About - TEX-E

Creating the Next Generation of Energy and Climate Entrepreneurs

Based in the world’s energy capital, the Texas Exchange for Energy & Climate Entrepreneurship is a thriving ecosystem for student innovation to solve the dual challenge – the world needs more energy and less emissions. It’s where students, startups, corporations, universities, and investors come together to passionately collaborate.

Let’s Seize the Day, Then Seize theFuture

TEX-E is leading the way nationally for creating climate tech ecosystems, driving innovative thinking about energy—how it’s produced, utilized, and stored. How it relates to industrial, transportation, agriculture, water management, and beyond. And because the future is what’s at stake, students are naturally at the center of our initiative—undergraduates through postdoc.

Where Innovation is Found

We connect the best and brightest students across the nation to compel change and solve the world’s biggest challenges. Working together, we all benefit.

For Students

Through TEX-E, students build valuable connections, including, intrapreneurship, entrepreneurship, mentorship and funding opportunities while making a positive impact on the world.

For Companies

Collaborating with thought leaders, corporations are positioned to advance their sustainability goals, aligned with the mission of solving the climate crisis while enhancing their reputation and brand.

For Universities

As institutions dedicated to driving positive societal change, universities enhance their reputations while connecting and collaborating with the leading academic peers.

For Communities

With climate tech comes potential job opportunities and economic growth, contributing to collective prosperity, attracting investment, enhancing quality of life, and creating a more sustainable future.

Board of Directors

Taylor Chapman

Board Member

David Baldwin

Board Member

Emily Emmett

Board Member

Bob Harvey

Board Member

David Pruner

Board Chair

Leadership

Trinity Price

Development and Partnership Coordinator

Sandy Guitar

Executive Director

Dr. Yolanda Norman

Partnerships Director

Our University Partners

Uniquely Structured and Empowered

A Houston non-profit founded in 2022, TEX-E provides proven programming based on the ecosystem developed in partnership with the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Greentown Labs. As the epi-center working with six leading universities, we empower the cross-pollination of action and ideas. And we’re just getting started.

Forward Thinking With World-Changing Momentum

Inspire

Inspire interest and spread awareness in the pathway for energy and climate tech entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.

Equip

Teach entrepreneurship, leveraging the Disciplined Entrepreneurship approach and other hands-on applications.

Accelerate

Accelerate those actively developing an idea with training, mentorship, funding, and connections.

Celebrate

Externally publicize student’s efforts and successes, inspiring the next generation and shifting the perception of Houston.

The TEX-E Fellowship

We’re identifying top students and leaders in the energy and climate fields, with the goal of launching 100 successful startups in 10 years promoting clean energy, energy transition, and everything in between.