Deadline: 15-May-22
Have a business idea that reduces negative environmental impact? Apply now and get a chance to take your startup to the next level and be a part of global cleantech community!
ClimateLaunchpad is the largest green business ideas competition with a mission to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. ClimateLaunchpad is a climate and cleantech-focused start-up competition successfully running in 57 countries.
The Climate Collective Foundation runs the ClimateLaunchpad program in India & South Asia. Since 2017, they have grown the program from a pilot in India (Maharashtra) with 12 startups to last year, where they supported 120 cleantech startups in India and South Asia.
Categories
- Relevant Stakeholder
- Individual
- Ideation Stage Startup
- Validation Stage Startup
- Early Traction Startup
- Relevant Industry
- Agriculture
- AI
- Green Technology
- Food & Beverages
- Design
- Renewable Energy
- Technology Hardware
- Internet of Things
- Social Impact
- Textiles & Apparel
- Transportation & Storage
- Logistics
- Travel & Tourism
- Real Estate
- Waste Management
- Others
- Relevant Service Type
- Government
- Hyper local
- Discovery
- Location Based Services
- Manufacturing
- Marketplace
- Mobile
- Offline
- Online Aggregator
- Peer To Peer
- Platform Consulting
- Consumer Internet
- Engineering
- Commerce
- Others
- Rental
- Enterprise Mobility
- Research
- Sharing Economy
- Social Enterprise
- SaaS
- Subscription Commerce
Benefits
- The winner of the Global Grand Final will receive €10,000, the runner-up will receive €5,000, and the third-place idea will receive €2,500.
- The top 16 teams chosen by the jury in the semi-finals to compete in the Global Grand Final, will have direct access to the ClimateLaunchpad Accelerator.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone with a green business idea and dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur can enter the competition. This green idea can be about an all-out mind shift in urban mobility, a sustainable transition in the food chain or any other way to tackle climate change. The idea can still be on the back of a napkin.
- Anyone with a promising cleantech idea, being a start-up, SME, researcher, student, public organization, consultant, engineering company, a combination of these or anyone else.
- You can only enter in your own country.
- You cannot enter ClimateLaunchpad if you’ve already been accepted into EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator or have participated in ClimateLaunchpad (or the former CleanLaunchpad) with the same business idea in a previous year.
- You can only enter if:
- You have not yet started a business or your company has been incorporated for less than a year (definition: your legal entity does not exist for more than 1 year)
- You have attracted less than € 200.000 in investment (definition: no funding as a venture. Funding as a student is not counted)
- You have not yet sold products, solutions or prototypes on commercial terms.
For more information, visit https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/ams-application/accelerator-program.html?applicationId=6256aa98e4b00f07df34c565