Climate-KIC is looking for 15 European Clean Tech Start-ups for its Start-up Tour in November. Participants will pitch at events and to VCs such as Google Ventures. In addition they have the chance to meet potential partners.
The destination of this year's Climate-KIC Start-up Tour is Silicon Valley. In nine days from 19-27 November 2013, start-up founders will get a crash course in clean-tech entrepreneurship in the world’s leading innovation hotspot. Participants will pitch at the Clean Tech Open Global Forum (20-21 November), at clean-tech Venture Capital firms like Khosla Ventures and DBL, as well as at Google HQ for Google Ventures. Together they will visit places like SfunCube, the solar incubator in Oakland and plenty of start-ups in the area.
This trip is for start-up founders that have a good reason to look outside of Europe for opportunities and that want to explore market opportunities in the USA, find customers and partners and explore investment opportunities.
Climate-KIC will provide a few basic elements of the programme, but the participants will arrange most of their own meetings.
All participants arrange their own travel to San Francisco and sustenance while there. Climate-KIC takes care of hotel costs, event costs, car rental and group lunches and dinners within set maximum boundaries.
The start-up tour is open to all European climate innovation start-ups that are -in terms of maturity- are at least in stage two of the Climate-KIC Acceleration Programme. The application form is a two-pager in the format that is commonly used by venture capital firms and a Business Model Canvas. The Climate-KIC Entrepreneurship team will select a maximum of 15 start-ups for this year’s tour. Start-ups that have actively participated in other Climate-KIC Entrepreneurship activities get bonus points in the jury process.
More Information on the Climate-KIC website.
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