7 February 2025, Glasgow, UK. Greenbackers announced a new partnership with Ryan to help investors and cleantech startups with strategies to enhance and accelerate their prospects for gaining innovation funding and other non-dilutive capital.
Following acquisition of Granted Consultancy Ltd in 2022, Ryan’s expertise enables founders and investors with portfolio companies to capitalise on tax incentives and non-dilutive funding opportunities. Through their “Assess, Advise, and Transform model,” Ryan can guide clients through complex grants and other forms of innovation funding, whilst ensuring compliance through Ryan’s tech-enabled platform. Through this partnership, Ryan seeks to benefit from Greenbackers market-leading position at the heart of the early/scaleup stage Climate Technology funding.
Robert Hokin, Managing Partner, Greenbackers Investment Capital, comments: “Ryan is a fantastic resource, experts in their field, which gives our startups a significant leg up when competing for grant funding. Their knowledge and ability are exceptional, and we are so looking forward to working with the team, as Greenbackers continues to build out its collaborator network. It ‘takes a village’ to support the exciting tech startups we work with in the climate and cleantech arena, so we are simply delighted with this relationship…it’s great to be partnering with Ryan.”
Amy Wolff, Senior Grants Manager, Ryan, adds: “Greenbackers is at the forefront of fresh thinking for financing clean-tech innovation. Our partnership provides a perfect platform to increase impact our clients and effect global positive change.”
The Greenbackers and Ryan collaboration will ensure that cleantech companies not only have access to a comprehensive array of funding options but will also benefit from the expertise and advice of both entities.
The partnership will seek to enhance every aspect of a cleantech company’s funding strategy, ensure it adapts to the evolving needs of this dynamic market, and provide the best possible chance of sustained, long-term growth.
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About Ryan
Ryan is an award-winning global tax services and software provider and the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. The Firm provides an integrated suite of international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including cost management, compliance, consulting, technology and transformation, and innovation funding, including grant funding. Ryan is an 11-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service. Ryan’s multidisciplinary team of more than 5,900 professionals and associates serves over 32,000 clients in more than 80 countries, including many of the world’s most prominent Global 5000 companies. More information about Ryan can be found at https://ryan.com/europe.
About Greenbackers
Greenbackers Investment Capital is a finance specialist for climate focussed start-up and growth capital, mainly for Seed stage deals through Series C. Since starting, their team has coached over 500 companies in investment readiness and accessing climate finance, catalogued 3000+ active sector funds, built a digital deal room for investment-grade cleantech opportunities and twice yearly host a cleantech showcase event in London that pulls in over 150 VC and Corporate VC firms. https://greenbackers.com
