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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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Greenbackers Climate Tech Tour: Destination Dubai – Achieving Net Zero (in a carbon dominated economy)

Location: hosted by the Scottish Government in the Inspiration Gallery, within the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, 23 March, 2022. Funds, officials and VIPs are welcome to join us for this very special event. This program will be in-person + live streamed and recorded. Post-COP26, there is renewed and optimistic focus on the Middle […]

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Program Launch: Greenbackers Climate Tech Tour 2022 goes live – now open for applications to participate

Greenbackers are delighted to announce their new, improved funding program for 2022 which builds on our widely acclaimed 26ForCOP26 program of last year. Once again, we will be selecting the most investable early stage climate technology ventures and helping them secure growth funding from our proven global climate tech investor base. We now invite applications for participation […]

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Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith on decarbonising shipping at ShipZero26

Watch the video below of Andrew in action at ShipZero26: Raising Capital. The ShipZero26 workshop at COP26 demonstrated technology is ready: Finance is poised to invest ShipZero26 broke down silos, bringing together diverse stakeholders throughout the sector and from across the supply chain.  Technical presentations, panel discussions and brainstorming sessions demonstrated that true zero GHG […]

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Greenbackers’ Robert Hokin shares VC advice at Access to Finance Conference cleantech / energy online session.

Thu, 17 February 2022 | 10:00 – 11:30 GMT Access to Finance Conference: join this session on cleantech/energy as the 2nd part of an online conference series and get expert advice. In 2021, The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Harwell Campus, and Oxfordshire Greentech, the business network for the low carbon economy in Oxfordshire, ran a series […]

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Andrew Smith at Frontier Energy Networks Innovation & Investment in Energy Summit

LONDON 17th FEBRUARY 2022 – LIVE AND ONLINE. Andrew will be present at the event in London, along with his fellow speakers and a large number of attendees. The Frontier Energy Network is a senior-level forum for those changing the face of global energy. Founders, investors, corporate executives come together to network, collaborate and create […]

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Greenbackers Alert: £400M UK/Breakthrough Catalyst RfP for technologies

This new Breakthrough Energy Ventures call includes:  Clean hydrogen, Direct air capture, Long duration energy storage & Sustainable aviation fuel Breakthrough Energy was established in 2015 by Bill Gates and a coalition of private investors concerned about the impacts of accelerating climate change. In October 2021 Breakthrough Energy announced a new partnership to mobilise public and […]

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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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Greenbackers Andrew Smith to speak at Global Festival 22 Decarb Connect

THURSDAY 25-27 JANUARY 2022 | LONDON & VIRTUAL Join Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith in-person for 2 days of discussions and insights on the latest pilots, business strategies, innovations and technologies needed to help us all reach our 2030/2050 net zero goals. Never has the spotlight been greater on the impacts of climate change than 2021, which […]

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Scottish Climate Innovation showcased at Greenbacker’s COP26 SuperPitch.

The strength and vibrancy of Scotland’s climate technology sector was strongly in evidence during COP26, nowhere more so than at Glasgow-based Greenbackers Investment Capital’s “COP26 SuperPitch”, held at University of Strathclyde’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) in Glasgow on 9 November during the COP. 26 ventures, 9 of them Scottish based or Scottish impacting, were selected […]

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Holiday greetings from Greenbackers – from all of us here, we hope you have a wonderful and low carbon time!

Seasons Greetings! Greenbackers is celebrating the holidays, COP26 and the great ventures that presented there all at once – so here are ALL the 21 Days of Christmas fresh from our LinkedIN Company page …and yes you can sing the first sentence of each…we think! Here we go… On the FIRST day of COPmas, Greenbackers […]

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Andrew Smith at Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport policy conference.

Seminar: The UK renewable energy supply chain – next steps for sector development, international competitiveness, and CfD and Supply Chain Plans Tuesday, 25 January 2022 Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith will be discussing ‘supply chain resilience, commercialising emerging technologies, and remaining competitive‘ with David Acres, Head of Policy, EDF Renewables UK, Helen Thomas, Senior Supply Chain Manager, […]

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