Stanford Sustainability Accelerator Fellowship

Developing sustainability entrepreneurs

The Stanford Sustainability Accelerator Fellowship is designed to empower and support innovators to launch scalable real-world technology and policy solutions in to the real world.

We seek highly driven problem solvers with a global mindset to tackle our most pressing sustainability challenges. We believe that the most impactful approaches draw on multiple disciplines and perspectives. We strive to build a diverse cohort of fellows that includes policy, technology, and business.

The Accelerator is interested in projects that address key challenges at scale across specific themes within each flagship destination and crosscutting platform.

The Sustainability Accelerator will not be selecting new fellows for the 2026-27 academic year.

Hear from the leaders

Yi Cui, faculty director of the Sustainability Accelerator, describes the purpose of the Accelerator Fellowship and how it aims to support solutions.

Jeff Brown, managing director of greenhouse gas removal and water in the Sustainability Accelerator, describes themes of focus for the Accelerator and how fellows contribute to the Accelerator's impact.

About the fellowship

Our fellows are empowered to make innovative technological and social change that will measurably improve the quality of human life and our planet. The program will include:


Entrepreneurial education
Fellows participate in education and coaching by leaders across disciplines and industries to support their professional growth.


 


Fellowship network
Our fellows share an entrepreneurial spirit and desire to have an impact on the global scale. Fellows learn from and support each other as the next generation of sustainably conscious innovators.   

 


Resources
Leveraging the resources of the Sustainability Accelerator and Stanford University, our fellows mature their projects to bring speed and scale to solutions that will benefit the world.