Berti Investments

Applications for the 2014 Berti Green Accelerator Programme will be posted on this website for download as soon as they become available.

Unfortunately, due to the volume of entries, we cannot give feedback on your application.

In addition to financial investment, each of the winning three businesses will be assigned a senior level mentor. Mentor’s will be designated based on their appropriate experience and suitability to each of the winners.

The mentorship programme is designed to be flexible with each of the winning business’s requirements. After visiting winners’ HQ, meeting the team and seeing the business in operation, mentors will discuss an appropriate action plan for ongoing support.

The mentorship programme is expected to last for 12 months with an average time commitment of 1-2 hours per week.

No.

Whilst the opportunity is there, winners are not forced to engage with mentors for the full year. The Programme will also include an assessment after six months to decide whether or not the programme is adding significant value to the business and can evalutate at this point how to proceed.

Berti Investments is actively seeking to invest in the successful applicants. We will keep in close contact with your business as you progress through your Mentorship Programme. We aim to build relationships with businesses we feel have potential.

No.

In fact, growth capital is not always what businesses need! If winners are seeking investment, they can raise capital from whomever they want. Berti’s goal to help entrepreneurial, low-carbon businesses grow, and encourage capital flow into the low carbon sector. We are happy to make introductions to others investors within our networks if you feel that Berti is not the right investor for you.

Berti Investments is not in the business of selling data. We consider the confidentiality of this information a vital part of our relationship with you.

We value that as innovative entrepreneurs, you may include sensitive information in your business proposal. All information will be kept confidential by the Berti team. Executive Partners who may help advise on the selection process will be committed to confidentiality agreements to ensure non-disclosure of information. For more information, please send us an email: [email protected]

If we think you will benefit from an introduction to a partner, we will contact you first to ask permission.

Find out more about us; here’s a link to our home page.

We are funded by the Bertha Foundation and are not looking for additional funding. However we like to co-invest with trusted partners.

Berti Investments reinvests all of its profits to continually support the UK’s green businesses. We believe that green, sustainable businesses are the future for the UK’s economy and aim to grow with the sector, whilst deepening and widening our positive impact.

We believe that we can have the greatest impact in the UK because we are based here. We believe that our actions locally have an impact globally and we hope to lead the way from home.

The Berti Green Accelerator is a Berti Investments initiative. Our goal is to have a positive environmental impact by ensuring that innovative ecopreneurs have access to business expertise and elite networks. The threat to our environment is at the heart of the global crisis we are facing. We believe that businesses demonstrating innovation, strong leadership and which operate in a profitable niche, can pave the way towards a green, clean economy serving a triple bottom line: profits, people and the planet. We are seeking to support entrepreneurs who believe so too.

The Berti Green Accelerator focuses on entrepreneurship, business support and green growth. We recognise that what entrepreneurial businesses lack is not just growth capital, but business support and expertise. The Berti Green Accelerator is unique, offering pitching skills, bespoke expert business support and a relationship with elite networks and access to capital.

Our goal is to support businesses that reduce carbon emissions. Your business should fit into at least one of these sectors (not compulsory):

• Renewable Energy Generation: Wind, Solar, Renewable fuels, Marine, Biomass, Geothermal, Waste-to-energy, Emerging, Measurement and analysis
• Energy storage: Batteries, Fuel cells, Thermal storage, Flywheels, Compressed air, Super/ultracapacitors, Hydrogen storage
• Energy efficiency: Smart grid, Green building, Cogeneration, Electronics and appliances, Semiconductors
• Transportation: Vehicles, Logistics, Fueling/charging infrastructure
• Air and Environment: Carbon sequestration, Carbon trading/offsets, Emissions control, Bioremediation, Recycling and waste, Monitoring and compliance
• Clean Industry: Advanced packaging, Design innovation, Materials innovation, Equipment innovation, Production, Monitoring and compliance
• Water: Generation, Treatment, Transmission, Efficiency, Monitoring and compliance
• Agriculture: Crop treatment, Land management, Aquaculture

I’m a one man show. Can I apply to the Berti Green Accelerator without at least one full or part-time teammate?

You must be a team of at least two, whether part or full-time .

No.

Our goal is to support the most innovative businesses seeking to reduce carbon emissions in the UK.

Your business must have at least six months of revenue and be generating under £5M annually. For further eligibility criteria, click here.

Yes.

We accept applications even if you have already received venture capital or grant funding. As long as you fit the rest of the eligibility criteria you can apply.

Please email: [email protected].