Welcome to an equitable future of new energy innovation and climate technology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Challenges & Opportunities 

Since the invention of the first submersible drilling rig, launching the boom in offshore oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and across the globe, South Louisiana has been at the center of energy innovation. Today, South Louisiana is well positioned to bridge to a higher-job, lower-carbon future.

High-growth entrepreneurship and company building is a powerful tool to grow local and global economies while narrowing the racial wealth gap. As a result, an emerging economic development practice called entrepreneurship ecosystem development has increased in focus over the past decade.  Entrepreneurship ecosystems are the local culture, individuals, organizations, policies and resources that work interactively to help entrepreneurs start and grow high-growth companies. In this economic development strategy, local developers, known as ecosystem builders, work to build the capacity of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in order to create local economic growth. While the field is new and exciting and has tremendous economic development potential, it has been limited in addressing issues of authentic, sustainable and metrics-driven diversity, equity and inclusion solutions. There is an even greater deficit in equitable representation, culturally contextual programming, frequency and sustainability around ecosystem building in communities with concentrated populations identified by race and ethnicity. For example, less than 1% of all venture capital goes to Black-founded high-growth firms. Black Americans hold approximately 7% of all high-tech jobs. In New Orleans, the percentage of Blacks technologists or Black founders raising capital is less than the national average.

As a definitive solution, Opportunity Hub (“OHUB”) offers cities, economic development corporations, as well as developers, innovation districts, corporations and philanthropic organizations the opportunity to partner with a trusted end-to-end brand, proven best practices and sustainable business models for the development of inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystems designed to create racial equity in the fourth industrial revolution and beyond. To this end, OHUB is joining forces with Greater New Orleans, Inc. as a part of the H2 the Future Build Back Better Hydrogen Energy Innovation Initiative to launch a New Energy Technology Incubator [NETI].

Definitive Solutions

Inc. x OHUB Collab

Attend our next New Energy Technology Masterlcass experience, live or online

New Energy Technology Masterclass is the monthly authentic networking event and expert speaker series held usually on the 1st Friday of the month in New Orleans, Louisiana. Authentically connect with the region’s emerging diverse, equitable and inclusive technology, startup and venture ecosystem focused on new energy, climate tech, sustainability and beyond. Hear from the nation’s leading venture-backed new energy founders and active venture capitalists.

New Energy
Startup Programming

Startup Funding

Attend NETI Demo Days

Five Batch 1.0 founders each received $50,000 investments during this year’s NOEW. Going forward, five founders from each cohort will be invited to New Orleans to pitch for $50,000 on the campus of Dillard University and will work with OHUB experts and mentors to fine-tune their fundraising pitches, customer acquisition and product roadmap. Founders will also have the opportunity to work with economic development organizations throughout Southern Louisiana. Pre-requisites include Climate Tech Bootcamp. Founders, please govern yourselves accordingly.

OHUB is committed to building a thriving new energy and climate technology, startup and venture hub in New Orleans and beyond.