• ClimateLaunchpad

    World's largest green business idea competition

About the competition

ClimateLaunchpad is the world's largest green idea competition. It searches for business solutions to combat climate change and helps innovators around the world launch and grows their businesses.

You can participate in the program even if you only have a business idea. Experienced coaches will help you go from idea to startup launch.

The competition is open to startups from 51 countries, including France, Germany, Switzerland, Colombia, Angola, Turkey, the United States, and Mexico. Each country participating in the program provides training for startups to help them refine and test their business ideas. Among the training topics are market segmentation, key financial indicators, competitive advantages, pitching preparation, etc.

The startups that win the national selection get a chance to compete at the regional finals of ClimateLaunchpad 2024 against teams from other countries. Greencubator has been organizing the national stage of the ClimateLaunchpad competition in Ukraine since 2016.

The application for the ClimateLaunchpad 2024 competition closed on June 19.

Who can join?

Your idea is made for ClimateLaunchpad if you work in one of these areas:

Adaptation and Resilience
Ideas for businesses that produce products or services aimed at building flexibility, adaptability and resilience to climate change.
Circular Economies
Innovative solutions based on the principles of resource recovery and rational consumption. The three main ideas of the circular economy are: reducing waste and pollution, saving resources and materials, and restoring natural systems.
Urban Solutions

Business solutions for communities aimed to decarbonise urban environments and combat climate change, causing flooding and extreme temperatures in cities.

Clean Energy

Ideas evolving around energy storage, smart grids, integration of wind, solar and bioenergy, carbon dioxide capture, reduction of CO2 emissions from chemical and industrial processes, and energy efficiency in buildings.

Food Systems

Business ideas for sustainable food production on a global scale. For example, new approaches to decarbonising the sector and making it more efficient and productive, such as new agricultural techniques or nutrition innovations.

Sustainable Mobility
Ideas that accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility models. Key focus areas include battery technology, smart energy management systems in vehicles, renewable energy, innovative mobility solutions and mobility as a service.
Blue Economy
Ideas that benefit the economy and society without harming the oceans, coastal areas, rivers and lakes (tourism, shipping, energy and mineral production, fishing and aquaculture, etc.)
The Next Big Thing
This theme covers innovations that have the potential to create a significant impact on a global scale. The project seeks ideas that can transform markets, regions or societies and address climate change.

What are the participation criteria?

The competition is open to anyone with a promising idea in the field of climate-friendly technologies, a start-up, small or medium-sized business. In particular, participants have to meet the following criteria:

Environmentally friendly technology

You develop climate-friendly technologies

Under a year on the market

You have not yet started a business or your company has been incorporated for less than a year

Not a lot of customers

You do not yet have a significant customer base

Under €200,000 investment

You have attracted less than € 200.000 in investment

Profit less than €200,000

The company’s profit from sales of goods has not exceeded €200,000 at the time of application

English language

You have a good command of English to study with English-speaking mentors and pitch on an international stage

The application for CLimateLaunchpad 2024 is now closed.

 In order not to miss the opening of the next call, as well as to learn about other programs and opportunities for climate-friendly businesses in Ukraine from Greencubator, fill out the form below. Please note that the questionnaire is in Ukrainian.

For additional questions, please contact — ukraine@climatelaunchpad.org