Helping climate businesses to get their first customers and the first seed investment is a very tough job. The Greenhouse at the at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation gets it done for about 60 to 70% of the companies they support during a twelve month process. More creditable: most companies they have supported are still in business defying the high mortality rates of start-ups. In this podcast, Naveed Chaudhry talks about the incubation process, the types of companies supported, the angel investing ecosystem in the UK. He goes on to provide two critical insights: specialised VC investors should be ready to invest large amounts in climate but not to chase market share and entrepreneurs should not chase grants and competitions at the expense of their own business.

Sections
Section 1: First 29 minutes about what the incubator works.

Section 2: Upto 41 minutes on the impact created

Section 3: Investment patterns and ecosystem lessons

Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com

Guest Name : Naveed Chaudhry, Co-Founder & Head of The Greenhouse at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation

Guests Website and contact details : n.chaudhry@imperial.ac.uk

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/innovation/what-we-do/the-greenhouse/