Innovate UK Global Incubator Programme Climatetech Showcase 2024
Join us for the Final Showcase of the Global Incubator Programme US Edition!
The Global Incubator Programme is an acceleration programme for innovative SMEs to grow and scale through exploring the potential of global markets. It is a multi-year partnership between Innovate UK, Urban Future Lab, and Greentown Labs. It is designed to cultivate and support the launch of innovative UK-based cleantech companies with a strong potential to scale internationally to new markets.
At Climatetech Showcase 2024, witness the culmination of months of rigorous market exploration. Our Year 4 Cohort companies (TRL 4-7) will unveil their cutting-edge technologies and share insights gleaned from UFL’s intensive market entry program. Join us to hear about common trends and unique differences in the US and UK climatetech markets, lessons learned, and ambitious future trajectories.
Join us as we celebrate innovation that's not only shaping the future but also driving tangible environmental impact on a global scale!
Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Arriving at 22 Vanderbilt
The main entrance to the building is located at 335 Madison Avenue between 43rd and 44th Street. Once inside the main lobby (large couch area) head up the escalators on the right hand side and you will check in with our Event Coordinator who will grant you access to the elevator bank to the 7th floor. Once on the 7th floor, head through the double doors and then take a left into The Commons.
Presenting Companies:
Bohr: Provides digital sensor solutions enabling green, fair, profitable gas. The Bohr solution is a unique and exciting combination of ultra-low cost sensors, innovative means to deploy the sensors as part of business-as-usual activities, and a novel, cloud-based IoT platform for data analysis.
Catagen: Pioneering green emissions testing facility providing unrivaled metrics to optimize catalyst development and reduce harmful tailpipe emissions. CATAGEN provides patented green emissions testing services to global automotive manufacturers.
Envirovue: Reshaping industries by optimizing waste and resource management. Leveraging data analytics, they map a company's waste output across diverse streams and vast geographical areas.
JET Engineering Solutions: Provider of communications for offshore wind farms, for both the survey installation and commissioning phase and to provide resilience to fiber optic failures
Qualis Flow: Decarbonising construction through a photograph Qflow enables you to make informed decisions on cost, carbon and quality. Collecting real-time materials and waste data at source for construction teams.
Twipes: A biotech startup that developed a material that can break down in water in 3 hours and biodegrade in a landfill in just 7 days.
Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Agenda:
5:30 pm - Doors Open
6:00 - 6:10 pm – Opening remarks from Innovate UK and Urban Future Lab
6:10 - 7:15 pm – Startup Showcase (5-minute pitches + Q+A's)
7:15pm - 7:25 pm – Closing remarks
7:25 - 8:00 pm – Networking reception
About the Organizers:
The Urban Future Lab
The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is a nonprofit innovation hub for best-in-class climatetech startups with a focus on clean energy and sustainable urban infrastructure solutions. It is home to ACRE, New York’s longest-running climatetech incubator, Clean Start, an advanced certificate from NYU for people seeking a transition into the climatetech sector, the Carbon to Value Initiative and Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, which bring innovative technologies and solutions to industry leaders, and the Innovate UK Global Incubator Programme, which supports market entry in the U.S. for U.K.-based climatetech startups that can effectively scale and support the clean growth goals of New York State. Through our five programs, we support innovators on their journey to scaling up and commercializing climate solutions. Since 2009, we’ve supported 170+ startups with an industry-leading 88% company survival rate and several impressive exits (Smarter Grid Solutions, Artemis, Go Electric, Keen Home, Honest Buildings). We have raised $2.5B+ in venture capital, project finance, and grants, created 4,100+ jobs, and facilitated 100+ events with 2,000+ attendees per year. We are proud to champion the brightest minds in climatetech innovation, providing them with the necessary support and resources to scale up their transformative solutions while leveraging New York’s built environment and access to climate finance.
For more information, visit ufl.nyc or LinkedIn and Instagram. For more information about NYU Tandon, visit engineering.nyu.edu.
About Innovate UK
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is the UK’s innovation agency. We work to create a better future by inspiring, involving and investing in businesses developing life-changing innovations. Our mission is to help companies to grow through their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate.
www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk
About Innovate UK Business Growth
Innovate UK Business Growth is Innovate UK’s national business growth and scaling service. It is an integral part of the innovation agency’s products and services portfolio.
The service is available to all established small to medium sized innovation-focused growth companies, including Innovate UK grant winners.
Innovate UK Business Growth accelerates its ambitious clients on their growth journeys with one-to-one support from over 400 innovation and growth specialists and scaleup directors embedded in every UK region and nation. Their tailored, expert advice helps thousands of businesses sharpen their commercial strategies, realise the maximum value from their IP, raise game changing investment and take their businesses onto the global stage every year.
About Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs is a community of climate action pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate solutions. Driven by the mission of providing startups the resources, knowledge, connections, and equipment they need to thrive, Greentown Labs offers lab space, shared office space, a machine shop, an electronics lab, software and business resources, and a large network of corporate customers, investors, and more. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Greentown Labs is home to more than 200 startups and has supported more than 500 since the incubator’s founding in 2011. These startups have collectively created more than 9,000 jobs and have raised more than $4 billion in funding. For more information, visit www.greentownlabs.com or Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.