Innovation Fund: grants for new climate technology
Grants to demonstrate how new technology can cut climate emissions in practice.
Funding for climate startups and growing companies
Investment and project grants for companies developing climate solutions. A project grant supports specific work, such as developing an innovative environmental solution. An investor puts money into the company and becomes a part-owner.
Funding opportunities (9)
Grants and tax incentives
Business Fellowship
A full-time paid fellowship for experienced climate-business professionals to help early-stage climate-technology teams reach market, with an industry-competitive living stipend.
Investment in the company
Investment in industrial climate technology
Investment of €1–5 million for European companies bringing physical, science-based climate technology from early commercialisation towards industrial scale.
Investment in energy, industry and health technology
Equity investment for early-stage and growth companies using technology to tackle climate-relevant energy or industry problems; Norrsken VC also invests in healthcare.
Investment in digital energy technology
SET usually invests €2–5 million initially in European digital-energy companies and receives an ownership stake rather than repayment of a loan.
Investment in green technology
An initial €500,000–€4 million investment for mainly European green-technology startups raising an early venture round, formally from pre-seed through Series A.
Investment in climate technology
Venture-capital investment of typically €1–15 million for climate-tech companies raising seed, Series A or Series B funding, with Europe as the main target market.
Venture Builder Cambridge
A three-phase programme for individuals to find co-founders and build a climate-tech startup, with selected teams considered for equity investment.
Investment for early-stage climate technology
Equity investment for founders at the earliest stages developing commercially driven technology to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, remove atmospheric carbon or buy time by cooling the planet.