Breakthrough Energy Fellows – Southeast Asia

Breakthrough Energy Fellows – Southeast Asia (BE Fellows – SEA) is a regional hub of BE’s flagship Fellows program, supporting early-stage, climate-tech innovators and clean tech companies across Southeast Asia.

Headquartered in Singapore, this hub is a collaboration between Breakthrough Energy, Temasek, and Enterprise Singapore Group. Through this partnership, BE Fellows – SEA provides researchers, scientists, and energy tech companies with initial funding, mentorship and guidance, and industry partners to advance and commercialize climate solutions tailored to the region’s unique needs.

Southeast Asia is at the forefront of climate innovation. Its strategic location, diverse talent pool, and rapidly growing ecosystem make it an ideal hub for nurturing clean-energy innovation and entrepreneurship. The area also faces critical climate challenges that require solutions designed for local impact but capable of scaling across other regions.

This regional hub is a vital step in our mission to expand climate innovation globally, with plans for additional hubs in the future.

There is an urgent imperative to bridge the capabilities gap in climate-tech innovation in Southeast Asia. We’re excited to convene this partnership with our trusted partner, Breakthrough Energy, to pioneer what is the first regional hub of their well-established global Fellows programme, alongside Enterprise Singapore Group. Breakthrough Energy’s extensive global science, investment, and innovation ecosystem, coupled with Temasek’s global sustainability focus, has been and will continue to be a powerful and complementary combination."

Deep tech innovations possess the transformative power to solve climate change challenges, but startup founders often face early-stage roadblocks as they take their technologies from lab to market. We need to be deliberate in providing climate-tech innovators with the right support needed to develop and commercialize new, game-changing solutions more quickly."