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Young Green Tech
Young Green Tech is an organization focused on supporting young entrepreneurs in the environmental sector through networking, educational workshops, mentorship, and funding resources. It connects innovators from China, the U.S., and beyond.
Overview
What Young Green Tech does
What Young Green Tech is
Young Green Tech is an organization focused on supporting young entrepreneurs in the environmental sector through networking, educational workshops, mentorship, and funding resources. It connects innovators from China, the U.S., and beyond.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2018
- Approximate age
- About 8 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 13, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Young Green Tech as a community
Community overview
Young Green Tech (YGT) is an incubator platform that empowers global green entrepreneurs. Founded in 2018 in San Francisco, YGT has established a network of alumni startups across over 100 cities worldwide as of 2022. The organization focuses on helping green startups scale and succeed through various services, including capital and legal consultancy, talent recruitment, training, and mentorship.
Community focus
YGT invests in and supports startups that address environmental challenges through innovative solutions. The organization emphasizes sectors such as pollution management, renewable energy, advanced manufacturing, data management, sustainable materials, sustainable agriculture, biotechnology, and transportation. YGT primarily targets early-stage companies that are not older than ten years and are in the early stages of development (before series B).
Member value
Members gain access to a network of mentors, training programs, and resources to help their startups succeed in the green technology sector.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Students
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community and bootcamp
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+
- Regions
- Global
Community activity
- Annual events
- 3
Events and activity
YGT organizes several events, including the YGT Summit, an annual summit held in San Francisco, the YGT Roadshow, which takes place in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and the YGT Global Final Competition held in Guangzhou to recognize outstanding green startups.
Notable members
Notable alumni companies include Ningbo OILER Technology Co., Ltd., Capso Technology Co., Ltd., Yighen Ultra Precision Co., Ltd., CycleWatt Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Fangman IoT Technology Co., Ltd. Key team members include Wang Shi, Danny Kennedy, Yu Lizhong, Guo Meiling, Susan Rockefeller, Zhu Gongshan, and Chauncey Shey.
Common questions
What to know about Young Green Tech
Upseed classifies Young Green Tech under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 13, 2026
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