About this Event
UNSW Founders & Virescent Ventures join forces to fund Climate tech startups
Are you a Climate tech startup trying to raise capital? More funding for Climate Tech startups is available than ever before, but the landscape is just as complicated and confusing as ever. Learn what the Climate tech funding stack looks like, what VCs are looking for in a high quality, venture backable startup and meet a Virescent portfolio company.
Virescent Ventures, UNSW Founders and the Trailblazer for Recycling & Clean Energy (TRaCE) continued their partnership this year to invest in a new group of change makers dedicated to real GHG emissions reductions through the Climate 10x program.
Grow your startup with their support:
? Seed funding
? Accelerated startup growth with access to domain experts and networks
? Connections to the Climate tech ecosystem
⚡️Access to R&D infrastructure & collaborations
? Post-program support, office space and exclusive UNSW Founders perks
program is open to any Australian startup based anywhere in the country. Visit our website or speak to the team for more details.
Agenda
12.00pm: Welcome and intro to Virescent Ventures
12.10pm: The Climate tech funding stack
12.25pm: Q&A with Joe Ayrookaran, Workbenchx & Blair Pritchard, Partner Virescent Ventures
Who can join?
Anyone can join.
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This session will be held online via Zoom. All attendees will receive the Zoom link prior to the event.
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ABOUT
UNSW Founders has had the privilege of supporting 500+ startups through our entrepreneurship programs. Since 2017, founders from our 10x Accelerators have benefited from our connections, mentoring, and investment.
This year, 10x participants across all streams will access over $4m in funding from UNSW Founders and our partners.
is Australia’s leading climate tech venture capital firm. We invest in the founders and technology at the heart of the global transition to net zero. Born out of the world’s biggest green bank (the Clean Energy Finance Corporation), we seek investments that address the largest, hardest to abate sources of emissions. We are committed to backing our founders on their journey as their needs evolve, investing from pre-seed to late stage growth capital.
(TRaCE), awarded by the flagship Commonwealth Government Trailblazer Universities Program to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Newcastle (UoN), aims to accelerate a pipeline of disruptive technologies out of the lab and into local manufacturing and global deployment. The $280M program spans the innovation lifecycle, from research and development through to de-risking, demonstration, deployment, and manufacturing, and is underpinned by critical workforce skills, cultural change, and university workplace reform.
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Event Venue
Online
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