Plus: Can you help thyssenkrupp Marine Systems becoming more sustainable?
Dear <<First Name>>,
With investment in climate tech at an all-time high, we are thrilled to remind you that we have opened applications for the next edition of Cleantech Venture Day. Applications are open until March 10th so apply and book an early bird ticket today! CVD 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!
🤝 Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems are looking for sustainable stationary energy conversion and storage solutions
🌱 The search for the winners of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize 2022 is ending on the 4th March!
We would also like to use this occasion to say goodbye to our colleague Cinthya Anand. It has been a great pleasure working with you, we will miss you and wish you all the best in the next step of your career.
Best wishes, Auriane Cirasuolo
Communications and Events Coordinator
One Planet Capital is a specialist EIS fund for the emerging green economy. It is broad-based, targeting investments that will tackle C02 emissions as well as businesses with a positive environmental impact.
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If you are a member of Cambridge Cleantech or Oxfordshire Greentech 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!
Companies from around the world can and are encouraged to apply to pitch.
Doing Business in the US
📅 30th March
🎫 Allia Future Business Centre, Cambridge | Free
The US is consistently ranked among the best internationally for its overall competitiveness and ease of doing business. If you think it’s time for your company to grow, why not consider the US? Join two experts, Tom Thorelli and Steve Lanier for a 1-1 focusing on the opportunities available for your sustainable business to grow in the US.
Decarbonising Heat in the Home – going beyond Heat Pumps
📅 22nd April 🎫 Online | Free for members, £10 for non-members
The race is on to decarbonise home heating and air source heat pumps will only form part of the solution. Other new innovations are emerging, and we are here to explore them with you.
Experts, SMEs, academics, investors, students, or curious... come and join us for our next Sustainable Smart Homes webinar!
Destination Canada: scaling-up your cleantech innovation
📅 28th April 🎫 Online | Free
Going West to find new market opportunities does not always mean going to the US: Canada is a market on its own, and the City of Summerside on Prince Edward Island a living lab for cleantech growth.
Come and learn about how to set up your activities in Canada and gain support from local authorities and corporates to achieve your ambitions.
Opportunity to apply for the Global ESG Pitch Contest to win 1 million JPY (over £6,500) and business growth support in Japan! 📅 Deadline: 3rd March
ESG TECH BATTLE 2022 powered by NEDO, is a global pitch contest for R&D oriented startups and researchers. The winner will receive a prize of 1 million JPY and get an award from the Japanese Ministry and support to expand and grow your business in Japan.
This contest is for pre-seed / seed stage R&D oriented startup companies, researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world who are interested in business utilizing their research outcomes and that have a business plan that use technology seeds that have the potential to solve social issues, including those in the energy and environmental fields.
Can you help thyssenkrupp Marine Systems becoming more sustainable?
📅 Deadline: 15th March
thyssenkrupp Marine Systems is looking for sustainable stationary energy conversion and storage solutions like temporary buffer store, sustainable heating plants for facilities and renewable power sources.
The VivaTech Startup Challenges 📅 Deadline: Various
Access dozens of challenges set by industry leaders and corporates from La Poste to Orange and Opéra national de Paris who are looking for startups to come up with solutions to their challenges. This is a great opportunity to accelerate your business with leading corporates!
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.
What knowledge, funding and investment do you need to test your ideas and grow your business?
Join this free event to learn how Innovate UK can fund and support your innovation, how Anglia Ruskin University can power-up your ideas with expert knowledge and facilities, and how TWI Ltd’s technical experts can help you form new partnerships for collaborative R&D projects.
What is the difference between carbon neutrality and net zero?
Join this event to understand what net zero means and how to transition to it. Tackling the climate emergency as a business can be difficult when the language and methods used aren’t always easy to understand or accessible to everyone.
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.
Do you have a client that you could nominate for one of the five £1m prizes? The Earthshot Prize will consider solutions which make tangible progress towards one of the five Earthshots:
🌲 Protect and restore nature
🌬️ Clean our air
🌊 Revive our oceans
♻️Build a waste-free world
🌍 Fix our climate
Wates Residential is launching a new campaign to find UK-based, new, innovative, sustainable technologies and materials that will help it build Net Zero homes and achieve its environmental targets.
As PeriDynamics Research Centre (PDRC) at University of Strathclyde, we will be very happy to collaborate with organisations to reach net zero targets.
PDRC has a wide scope of research activities. We are developing advanced computational models for structural analysis including damage prediction such as fatigue and corrosion damage. We are designing novel floating renewable energy platforms for wind, solar and hydrogen. We also have expertise on experimental hydrodynamic testing at our university’s Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory. Get in touch for more.
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.
This transformative six week accelerator aims to support women founders and entrepreneurs to strengthen their business skills and grow their sustainability start-up.
Through the Johnson Matthey Startup Lab, JM aims to partner with highly skilled scientists and entrepreneurs to build new businesses in the biotechnology sector, focussed on enabling the rapid development of the next generation of novel, cost-efficient biocatalysts.
🙇♀️ How to… work for 4 days a week?
Could we really work fewer days per week and be just as productive? Is a four-day week a realistic proposition? Read more to found out Claire’s thoughts on the topic.
🍔 2 New Position: Communications Volunteer for a sustainable food initiative.
The two volunteers will work together closely, with support and guidance from the Oxfordshire Greentech and Good Food Oxfordshire Co-ordinators. 2-4 hours a week with some flexibility from the start of the volunteer experience until end of June.
🏆 Thermulon's technology was short-listed for the Big Innovation Pitch at Futurebuild. View more.
🏆 Oxwash was awarded the Country & Town House Green Hero award. View more.
⭐Camnexus IoT has been chosen as the UK SME to test an equitable pilot project in Brazil as part of the Net Zero Challenges Programme of Connected Places Catapult and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. View more.
👏 Refurbed grew from 3 to nearly 200 people in a few years, planted 1.4 mn trees and sold more than a million products. View more.
💰 Neev Fund II announces Series B investment into Chakr Innovation. View more.
