Podcast: Nurturing businesses to seed investment
Can the high mortality of early stage businesses be reduced?
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.
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
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