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News

4 July 2023

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 […]

Insights

30 June 2023

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 […]

Events

29 June 2023

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 […]

Events

28 June 2023

Andrew Smith from Greenbackers invited to speak at SPE Offshore Europe Conference in Aberdeen

Andrew will address the first post-pandemic in person SPE Offshore Europe conference, focussing on the oil and gas industry’s transition to reach net zero. 5th – 8th September 2023 | P&J Live, Aberdeen, Scotland SPE Offshore Europe is one of the oil and gas industry’s most important European conferences, held biannually in Aberdeen. This year’s […]

News

9 June 2023

IMPORTANT DEADLINE APPROACHING – 27TH JULY 2023

If you are a non-UK business looking to benefit from Scotland’s academic institutions to accelerate their R&D activity you should read this: £100,000 boost to business-academic inward investment | Interface Online (interface-online.org.uk) Scotland has a great environment for early stage businesses with excellent policy support. This initiative is the latest example of that. The Scottish […]

How To

7 June 2023

Shortcuts that Venture Capitalists use to screen start-ups and why they matter

An average venture capitalist meets approximately two new companies per day, 250 days per year. That’s 500 potential investments every year. Plus, VCs also receive thousands of cold emails, unsolicited pitch decks, even the occasional pitch in an elevator. […]

Events

6 June 2023

Andrew Smith from Greenbackers to Speak at EU Commission Energy Transition in Aquaculture Conference

Second appearance for Greenbackers partner Andrew Smith at EU Commission energy transition event in as many months, Andrew is speaking on the Enabling the Energy Transition: Skills & Finance for Innovation Panel. At 11:45 – 13:00 (CET), 16 June 2023 | Auditorium, Musée Art et Histoire, Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels, Belgium. The high-level conference […]

Press Releases

1 June 2023

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 […]

News

23 May 2023

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 […]

News

18 May 2023

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 […]

News

17 May 2023

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 […]

Events

12 May 2023

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 […]