Category: Insights

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’ 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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The Venturing Corporate – coming of age. Insights from Greenbackers Partner John Steedman

John Steedman

An early experience in Corporate Venturing was being on a Q/A panel at a conference in 2007. What followed rocked me back on my heels as an entrepreneur in the audience shared his harrowing story of how a corporate had “stolen” his IP […] […]

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Capital Markets and the Energy Transition

Mark Hannigan

2020 has been an unprecedented year in so many respects and the combined effects of the COVID pandemic, Big Oil (Energy) committing to net zero and the US election have all played their part in accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy economy. […] […]

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