BWB finds real-world pilot sites and funding for university climate technologies, and captures the evidence licensees and investors need.
For tech transfer offices, university researchers and science-based founders, including those in emerging ecosystems.
Our first pilot cohort is forming now. Join the waitlist and stay tuned. We'll be in touch when we open it.
Early climate technologies need proof they work at scale, and tech transfer offices rarely have the sites, partners or funding to get it.
On the bench: this digester makes biogas from food-waste slurry at 37 °C. Licensees and investors need to see the same process running at a real site, on real feedstock, for months.
Estimated global financing still needed for first-of-a-kind climate projects, the step between a pilot and commercial scale.
Prime Coalition, Charting the FOAK Gap, 2025of patents held by the top 58 US universities (2002–2010) were not licensed to large companies or sold.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020of methane escaping US municipal landfills comes from food waste. Half of food waste's carbon breaks down into landfill gas within about 3.6 years.
US EPA, Quantifying Methane Emissions from Landfilled Food Waste, 2023Climate technologies from emerging ecosystems often can't find pilot sites, testbeds or funding at home. Technologies from leading universities often need real-world conditions found elsewhere. BWB connects the two, matching technologies with pilot hosts and funders wherever they are.
Technologies that turn organic waste into something useful, such as biochar, compost, biogas and gasification.
Build Without Borders is a venture studio for overlooked founders and innovators, led by Tanya Smith, a biochemist turned venture builder and Vital Voices Fellow. After building ventures across Denmark, the US and the Caribbean through programs including The Engine Blueprint, Startup Denmark, Accelerace and MIT I-Corps, she saw exactly where the system breaks for science-based founders. BWB is built to fix it.
Join the waitlist and stay tuned.
We're forming our first pilot cohort now and will be in touch when it opens.
We're forming our first pilot cohort now. We'll be in touch when we open it.
Funders and pilot hosts interested in partnering: hello@buildwithoutborders.ventures