Founders from Ten Ventures Selected for Their Work Advancing Climate Solutions

WASHINGTON, DC (April 20, 2026)—Halcyon, a global startup accelerator, today announced a new cohort of ten entrepreneurs to participate in its 2026 Global Climate Accelerator program. The program serves founders across the world who are tackling pressing challenges in climate adaptation and resilience.

“While each venture is unique in its mission and ambition, a unifying theme across the cohort is a deep commitment to community-driven or community-informed product development,” said Emily Owen, Manager at Halcyon. “All of the companies are working in deep partnership with communities and leaders to ensure that the innovations match the need.”

The startups, representing seven countries, were competitively selected for their ventures addressing:

• Climate intelligence and insights
• Climate-smart agriculture and food systems
• WaterTech (water security, resilient water systems, and more)
• Resilience in the built environment

Founders will attend a one-week, in-person residency in Washington, DC, five virtual programming days, and a final one-week, in-person residency in Los Angeles, California. Throughout the program, they will receive training in Halcyon’s methodology on product-market fit, capital strategy, and leadership, as well as access to critical resources and connections to accelerate their ventures.

Meet the Founders and their Ventures:

• Flowmetric, Wilder McCoy, South Africa: Flowmetric is a smart water asset management platform. Flowmetric has created the Water Security Portal which enables water intensive users like utilities, industrials, manufacturers, and MNCs to reduce costs and optimize critical infrastructure through strategic water management.
• Humble Bee, Monika Shukla & Vaibhav Trimukhe, India: Humble Bee is building India’s Golden Revolution, a tech-and-touch powered, women-led beekeeping movement that restores biodiversity, boosts climate-resilient agriculture, and empowers marginal and landless farmers. Their flagship solution includes precision engineered beehives, input support, and the BEEKIND platform.
• Mendria, Jackie Vandermel, US: Mendria is an AI underwriting platform for REITs, real estate private equity firms, family offices, and governments that predicts when assets will become harder to refinance, insure, or sell, quantifying equity at risk before it appears in financials to deliver 12–36 month action plans.
• MONEV Studio Global, Umi Hanik & Ariesta Dwi Puspita, Indonesia: MONEV Studio Global provides a climate intelligence and decision-support platform for governments, utilities, and development organizations in climate-vulnerable regions. The platform integrates climate risk, infrastructure, and community data into actionable insights for planning, early warning, and investment.
• Nobon, Michael Akampa, Sweden: Nobon develops digital infrastructure for climate finance. Its unified platform streamlines due diligence, investor workflows, compliance checks, and transaction settlement for climate-linked assets.
• Resilience AI, Samhita R, India: Resilience AI is enabling organizations in every industry (sector) to prepare for climate shocks better, faster, cheaper using a decision system, Resilience360. Resilience360 is an indigenous innovation intersecting AI/ML with scientific-evidence and interactive user experience.
• Salynt, Jeremy Lawson & Natalia Crosdale, US: Salynt is an AI-driven platform that transforms urban data into interactive 3D simulations for city planners, developers, and government agencies. It enables stakeholders to visualize, test, and optimize infrastructure, housing, and environmental decisions before implementation.
• scoutlabs, Donat Posta, Hungary: scoutlabs provides digital insect monitoring systems for government biosecurity and agricultural agencies. Its IoT-enabled traps deliver real-time detection and early warning of invasive pests, supporting rapid response and surveillance programs.
• ThermoVerse Inc., Shantonio Birch, US: ThermoVerse transforms commercial buildings into 3 MWh thermal batteries using zero footprint ceiling tiles to hollow out 20% to 60% of peak HVAC demand. The technology unlocks grid capacity for commercial buildings, avoiding costly utility agreements and transformer upgrades for EV charging and electrification.
• Trust Carbon Infrastructure, Brayon Michael Pieske, Brazil: Trust Carbon Infrastructure is a digital verification platform for carbon credit projects. The platform transforms any smartphone into a scientific field instrument—working 100% offline in 17 languages, following international methodologies including Verra and Gold Standard.

This program is generously supported by Twilio.org Impact Fund, a fund of ImpactAssets, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).

About Halcyon
Halcyon accelerates the impact-driven future of business. Since 2014, Halcyon’s fellowships for early-stage social entrepreneurs have provided space, community, and access to 650+ founders—infusing support at a critical juncture where many impact-driven startups fail.

Halcyon is focused on serving social entrepreneurs with ventures in Climate, Health, and EquityTech—three verticals that drive equity and inclusivity in society. Halcyon’s support includes tailored business training for leadership, product-market fit, and capital strategy and additional resources to help Halcyon founders scale their ventures.