Climate Tech Startups and Investors

Description from DukeHub

This course provides an overview of business development in the rapidly growing climate tech sector. Through 'in the trenches' input from guest speakers (founders and investors across the U.S.) and assignments, students will learn about the climate tech landscape and become more fluent with certain business skills and tools, such as (1) market sizing, (2) investor databases, (3) competitor analysis, (4) productivity techniques, and (5) term sheets.

Skills

• financeAI review: "term sheets"
• data and statisticsAI review: "market sizing"

AI-resilient: 0 of 5 0/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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