UK’S BIGGEST STUDENT CLIMATE ACCELERATOR
Build a Climate start-up supported by mentors. Pitch it to investors and win cash prizes.

📅 1st January - 31st March
🌍 Remote-first
🤷♀️ Open to anyone, regardless of experience
🔔 Applications open: Mid November

Why Joining?
🧗♀️ Connect with Accelerators and VCs
🔨 Build an investment-ready Climate startup
🤝 Meet the best Cofounders
🌎 Network with Investors and Serial Founders
🏆 5 Category Prizes
💼 Build skillset with expert-led workshops
🥂 Social with Investors
🫴 Personal Mentor
🧗♀️ Connect with Accelerators and VCs 🔨 Build an investment-ready Climate startup 🤝 Meet the best Cofounders 🌎 Network with Investors and Serial Founders 🏆 5 Category Prizes 💼 Build skillset with expert-led workshops 🥂 Social with Investors 🫴 Personal Mentor
Programme Timeline

Mentors
You will be assigned one of our mentors who will support you throughout the whole programme.
Zehan Wang is an entrepreneur and angel investor, with previous experience co-founding Magic Pony Technology (acquired by Twitter) and as Head of Applied ML Research at Twitter.
Chief Product Officer at Moree, sustainable packaging for circular economy. RCA professor and former director of SustainRCA.
Shil cofounded Mission Zero Technologies and looks after hardware product development, design, and engineering and wears other hats such as HR, compliance, and operations. He's a keen badminton player, Model UN speaker, and Pokemon GO master.
Founder and CEO of Nomea, Nadav is an early stage climate tech investor focused on funding disruptive technologies across the UK, Europe and Israel. He is a former private equity investor with experience in financial services, venture capital and real estate. He is also an advisor and mentor to numerous companies and sits on the board of a number of nonprofit organizations. Nadav holds a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia University.
Former Google Engineer, now working at X, the moonshot factory (previously Google X), working on Climate Tech and biodiversity
Executive team of SHADY.CLUB, a female-led startup providing sustainable alternatives to searched fashion products.
Fatimah: CEO, Design Engineer and Environmental Scientist whose work was published by the European Space Agency and featured at the London Design Biennale. Jenny: CDO, UX/UI designer and prototyper who previously worked at Microsoft AI & Research, Google and Walmart. Sille, COO, a sustainability designer and engineer who previously worked at GroupM developing marketing strategies for consumer brands like L’Oreal.
Graham is a technologist who founded Photobox in 2000, Europe’s largest personalisation group and owner of Moonpig. He now advises on growth and entrepreneurship, and works pro-bono in the areas of wealth inequality, climate change and under-represented founders.
Former project lead at X, the moonshot factory, previously Google X, working on biodiversity.
Lena Hoffmann is a talent investor at Entrepreneur First who works with AI companies on London's core stream.
Jason is a partner and patent attorney at Potter Clarkson LLP, one of Europe’s leading full-service IP law firms offering patent, trade mark, design, commercial law and litigation services. Jason has a particular expertise in ensuring start-ups secure the investment they need to grow quickly from concept to commercial success. He does this by helping them define the right IP strategy and then map that strategy to their business plan so that both their investors and their target market can see exactly where the future value in their innovation lies.
Co-founder of Paxtier, building a platform for algae biotech innovation. Biochemistry Imperial alumni.
Climate Tech founder with experience in fintech, manufacturing and agriculture. Former Greenhouse and Carbon13 Cohort.
Anne is a climate tech advisor with a mixed background in innovation, sustainability, technology and real estate. She is Head of Products for a leading real estate company, building the next generation of smart city applications. She is an advisor for multiple impact driven start-ups, helping them scale their organization, implementing a culture of innovation, defining the product vision and strategy.
Energy and climate sector expertise in business leadership, venture investments and strategy.
Lydia is Head of Climate at Entrepreneur First. She is a data scientist by background and has worked in the climate space for the past 3 years as a founder.
Manuel’s interest is focused in the regeneration of nature at scale. His ventures have always been focused in taking products to market that have an environmental and/or a social impact
Yassine is a senior product management expert and entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience applying artificial intelligence to help industrial companies (Manufacturing, Shipping, Utilities) become more resource-efficient and operate more
Sara is Head of Marketing at Carbon13, joining as a first employee in 2020. Before that, she spent her career working in early stage startups and the tech ecosystem of London.
Sponsors
The Climate Entrepreneurs Pre Accelerator is only made possible thanks to the generous support of our sponsors.
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Managing Partner of ATMOS Ventures, a deep tech Venture Capital. He specializes in verticals such as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum computing, Quantum technologies, Space and Robotics.
Chief Product Officer at Moree, sustainable packaging for circular economy. RCA professor and former director of SustainRCA.