Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator
A uniquely designed program for companies at any stage to accelerate the integration of their technologies that can help reduce the carbon impact of Amazon devices.
Unlike other accelerators, this program breaks down traditional industry barriers and accelerates collaboration between climate tech innovators and enterprise decision-makers—helping streamline the path from validation to adoption opportunity.
Applications for the 2026 cohort are now closed. Want to be the first to know when the next program opens?
Accelerate your technology into Amazon devices
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Work directly with Amazon Devices Sustainability leads to refine your final pitch and prepare for leadership review. Finalists present their solutions to Amazon Devices senior leadership, ensuring the right decision makers are in the room to assess opportunities for integration and scale.
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Collaborate with Plug and Play's venture team of engineering, sustainability, and manufacturing experts alongside Amazon experts to validate your technology and strengthen your integration proposal.
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Receive dedicated program management, bi-weekly progress reviews, weekly cohort office hours, and at least five specialized workshops focused on technical integration and Amazon-specific processes.
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Get hands-on support building your comprehensive Integration Assessment document, including technical analysis, cost/benefit evaluation, and commercial viability assessment—the foundation for your final pitch.
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Harness the power of AWS technology, including infrastructure, data services, and leading AI and ML models. Eligible participants can receive up to $100,000 in credits to build, grow, and scale. Companies must meet eligibility criteria listed here.
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Participate in the program without equity requirements. Amazon does not take equity stakes as a condition of program participation. If approved for integration, outcomes may include various commercial arrangements—from licensing and supply agreements to technology collaborations and investment opportunities—based on mutual fit and business objectives.
Focus areas
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Displays
Innovations that can decarbonize displays or components that support them across initial design, manufacturing, customer usage, and recycling.
Printed Circuit Boards and Assemblies (PCBs and PCBAs)
Innovations for PCBs and PCBAs that can increase material usage efficiency and waste reduction such as biodegradable PCBs and additive manufacturing processes.
Low carbon materials
Innovations that significantly reduce carbon emissions in device components, plastics (PC and PC/ABS), textiles, and packaging materials, with a focus on more sustainable alternatives to styrofoam and other high-impact packaging materials. Examples include more sustainable polymers, recycled materials, bio-based alternatives, and low-carbon manufacturing processes.
Semiconductors
Innovations that help reduce the environmental impact of semiconductor manufacturing, including energy-efficient fabrication processes, more sustainable materials for chip production, and technologies that can increase lifetime and enable reuse or minimize water usage, chemical waste, and emissions from semiconductor facilities.
Device batteries
Innovations for Amazon device batteries that can increase recycled content, promote efficiency, extend battery life, and/or reduce their manufacturing footprint.
Energy efficiency
Innovations that can reduce energy needs of displays, cameras, and speakers. Examples are sensors, microphones, networking equipment, and other components impacting power consumption.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI innovations that can unlock new pathways to optimize product life cycle energy consumption and product carbon footprint. Examples include identifying alternative design and manufacturing techniques, enabling more energy-efficient product use, improving data collection and lifecycle assessment (LCA) for emissions measurement, extending hardware lifetime, and enhancing circularity through repairability, recyclability, and reuse.
Circularity
Innovations that can facilitate Amazon's shift towards closed-loop materials management and a more circular economy for Amazon devices and data center hardware such as product lifetime expansion, and recovery and reuse of critical components (e.g., magnets, batteries, PCBs, lithium, copper, and nickel), and advanced robotics and AI-enabled processes for component extraction and refurbishment.
Manufacturing processes
Innovations in manufacturing processes that aim to transform traditional factories into smart, more sustainable operations through advanced digital technologies and flexible automation. Examples are digital twin simulation that can reduce the number of builds and support MFG (Manufacturing Technology), standardized eco-friendly adhesive and primer applications, factory footprint reduction opportunities, and reconfigurable robotics and adjustable machine fixtures to reduce the need for multiple specialized fixtures.
Devices decarbonization wildcard
Although the above are our primary focus areas, we are excited about other emerging decarbonization innovations for consumer electronics.
You’ll be in good company
From publicly traded to startup, twenty-eight companies have participated in the accelerator, each developing technologies with the potential to meaningfully reduce device and supply-chain emissions. Their solutions ranged from high-efficiency display technologies and new approaches to printed circuit boards to next-generation device batteries, low-carbon materials, and energy-efficiency innovation.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to the most common questions about the Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator—including eligibility, focus areas, program structure, and what to expect if selected. Expand the sections below to learn more about the program and how to prepare a strong application.