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Events

23 September 2025

Greenbackers & Daysix Present: Voices from the Cleantech Ecosystem

… a podcast series recorded at Sustainable Ventures in London, 2 July 2025. At Greenbackers, we believe that climate ventures don’t just need capital — they need a connected, collaborative ecosystem of support to grow and thrive. That’s why, alongside our bi-annual Climate Investment Showcase, we’ve built deep partnerships with organisations across finance, law, IP, grants, […]

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2 September 2025

Greenbackers Spotlight: Insights from Daysix – Building your Brand: How to make your Brand stand out

Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith sat down with Gavin from Daysix, our trusted partner in brand, content, and digital development, for a conversation on how early-stage companies should think about brand, why it matters, and how to make it work as the business grows. […]

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4 June 2025

Greenbackers Spotlight: Insights from Daysix – Pitching with Impact: How to Tell a Story Investors Will Remember

Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith sat down with Gavin from Daysix, our trusted partner in brand, content, and digital development, for a conversation that cuts to the core of what makes a startup pitch actually work. […]

Insights

30 May 2025

Pillsbury’s New Energy Technologies Report: A Look into the Future of Energy Innovation

Pillsbury’s New Energy Technologies report, created in partnership with PitchBook, is the latest in Pillsbury’s long-running series analyzing VC dealmaking and exit trends in energy technology. It covers data through the end of 2024 and finds that, while global energy VC activity moderated, it maintained the enduring growth trends of the last several years, reflecting sustained resilience as the broader venture market normalized to pre-pandemic conditions. […]

How To

15 May 2025

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, or even at all? 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 […]

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12 May 2025

Greenbackers Spotlight: Introduction to Daysix

Our own Andrew Smith chatted to Gavin Bryce as part of Greenbackers series: ‘Greenbackers Conversations with Partners’ to introduce Daysix and what they do. […]

Events

20 March 2025

Scintilla x Greenbackers: “Maximising IP Value” Webinar Series

Maximise the Full Potential of Your Intellectual Property! Are you truly leveraging the full value of your intellectual property (IP)? Whatever stage of your business, your IP could be one of your most valuable assets—if you know how to maximize it. Greenbackers and our IP partner, Scintilla, have worked together to bring you an exclusive […]

Insights

19 December 2024

Greenbackers Spotlight: Introduction to Sheffield Haworth – Global Executive Search & Talent Consulting

Our own Andrew Smith chatted to Dan MacNeill as part of Greenbackers series: ‘Greenbackers Conversations with Partners’ to introduce Sheffield Haworth and what they do. […]

Insights

4 November 2024

What are all these FX terms?

The foreign exchange or “forex” market (also abbreviated to “FX”) is the largest financial market in the world – larger even than the stock market, with a daily estimated volume of $6.6 trillion. The market determines the relative values of currencies and operates across the globe. You can exchange foreign currencies 24/7. Understand the fundamentals of currency […]

Insights

19 July 2024

Why the world needs more women cleantech entrepreneurs

Greenbackers Investment Capital recognises that many of the today’s most impactful high-growth companies are led by inclusive teams with women leaders. It’s a paradox, women are more affected by climate change than men, and yet greentech is currently a male-dominated field. When it comes to creating climate solutions, the female perspective is sorely lacking. However, investing […]

Insights

24 January 2024

Greenbackers partner Granted Consultancy focuses on Agritech in latest webinar

Chris Parkhurst, Granted’s Regional Development Director, gave an informative presentation on current UK agri-tech grant funding opportunities in their recent webinar. Find more information about the specific afgritech funding calls discussed and to book a FREE consultation call with Chris at Granted Consultancy to discuss your own innovation project, email chrisp@grantedltd.co.uk. About Granted Granted specialises in […]

How To

25 September 2023

Want to capitalise off America’s $369bn climate bill? Here’s how.

The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest climate package in history! So how can US and Non-US startups get a piece of the largest climate bill on the planet? Here are some tips and takeaways from founders, investors and consultants in getting to grips with this. No need to move your HQ if you are […]