Amazon (AMZN) announced the launch of the Amazon Sustainability Deep Tech Accelerator, a new program designed to fast-track the adoption of solutions from companies developing low-carbon, energy efficiency and circularity technologies across the Amazon ecosystem, including Amazon Devices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Amazon Private Brands.
According to Amazon, the new program will provide companies working at the frontier of materials science, manufacturing, and energy with a single program to validate their technologies with multiple Amazon teams, helping to create more commercial opportunities for them in a single engagement.
If approved under the program, outcomes for companies can include various commercial arrangements from licensing and supply agreements to technology collaborations and investment opportunities. Amazon added that technologies reviewed through the program may also be referred to other business units beyond Amazon Devices, AWS, and Amazon Private Brands.
The company said that the new program will target technologies that lower carbon emissions and strengthen supply chain resilience across three key themes, including low-carbon materials and advanced manufacturing, energy efficiency, and circularity.
The new program follows the launch in 2025 of Devices Climate Tech Accelerator, focused on connecting emerging decarbonization companies with Amazon Devices. Amazon said that the initial program’s success across 28 companies, it is now expanding the accelerator to bring Amazon Devices, AWS, and Amazon Private Brands together under one program.
Maiken Moeller-Hansen, Director of Energy & Sustainability for Amazon Devices & Services, said:
“Across industry, new technologies are needed to reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of recycled materials. Many are being developed right now by thousands of innovators around the world – but the traditional path from lab to enterprise adoption is too slow,. We designed this program to accelerate a different path, one where innovators develop an integration proposal shaped around product roadmap and manufacturing readiness, then present it directly to the leaders who can green-light it.”
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