a decade of entrepreneur missions

Clean+Cool helped entrepreneurs to identify and pursue ways to grow faster, in Silicon Valley, so their clean innovations could have the greatest impact possible.

impact headlines

103

Leading clean-tech companies joined the missions

81%

Said it increased their ambition

90%

Said it improved connections with investors

£372m

Total private investment secured through 78 deals

94%

Said the mission was highly valuable for them

90%

Said it improved their company profile

£776m

Total non-public money secured by entrepreneurs

about clean+cool

The international entrepreneur missions were launched in 2010 to help grow the UK’s most promising early-stage clean tech SMEs, enabling companies to:

Get unparalleled access to the US clean tech ecosystem
Learn from key leaders and peers in their field
Showcase innovations to potential investors and partners

The mission’s distinctive blend of group events and presentations and one-to-one meetings with investors helped sow the seeds for future investment and partnerships. And the result was transformational.

Every mission over the course of 10 years had a measurable impact on how these pioneers built their pitch, profile and network in the US and beyond, helping them to win crucial commercial opportunities.

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Client impact

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company stories

tevva motors

Asher Bennet

Founder and CEO

12 months after Clean+Cool, Asher secured £11.4m investment which spearheaded Tevva Motor’s global expansion ambitions and created jobs.

senergy

Christine Boyle MBE

Founder and CEO

The Clean+Cool Mission opened up a string of strategic business growth opportunities that Christine delivered on, using the follow-on fund to carry out market research and seek out early customers for insight.

aceleron

Amrit and Carlton

Co-Founders

Aceleron came back from Clean+Cool with a supercharged pitch and within 6 months they secured £175k seed funding and a year later, closed a £2m round.

in their own words

Hands down the most beneficial mission I have ever been on.

A years’ worth of connections in one week, and not just connections - San Francisco Bay connections.

It increased our company profile, helped us close important deals and open up great new opportunities.

The level of investment achieved by Mission attendees is incredible, with over half a billion of investment flowing into UK firms as a result of their involvement.

The high energy schedule of Missions is demanding as well as exciting, but companies rose to the challenge, making the connections and having the conversations that are often the start of something really big.

You did a really great job in planning, improvising and putting us together with the right people. It was truly inspiring.

The Clean+Cool Mission to San Francisco has been invaluable - we refined our story and changed our vote on what type of investor we are looking for.

The pitch training received during Clean+Cool led to us winning £1.5m of investment.

Once home I refined my whole business plan... 8 months after returning we closed a £3.5m funding round.

The best thing about the Mission was pulling together a focused team, getting us in front of a focused audience, all backed by the UK government.

The formal events interspersed with networking with good level contacts was superb. I cannot imagine any other way to get such a great primer in doing business in such a short time.