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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 [email protected]. About Granted Granted specialises in […]

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20 December 2023

Greenbackers COP28 (Pitch) in London

Greenbackers hosted its’ bi-annual Super Pitch in London in December…with 20 fantastic cleantech businesses in a room full of investors. Scroll down to see all the presenting ventures’ video pitch presentations. To follow up or contact any of them CLICK HERE “Thanks for hosting such an excellent event on Wednesday, Greenbackers. Attendance was great as […]

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11 December 2023

Reflections on a Busy COP28 (Pitch) in London

Greenbackers Partner Andrew Smith sums up all the action on 6 December, during COP28, when we hosted our bi-annual Super Pitch in London…with 20 fantastic cleantech businesses in a room full of investors. “Grey London skies on Tuesday 5th December were replaced by bright winter sun as Robert Hokin and I, along with our exceptional […]

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8 December 2023

COP28 –A View from Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard appears in Greenbackers Mission Video, which we are very grateful for. He is a real pioneer, an adventurer, and working really hard, with great imagination, energy, and insight in bringing practical, pragmatic, and profitable solutions in to the climate tech space. That is why we were proud to be able to premier this […]

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10 November 2023

Greenbackers own Raise – The Investors Story

Listen to the Investor experience conversation with Andrew Smith and Mike Wilson. Transcript 00:00:00 Andrew Smith Good morning, Mike. How are you doing? 00:00:01 Mike Wilson I’m good Andrew, yourself? 00:00:03 Andrew Smith Yeah, I’m good, thank you. I’m speaking to you from Glasgow. I think you’re probably up in in Banchory, is that right? […]

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6 October 2023

Fintech loses UK funding crown as VCs bet on global green transition – industry report from Sifted

Sifted reports that energy and transportation startups have raised the most so far in 2023 The UK’s energy startup sector has raised the most VC cash in 2023, knocking fintech off the top spot it has held for a decade. Startups in the energy sector have picked up $3bn so far this year, just shy […]

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 […]

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4 July 2023

Scope 3 Emissions Tracking, Blockchain & Bitcoin & the Follically Challenged!

Greenbackers Andrew Smith and Temple Melville of ScotCoin discuss the climate emergency and how blockchain could help track level 3 emissions. Listen now: Greenbackers Andrew Smith joined his old friend Temple Melville to discuss the climate emergency and Temple’s recent project- ScotCoin, Scotland’s first and only crypto currency. SCOT (as it’s known) is formed as […]

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9 June 2023

IMPORTANT DEADLINE APPROACHING – 27TH JULY 2023

If you are a non-UK business looking to benefit from Scotland’s academic institutions to accelerate their R&D activity you should read this: £100,000 boost to business-academic inward investment | Interface Online (interface-online.org.uk) Scotland has a great environment for early stage businesses with excellent policy support. This initiative is the latest example of that. The Scottish […]

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23 May 2023

Greenbackers Climate Pitch: Success! Connecting new tech ventures to investors, first adopters and go-to-market partners!

The recorded pitching event showcased 16 leading clean tech founders to an in-person audience of over 50 Investors, market partners and a live online audience of global, tech-hungry funds on the 11th of May 2023 at Barclays Eagle Labs Glasgow. Greenbackers gathered pre-screened, curated, investor-ready climate ventures for the first of two annual pitching events […]

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18 May 2023

Net Zero Technology Centre collaborates with ADNOC, AWS, BP and Hub71 to launch$1 Million Decarbonization Technology Challenge

Energy transition technology innovators around the world should take a look at the Decarbonization Technology Challenge led by ADNOC in collaboration with AWS, bp, Hub71 and Net Zero Technology Centre. This is a competition and 10 finalists will pitch their innovations to judges in December 2023, with winners receiving up to $1 million to pilot […]

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17 May 2023

Greenbackers Supports Call for the Capitalisation of the Marine Energy Sector

Summer of 2022 saw consultations between University of Edinburgh‘s Andrew Aveyard and Greenbacker’s Andrew Smith on ways which investors might be encouraged to look, or look again, at the marine energy sector. Scotland, where Greenbackers are based, is blessed with excellent resources (the oceans and seas lapping at our shores), excellent infrastructure for testing and […]