Making New York the global leader in water, while building a sustainable future for all New Yorkers.
The Environmental Tech Lab is a collaboration between the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the New York City Partnership Foundation, the nonprofit affiliate of Partnership Fund for New York City.
New York City tap water is world-renowned for its quality and New York Harbor is the cleanest it’s been in 100 years.
We want to keep it that way.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) seeks to be a world class water and wastewater utility, while building a sustainable future for all New Yorkers.
Climate change has created new challenges for water and wastewater utilities across the country. The Environmental Tech Lab will identify innovative solutions to address complex DEP priorities.
2024 Challenge Competition
Each year, the Environmental Tech Lab engages with DEP leadership and staff to develop priority problem statements to improve agency operations and services. Our proven process has received strong endorsement from both the startups and public servants we work with.
Learn more about the 2024 Resilience and Data Management & Governance Challenges and apply by August 1, 2024.
Resilience
How can DEP enhance climate resiliency goals including carbon reduction actions, noise/air/water compliance initiatives, flooding mitigations, and water conservation strategies?
Data Management & Governance
How can DEP integrate and analyze disparate data sets to drive business strategies, deliver capital construction projects, optimize critical data models, and better protect people & infrastructure?
Why Environmental Tech Lab?
Opportunity for early stage companies to work with the nation’s largest water/wastewater municipality.
Each application submitted is reviewed by relevant domain experts, with potential to pitch directly to relevant DEP staff.
Eight weeks of programming for finalists with a customized plan to evaluate a technical test.
An accelerated, pre-approved process to facilitate collaboration with key go/no-go decision points by DEP leadership.
Direct access to relevant decision makers and subject matter experts.
Exposure to NYC DEP leaders, private sector investors, and industry experts.
Opportunity to participate in a year-long Pilot with potential Pilot funding for NYC-based companies.
An opportunity to deploy technology at scale across the DEP.
