Category: How To

UK EIS & why it STILL matters for UK Climate Tech Start-ups and Scale-ups

[Updated from original post April 2022.] HMRC’s EIS (and SEIS) scheme is a great way for UK based early-stage businesses to attract potential investors and accelerate their growth. For any UK technology business, NOT to have it excludes you from an entire class of early stage invesestors: mainly UK angels, Angel Syndicates and EIS funds. […]

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Greenbackers Inside Track: Do’s and Don’ts of Raising Climate Tech Venture Capital

While there seems to be more capital available than ever in the climate arena, the majority of businesses still struggle to access it. Greenbackers Managing Partner, Robert Hokin, shares some top tips in how to stack the deck in your favour. Unfortunately, there is no sure path to getting an automatic ‘Yes’ with term sheet […]

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Greenbackers’ Robert Hokin on Advisory Boards and why every climate start-up needs one

Why should your climate/cleantech start-up or scale-up have an advisory board before you start your fundraising campaign? How to create one? Greenbackers Managing Partner, Robert Hokin, shares thoughts on how and why this should matter to your executive team. I was recently asked by an enterprising fintech start up to join their advisory board. While […]

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Inside track: questions founders should ask climate tech investors during courtship

Interested investors are known for and expected to be bombarding founders with questions during due diligence, but start-up founders should also be asking the questions – and not just one or two…Robert Hokin, Greenbackers Managing Partner explains. When we at Greenbackers host investors pitches, we always take pains to prepare start-ups with answers to any […]

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Fundraising realities for founders in today’s climate tech market

Raising growth capital for your climate tech venture this year? Think your business is a slam dunk for funding because climate is becoming a hot investment category? Think again. It’s no easier than it ever was. Here are some thoughts from Greenbackers Founder and Managing Partner Robert Hokin – some which might make you a […]

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Replay of Greenbackers Brown Rudnick’s IP Strategy Masterclass on 1 December

Any and every cleantech business should have a well-considered IP strategy, i.e.  a documented approach to developing, protecting and using intellectual property, and addressing competitor IP, within their business plan.  There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach and errors can be made by copying common strategies, or the strategies of other businesses, without care.  Are you developing a […]

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Securing a Term Sheet in Cleantech – replay video of 21 September Zoom call

Raising capital for your cleantech business? Have you considered how to deal with term sheets from interested funders? Join the replay of Brown Rudnick and Greenbackers Investment Capital Zoom call to help you – free to join: Securing a Term Sheet – originally broadcast Tuesday 21 September Hosted by Neil Foster, Global Chair of Technology […]

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Replay of GovGrant Patent Box webinar 310821

Join us for the replay on a webinar concerning HMRCs Patent Box Scheme, showcasing Intellectual Property (IP) case studies across sectors, focussing on industrial & manufacturing, consumer, technology and, of course, cleantech. Experts speaking are Dominic Bartholdi and Akshay Thaman from GovGrant, one of the UK’s leading practitioners of Patent Box and R &D tax […]

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About data rooms – why have them, what to include and what not to…

Why have a data room for your funding round? It is well recognized that data rooms are indispensable in the M&A process. What is less well known is that they create just as much value to start-ups that are raising capital. The successful modern start-up is increasingly turning to data rooms for a number of […]

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Shortcuts that Venture Capitalists use to screen start-ups and why they matter

An average venture capitalist meets approximately two new companies per day, 250 days per year. That’s 500 potential investments every year. Plus, VCs also receive thousands of cold emails, unsolicited pitch decks, even the occasional pitch in an elevator. […]

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How (NOT) to make a video pitch for cleantech investment!

Robert Hokin, Manager Partner, Greenbackers

We here at Greenbackers have been recommending, recording and reviewing video pitches for quite some time now, we’re big believers. It’s an important weapon for deepening investor engagement. There’s a whole industry springing up around this, but we’ve seen some self-made ones that are good too! […]

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Licensing Technology – more than a contract.

By John Steedman, Partner, Greenbackers

The subject of a licensing business model arises frequently when a process technology is developed and the owner wishes to speed up monetisation of their Intellectual Property (IP) without substantial capital funding.[…] […]

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