Bill Gates climate fund plans to mobilize $15 billion into clean tech. Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, a fund that sits within the wider Breakthrough Energy Group that was founded by Gates in 2015, has raised over $3.5 billion from businesses and charitable organizations so far for his climate technology and policy. 

“My basic optimism about climate change comes from my belief in innovation. The conditions have never been more clear for backing energy breakthroughs. It’s our power to invent that makes me hopeful”.

Breakthrough Energy Action

Analysts, experts, and advocates working to advance smart public policy that encourages innovation, tackles decarbonization head on, and speeds the time it takes for a great idea to go from the lab to the consumer marketplace

Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Breakthrough Energy Ventures has raised over $2 billion in committed capital to support bold entrepreneurs building companies that can significantly reduce emissions from agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe

A €100 million pilot fund and a partnership with the European Commission and the European Investment Bank to help decarbonize the European economy

Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada

A $30 million effort with the Canadian government to accelerate clean-energy technology similarly there

Breakthrough Energy Sciences

A team of top clean energy scientists and technologists working to develop rigorous analytic tools to help the world reach global net-zero emissions and clean, reliable, affordable energy for all

Breakthrough Energy Fellows

Every year we will fund a cohort of the world’s most innovative researchers, scientists, and business mentors developing new clean technology solutions that have the potential to reduce emissions by at least 500 million tons per year by 2050

Breakthrough Energy Catalyst

A first-of-its-kind program to demonstrate how we can finance, produce, and buy the new solutions that will underpin a low-carbon economy