Press kit · Announced August 4, 2026 · Vancouver, BC + New York, NY

Two countries · One company

ClimateDoor has acquired Standard Demand Partners

Canada and America have been building together for a long time. We plan to keep it that way.

Renewable Energy · Agriculture · Critical Resources

ClimateDoor, a Vancouver growth and commercialization firm, has acquired New York's Standard Demand Partners and opened its first US office. One platform to commercialize the companies that power the world.

The story in one paragraph

The whole commercialization journey, one firm

This is a story about Canada and the United States building together. ClimateDoor, a Vancouver growth and commercialization firm, has acquired Standard Demand Partners, a New York advisory built for the energy transition. Conor Wilmot and Liam Howe join as ClimateDoor partners, and New York becomes ClimateDoor's first office outside Canada. Both teams hold the same belief: the economy can grow and decarbonize at the same time. Companies in renewable energy, agriculture and critical resources rarely stall on technology; they stall on commercialization. One combined team now walks them the whole way, finding customers, partners, grants and capital, so good projects get built in a way that is environmentally and fiscally responsible on both sides of the border.

"Canada and America have been building together for a long time. We are bringing that partnership to the thing clean technology needs most: commercialization. Great companies rarely fail for lack of invention. They fail for lack of customers, partners and capital, and that is exactly the job we now do on both sides of the border."

Nick Findler · Co-founder and President, ClimateDoor

The people

The partners joining ClimateDoor

Conor Wilmot

Founder and Managing Partner, Standard Demand Partners; now Partner, ClimateDoor (New York)

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Liam Howe

Founder and Managing Partner, Standard Demand Partners; now Partner, ClimateDoor (New York)

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The two teams agreeing terms in Vancouver

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Video

The team hearing the news

Announcement, 1:1

42 seconds, 1080x1080, branded frame with animated deal card

Deal card animation

8 seconds, silent, broll or social card

150+

companies supported

$700M+

capital facilitated

$17M+

non-dilutive grants

181

EU companies
in our Canada cohort

2

offices: Vancouver
and New York

Documents

Release, facts and quotes

Every document in the format your desk prefers. PDF for reading, Word for editing, plain text for paste. Everything is cleared for publication; no embargo unless we agreed one with you directly.

Press release

Full release with approved quotes

Fact sheet and style guide

Exact figures, spellings, sector language, boilerplates

Approved quotes

Chad Rickaby, Liam Howe, Nick Findler. Use as written or trim

Media kit overview

One-line version, what is in the kit, who to call

Full kit (ZIP)

All documents, logos, headshots and photos in one emailable file

Need something else?

Custom quotes, interviews or assets, same day

Beyond this announcement

Useful whether or not you cover us

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Exclusive data

Anonymized aggregate numbers across 150+ engagements on where energy transition companies actually stall, and what unlocks them.

02

Grants map

Canadian and US non-dilutive funding programs that actually pay out, drawn from $17M+ secured.

03

Founders on the record

Introductions to founders who will speak about raising in the US as a Canadian company, with specifics.

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The EU cohort

Access to the 181-company EU-Canada program we run, for stories that have nothing to do with us.

Media contact

Same-day turnaround, including for stories that are not about us

Jamie Moran

Partner and Chief Growth Officer, ClimateDoor

jamie@climatedoor.com
Nick Findler

Co-founder and President, ClimateDoor

nick@climatedoor.com

Interviews available with Nick Findler (Co-founder and President), Chad Rickaby (CEO), Conor Wilmot and Liam Howe.
For a quote not in the kit, email Jamie and we will turn it the same day.