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Greenbackers and the Solar Impulse Foundation

When Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg completed the first global circumnavigation in a solar-powered electric airplane (Solar Impulse) in mid-2016, Greenbackers was pivoting from an events organisation to one focused on mobilising capital for entrepreneurs to fulfil their ambitions within the cleantech world. Now, Greenbackers is working closely with the Solar Impulse Foundation team, inspired […]

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Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc sponsors climate innovation SuperPitch at COP26

Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) has partnered with NetZero Funding specialists Greenbackers Investment Capital to offer promising climate and clean technology start-ups a chance to meet and secure finance from investors during a pioneering 6-month investment program in the run up to COP 26, the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, this November. Selected MSIP entrepreneurs […]

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Launch Event: Greenbackers NetZero SuperPitch @ COP26 – Briefing

Thursday 20 May 2021 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM GMT

Greenbackers are celebrating the fact that its hometown of Glasgow is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference in Nov 2021 by selecting the 26 most promising Cleantech ventures and helping them secure growth funding from its proven global Cleantech investor base. […]

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Andrew Smith will take part in Plenary – Green for Blue: Finance and Funding for Marine Energy Projects

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9 AM – 1 PM GMT (registration from 8.30AM)

International Conference on Ocean Energy
ICOE2021 – Energizing a Powerful Blue Economy 
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Mark Hannigan presents Commercialization or Bust: The challenges and opportunities in getting wave and tidal power technology funded

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM US EDT

International Conference on Ocean Energy
ICOE2021 – Energizing a Powerful Blue Economy. […]

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Andrew Smith takes part in the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference

Thursday, 6 May, 2021

Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference […]

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Greenbackers Investment Capital client Power Roll strikes partnership with major Japanese firm

North East solar power innovator Power Roll is set to break into the Japanese market after securing a strategic partnership with one of the country’s leading energy companies. The Sunderland firm has developed an ultra-thin solar film which can both generate and store electricity, and it can produce green electricity up to 20 times more […]

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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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