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Do You Make These Mistakes With Your Cleantech Pitch?

Michael Grossman

If you’ve founded a cleantech company, there’s a better than even chance your background is in science or engineering. Neither of these factors is likely to help you make a successful pitch for investment in your cleantech startup. I like pitch competitions that allow presenters no more than five to seven minutes.

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So You Want to Raise a Series A? Here’s What You Need to Know

Clean Energy Trust

Insights from Locke Lord and Clean Energy Trust on how to prepare for fundraising Orlando Saez, Chief Executive Officer of Aker Technologies, pitching The discussion below focuses on key considerations for a cleantech or clean energy startup preparing for Series A financing. which means that you share “the good, the bad and the ugly.”

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Nailing Your Climate Tech Investor Pitch

Michael Grossman

Over the course of my career in the climate tech industry, I’ve had the opportunity to judge the pitches of early stage cleantech companies. Typically, when an early stage cleantech CEO is pitching angel investors or a VC, they’ll be given 10 minutes to make their best case, 15 at the max, with a few questions after.

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AGCO talks up electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture

Business Green

The US agricultural technology giant is preparing a range of new cleantech innovations that promise to curb the carbon footprint of food production. Without the benefit of their favorite search engine, I'm certain many readers would be hard-pressed to name the largest, pure-play agricultural equipment company in the world.

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A Call for Climate Action: Invest in Women-led Startups

Greentown Labs

As funding for climatetech skyrockets, we have the opportunity to avoid the mistakes of the Cleantech 1.0 This latest installment of our Investor Speaker Series will feature a panel discussion centered around prioritizing DEI in climate finance and reverse pitches from VCs who are leading unique DEI initiatives.

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The a16z for Climate Tech

Clean Energy Trust

Every firm pitches founders on the value they’ll add. Greentown Labs and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator regularly bring in experts to mentor their companies and connect them with early customers. There is certainly room for a $10B firm to put even more resources behind this. What’s so special about a16z?

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Finding Opportunities in Cleantech Funding

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Posted by Guest Contributor By Anne Janzer While venture funding for cleantech is crawling back up, funding is still scarce for early-stage companies, where the innovations of the future are waiting. As the name indicates, a new generation of technologies and innovations is poised to drive the next wave of cleantech investment.