Looking to build your own climate startup from scratch?

ClimateLaunchpad is part of the Entrepreneurship offerings of EIT Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate  innovation initiative, and is one of the most well-funded green business idea competitions in the world, with 56 countries participating in 2021. ClimateLaunchpad focuses on young entrepreneurs or new entrepreneurs with ideas less than one year old who are committed to scale their ideas to international markets and to making impact against climate change. 

Reasons for entrepreneurs to participate in the Climate Launchpad include: 

• Joining one of the biggest green business idea competitions in the world and network with fellow entrepreneurs
• Getting top notch coaching and training on the ideas to develop best market fit 
• The program contains a bootcamp and coaching and all of this for free for entrepreneurs 
• Former participants have generated 100 million EUR of funding and 50 million EUR of revenues

ClimateLaunchpad welcomes early stage ideas for innovations in renewable energy, energy efficiency, food and agriculture, water, transportation, industrial technology, or any other way to tackle climate change. After rigorous training, National, and Regional Finals the world’s best teams get to compete in the Global Grand Final. Here, there is glory to be won. 

Partners such as Accenture, Benard Schulte, Shipmanagement, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Hellenic Bank, Microsoft, PWC, Sparebank, Volvo, and World Wide Fund already support the competition.