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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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Press Releases

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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Events

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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How To

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How (NOT) to make a video pitch for cleantech investment!

Robert Hokin, Manager Partner, Greenbackers

We here at Greenbackers have been recommending, recording and reviewing video pitches for quite some time now, we’re big believers. It’s an important weapon for deepening investor engagement. There’s a whole industry springing up around this, but we’ve seen some self-made ones that are good too! […]

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Events

Unlocking Scotland’s Climate Tech potential – a peer dialogue

Join Greenbackers Investment Capital for this special by-invitation event as we convene many of Scotland’s key climate players to draw on the power of connectivity and conversation. Open to Cleantech CxOs and Global Scots. Scotland has set ambitious and world leading targets to become net zero by 2045. This transition represents a huge opportunity and equally […]

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Events

Fireside chat with Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith at Decarb Catalyst, London, 21 February

Fireside Chat: Experience of an early adopter and how their learnings will inform the next round of planning and deployment. It is clear to us here at Greenbackers that clean tech innovators and entrepreneurs need much more than capital to progress their service offerings. Finding and engaging with early adopters and industrial partners who are […]

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Greenbackers’ Andrew Smith to moderate panel at Decarb Catalyst, London

Panel: Liberating the trillions of euros of capital – both public and private – to drive decarb momentum.21 February, 2023 In the midst of soaring energy and macro-economic pressures, during this key of the conference agenda looks at what can be done to catalyse decarbonisation in the next couple of years, how early industry adopters […]

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How To

UK EIS & why it STILL matters for UK Climate Tech Start-ups and Scale-ups

[Updated from original post April 2022.] HMRC’s EIS (and SEIS) scheme is a great way for UK based early-stage businesses to attract potential investors and accelerate their growth. For any UK technology business, NOT to have it excludes you from an entire class of early stage invesestors: mainly UK angels, Angel Syndicates and EIS funds. […]

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CALL FOR VENTURES: Investment Pitch during All-Energy on 11 May, Glasgow

Greenbackers Climate Tech Pitch is now open for applications. Greenbackers is seeking and selecting the world’s most investable, early-stage climate tech ventures and helping them secure funding from our base of global climate & cleantech investment funds, during All-Energy and Dcarbonise. Applications are now open for participation in the program. Any climate tech ventures seeking Late Seed, Series A […]

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