Meet corporate buyers
Connecting innovators to corporates
Top corporates and multinationals (such as ARM, Engie, and Anglian Water) frequently approach us to connect them with innovators in clean technology. If you are a small business member of Cambridge Cleantech, you can benefit from such exclusive business opportunities and introductions, and can showcase your product/service to large corporates through our Meet-The-Buyer events.
How Meet-The-Buyer events work
- Corporates approach us with a list of technological innovations they are seeking solutions for, such as low carbon innovations in building technology or circular economy solutions for reuse of industrial waste.
- We work with them to create a needs statement and invite our members and companies from other cleantech cluster organisations across Europe to apply to pitch in an introductory 1-1 meeting.
- Once members send in their proposals, we send a shortlist of suitable SMEs to the corporates who then choose whom they wish to meet.
- We arrange one-to-one meetings between the corporates and the SMEs which they have shortlisted.
- Please note: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, a majority of our meetings are currently being held online.
What is SCALE-UP and how can you benefit from it?
Cambridge Cleantech is a member of SCALE-UP, a collaboration between existing, successful regional cleantech clusters in Europe. It gives an opportunity for our members to tap into cleantech clusters across Europe. What this means is that you, as a cleantech member, can take your idea to an investor or corporate based in Rotterdam or Brussels and grow your business internationally. Read more about the project here.
Since the SCALE UP project began in 2017, the six cleantech clusters in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany have successfully connected more than 500 innovative SMEs to corporate buyers.
“The meet-the-buyer event went very well and ARM were impressed with our solution. Thanks again for the opportunity – without Cambridge Cleantech, there is no way a company like us can get to the right people!” Bill Munday, Blendology
Meet-the-Buyer Programmes and other opportunities
Utmost Wealth, Isle of Man
EVENT: Meet the Buyer: Utmost Wealth, Isle of Man
LOOKING FOR: Green solutions
DATE: Apply before 20th December 2024
VENUE: Meetings online
Manufacturing Technology Centre
EVENT: Meet the Buyer: Manufacturing Technology Centre
LOOKING FOR: Green solutions
DATE: TBC
VENUE: Manufacturing Technology Centre, Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9JU
Sustainability AM – South East Consortium
EVENT: South East Consortium: Sustainability AM
FOR: Cleantech Startups and SMEs
DATE: 1st March 2023
VENUE: The Building Centre London, WC1E 7BT
How to access Grant Funding?
EVENT: How do I access grant funding to accelerate my innovation?
FOR: Cleantech Startups and SMEs
DATE: 21st February 2023
VENUE: Online
Manufacturing and the Circular Economy Workshop
EVENT: Manufacturing and the Circular Economy Workshop
FOR: Cleantech Companies, Corporates, and Investors
DATE: 13th February 2023
VENUE: Manufacturing Technology Centre, Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9JU
Pitch your solutions to CDT
EVENT: Meet the Buyer – Pitch your solutions to Cambridge Display Technology
LOOKING FOR: CDT is currently looking for solutions, services and technologies in the field of Agri-tech with a focus on: Soil Carbon Sequestration, biological derived alternatives for crop protection (e.g. pheromones, non-GMO microbes, peptides, oligos), Biostimulants/Biofertilisers (e.g. non-GMO nitrogen fixing bacteria), Technologies that enable biomanufacturing of biological Ag products, Biochar, Woody waste biomass utilisation, Soil remediation, or Technologies that could promote biodiversity (e.g. omics)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16th of October 2022
Pitch your solutions to Schneider Electric
EVENT: Meet the Buyer – Pitch your solutions to Schneider Electric
LOOKING FOR: Schneider Electric is looking for new solutions in Smart Grid, Data analytics on commercial and residential buildings, Energy distribution, Automation and AI implementation and E-mobility.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 13th of May 2022
VENUE: Cloud Nine, Taylor Wessing LLP, 5, New Street Square, London, EC4A 3BF
DATE: 18th of May 2022
Pitch your solutions to Bouygues
EVENT: Meet the Buyer – Pitch your building, energy, environmental solutions to Bouygues
LOOKING FOR: Buildings (Decarbonisation / retrofit, Energy generation, BIM / digital twin, Energy management systems, Building Management Systems, IoT / AI, User experience, Energy (Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Hydrogen, Battery storage, and Alternative fuels), and Environmental (Biodiversity, Water, Circular economy, Transport, Recycling, and Waste Management) solutions.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 13th of May 2022
VENUE: Cloud Nine, Taylor Wessing LLP, 5, New Street Square, London, EC4A 3BF
DATE: 18th of May 2022
Pitch your ideas to Knauf
EVENT: Meet the Buyer – Pitch your ideas to Knauf
LOOKING FOR: So many things! From reusable packaging to energy storage in their products, thermal regulation, and carbon capture, make sure to have a look!
VENUE: InterContinental Hotel Park Lane, London
DATE: 10th of May 2022, 14.00 – 17.00 GMT
Pitch your ideas to AGC Glass
EVENT: Meet the Buyer – Pitch your ideas to AGC Glass
LOOKING FOR: AGC glass is looking for solutions in clean energy for industrial use and deployment of solutions for Smart & sustainable buildings. Research organisations, universities, and pilot project for local government on smart & sustainable buildings or opportunities for test beds would also be of interest.
VENUE: InterContinental Hotel Park Lane, London
DATE: 10th of May 2022, 14.00 – 17.00 GMT
