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We're back and we're global.
Applications are now open in 35 countries (and counting).
Dear Stelios,
The 4th edition of ClimateLaunchpad is underway and this year the competition is a global gig (check out the map!).
You have a green business idea? Apply now and battle your way to global impact. Join and receive training from a star team of qualified trainers and coaches from Chrysalis LEAP and PwC.
Check out our hall of fame, made up of Cypriot and Greek startups from previous years, and picture your story up there too! We offer you an exciting journey towards starting your own business:
- 2-day training Boot Camp (all expenses paid) where you will learn to find your target markets and turn your idea into a business;
- 6 follow-up Coaching Sessions to help you refine your idea, test, and validate your assumptions and hone your pitching skills;
- Pitch your idea in front of renowned national and international juries;
- Top-3 of the Grand Final win total of €17,500;
- Global top-10 ideas win direct access to Climate-KIC Accelerator, the renowned business school where great ideas grow into great businesses.
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Check out the roadmap dates for Cyprus and Greece
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But that's not all!
Win or no win, your idea can still be selected by Chrysalis LEAP for continuing the acceleration programme in Cyprus. You'll enter into full acceleration mode with one of the world's most experienced and competent teams in cleantech acceleration. Curious to find out who they are? Meet them here.
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Here's some of what you'll get:
- Incubation space
- Cash to help you get started
- Insane training on Business Modelling and Financials from globally certified trainers
- Legal documents, term sheets, cashflows, business plans; you name it!
This is a "ready-to-invest" business package available to the best startups out there. It's everything you ever dreamed of, the help you always wanted, and a star team by your side to help you get there.
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Who can join?
Everyone with a green business and dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur can enter the competition. This green idea can be about an all-out mind shift in urban mobility, a sustainable transition in the food chain, innovations in renewable energy, energy efficiency, agriculture, water, transportation, industrial technology or any other way to tackle climate change.
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The idea can still be on the back of a napkin. Some restrictions:
- you have not yet started a business or started it less than one year ago;
- you do not have substantial revenue;
- you have attracted less than € 200.000 in investment (definition: no funding as a venture. Funding as a student does not count)
- you have not yet sold products, solutions or prototypes on commercial terms.
Not sure if your idea is up for the challenge? Give us a call at +357-99-498756 to clarify!
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Application deadlines for Cyprus and Greece: May 10th
Submit your idea today and let the games begin!
ClimateLaunchpad is a Climate-KIC programme and is proudly brought to Cyprus and Greece by Chrysalis LEAP with the support of our Strategic Partner, PwC Cyprus. Help us spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to anyone you know that fits this profile.
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Forbes 30-Under-30 list. What?!
Forbes has this list, the 30-Under-30 list. It features only the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers. ClimateLaunchpad 2016 finalist Chrysalis Technologies is on it. Wow. Want to know how they did it?
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One of last year's finalists pitching at the Grand Final in Tallinn, Estonia.
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