Improving funding is part of growing the climate biotech community. We at Homeworld Collective have personally met with over 500 people, we’ve analyzed 350,000 grants and publications funded by the NSF and DOE, and we’ve studied every available early stage funding vehicle. Our conclusion is that there needs to be more risk-tolerant funding for translational climate biotech, especially at the earliest stage of a project. That’s why we are launching Garden Grants.
The translational intersection of climate and biotech is underfunded relative to potential, based on an analysis of 177,962 grants made by the National Science Foundation and 188,487 publications funded by the Department of Energy.
