“We need more awareness of interconnectedness, which presents an opportunity from a wide range of businesses to join the fight against the climate crisis. This goes from deep tech innovation and green transportation, from sharing economy and conscious consumption to food security and biodiversity.”

Cansu Deniz Bayrak, Senior Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures and Tech Nation Visa Alumni

“Achieving net zero emissions may seem like an insurmountable challenge, but the reality is that many of the solutions required already exist – they just need to be supported and scaled. This is why the Net Zero accelerator is so pivotal.”

Mahima Sukhdev , Director at Xynteo Methods

“Climate change is the existential threat facing us all. Tech Nation’s Net-Zero initiative is just the boost the emerging and exciting sector of potential solutions needs to drive awareness, investment and growth”

Tom Adeyoola, Non Executive Director at Verco

“Investing in new technologies is a crucial part of the fight against climate change – making alternative solutions cheaper and better than the incumbents will accelerate the zero carbon transition. I’m excited to bring my experience as a climate technology investor to help the TechNation NetZero programme.”

Pippa Gawley, Founder and Director of Zero Carbon Capital

“Improving the long-term resilience of our planet is the most important issue of our time. I am delighted to be supporting Tech Nation with this new initiative for Net-Zero startups that helps create a more secure future for everyone.”

Mark Hodgson, Chief Business Officer at Cervest

“Haters gonna say that cleantech startups can’t make the returns of tech startups. They’re going to point to history to prove their point. But the as-of-yet failure of a given set of technologies is usually a weak correlate of its future success. Fission didn’t work, until it did. The internet wasn’t a worldwide web, until it was. A new paradigm consisting of engineered natural sciences and intelligence, new business models and decentralised production represents the underlying shift we need to progress to a net zero economy. It hasn’t worked, yet, but it will.”

Dominic Falcão, Director of Deep Science Ventures

“Startups find solutions, and to achieve net zero, we need low carbon solutions for every aspect of our lives. Tech Nation’s Net Zero programme is the perfect space for clean tech innovators to apply their creativity, crack a problem and scale up.”

Jeffrey Beyer, Principal Consultant at Carbon Limiting Technologies

“While the outlook for the global climate is bleak, it’s not too late to step back from the brink. Getting to net zero so will require a wide range of actions on a local, national, and international scale, with the development and implementation of high-impact innovations being key to this challenge. The Net Zero programme fills an important gap in the cleantech ecosystem by providing companies with extensive support at a critical stage of development, and it is a fantastic opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to increase their impact.”

Naveed Chaudhry, Head of the Climate-KIC Accelerator at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation

“The use of IoT and advanced telecoms networking technologies such as LPWAN and 5G will be an essential component in our net zero sustainable future. The only way that we can reach our goals is to fully understand how the complex ecosystem of the physical environment and its inhabitants: human,animal, plant and machine interact. IoT provides the means to do this.”

Peter Karney, Head of Product Innovation at Digital Catapult

“The net-zero transition is the challenge of our age. Entrepreneurs will play a vital role in accelerating and scaling solutions that will contribute to the mission.”

Azeem Azhar, Founder of Exponential View

“The scale of the climate challenge is enormous, to achieve net zero we need to commercialise and scale radically innovative solutions some of which do not even exist yet. In the search for solutions we must identify the best ideas and engage the best teams, embracing diversity and inclusion to maximise talent and expedite change.”

Susannah McClintock, Investment Director, Sustainable Ventures

“The businesses of the future must be net zero. This programme is playing a vital role by inspiring entrepreneurs to build and scale startups that will contribute to the net zero economy that we need.”

Chris Turner, Executive Director, B Lab UK

As we strive to tackle the climate crisis, entrepreneurs will play a pivotal role in developing the technologies that underpin our sustainable future. This is both an urgent challenge and a vast opportunity, as it is a global problem spanning every industry – we will soon be building billion-dollar businesses focused on climate solutions.”

Maria Wagner, Investment Director at Beringea