Climate innovators reflect on The Greenhouse programme

The mission of The Greenhouse is simple: to support the growth of young, sustainable businesses looking to tackle climate change. We aim to grow the pipeline of emerging, viable, impactful businesses that will go on to become commercially successful enterprises that have a positive impact on our climate.

At its core, The Greenhouse is a 12–month innovation programme for climate positive technology startups like yours, and offers access to business coaching with experienced professionals, a range of masterclasses, free workspace at our new headquarters in central London, and equity–free grant funding.

Here is what some of the current participants of The Greenhouse have said about their experiences of the programme – if you would like to speak to any of them directly please let us know, and we can put you in contact.

Applications for cohort 3 are open until 14^th January 2022 at 23:59 GMT.

Jack Kennedy, Dodo

“We were looking for a climate focused accelerator to support us in defining our longer term strategy and The Greenhouse programme was a game-changer for us. It’s been a pleasure working with the team and especially with all the other founders on the programme. There is a strong sense of community which is great for sharing progress and the insights that have been gathered along the way. The mentorship, advice, support and grant funding has really helped us to define our market and build a product that works for our customers.” 

Hanson Cheng, The Tyre Collective

“The Greenhouse is a great community to be a part of. We were connected to other startups in the sustainability, clean/green tech space, who are at a similar stage and are facing similar roadblocks. It has been great to speak to other founders as well as The Greenhouse team about these issues. Through The Greenhouse network, we were able to successfully close our first funding with a network of impact-focused investors." 

Andrea Jagodic, Mana Biosystems

“The Greenhouse programme has helped me in two major ways. It gave the company structure and clear milestones to achieve when we were just starting out, with one-on-one coaching as a sounding board while we were finding our direction and going through customer discovery. Another key benefit of the programme has been connecting with their alumni community, which has done so well and can offer truly useful advice, guidance and perspectives, which is what you need the most at a pre-seed stage.”

Tom Scott, Construction Carbon

“Being part of The Greenhouse initially provided us with validation and reassurance that our idea had struck a chord. It has since given us incredible insight into the hard work being undertaken across the sustainability sector by a range of inspirational people. Creating a startup is challenging at the best of times but the encouragement and support we have received, as well as the platform and professional credibility that comes with being a member of Cohort 1 and involved with the CCCI, really has enabled us to accelerate our growth.”

Harry Grocott, Treeconomy

”The Greenhouse programme is a combination of core climate science and technical expertise for building a startup, both of which are incredibly valuable frameworks for us to build our climate-positive business. We feel the team really gets what we are trying to do and they're a really supportive and enthusiastic team!”

David Izikowitz, Carbon Infinity

“The Greenhouse has had a huge impact on our development in recent months. Starting 2021 having been severely disrupted by COVID-19, joining The Greenhouse provided the necessary structure to return to first principles, conduct the technical and business model validation, and lay the foundations to raise a large seed round of capital with an informed go-to-market strategy and a technical roadmap to take Carbon Infinity global”

Jack Kennedy, Dodo

Hanson Cheng, The Tyre Collective

Andrea Jagodic, Mana Biosystems

Tom Scott, Construction Carbon

Harry Grocott, Treeconomy

David Izikowitz, Carbon Infinity

Jack Kennedy, Dodo

Hanson Cheng, The Tyre Collective