Greenbackers is pleased to continue its support of Nature Flow Marketing and contribute to the second edition of Journeys to a Cleantech Company Exit. The purpose of this report is to help cleantech and climate tech companies successfully navigate the journey to an exit, through acquisition or IPO.
Five more early-stage companies provide diverse case studies and yet reaffirm the common factors that nearly always define success. Not only does a venture need to be grounded on solid science and technology, it requires exceptional leadership, industry traction, a large market to address and a favourable route to reach it. Together, these factors drive delivery of scale and investment milestones and usually enable either a trade exit, or in a few cases, IPO over a reasonable time.
Nature Flow Marketing’s Journeys to a Cleantech Company Exit report draws insights from real-world case studies in the sub sectors of fuel cells, energy storage, climate tech, agritech, software and electric vehicles. The latter two sub sectors alone have compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of 24.5% and 33.6% respectively from 2024 to 2030.
As cleantech continues to play a pivotal role in addressing global environmental challenges, understanding the trajectory to an exit is crucial for entrepreneurs, investors and stakeholders. The companies featured in the report took between two and eleven years to exit and the report gives information about funding and finance raised and the milestones reached that enabled them to achieve an exit. Timelines showing the number of funding rounds required to achieve an exit are provided, as well as a useful summary highlighting key success factors.
The report uncovers the importance of external market drivers, partnerships and market demand on cleantech growth. Corporates are driving cleantech adoption to get to net zero Through acquisitions they are generating new revenues, improving their strategic positioning and owning a larger part of the value chain.
Ambitious policy is creating the right environment to redefine the economy. Here in the UK, significant allocations for carbon capture, nuclear energy, and hydrogen production signal a committed governmental commitment to the clean energy transition. This will help boost cleantech growth and create new jobs. The report highlights broader market challenges for cleantech and climate tech companies, such as the number of IPO exits and the investment criteria of some venture capital firms.
The report shows that partnerships play a key role in accelerating progress. The scale and urgency of the emergency requires the pooling of financial resources, knowledge, people power and strategies. The opportunity to collaborate is now, to enable cleantech and climate tech companies to accelerate and to provide the security and stability future generations deserve. For without climate security, there is no economic security, national security or global security.
With access to our community of over 4,000 funds, Greenbackers is catalysing the investment needed to build a more sustainable society. By connecting disruptive technology providers to our large network of climate focused investors, we are helping cleantech and climate tech companies get to the next level. But start-ups need more than capital! Through the Greenbackers programme, we help and support some of the world’s most innovative climate ventures.
