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Supporting climate tech founders
Empowering underrepresented tech founders
Growing late-stage ventures, to IPO and beyond
Powering the UK's most ambitious Series A startups
Pitch competition for early-stage startups
Championing disabled founders and entrepreneurs innovating around disability
Work, Live, Thrive in the UK
Supporting global talent to work live and thrive in UK tech through our various support services
Discover the steps to apply and begin your journey
Gain access to a global talent alumni network to support your journey
Showcasing success stories from our Global Talent Visa Ambassadors
Connecting the world’s brightest minds to UK AI opportunities
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Our renowned 4 month growth programme for climate tech startups dedicated to bridging the gap between climate innovation and industry.
Fuel your growth with exclusive access to leaders, investors, and mentors, unlocking partnerships, funding, and a lifelong founder network.
Benefit from hands-on sessions providing you with leading policy support and enabling you to secure partnerships and investment.
Build valuable connections with potential customers and corporates within your sector.
Gain access to the Founders Forum Group network of global VCs.
Engage with high-level decision makers who can unlock new opportunities, funding, and future growth.
Receive guided 1 to 1 mentoring support from serial entrepreneurs and seasoned experts to help refine your business model, tackle challenges, and unlock markets.
Join 140+ leading alumni climate tech founders on-hand to support you throughout your journey.
Don’t just take our word for it
Soji Sanyaolu “Introductions led directly to capital deployment – it transformed our go-to-market strategy and global scaling.” Soji Sanyaolu CEO, AirSmat
“Introductions led directly to capital deployment – it transformed our go-to-market strategy and global scaling.”
CEO, AirSmat
Celia Francis “We secured investment via the programme and met incredible investors. It refined our pitch and accelerated our growth.” Celia Francis CEO, Ponterra
“We secured investment via the programme and met incredible investors. It refined our pitch and accelerated our growth.”
CEO, Ponterra
Noamaan Siddiqi “Incredible connectivity with investors, corporates and government – the recognition opened powerful new doors.” Noamaan Siddiqi Co-Founder, Bristol Superlight
“Incredible connectivity with investors, corporates and government – the recognition opened powerful new doors.”
Co-Founder, Bristol Superlight
“Being part of Tech Nation’s programme not only gave us access to a community of like-minded peers, but it helped put us on the map. It was a huge moment of recognition and celebration for our team. We have featured in many leading publications – and being selected for Tech Nation’s Net Zero programme absolutely contributed to establishing our credibility as an ambitious and innovative tech scaleup.” Jo Parker-Swift CEO, Solivus
“Being part of Tech Nation’s programme not only gave us access to a community of like-minded peers, but it helped put us on the map. It was a huge moment of recognition and celebration for our team. We have featured in many leading publications – and being selected for Tech Nation’s Net Zero programme absolutely contributed to establishing our credibility as an ambitious and innovative tech scaleup.”
CEO, Solivus
“The programme provided us with exposure to a network of corporate decision makers and mentors that was immensely valuable.” Natasha Jones Co-Founder and CEO, Metris Energy
“The programme provided us with exposure to a network of corporate decision makers and mentors that was immensely valuable.”
Co-Founder and CEO, Metris Energy
“Tech Nation’s climate programme has been an excellent support network, enabling us to explore some of the challenging topics that we face as we grow and scale. What’s more, we are now part of a community of committed and passionate impact founders for life, and I can’t wait to see what amazing things they deliver over the next decade.” Brittany Harris Qualis Flow
“Tech Nation’s climate programme has been an excellent support network, enabling us to explore some of the challenging topics that we face as we grow and scale. What’s more, we are now part of a community of committed and passionate impact founders for life, and I can’t wait to see what amazing things they deliver over the next decade.”
Qualis Flow
“This was by far the best accelerator in the UK” Genevieve Patenaude Earthblox
“This was by far the best accelerator in the UK”
Earthblox
“The climate programme gave our company great access to resources and elevated us a business to investors. Though for me personally as a founder, the access to mentors has been invaluable, providing a safe space to discuss and start to solve many of the thoughts that keep you up at night!” Antony Yousefian Bx
“The climate programme gave our company great access to resources and elevated us a business to investors. Though for me personally as a founder, the access to mentors has been invaluable, providing a safe space to discuss and start to solve many of the thoughts that keep you up at night!”
Bx
“We’ve been involved in a number of programmes over the years and this programme really stood out for its quality of people and content. It offers excellent support, advice, introductions, networking and validation for a growing business and an ongoing opportunity to participate in a vibrant and enjoyable ecosystem.” Phil Davies Magway
“We’ve been involved in a number of programmes over the years and this programme really stood out for its quality of people and content. It offers excellent support, advice, introductions, networking and validation for a growing business and an ongoing opportunity to participate in a vibrant and enjoyable ecosystem.”
Magway
“Tech Nation’s climate programme was superb – both valuable AND fun, with a really interesting cohort of fellow founders. The mentors provided were particularly useful and continue to be a huge help to our business.” Jo Saxby CEO of Spruce
“Tech Nation’s climate programme was superb – both valuable AND fun, with a really interesting cohort of fellow founders. The mentors provided were particularly useful and continue to be a huge help to our business.”
CEO of Spruce
Previous Climate Alumni
Our criteria has evolved from previous years. We are open to series A stage climate tech companies, due to an existing lack of ecosystem support, and we are opening up our geographic scope to Europe.
Programme Criteria: We accept climate tech startups focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity conservation, waste reduction, and other sectors that play a crucial role in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
Stage of investment: Seed – Series A, who show clear signs of market traction, high impact potential and have, at least a minimal viable product (MVP).
Geography: Europe.
Diversity: We prioritise support for underrepresented founders and work to ensure at least 30% of founders identify as a woman.
Time Commitment: Approximately 5 hours a month and to be in London one day per month.
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The Climate Programme helps founders refine business models, tackle challenges, and unlock new markets.
Investment raised by alumni companies
Successful startup exits in 4 years
Over 1000 connections made to investors and potential customers
That’s how much more companies in our programme raise compared to the industry average.
Leading mentors, consisting of serial entrepreneurs, thought leaders, academics and investors
Climate tech startups and scaleups supported
Explore a snapshot of the leading individuals supporting our programme.
Co-Founder & CEO, Olio
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General Partner, Systemiq Capital
Founding Partner, Zero Carbon
Founder Coach
Co-Founder, Shazam
Chair and Director, Agricarbon and Future Agenda
Board Advisor and Angel Investor
Partner, 2150
Co-Founder, Atmospheric AI and Openweb
Investment Director, Just Climate and Author, Case for Nature
Partner, Astanor
Managing Director, Google X
Tessa is Co-Founder & CEO of Olio, an app tackling the climate crisis by solving the problem of waste in the home & local community. Olio does this by connecting people with their local community so they can give away rather than throw away their spare food and other household items, and lend and borrow instead of buying brand new. They also have over 100,000 volunteers who collect unsold food from local businesses and redistribute it to the community via the Olio app. Olio has grown to over 7 million users in 63 countries and its impact has been widely recognised, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted Olio as a “beacon” for the world, and by Vivatech who awarded Olio “Next European Unicorn”.
Prior to Olio, Tessa had a 15 year corporate career as a digital Managing Director in the media, retail and financial services sectors, and she met her co-founder Saasha whilst they were studying for their MBAs at Stanford University. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and about ‘profit with purpose’ as the next business paradigm.
Tessa’s TED talk about the power of sharing has been watched over 1 million times, and she was awarded the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award for 2023, the longest running award for female business leaders.
Dhiraj is a Co-Founder of Shazam, the mobile music recognition company (acquired by Apple in 2018). He was named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times in 2015.
In the course of his career, Dhiraj has served in senior roles in media & entertainment, digital business consulting and the charity sector with Save the Children.
Dhiraj is now focused on innovating for impact, supporting “Tech for Good” startups, particularly in climate tech. He has invested in several women and minority-led startups, and believes in the power of young people as the change-makers of the future.
HSBC Innovation Banking provides commercial banking services, expertise and insights to the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital industries. HSBC Innovation Banking UK is a subsidiary of HSBC Group, benefiting from its stability, strong credit rating and international reach to help fuel its growth.
www.hsbcinnovationbanking.com
EDF is helping Britain achieve Net Zero by leading the transition to a cleaner, low emission, electric future and tackling climate change. It is the UK’s largest producer of zero carbon electricity and supplies millions of customers with electricity and gas.
www.edfenergy.com/about/net-zero
Techspace is the flexible office provider where innovative and ambitious tech companies thrive.
https://www.techspace.co/
SyndetAI is a private markets intelligence company that provides AI-driven research, insights, and strategy for startups, investors, and corporate institutions.
https://www.syndetai.com/
Our mission is to support climate tech startups reduce global emissions, eliminate the world’s waste and restore nature by 1%.
The Climate Programme supports the growth of climate tech startups and is dedicated to catalysing climate innovation in the UK and overseas. We provide world leading advisory support curated by entrepreneurs and direct access to investors, multinationals, academics and policy makers. We empower climate tech startups to scale emissions-reducing technologies by fostering investment, driving the adoption of climate solutions, and shaping climate-friendly policies for the future. We remain dedicated to founder health and well-being and are dedicated to diversity and inclusion.
Yes, and we encourage that you apply to the programmes you feel will benefit you the most. Keep in mind, you could be eligible for several! For example, if you fulfil the criteria of Libra but you’re an aspiring Climate tech startup, you could apply to both the Libra and Climate programme.
The programme is fully funded by Tech Nation.
We are here to help you with your application. Please email us for further information at info@technation.io.
The programme is estimated to last for 6 months, kicking off in September 2023. We’ll be looking to run one expert-led session per month, along with a peer-to-peer networking session and you will also be offered to partake in individual founder coaching sessions. The time spent on the programme varies every week, but we estimate 5 – 6 hours per month.
