We support innovation, whatever its source: from large corporations, research institutes and public bodies through to start-ups and individual entrepreneurs.

Our incubator programme, Accelerator, gives structure and assistance to start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Through initiatives like our 24-hour hackathon Climathon, or our cleantech ideas platform Climate Launchpad, we encourage fresh new thinking from beyond the mainstream to build a movement of climate action. Explore our ideas competitions Climate Launchpad and Climathon, and business incubation programme ClimAccelerator below.

Our ideation and open innovation programmes help create the conditions to fuel inspiration, garner fresh thinking, raise visibility for or promote engagement with a climate challenge. We help innovation teams identify and define ideas, offer support in putting together a network of partners, and provide seed funding to get things moving. ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business idea competition. Its mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change.

Each year the competition creates a stage for over 1,000 ideas to flourish, with partners in 35+ countries offering training, coaching, and financial support. Climathon is a global 24-hour climate change hackathon that takes place simultaneously in major cities around the world every year. It attracts innovators, entrepreneurs, students and professionals to come together to create innovative solutions to climate challenges.

Our offerings

Climathon

Climathon is a global 24-hour climate change hackathon that takes place simultaneously in major cities around the world every year. It attracts innovators, entrepreneurs, students and professionals to come together to create innovative solutions to climate challenges.

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Climathon
Climate Launchpad

Climate Launchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Innovation and invention can lead the way to a clean future. Our mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. The competition creates a stage for those ideas. Fixing climate change, one start-up at a time!

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Climate Launchpad
Accelerator

The Accelerator is the only EU accelerator programme focused on climate impact by cleantech commercialisation. In three stages, our 18-month programme brings you the knowledge, resources, tools and the coaching a cleantech start-up needs for success. Let’s get started!

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Accelerator

A nugget of our supported startups

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INVESTOR MARKETPLACE

Invest in climate change start-ups that will change our world

Curious about our promising portfolio of cleantech start-ups? We got you!

Punch over to our brand new Investor Marketplace highlighting our top start-ups. This innovative platform allows investors to search by technology readiness, capital requirement and profile data rating, among other crucial indicators. 

Check out the investment opportunities on our portal and get the inside scoop of tomorrow’s unicorns!

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>€1B capital raised in external investment by our start-ups
>1.600 climate-positive companies incubated
2.240 jobs created through our start-up community
>300 partners