We would like to wish everyone a happy new year, and a healthy and successful 2022! (If it’s not too late to say so!)
We kicked off the year with the Access to Finance conference series in partnership with Oxfordshire Greentech and look forward to seeing you at the next Cambridge Cleantech-led finance event on February 3rd.
With investment in climate tech at an all-time high, it is an exciting time for the sector, and we are thrilled to reveal that we have opened applications for the next edition of Cleantech Venture Day. Applications are open until March 10th and the pitch event will be on May 19th. This is a great opportunity to meet sustainability-minded VCs, angel investors, and corporates.
This month's highlights:
🎤 Need funding? Apply to pitch at our flagship event Cleantech Venture Day!
🚀 Our next event: Funding and scale up opportunities for your cleantech business - With At One Venture, HSBC, CATAX, and more!
🏠 Free event: Innovative solutions to achieve sustainable indoor air quality (IAQ)
🤝 Leading investment group CBG are looking for low carbon solutions
🌱 Allia has launched new support programmes for businesses like yours!
Best wishes, Sylvie Russell Head of Operations
Cambridge Cleantech
🖌️ Archipelago Technology
We work for customers in printing, coating, and high-value manufacturing.
🕸️ Cleantech Hub
Cleantech Hubs are regional centres across Latin America & the Caribbean driving green entrepreneurship and innovation in clean technology.
☀️ Energy Shift
Earn constantly by owning solar panels and leasing them to someone who could benefit from them.
💸 F.Institute Financial services for start-ups and scale-ups in the life sciences and deep tech sectors.
💰 Proptech1
The venture capital platform for PropTech & ConstructionTech in Europe.
If you are a member of Cambridge Cleantech and would like an introduction to one of our new members, click below. Not a member yet? Join our growing community today.
📅 Deadline for applications: 10th March 2022
📅 Pitch day: 19th May 2022
Apply to pitch in front of an audience of sustainability-minded investors
Over the years, Cleantech Venture Days have attracted some of the biggest names in climate investment including Goldman Sachs, BP Ventures, Sustainable Ventures, Seedrs, Longwall Ventures, Cyan Finance, SET Ventures, and Barclays.
Companies that have pitched before have gone on to win millions in funding, so don't miss this great opportunity!
Funding and scale up opportunities for your cleantech business
📅 3rd February
🎫 Online | Free for members
Learn about the dos and don'ts to consider when seeking funding and hear about exciting scaling up opportunities for your cleantech business. Speakers include At One Ventures, HSBC and Consensus Business Group.
Access to Finance Conference series
📅 17th Feb, 3rd March 🎫 Online | Free
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire Greentech, and Cambridge Cleantech are running a series of virtual events bringing together funders and organisations seeking funding.
Innovative solutions to achieve sustainable indoor air quality (IAQ) for our 29 million homes
📅 9th February 🎫 Online | Free
In the race to decarbonise the 29 million UK homes, this event will look at Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in domestic properties. A good IAQ is critical to achieving energy efficient buildings and good indoor environmental quality, reducing the risk of pathogen-induced illnesses including COVID-19.
Join us to explore the emerging innovations to tackle the problem.
Cambridge Display Technology is looking for technologies that can enable value recovery through the reuse or conversion of waste oil
Cambridge Display Technology, the European research arm of Sumitomo Chemicals, is aiming to utilise waste oil streams from manufacturing processes to produce useful products such as syngas, hydrogen, chemicals etc. 🛢️
Consensus Business Group is looking for technologies for its real estate holdings
Consensus Business Group, a leading investment group whose overall portfolio includes pharma, biotech, med tech, clean tech, and real estate, is looking for commercially-viable solutions across industries for its real estate holdings, across sectors of:
⚡ Energy generation and management
🚗 Mobility
🏠 Smart buildings
🌊 Water
💰 Green financing
📈 Operational efficiency
🧍 Resident offerings
Two keynote speeches will address some of the challenges and opportunities arising out of the Energy Transition, looking at policy and the actions needed to reach Net Zero by 2050, including the implications of the UK government's Net Zero strategy published in October 2021.
With the built environment contributing to around 40% of the UK's total carbon footprint, it is paramount that we use technology and innovation to futureproof our cities. Join this hybrid event from our partners Future Leap to learn how can we make our built infrastructure more efficient.
Join Anglian Water for their first hybrid event as the water industry continues to explore new ways to make a positive difference and drive real change in our region and beyond.
Join senior business leaders and sustainability experts to explore how organisations can help drive the net-zero transition, and get practical guidance on how to shape and finance your business’ net-zero strategy.
Cambridgeshire is one of the most diverse counties in the UK. From the agricultural flat lands of the fens, to the booming hub of technological advancements and scientific discovery, there is so much to celebrate and inspire future generations.
Our network has been invited to be part of the Cambridgeshire showcase and reach, connect and network with new audience.
This programme will help boost your business through research and development support that will help you launch new products, services, and help you overcome barriers to innovation.
Microsoft is looking for UK startups that are tackling environmental challenges to join its new accelerator programme, which has been launched in partnership with The Met Office and Social Tech Trust.
Built for aspiring entrepreneurs, dreamers or fixers, who have an idea for creating an exciting venture – that might solve problems from the everyday to the existential. In Peterborough & Cambridge.
Allia is working with Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce to manage Green Business Grants on behalf of Cambridge City Council. Businesses in Cambridge can apply now for a grant of up to £10,000 to help reduce their energy consumption, save money and improve their productivity.
The annual Ashden Awards is open for application! Don’t hessite and apply today for this brilliant opportunity to gain instant visibility in the cleantech sector. The 2022 Ashden Awards will boost innovators in the UK and low-income countries doing just this – creating green jobs and delivering the training, connections and resources needed for thriving, fair and sustainable economies. One of the world’s top sustainability awards could be only a few clicks away.
Boris Johnson and Bill Gates announced a new partnership to mobilize public and private funding in emerging climate technology projects located in the UK. To operationalize this collaboration, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst has launched an RFP to identify and select emerging climate technology projects for project-level financing.
📖 Short reads to improve your cleantech business
Did you know that if the internet was a country, it would be the seventh-largest polluter in the world? Reducing digital pollution is a win-win approach that works for people, planet and profit. Here's how to do it.
🌊 Call for companies to give their insight for water use reduction project
Blue Marble Research is seeking information to help one of their projects. This is the occasion to have your say on what more can be done to support and implement water efficiency in businesses. Please reply to this email if you are interested. Please reply to this email if you are interested.
🌬️ Cambridge Cleantech member BlockDox wins the Mayor of London’s Air Quality Challenge. View more.
☀️ The University of Greenwich is installing the transparent Polysolar panels in a commercial greenhouses to grow strawberries. Go Polysolar! View more.
⛺ Cambridge Cleantech member AC Biode creates versatile and robust inflatable house, even for the most extreme environmental conditions. View more
💰 Associate Founder Member One Planet Capital are delighted to announce their latest investment into zero delivery emissions delivery company Zedify. View more.
💰 Associate Founder Member Carbon13 invests another £1.3 million into12 startups. View more.
🏆 SEaB Energy’s CEO, Sandra Sassow, is one of the top 50 entrepreneurs in 15 years of the SETsquared Partnership. View more.
💰 Blackstone Launches Sustainable Resources Credit Platform. Firm Intends to be a Global Leader in Providing Sustainable Finance Solutions for Companies Driving the Energy Transition. View more.
