Access Sustainable Finance Accelerator Program 2025

Deadline: December 31, 2024

Applications are open for the Access Sustainable Finance Accelerator Program 2025. A sustainability accelerator is a program designed to foster the expansion of early-stage to mature companies centered on addressing environmental and social challenges.

The aim is to empower progressive startups centered on sustainability by offering them with the sources, mentorship, and community wanted to scale their impression and drive systemic change in industries associated to environmental conservation, renewable vitality, round financial system, and sustainable residing.

Benefits

• Mentorship: Pairing startups and mature companies with business consultants, seasoned entrepreneurs, and buyers who’ve a robust background in sustainability.
• Workshops and Training: Bi-weekly workshops on key matters equivalent to sustainable enterprise fashions, impression measurement, fundraising, and market technique. Skill-building periods on management, crew constructing, and communication.
• Funding: Seed funding topic to authorised pool. Access to a community of impression buyers and enterprise capitalists for potential follow-on funding.
• Networking: Opportunities to attach with a world community of sustainability-focused startups, corporates, and thought leaders. Regular networking occasions, demo days, and business meetups. Early-stage startups can community with the mature companies in this system
• Resources and Infrastructure: Co-working area in a green-certified constructing. Access to labs, prototyping services, and testing grounds for product improvement. Legal, accounting, and advertising help from accomplice corporations. Participating companies can leverage Access Nation’s community to market merchandise to be consumed by Access Nation and/or its clients.
• Impact Measurement: Guidance on setting and monitoring key efficiency indicators (KPIs) associated to environmental and social impression. Tools and frameworks for impression reporting and speaking worth to stakeholders.
• Community and Alumni Network: Ongoing help by an alumni community that gives continued mentorship, networking, and collaboration alternatives. Platform for sharing successes, challenges, and finest practices.

Eligibility

• Open to entrepreneurs in varied sustainability sectors, together with renewable vitality, sustainable agriculture, healthcare, training, and water useful resource administration. Startups with groundbreaking concepts that handle vital sustainability challenges.
• Solutions with the potential to scale and create widespread impression. Scalable throughout geographical markets within the continent.
• Strong, various groups with a mixture of technical and enterprise experience.
• Clear concentrate on sustainability and a well-defined plan for measuring impression. Product ought to align with SDG and ESG integrations.
• Solutions that handle a transparent market want and have a minimal viable product and enterprise mannequin.

Application

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For extra info, go to Sustainable Finance Accelerator.