Happy holidays from Recursion Works!!
Thank you for your support and for nerding out with us on TEA this past year! In the spirit of #2025recaps:
**Continuously learning & iterating on what works for “earliest-stage TEA”**We got to work with 37 teams across 8 time zones, spanning translational research to $7M seed raises, logging 900+ hours of zoom hangouts, support, and modeling.
Focusing more on scientist educationWe guest lectured at MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and TUMunich on rough-but-good-enough TEAs for entrepreneurial scientists, and many more online. As alums of the MIT Climate & Energy Ventures class, this was a fun full-circle moment for Jesse & Rosie!
Convening & contributing to the ecosystemWe co-hosted in-person community events, TEA workshops, and expert roundtables (300+ people in real life over 9 events, and exponentially more selfies). We also began developing public goods to make commercial support more accessible around the world — see more below!
Have ideas or see opportunities to collaborate? Please reply & share them with us!
Our 1:1 work with scientific entrepreneurs has been energizing and impactful, while underscoring the difficulty and urgency to scale individualized commercialization support. The cost of ignoring commercial viability is massive: we estimate ~40,000 early-stage / proto-companies and ~500,000 applied science researchers working on climate globally, with $35B+ in public R&D & private capital at risk.
In 2026 we accelerate toward our core mission: Equipping every climate innovator with the analytical tools & skills to make breakthrough science economically viable, scalable, and impactful.
Expanding on our coaching work, we’re building a coalition of university, research, and industry partners to develop open-access data repositories & tools to empower even more teams, enabled by philanthropic & public funders.
Learn more about our thesis and thank you to the folks at Breakthrough Energy, MIT, Homeworld Collective, Labstart, and more for your continued support!