ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition

Why you should enter the competition

• You want to get your green business idea funded and launched worldwide
• You want to know how to navigate and network in the cleantech field
• You want hands-on business advice while developing your business plan
• You want to become a pro in presenting your proposition to investors and prospective customers

Tanzania National Finalists

How does the competition work?

Step 1: Boot Camp
The top teams chosen by our National leads (in Tanzania this is Anza) take part in the ClimateLaunchpad National programme which kicks off with a multi-day digital Boot Camp. Our trainers will teach you all you need to know about jump-starting your business.

Step 3: Regional Finals
The top teams of each country go to the Regional Finals where they pitch in front of the region’s best and brightest. The crème de la crème are chosen to compete in the digital Global Grand Final.

Step 4: Global Grand Final
The top teams in the world pitch against each other on the international stage. Here, there is glory to be won.

Eligibility 

a. Anyone with a promising cleantech idea, being a start-up, SME, researcher, student, public organisation, consultant, engineering company, a combination of these or anyone else.

b. You can only enter in your own country (as defined under 3c);

c. You can not enter ClimateLaunchpad if you’ve already been accepted into Climate-KIC Accelerator or have participated in ClimateLaunchpad (or the former CleanLaunchpad) with the same business idea in a previous year;

d. 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.

(Full terms and conditions)

Train. Compete. Launch.