CLEANTECH VENTURE DAY

LONDON - 25 June 2025

The ultimate meeting place for innovators, investors, large enterprises and economic development partners to see next generation climate tech solutions and investment opportunities.

Apply to pitch at the Climate Tech SuperCluster Cleantech Venture Day - London which will be held at KPMG, Canary Wharf, London on the 25th June 2025.

Applicants have to provide a solution, product, or service that addresses one of the five key climate tech themes: Water, Energy, Transport, Built Environment, or Circular Economy.

The applications will be assessed by a panel of judges.

Key dates:

  • 11th April: Applications close

  • 12th May: Selection announcement

  • 3rd June: Pitch training afternoon in London, with our partners J A Kemp and KISS.

  • 25th June: Pitch day.

APPLICATIONS TO PITCH ARE OPEN

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Check our previous event:

From pitching to networking to roundtables, CVD 2024 gave our innovators and investors plenty to do.

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AGENDA FOR JULY 2024

AGENDA for 25th June to follow soon. Below is the agenda of our past event to give you an idea of the day.

Investor-Only Networking Breakfast Session | 9:30 – 10:50 (registrations from 9:00)

Theme: The Climate Tech Supercluster -  Resolving the Clash of Urgencies: Harmonising Policymakers' and Investors' Roles in Expediting Climate Tech Innovation.  Despite geopolitical shifts and economic challenges, how can policymakers and investors collaborate and synchronise efforts in driving forward climate tech innovation?

9:00      Arrival and Registration for Investors and Partners only | breakfast

9:30      Welcomes - Joe Faulkner, Cambridge Office Senior Partner, KPMG & Sylvie Russell, COO, Cambridge Cleantech.

9:35      Current market trends and private capital markets, Neha Manaktala, Global Head of Climate Tech Investments & Innovation, J.P. Morgan.   

9:45      Panel discussion with

Jonathan Tudor, Investment Partner, Clean Growth Fund

Nigel Walker, Innovate UK

Danijel Višević, Managing Partner, World Fund

Rachel Hopkinson, Business Dev. Manager, Isle of Man

10:15    Q&A

10:25    Conclusions    

10:30    End of investors-only session | Networking session

 

Main session for all | 11:00– 17:00 (registrations from 10:30)

10:30    Registrations open for all  - access to stands + coffee        

11:00    Welcome - Sam Goodall, CEO, Cambridge Cleantech and Anna Purchas, London Office Senior Partner and Regional Chair, KPMG

11:10    Keynote speaker - Claire Curry, Global Head of Technology, Industry and Innovation, BloombergNEF

11:25    Session 1: Pitching companies - SEED

12:35    Case-Study: The Climate Tech SuperCluster and Cologne, Sam Goodall and KölnBusiness, The Economic Development Agency of Cologne

12:45    Buffet lunch/networking/stands           

13:45    Welcome – Afternoon session 

13:55    Session 2:  Pitching companies - PRE SEED

15:00    Networking break

15:30    How to cross the 'valley of death' of hardware companies - Danijel Višević, Managing Partner, World Fund

15:40    Session 3: Pitching companies - SERIES A

16:45    Wrap up            

16:50    End of the main session

Networking reception | 17:00 - 18:30    Networking drinks

Speakers of the last event- July 2024

  • Neha Manaktala

    Neha Manaktala

    GLOBAL HEAD OF CLIMATE TECH INVESTMENTS AND INNOVATION, J.P. MORGAN

  • Jonathon Tudor

    Jonathon Tudor

    INVESTMENT PARTNER, CLEAN GROWTH FUND

  • Danijel Višević, World Fund

    Danijel Višević

    MANAGING PARTNER, WORLD FUND

  • Rachel Hopkinson

    Rachel Hopkinson

    BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, BUSINESS ISLE OF MAN

  • Nigel Walker

    Nigel Walker

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, LENDING & INVESTOR PARTNERSHIPS, INNOVATE UK

  • Claite Curry

    Claire Curry

    GLOBAL HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, & INNOVATION, BLOOMBERGNEF

  • Georgia Watt

    Georgia Watt

    DTMT M&A ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, KPMG

  • Sam Goodall

    Sam Goodall

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CAMBRIDGE CLEANTECH

  • SYLVIE RUSSELL

    Sylvie Russell

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICE, CAMBRIDGE CLEANTECH

CLEANTECH VENTURE DAY THEMES

Reducing negative environmental impacts through energy efficiency, sustainable use of resources, and environmental protection activities, are fundamental to climate tech and cleantech innovation solutions.

  • For solutions that create energy from renewable and or zero-emission sources which may include but not be limited to alternative fuels, energy management, distribution and storage.

  • Innovations that are enabling the move towards net-zero with solutions that might include logistics, electric vehicles, EV charging, mobility as a service, shared mobility and fuel cells.

  • Looking to find solutions that make buildings cleaner and smarter through automation, sustainable building materials, and efficiency technologies.

  • Any technology related to water production, treatment, supply, or usage with solutions to improve efficiency, filtration, monitoring, recycling, wastewater treatment and more.

  • Whether from the sharing economy, single-use plastics or agri-tech waste, this theme looks to all solutions which design out waste whilst reusing, recovering and regenerating materials.

  • Applications are now closed for innovation pitching.

    If you are an investor or professional service, you can book your tickets on Eventbrite.

Who we are

The world’s first climate SuperCluster

The Climate Tech SuperCluster is a growth engine for UK and European climate tech innovation.

Our rich ecosystem brings together for the first time innovators, corporates, investors, academia from across UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Connecting talent, technology and investment.

All with a focus on accelerating and scaling progress in climate-critical technologies.

The Climate Tech SuperCluster is:

  • Super connected: encompassing a region within four hours train travel from London

  • Super charged: powered by world-leading universities tech businesses, rated in the top three globally

  • Super scale: our region boasts over 3,000 start-ups and scale-ups within the burgeoning European climate tech space

  • Super focused: on activating our ecosystem, on tackling the climate emergency, on driving economic growth across the region

What we do

We’re in the midst of a climate emergency. In March 2025, atmospheric carbon dioxide hit 427.4 parts per million, significantly above levels determined as safe by the IPCC.

The time to act is now.

The Climate Tech SuperCluster is here to tackle this challenge head on, uniting the region in its ambition to commercialise climate tech and meaningfully reduce carbon.

We do this in three ways:

  • Catalyse: acting as an accelerator to success by offering expertise and support to innovators, corporates, universities, government and investors.

  • Convene: providing innovators, investors, corporates and the wider ecosystem access to a central platform of trusted information and expertise as they work together on shared and pressing climate challenges

  • Connect: creating an ecosystem for the climate tech community that will deliver scale and impact by crossing regional and national boundaries 

Together, we are establishing the UK and Europe as world leaders in sustainable innovation.

Meet Pivotal People. Make Climate Impact.

  • Prof. Stephanie Hussels

    HEAD OF STRATEGY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE, CRANFIELD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • Erik Solheim

    FORMER ENVIRONMENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS

  • Sam Goodall

    CEO, CAMBRIDGE CLEANTECH

  • Sylvie Russell

    COO, CAMBRIDGE CLEANTECH

  • Orla Browne

    HEAD OF INSIGHTS, DEALROOM.CO

  • Erik Solheim

    FORMER UN ENVIRONMENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS

  • Jessica Burley and Daniel Hirschfield

    PLANET A VENTURES and TAYLOR WESSING

  • Hydrogen Roundtable

    LOOKING AT THE UK’S GREEN HYDROGEN ECONOMY.

  • Hannah Scott

    CEO, OXFORDSHIRE GREENTECH

  • Joe Faulkner

    CAMBRIDGE & NORWICH SENIOR PARTNER, KPMG

  • Catherine Fraser

    INVESTMENT PRINCIPLE, CARBON 13

  • Phill Davies

    CO-FOUNDER, MAGWAY

  • Auroskanda Vepari

    DIRECTOR, MOLE

  • Emily Aiken and Georgia Watt

    TMT CORPORATE FINANCE TEAM, KPMG

  • Karl Pärtel

    CO-FOUNDER, RAIKU PACKAGING

  • Shruti Gover

    CO-FOUNDER, PATTERN PROJECT

  • Xiaobin Zhao

    DIRECTOR, CAMBOND

  • Christian Peters

    CO-FOUNDER & CEO, SELOXIUM

  • Lars Ronning

    FOUNDER & CEO, AILUNA

  • Bruce Colley

    SENIOR INVESTMENT SPECIALIST, INNOVATE UK

  • Erik Solheim, Sam Goodall, Satyajit Mohanan, Kavin Kandasamy

  • Dr. Richard Wright

    FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, BEHAVIOUR 2 BUSINESS

  • Panel Discussion

    OLI OWENS, CATHERINE FRASER, PRIYA SHAH AND ORLA BROWNE

  • Alex Howard

    CEO, CLIPPER AUTOMOTIVE

  • Faisal

    COO, COOLRUN

“Thank you for hosting the Cleantech Venture Day and for inviting us to the roundtable disucssion. We had some really fantastic and interesting conversations!”

Georgia Ware, Rapid Innovation

“Congratulations, once again a really good event, thank you for the invitation to attend and take part in the roundtable and opportunity to sit on the panel. Great to be in the room to hear the excitement, innovation and optimism of what is happening in the sector. Some of the tech presented was really impressive and definitely ones to watch.”

Kirree, Isle of Man

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