Innovators
Accelerate growth, build credibility, and make the right connections.
Gaining Traction in a Competitive Market
Building a cleantech company takes more than a breakthrough idea—it demands strategic insight, visibility in the right places, and access to partners who can help you scale. In a competitive and fast-moving ecosystem, too many innovators struggle to gain traction or reach the right people.
How We Help Innovators
Cleantech Group helps you rise above the noise.
We connect innovators with a global network of investors, corporates, and policymakers seeking resilient solutions. Through our market intelligence, innovation advisory, events, and direct engagement, we amplify your visibility, validate your value, and open doors to funding and commercial opportunities—helping you unlock the next stage of growth.
Market Intelligence
We track emerging signals across capital flows, tech shifts, and regulatory tailwinds—giving you the indicators to act ahead of the curve. Join us to explore our suite of intuitive and strategic tools—from capital stacks to ecosystem lenses—designed to power your next move.
Innovation Advisory
We help clients identify, prioritize, and accelerate opportunities for growth—leveraging external innovation and strengthening ecosystems to create measurable impact in a rapidly changing climate.
Advocacy
Cleantech Group’s Advocacy team builds coalitions of cleantech and policy leaders to chart a path to industrial leadership, providing the insight to de-risk the future and seize opportunities.
Events
We empower corporate changemakers, investors, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders to forge connections, change the narrative, make deals, and be part of an unforgettable experience. Experience unparalleled networking opportunities and gain insights from industry leaders at our forums and events.
Innovator’s Plan for Members Hub
The Innovator’s Plan is a free, entry-level access designed for startups and technology providers to register and maintain their organizational profile inside Cleantech Group Members Hub.
It exists to ensure innovators are accurately represented within the cleantech ecosystem. The information is used for research, analysis, and decision-making purposes.
With the Innovator’s Plan, you can:
Access My Hub with an activity feed related to your organization and sector.
Contribute with your organization profile.
Manage basic account information and contact details.
Maintain accurate information about your technology, focus areas, and positioning.
Case Studies
In January 2020, right before the COVID pandemic, Copprint’s team attended their first Cleantech Forum North America. They aimed to connect with investors who understand the lengthy timelines required for deep-tech companies. The event quickly revealed that traditional VCs with a standard seven-year fund cycle often don’t align with technologies needing more extended ramp-up periods.
Copprint also used the Forum to engage with fellow founders across a remarkably diverse spectrum, from nuclear fusion to fish farming to carbon capture. Those interactions sharpened Copprint’s sustainability narrative, helped the team adopt proper industry terminology, and deepened their understanding of essential tools like Life Cycle Analysis in shaping both policy and investment decisions.
Since that first experience, Copprint has attended numerous Cleantech Group events and earned a spot on the Global Cleantech 100, an objective, expert-based, respected recognition that strengthened the start-up’s positioning and credibility in fundraising.
Dr. Ofer Schochet, Copprint’s CEO and Co-Founder, advises:
“If you are building a cleantech start-up or scale-up, I strongly recommend joining this community. It offers a platform to expand your investor and partner network and serves as a collaborative force that accelerates the adoption of sustainable technologies globally.”
After the 2024 Cleantech Forum North America, MacroCycle’s CEO learned about the Cleantech 50 to Watch, an annual recognition awarded to 50 early-stage companies that deliver high-impact cleantech innovation.
MacroCycle set it as a team goal, and 10 months later, the team attended Cleantech Forum Europe to accept the award in person. The recognition boosted MacroCycle’s credibility and helped them successfully close a $6.5M Seed round three months later. The company continues to participate actively in the ecosystem, tapping into a broader network of value-add investors that engage with Cleantech Group–vetted companies, an advantage as MacroCycle prepares for a Series A in the current market.
They also use insights from Cleantech Group’s Market Intelligence to deepen their understanding of circularity market trends and conditions.
Innovation Challenge Hub
Explore our Innovation Challenges sourced from our daily work with the global cleantech ecosystem, and find opportunities to bring your solutions forward.