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Greenbackers Investment Capital announces services contract award from major technology client

Glasgow, UK (1 June, 2023) – Greenbackers Investment Capital (Greenbackers), a specialist Climate Tech advisory firm announces contract award for technology scouting services from TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) a leading technology provider to traditional and new energy industries. Through this collaboration, Greenbackers will provide technology scouting services to TechnipFMC’s Open Innovation Team to increase their engagement […]

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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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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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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 […]

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Andrew Smith session panellist at The North Sea Decarbonisation Conference.

In the session, Marine Energy: Riding the wave for a greener future, the panellists will look at current projects and the various technologies being used to harness the power from the North Sea. Oceans are very much an untapped source of energy and yet have the potential to be an infinite power source. At 9:40 […]

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Andrew Smith from Greenbackers will deliver a panel at All-Energy – the UK’s largest low carbon energy and full supply chain renewables event.

Andrew’s panel with Keith Lawton (WSP); Sarah Melaney (Withers); Conall McGinley (Horizon Europe energy) and more, will be focusing on Finance and Funding: Investment’s role in maintaining momentum, with an opening keynote by Ivan Mckee – MSP. Former Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise in Scottish Government. At 16:00 pm – 17:30 pm, 10th May […]

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Airswift collaborates with Greenbackers to support the cleantech start-ups of the future

17 April 2023, Houston, TX, Airswift, the global workforce solutions provider for the global energy, process, infrastructure, mining, and technology sectors, announces a new collaboration with Greenbackers Investment Capital (Greenbackers), a specialist venture firm focused on climate and cleantech capital. The partnership will see Airswift provide talent acquisition, consulting, global employment and mobility services to […]

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Andrew Smith to speak at Oceanovation in The Hague

Andrew will share his take on the early stage cleantech investment environment, and whether Greenbackers Investment Capital can be of assistance to your early stage cleantech firm in helping attract investment. Andrew’s network receives a 30% discount using code OCVN30. OCEANOVATION Festival provides a unique opportunity to learn, connect, be inspired, and do business while […]

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Greenbackers Continues to Invest In Future Talent

Greenbackers Investment Capital, a leading Climate Tech funding advisory firm welcomes three summer interns from Glasgow University. Anton Themen, Ross Faulds and Rosie Sida, were front and centre during their first week at the first Greenbackers event held at at Barclays Eagle Labs and will now be at the fore as we prepare and deliver […]

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Glasgow fintech Greenbackers announces backing, ambition to unlock billions in Net-Zero private capital

Launches ground-breaking deal platform – with over $25 billion in funds [05 April 2023, Glasgow] Net-Zero, climate and cleantech funding specialists Greenbackers Investment Capital announced the close of their first private funding round. The six-figure equity investment will allow Greenbackers to expand their fintech service offering in Scotland and beyond. This initial round was backed […]

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Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith joins the panel at the European Blue Forum Official Launch Event

Andrew takes part in session 2 – What does a fossil fuel free Sustainable Blue Economy look like? How can we as a community support this transition? 11:40 am – 13:10 pm | 26 May 2023 Océanopolis, Brest, France As a part of the European Blue Forum, we are creating Europe’s Blue community. A community […]

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Licensing Technology – more than a contract.

By John Steedman, Partner, Greenbackers

The subject of a licensing business model arises frequently when a process technology is developed and the owner wishes to speed up monetisation of their Intellectual Property (IP) without substantial capital funding.[…] […]

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