# CrowdSolve

A climate tech startup marketplace supporting the next generation of climate entrepreneurs.

## Elevator pitch
CrowdSolve is a platform for climate innovators that connects early-stage ventures to tools, technology, resources, and funding. CrowdSolve is a pre-incubator that uses industry leading content, lean methodology, community building, tokenization and gamification, to support climate innovators take good ideas and help make them great.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/crowdsolve
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:120036
- Last updated: 2026-06-21T05:00:40Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-21T23:04:32Z

## Quick facts
- CEO has founded and sold three venture-backed start-ups.
- Already raised $525K from professional investors and friends and family.
- 🙋🏽 Seasoned team with a start-up track record, several exits, and accelerator experience.
- 🌎 Supporting thousands of climate entrepreneurs from around the world at scale.
- 🦋 Differentiated solution using AI to help climate entrepreneurs gain traction.
- 🥏 Partnering with over 45 accelerators and 70 VCs worldwide
- ⏰ Making entrepreneurship accessible for early-stage climate innovators from around the world.
- 🪙 Terms are SAFE with 6.7M post money cap and 20% discount - early bird special of 6.03M cap.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:67223: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:67879: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## FAQ
1. **The problem is clear and the solution sounds innovative. However, can you please explain how Crowdsolve intends to monetize these activites and support? It appears to be token based but it is unclear to me if Crowdsolve is investing into the startups or how the business will a...**
   - Thanks for the question Logan! We charge innovators to go through the program and have access to the platform, community, etc. We are testing out price points right now with our innovators and will be delivering more and more value over time so intent is to give a great deal to be a "founding member" today and that price point will go up over the course of 2023. Our analysis is in the range of $3000-$4000 for full value. We also offer scholarships and are prospecting for sponsorship partners ...
2. **You can have a partnership with Rise Higher Education Aakriti Jain Go to Profile Page LOCATION Charlotte, North Carolina, USA TIMEZONE EST CONTACT INFO (EMAIL) risehighereducation@gmail.com CONTACT INFO (PHONE) +12407284609 LINKEDIN PROFILE https://www.linkedin.com/in/aakriti-...**
   - Will connect with Aakriti. Thanks George!
3. **Even though your overview has a title named "how we make money", I still haven't understood how you guys actually make money! Could you enlighten me? Thanks**
   - We charge innovators for going through the program. Our current charge is $50/mo or $1000 for the entire program. We anticipate landing on $3000 for the full program by the end of this year as we add new value to the platform and ecosystem. We currently have 25 incubator partners that feed us innovators who did not get in. This will grow by an order of magnitude this year and our goal is to get to 3000+ active innovators on the platform by end of year with some percentage paying in full and o...
4. **Hello, 1) Since you are focused on green companies why use blockchain technology which is notoriously environmentally unfriendly? Is the purpose of SOLV tokens solely gamification or are people expecting to eventually sell them for money like most cryptocurrencies? If it's for...**
   - Thanks for the questions Felix. 1) We have not minted yet, but when we do we will use a Layer 2 chain, like Polygon or Celo. These chains do not use Proof of Work, which is the environmentally unfriendly protocol. It is true that they are only used inside the ecosystem and are considered rewards/utility tokens. They are, in fact, only in the database today. We are discussing with some other protocols/tokens which use tokens for carbon offset and may decide to exchange SOLV tokens for other to...

## Team
- Tim Wolters (Founder & CEO)
- Brandon Line (VP of Product)
- Ronald Hans (Investor & Advisor)
- Jane Schachtel (CMO)
- Don Springer (Board Member)
- Lindsay Colbern (VP of Partnerships)

## Recent posts
- End of Year Update (2025-11-20T23:03:42Z)
- Happy Valentine’s Day! 💚🌎 Share the Love—Give to Climate Action! (2025-02-14T16:14:03Z)
- September Update (2024-09-12T02:15:15Z)
- The August CrowdSolve Times (2024-08-06T22:29:13Z)
- Proud of the Crowd in 2023! (2023-12-21T02:53:06Z)
- Hosting an event for women in climate startups tonight (9/21) (2023-09-21T18:47:37Z)
- May Investor Update (2023-05-05T05:31:35Z)
- THANK YOU! (2023-05-02T22:21:41Z)
- Last few hours! (2023-04-30T22:43:05Z)
- In case you aren't on our newsletter (2023-04-29T14:33:09Z)
- The Future Days podcast is here! (2023-04-27T23:34:06Z)
- Launching our first bootcamp! (2023-04-26T19:39:58Z)
- Spotlight by Fulcrum Venture Accelerator (2023-04-25T17:22:58Z)
- Climate Week SF! (2023-04-23T19:51:35Z)
- Working Climate Week San Francisco (2023-04-20T01:59:22Z)

## Q&A
- Q: Even though your overview has a title named "how we make money", I still haven't understood how you guys actually make money! Could you enlighten me? Thanks
  - A: We charge innovators for going through the program. Our current charge is $50/mo or $1000 for the entire program. We anticipate landing on $3000 for the full program by the end of this year as we add new value to the platform and ecosystem. We currently have 25 incubator partners that feed us innovators who did not get in. This will grow by an order of magnitude this year and our goal is to get to 3000+ active innovators on the platform by end of year with some percentage paying in full and others on scholarship funded either internally or be sponsoring companies. Our goal is to get to over 100,000 innovators/innovations on the platform over time resulting in a several hundred million dollar annual revenue number.
- Q: You can have a partnership with Rise Higher Education Aakriti Jain Go to Profile Page LOCATION Charlotte, North Carolina, USA TIMEZONE EST CONTACT INFO (EMAIL) risehighereducation@gmail.com CONTACT INFO (PHONE) +12407284609 LINKEDIN PROFILE https://www.linkedin.com/in/aakriti-jain87/ STARTUP WEBSITE www.risehighereducation.com COMPANY STAGE Pre-Seed : Pre-Product INDUSTRY EdTech, Online Learning
  - A: Will connect with Aakriti. Thanks George!
- Q: The problem is clear and the solution sounds innovative. However, can you please explain how Crowdsolve intends to monetize these activites and support? It appears to be token based but it is unclear to me if Crowdsolve is investing into the startups or how the business will actually make money. Thanks
  - A: Thanks for the question Logan! We charge innovators to go through the program and have access to the platform, community, etc. We are testing out price points right now with our innovators and will be delivering more and more value over time so intent is to give a great deal to be a "founding member" today and that price point will go up over the course of 2023. Our analysis is in the range of $3000-$4000 for full value. We also offer scholarships and are prospecting for sponsorship partners who will defray the cost for underserved innovators downstream (and helps us pull revenue forward). At scale, with the number of innovators in this sector out there and the price point range is about a $150M annually. The tokens are used to gamify engagement through a rewards system for participating in the platform and supporting innovators, either through: mentoring, onboarding, and providing workshops. These tokens can then be used to help more innovators access the platform via sponsorship (innovators can pay their way through via tokens or USD). Mentors and sponsors get reports of all of the innovations they've helped out through time or tokens and what the rolled up impact estimate is for those innovations.
- Q: Hello, 1) Since you are focused on green companies why use blockchain technology which is notoriously environmentally unfriendly? Is the purpose of SOLV tokens solely gamification or are people expecting to eventually sell them for money like most cryptocurrencies? If it's for gamification you could use a normal database instead of a blockchain and it would be much more environmentally friendly and efficient. If you are expecting people to eventually sell their SOLV tokens who is going to pay real money for them and why? 2) The pitch mentions mentors browse through projects and get SOLV tokens for helping founders. Are mentors paid real money for helping or just SOLV tokens? Are founders guaranteed to have mentors or experts look at their stuff and give advice or does it only happen if a mentor/expert is browsing, finds the company, and chooses to help it? Thanks
  - A: Thanks for the questions Felix. 1) We have not minted yet, but when we do we will use a Layer 2 chain, like Polygon or Celo. These chains do not use Proof of Work, which is the environmentally unfriendly protocol. It is true that they are only used inside the ecosystem and are considered rewards/utility tokens. They are, in fact, only in the database today. We are discussing with some other protocols/tokens which use tokens for carbon offset and may decide to exchange SOLV tokens for other tokens. 2) As long as innovators are completing their challenges they WILL get a mentor assigned to validate those challenges. So, yes, innovators are guaranteed access to mentors. Mentors are only paid in SOLV and can use this SOLV to help out other innovators by gifting their SOLV to them and the innovators can then use SOLV instead of $$ to pay for access to CrowdSolve, or they may use SOLV to exchange for other rewards downstream when we have them defined.