One of the flagship events at London Climate Action Week, Cleantech Venture Day London took place on Monday 22 June at KPMG’s Canary Wharf office.

Setting the scene for the day was a keynote from Nigel Topping, Chair of the Climate Change Committee and former UN High-Level Climate Champion for COP26. The programme also featured three pitch sessions with deep tech climate companies, alongside talks, panels and networking designed to connect climate tech founders, investors and corporates from across the Climate Tech SuperCluster region.

Run by a Cambridge-based organisation, the event has helped foster corporate partnerships, joint development agreements and follow-on funding for previous pitching companies. This year’s pitches spanned Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A/B stages, with companies including Sirona Technologies (Belgium), Kalz (Germany), Exora (France) and Eden Geothermal (UK) presenting to an audience of climate tech investors, corporates and partners from across the UK and Europe.

Anna Purchas, London Office Senior Partner at KPMG UK, said: “London Climate Action Week is one of those moments in the year when you can really feel the energy and ambition behind the climate transition. At the heart of the Climate Tech SuperCluster, London is a natural place to bring together the people and organisations driving climate innovation across Europe. That’s what makes Cleantech Venture Day so special, as it’s those connections that can help promising ideas scale into technologies and businesses that will make a genuine difference.”

“Two years ago, this was one event in one city. Now we run Cleantech Venture Day in London, Paris and Amsterdam, with not only founders and investors but also other key ecosystem stakeholders from all over the region. That’s the power and purpose of the Climate Tech SuperCluster,” says Sylvie Russell, lead organiser of Cleantech Venture Day.

“Two years ago, this was one event in one city. Now we run Cleantech Venture Day in London, Paris and Amsterdam, with not only founders and investors but also other key ecosystem stakeholders from all over the region. That’s the power and purpose of the Climate Tech SuperCluster,” says Sylvie Russell, lead organiser of Cleantech Venture Day.