Our Manifesto
This is our WHO and WHY. If this sounds like you, apply to join us.
Some people treat work like a job. Others treat it like a mission.
Most people don’t belong here.
EFI Climate Fellows are building companies where climate impact and profit are not in tension. They scale together.
They don’t just complain about hard markets, slow capital, or skeptical investors.
They ask: What’s the next move? How do I break through this brick wall?
They chose this path. They “bought a ticket for this.”
Inside this group:
CEOs, with $15M–$500M raised, compare notes on what’s actually working
Hard decisions get pressure-tested without politics, personalities, or board pressure
Patterns emerge faster because you’re not solving problems all alone
This is not theory. There’s a difference between advice and perspective. Most of what matters here is the latter.
Members have:
Raised $100M+ for first-of-a-kind technologies
Signed $1B+ commercial agreements
Built and exited companies to Fortune 500 buyers
They’ve also:
Stepped away after big exits to rethink everything
Switched from VC investor to CEO role
Done things that don’t belong on LinkedIn
What unites them is simple:
They run toward problems other people avoid. They do hard things on purpose.
Because that’s where the leverage is. That’s where the moat is.
This is a small, curated room. Hard charging, but humble.
High candor. Low posturing.
Just CEOs doing hard things, faster and better, together.