Events

Holyrood’s Climate Action Summit 2023

Greenbackers own Andrew Smith is privileged to have been invited to participate on the panel –  Financing Scotland’s Green Transition – taking place from 9:45 to 10:20am on 9th November at Holyrood’s Climate Action Summit 2023 at Dynamic Earth Edinburgh. Andrew will join a distinguished panel including Sandy Begbie CBE FRSE Chief Executive at Scottish […]

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Press Releases

Granted and Greenbackers announce new funding support partnership for cleantech start-ups

25 October 2023, Glasgow, UK. Granted Consultancy Ltd (Granted), a specialist in grant advisory and non-dilutive funding support for innovative companies, today announces a new collaboration with Greenbackers Investment Capital (Greenbackers), an expert venture firm focused on climate and cleantech equity capital. This partnership will see Granted helping Greenbackers cleantech start-ups accelerate their prospects for applying […]

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Events

Greenbackers COP28 Investment Pitch Live in London – where venture capital meets cleantech

Wednesday, 6 Dec 2023 12:00 – 19:00 GMT | WithersTech, 20 Old Bailey London, EC4M 7AN, United Kingdom The Greenbackers Investment Pitch – bringing together investment-ready techpreneurs with funds in cleantech and climate related sectors Join Greenbackers in London, during COP28, on 6 December, as we host our next bi-annual Investment Pitch. We call it the “Counter-COP”. Rather […]

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News

Fintech loses UK funding crown as VCs bet on global green transition – industry report from Sifted

Sifted reports that energy and transportation startups have raised the most so far in 2023 The UK’s energy startup sector has raised the most VC cash in 2023, knocking fintech off the top spot it has held for a decade. Startups in the energy sector have picked up $3bn so far this year, just shy […]

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Events

Andrew Smith session panellist at the Official Launch of the South of Scotland Net Zero Investment Guide

1.45pm, Wednesday 30th August 2023 | Smiths at Gretna Green Hotel, Gretna Andrew’s panel with James Oliver, Hampden Group; Dr Poonam Malik, University of Strathclyde; and Rueben Aitken, Scottish Development International will be focusing on ‘Accelerating a Just Transition To Net Zero’, with an opening by Jane Morrison-Ross, Chief Executive, SOSE. South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) is […]

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Insights

Is it cheaper to refuel your EV battery or gas tank? We did the math in all (of USA’s) 50 states.

By Michael J. Coren Climate Advice Columnist, Graphics by Naema Ahmed, posted on LinkedIn by Jigar Shah. “Gasoline cars are cheaper to refuel than electric vehicles.” I’ve heard this claim pop up everywhere from Massachusetts to Fox News over the past two years. My neighbor even refuses to plug in his hybrid Toyota RAV4 Prime over what he calls ruinous electricity rates. What […]

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Events

Mission Zero – Scotland’s Path to Zero Emission Mobility

On August 31st at the Arnold Clark Innovation Centre in Glasgow, Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) with support from Transport Scotland and the good folks at Arnold Clark are holding what you might call a summit. The official title we’ve given it is “Mission Zero – Scotland’s Path to Zero Emissions Mobility”. What it’s really about is bringing stakeholders together […]

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News

Scope 3 Emissions Tracking, Blockchain & Bitcoin & the Follically Challenged!

Greenbackers Andrew Smith and Temple Melville of ScotCoin discuss the climate emergency and how blockchain could help track level 3 emissions. Listen now: Greenbackers Andrew Smith joined his old friend Temple Melville to discuss the climate emergency and Temple’s recent project- ScotCoin, Scotland’s first and only crypto currency. SCOT (as it’s known) is formed as […]

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Insights

The cleantech challenge for large industrials…(or the tale of the bear and the butterfly…)

Large industrial and energy companies (excl Powergen) account for about 31% of global GHG emissions. So it follows that they should shoulder much of the burden of delivering the new zero targets that governments and companies have signed up to in recent years. In order to do so, many of them will need to embrace new […]

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Events

Online Roundtable: FX & Fundraising: Derisking Big Money Deals

Greenbackers recently hosted a roundtable with our partners at Corpay, focussing on the importance of managing foreign exchange risks. The replay video is now available. See below. Have you considered the impact of the FX (foreign exchange) market volatility on your bottom line? Or the impact on your fundraise, should funds come from outside of […]

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