Berti Green Accelerator gains support across UK
With just five weeks remaining for entrepreneurs to submit their applications, the Berti Green Accelerator is harnessing responsive recognition from media, businesses, non-profits and campaigns across the UK who share the vision and value the accelerator offers in the drive towards a sustainable green economy.
The Berti Green Accelerator, supported by James Caan’s Hamilton Bradshaw Impact Partners, seeks to annually champion three of the UK’s most promising and exciting low carbon businesses, offering each successful business six months of free expert business support and the opportunity to each receive funding of up to £1million.
The three successful businesses will be chosen by leading experts including James Caan (CEO of Hamilton Bradshaw), Jeremy Leggett (Chairman of Solar Century), Michael Liebreich (Chief Executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance) and Jacques Tredoux (Berti Investments).
Applications close 17 April 2012, so hurry!
Berti Green Accelerator in the media
Berti Green Accelerator Partners
10:10
10:10 gives people, communities and organisations practical, meaningful ways to address climate change.
10:10ers work together to cut their own emissions, and use their combined influence to break down the social and political barriers that make low-carbon living and working harder than it needs to be. Visit the 10:10 website to find out more about getting yourself, your organisation or your business involved and take a look at some of the other projects 10:10 run like Solar Schools and Lighter Later.
10:10ers work together to cut their own emissions, and use their combined influence to break down the social and political barriers that make low-carbon living and working harder than it needs to be. Visit the 10:10 website to find out more about getting yourself, your organisation or your business involved and take a look at some of the other projects 10:10 run like Solar Schools and Lighter Later.
Ashden
Ashden are an organisation that champion and promote practical, local energy solutions that cut carbon, protect the environment, reduce poverty and improve people’s lives.
Collectively Ashden winners have transformed the lives of around 23 million people. From solar lamps in India, to smoke-free stoves in Ethiopia and low-carbon communities in the UK, Ashden worked with over 130 award-winners whose solutions light the way to a better and more sustainable future.
Collectively Ashden winners have transformed the lives of around 23 million people. From solar lamps in India, to smoke-free stoves in Ethiopia and low-carbon communities in the UK, Ashden worked with over 130 award-winners whose solutions light the way to a better and more sustainable future.
Buzzbnk
Buzzbnk is a crowdfunding website which enables social entrepreneurs and social ventures to raise funds and build a crowd of supporters. The idea of Buzzbnk first came from Michael Norton who had a vision about empowering positive people to back bright ideas by tapping into their social networks. Buzzbnk is committed to the furtherance of social enterprise and supporting social entrepreneurs in achieving their aims.
Business in the Community
Business in the Community is a business-led charity working to promote responsible business practice. It has a growing membership of over 850 member companies, and more than 10,700 companies engaged in our campaigns globally. Members are offered a range of practical information, tools, training and resources to help them transform their businesses and integrate responsible practices into their operations.
Catalyst Venture Partners
Catalyst Venture Partners was founded in 1999 when a group of technology entrepreneurs got together to create a networked accelerator and specialist corporate finance boutique. The genesis of the company lay in the partners experience as private investors who regularly came across technology companies, frequently with great IP, who were seeking funds but who were lacking the necessary commercial expertise and management firepower to be credible to potential sources of finance.
ClearlySo
ClearlySo works directly with the best social enterprises and businesses to structure their offering and translate the opportunity to investors. ClearlySo’s guiding mission is to ‘help social entrepreneurs succeed’ by raising capital for them. As the leading capital raising firm for social investment in the UK, the business brings the traditional success factors of investment banking to social enterprise. By catalysing investment into businesses which generate positive social change, ClearlySo is a key player in a sector building a healthier, more sustainable economy for all.
ecoConnect
ecoConnect is Britain’s Green Industry Business Network, a not-for-profit national economic development agency formed to support and develop green industry businesses throughout the UK.
ecoConnect enables effective partnerships, connections and information for UK cleantech and functions as a hub for business support, investment, skills and dialogue. Since it’s formation in 2009 ecoConnect has brought over 7000 delegates together at its expert forums, workshops and dragons dens for the betterment of the industry. It’s register of over 18,000 green industry participants spans a wide range technologists, investors, corporates and service providers.
ecoConnect enables effective partnerships, connections and information for UK cleantech and functions as a hub for business support, investment, skills and dialogue. Since it’s formation in 2009 ecoConnect has brought over 7000 delegates together at its expert forums, workshops and dragons dens for the betterment of the industry. It’s register of over 18,000 green industry participants spans a wide range technologists, investors, corporates and service providers.
Ecometrica
Ecometrica is a company of specialists and experts in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, ecosystem services, climate change policy, remote sensing and web based programming. Ecometrica have unrivalled experience in the development and application of the major standards for greenhouse gas accounting and ecosystem change measurement.
Ecometrica’s mission is to make accounting for GHG emissions and ecosystem changes accessible to everyone, including business and government, through user-friendly, affordable web-based services that harness our unique domain knowledge and expertise.
Ecometrica’s mission is to make accounting for GHG emissions and ecosystem changes accessible to everyone, including business and government, through user-friendly, affordable web-based services that harness our unique domain knowledge and expertise.
Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is a professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms which provide assurance, tax and specialist advisory services to privately held businesses, public interest entities, and public sector entities.
Hamilton Bradshaw Impact Partners
Hamilton Bradshaw Impact Partners is a joint initiative between the James Caan Foundation (JCF) and private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw. It provides a holistic approach to business expertise, working with social and environmental impact businesses and connecting them with investment in order to scale their operations and widen their impact. HBIP has a first-rate track record of delivering growth for SMEs at every stage and encompassing every aspect of an entrepreneur’s journey.
UK CEED
The UK Centre for Economic & Environmental Development (UK CEED) is an independent not for profit charity that promotes and supports eco-innovation and the economic benefits of sound environmental practice. UK CEED support the growth and development of businesses in the cleantech and low carbon and environmental goods & services sectors whose innovative solutions are needed to create an economically and environmentally sustainable future in the UK.
UnLtd
UnLtd is a charitable organisation set up by seven leading organisations that promote social entrepreneurship. UnLtd - the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs - wants to support and develop the role of social entrepreneurs as a force for positive change in the United Kingdom. In the short to medium term UnLtd will achieve this by providing:
- Awards to social entrepreneur
- A UK wide Fellowship of people who have received awards
- Research into the impact of social entrepreneurs on society
- UnLtd Ventures