{"id":1551,"date":"2026-03-03T08:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:03:32","slug":"bridging-the-commercial-valley-of-death-in-climate-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/2026\/03\/03\/bridging-the-commercial-valley-of-death-in-climate-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the commercial valley of death in climate innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our investment in Trellis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate innovation is not failing for lack of technical ideas. Across energy, industry, agriculture, mobility, and carbon removal, breakthrough technologies are emerging with the potential to reduce emissions at gigaton scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is failing is the bridge to deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many climate tech startups reach a critical inflection point: the technology works, early customers are interested, and the path to impact is clear. But they need capital to build their first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial projects\u2014facilities that prove performance at scale, unlock follow-on financing, and move solutions from promise to practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too often, that capital doesn\u2019t materialize. Traditional venture investors hesitate at infrastructure risk. Project finance requires proven cash flows. Government funding is limited and slow-moving. This \u201ccommercial valley of death\u201d is one of the greatest bottlenecks to scaling climate solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without intervention, transformative technologies stall just before impact begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-website-2_1920x1080-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Trellis Climate\" class=\"wp-image-1553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-website-2_1920x1080-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-website-2_1920x1080-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-website-2_1920x1080-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-website-2_1920x1080-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-website-2_1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image courtesy of Trellis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why <strong>Trellis Climate?<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Autodesk Foundation is proud to welcome\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.primecoalition.org\/trellisclimate\">Trellis Climate<\/a>, an impact-first catalytic investing program of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primecoalition.org\/\">Prime Coalition<\/a>, to our Energy &amp; Materials portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trellis was created to unlock first-of-a-kind climate infrastructure by deploying pooled, risk-tolerant capital precisely where it is most needed. Their model is designed to be flexible, catalytic, and deeply aligned with impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trellis deploys capital across five priority areas with high emissions reduction potential:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Electricity and heat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industrial decarbonization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agriculture, forest, and land use<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mobility and buildings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carbon dioxide removal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Their approach is to provide targeted capital for derisking early projects. Investments to date have focused on three complementary strategies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Development capital\u202fto help companies conduct critical engineering and feasibility studies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Construction capital\u202fto build early projects and crowd in other market rate capital.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Insurance and risk-transfer solutions, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/greeniere.org\/\">GreenieRE<\/a>, to help emerging climate companies reduce balance sheet liabilities by guaranteeing payment or performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each investment is evaluated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primecoalition.org\/trellisclimate\">through three lenses<\/a>: impact,\u202f additionality, and a clear\u202f\u201cbridge to somewhere\u201d to ensure projects meaningfully de-risk future deployment and crowd in additional capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis_Lara-NYCW-2025_1920x1080_opt-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Trellis Climate presentation\" class=\"wp-image-1554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis_Lara-NYCW-2025_1920x1080_opt-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis_Lara-NYCW-2025_1920x1080_opt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis_Lara-NYCW-2025_1920x1080_opt-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis_Lara-NYCW-2025_1920x1080_opt-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis_Lara-NYCW-2025_1920x1080_opt.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image courtesy of Trellis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unlocking scale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Building and operating first commercial facilities is essential to climate impact at scale. FOAK projects validate performance, demonstrate reliability, and give later-stage financiers the confidence to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trellis helps companies complete funding for early infrastructure projects and unlock blended follow-on capital across equity, debt, and project finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a market where 57% of U.S. climate tech startups are projected to need capital within 12 months, and late-stage investors have declined sharply, this catalytic capital is urgently needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since inception, Trellis has raised over $11 million in catalytic capital and mobilized over $65 million in follow-on funding. With additional support, they aim to formalize and scale this model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-Group-April-2024_1920x1080_opt-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Trellis Group\" class=\"wp-image-1555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-Group-April-2024_1920x1080_opt-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-Group-April-2024_1920x1080_opt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-Group-April-2024_1920x1080_opt-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-Group-April-2024_1920x1080_opt-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Trellis-Group-April-2024_1920x1080_opt.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image courtesy of Trellis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our collaboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Through our partnership, Trellis will continue to deploy catalytic capital into high-impact FOAK projects while building the systems needed to scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Autodesk technology and expertise can help accelerate this work by supporting visualization of early infrastructure facilities, strengthening data analytics, and enhancing impact tracking across Trellis\u2019 portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By combining catalytic capital with technical and ecosystem support, we aim to help close the commercialization gap between breakthrough climate innovation and real-world decarbonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Lara-Pierpoint-Headshot-2025_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Lara Pierpoint, Managing Director, Trellis Climate\" class=\"wp-image-1556 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Lara-Pierpoint-Headshot-2025_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Lara-Pierpoint-Headshot-2025_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Lara-Pierpoint-Headshot-2025_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Lara-Pierpoint-Headshot-2025_400x400-345x345.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\">\u201cWe\u2019re&nbsp;thrilled to partner with&nbsp;the Autodesk Foundation. 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