# September Update | CrowdSolve

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- Published at: 2024-09-12 02:15:15 UTC
- Updated at: 2025-07-11 17:15:29 UTC

## Author
Tim Wolters

## Subject
CrowdSolve

## Content
Hello Friends!And, we’re back (to school)! It’s been a fun end of summer with so many events lining up around climate. From West Slope Startup Week in Colorado, to the Austin Climate Hub, we’ve met many new climate entrepreneurs who have joined up on the CrowdSolve platform. Now is the time to get engaged. Choose your own climate adventure: mentor, invest, start your own climate startup. There are so many surface areas to solving for climate change that it provides enormous opportunities! If you review Project Drawdown, there are 10 climate sectors. Each of these have an additional 5-10 sub-sectors that require some amount of innovation. Most of these could be solved with some form of sustainable economic model. Time to roll up your shirt sleeves and get to work!At CrowdSolve, you’ve come to the right place. We continue to gather a rich community of climate entrepreneurs and mentors helping each other reach their goals.Learn about accelerating your climate startupLearn about becoming a mentorJoin as an investor (open to everyone!) On to the update! - Tim, CrowdSolve CEO/Founder🎉 Founder Spotlight 🎉RoadtripAI, founded by Dave Rench McCauleyAt roadtrip, we are building AI-enabled real-time assistants to help new and established EV drivers tackle the difficulties going from their gas-powered experience to driving electric. By providing accurate and trustworthy information at the moment it is needed, we make the EV driving experience pleasant and stress-free. Whether it's finding high-reliability public charging stations, advising on the right amount and frequency to charge your EV, or even helping evaluate the quality of the installation of your at-home charging, roadtrip can take away the confusion and just let you enjoy the open road."CrowdSolve has been great for ensuring we're being realistic about our problem statement and solution hypothesis from the start. Whether it's making sure we can point to how our idea has been validated or ensuring we are working off of testable hypotheses, the systematic approach and asynchronous learning has helped us hone our message and mission better than we expected." Dave Rench McCauley, Founder & CEO, RoadtripAI  🥇 Platform Metrics 🥇465 Innovators / 365 Innovations / 159 MentorsAreas of growth in CrowdSolve innovation - we’ve seen a clear uptick in Electricity Generation/Transmission/Storage innovations in the last month.🌎 CrowdSolve Community Happenings🌏Strengthen founder skills with AMAs and member-only Workshops! Previous Events:AMA Recording: First Time Founder Capital Strategy AMA Recording: UX Research Strategies for staring with the perfect problem solution fitAMA Recording: Fund raising strategy and crowd funding with WeFunderMark your calendars!  Denver Startup Week - August 16-19September 17 - From Vision to Impact: Inspiring Women Founders Driving Climate SolutionsSeptember 18 - Bootstrapping Strategies in a Slow MarketSeptember 18 - Cleantech Day: Boosting UnderdogsTelluride Venture Network Climate Founder Forum - August 27-29NYC Climate Week - September 25 - 26⚡️ Access Member-Only Platform Features! ⚡️Currently a climate innovator on CrowdSolve? Paid members get access to upskilling, Workshops featuring experts in areas spanning from product development to finance. Paid members get warm introductions to accelerators and VCs. Paid members get 1:1 expert Mentor sessions. And so much more. Read on to see some great updates to some of our member-only features and join today! 🤝 Partner Highlight: Early Discount for VERGE Conference 🤝The VERGE conference by Trellis (formerly GreenBiz) is happening this October. If you have not had a chance to attend this conference and are in the Climate space it is very well attended by large and small companies leveraging innovation to meet ESG goals. It is a must.Learn more here about VERGE.(use code CSV24 for your CrowdSolve 10% discount!)📝 Upcoming Accelerator (and other) Applications 📝Are you a climate innovator planning to apply to one of our partners’ programs? We can help! ⭐️From guiding to letting them know your application is on the way - reach out to us! Future Accelerators, Prizes and Events:Antler → Oct 2024Chain Reaction Innovations: Cohort 9 will open in Fall 2024NYC Climate Week →  Sep 22-29COWY/Engine Grant Opportunities