Looking back at 2025 - A note from Aina
In 2025, VertueLab welcomed key partners, collaborators, and entrepreneurs into our growing sphere of impact. In Oregon, with the generous support of philanthropic partners including the Lemelson Foundation, the Collins Foundation, and the Healy Foundation, we launched critical work aligned with VertueLab’s vision for an equitable climate transition—even amid renewed challenges to equity and justice in climate action.
Innovative Solutions to the Climate Crisis
2025 is a year marked by undeniable uncertainty. As the climate crisis worsens and federal funding for environmental initiatives declines, the need for innovation and locally-based, cleantech solutions has never been more crucial. VertueLab aims to empower the entrepreneurs facing this climate crisis head-on, providing them with the tools they need to turn ideas into lasting solutions.
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[VIDEO] Seattle Climate Innovation Hub | Where Community Meets Collaboration
As 2025 draws to an end, we look back at a year of incredible partnership between VertueLab, 9Zero, the University of Washington’s CoMotion, and the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development that turned the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub into reality. A space that brings together the entire ecosystem to solve, build, and deploy lasting climate solutions, right here in the Pacific Northwest.
VertueLab’s Impact, Firsthand
Our community is built around our entrepreneurs. Their approaches towards climate solutions are creative, powerful, and a testament to their dedication to a better future. Hear directly from them as they share how VertueLab has impacted their journey.
When Collaboration Comes to Life: Inside the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub
Climate change remains a persistent and growing threat to community wellbeing and economic prosperity in Washington State. In the midst of unprecedented disruption to national policy and threats to the climate movement, it's clearer than ever that deep collaboration and marshaling our shared resources is how we can best support and accelerate climate startups in the Pacific Northwest.
From Vision to Impact: Reflecting on 45Camp’s Acceleration of Diverse Climate Innovations
As we dive fully into 2025, we’re revisiting a bright spot from 2024: our partnership with Tabor 100 and Prosper Portland that resulted in 45Camp. In this blog post, we invited one of the 45Camp mentors, AnnaMaria White, to reflect on why programs like 45Camp are vital to supporting equitable solutions for the climate crisis.
2024 VertueLab Research in Review
The research we conducted in 2024 reveals invaluable insights into the challenges our region faces and highlights the powerful solutions that can emerge when communities, entrepreneurs, innovators and funders work in harmony.
VertueLab Wins Stage One of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition
PORTLAND, Ore. – Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced VertueLab as a Stage One winner for the 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC).
Introducing Aina Abiodun, VertueLab's New President & Executive Director
On behalf of the VertueLab Board of Directors, it is my great pleasure to introduce Aina Abiodun, VertueLab's new President and Executive Director. When we kicked off the search process last fall, we pursued an equitable process through our partners at Good Citizen, to find a candidate who could lead at the intersection of climate, technology, entrepreneurship, and impact investing.
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