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.
Get InvolvedLet’s Seize the Day,
Then Seize the Future
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.
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.
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