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
Circular Economies
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
Blue Economy
The Next Big Thing
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