Elemental Excelerator

Overview
Elemental Excelerator finds 12-15 companies that best fit its mission, and funds each company up to $1M to improve systems that impact people’s lives: energy, water, agriculture, and transportation.
1000 Bishop St. #505, Honolulu HI 96813
Elemental Excelerator takes a place-based approach to changing communities, with the belief that communities are the most impactful scale at which to effect change. Elemental Excelerator selects cohorts of complementary companies who, collectively, can transform communities across Hawaii, the Asia Pacific, and California.
Elemental Excelerator funds each company up to $1M, companies contribute 1%-6% equity to the Elemental Excelerator to pay it forward to future entrepreneurs. Elemental Excelerator is structured as a non-profit organization that awards grant funding, with an associated venture fund called EEx Fund One.
8 month for go-to market track ($75k); 12-18 months for the demonstration track (up to $1M for project deployment) with 50/50 project cost share required from customers or investors.
Services & Metrics
Business Strategy,Communications and Marketing,Executive Management and Team Development,Financial Advisory Services,Grant Writing Assistance,Legal Services
63 active investments in 2017
$350M+ private capital raised as of 2016 (after $22M of funding from Elemental Excelerator); 587 Jobs at portfolio companies in 2016.