invitation only
The Startup × Investor Reception is a curated, invite-only evening bringing together the most promising startups in the resilience economy with the investors actively looking to deploy capital into this space. Smaller, more focused, and more valuable than any networking event — because every person in the room is exactly where they need to be.
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