Clean technology start-ups vie for new $50,000 prize

31 March, 2021 – A huge $50,000 development grant, has just been announced for this year’s national ClimateLaunchpad competition, and cleantech start-ups using emerging technology across Australia are encouraged to enter.

ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s biggest cleantech and green business …

Applications now open for world’s biggest green business ideas competition

ClimateLaunchpad is looking for emerging startups with innovative ideas to combat climate change.

Sydney, 8 March 2021 – Applications are now open for ClimateLaunchpad, the world’s biggest cleantech and green business ideas competition.

Aimed at researchers, students and new startups …

Australia wins big in the ClimateLaunchpad Global Grand Final

October 2 2020, Amsterdam – More than 3,000 entrepreneurs from 56 countries participated in the ClimateLaunchpad 2020. This year’s global climate competition took place online from 30 September to 2 October.

Two Australian start-ups, Elevenstore and Localcycle, made it to …

Aussie cleantech start-up wins place at prestigious EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator

Friday September 18 –  For the first time, an Australian ClimateLaunchpad entry has made it through to the EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator, by winning the Southeast Asian final of the world’s biggest cleantech competition.

Elevenstore, an all-female entry from …

Three Cleantech Start-ups win Australian Final of ClimateLaunchpad

Wednesday, August 26 2020 – Electric scooter batteries from biomass, removing organic waste from landfill, and a dedicated biodiesel factory for farmers are the three ideas that won the Australian final of the world’s biggest cleantech competition, ClimateLaunchpad.

From …

Meet the Aussie entrepreneurs taking on climate change

30 July 2020 – As the world reels from the human and economic devastation of COVID-19, eighteen Australian startups are maintaining their focus on our other existential threat, climate change.

These entrepreneurs have won a coveted place in the highly …

Australian green start-ups are fixing the climate crisis

ClimateLaunchpad has been running on a global scale for several years now, but regions differ in terms of how they implement the program, and what sort of cleantech businesses they attract. What does it take to create impact with a …

World’s biggest cleantech competition eyes emerging battery sector in Australia

ClimateLaunchpad partners with the Future Battery Industries CRC to support emerging energy storage innovations in Australia.

Sydney, 20 May 2020 – The world’s largest green business ideas competition, ClimateLaunchpad, is turning its eye toward the emerging battery technology sector …

No stopping the world’s largest cleantech competition in the days of COVID-19

The world’s largest green business ideas competition, ClimateLaunchpad, is marching on, and its 2020 edition will take place in 70 countries online, including Australia. Given we are all stuck inside in light of COVID-19, thinking of how we want …

Charity doesn’t scale. Business scales.

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An interview with Hans Westerhof, ClimateLaunchpad Trainer and Project Lead.

Hans Westerhof has been part of ClimateLaunchpad ever since the early days back in …