GreenUP Accelerator
Are you a climate tech startup? This is for you only!
Go from startup to scale up in 20 months
Up to 1 Mio DKK in funding
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What is GreenUP
GreenUP Accelerator is Denmark’s most ambitious acceleration program for climate tech startups working with CO2 reduction. Our aim is simple: To scale up climate tech startups working with solutions and technologies that make a difference in reducing CO2 emissions.
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The journey
We follow your startup through the Startup phase into the Scale up phase. You will have your business ready to launch your Series A round and enter international markets.
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Sustainability
Specific research validated CO2 assessment // Learning and excelling in calculating and reporting your CO2e emissions on scope 1-3 according to GHG Protocol standards. // The Footprint Firm will teach you the full range of sustainability business models.
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Traditional startup acceleration is great, but more is needed!
In the GreenUP Accelerator, your climate tech startup will go through a startup program and a scale-up program in only 20 months. Your climate tech startup will be ready to enter international markets and launch a Series A round.
Funding up to mio
Total funding raised (mio.)
Free hours of counselling +
Scale up your climate tech startup!
The GreenUP Accelerator is based on experience from eight years of acceleration; we have accelerated 150 startups, helped them raise more than DKK 1 billion, and more than 90 % are still going strong. In other words, we know how to make you succeed!
In the GreenUP Accelerator, you will get:
Acces to up to: DKK 1 million convertible loan
A team of mentors from our MIT-based mentor program
A free desk in Futurebox, Denmark’s leading incubator and accelerator for deep tech startups
Workshops with experts and more than 75 hours of 1:1 sessions
CO2 assessment of your climate startup and extensive counselling on sustainable business models and reporting
Learn from likeminded
We know how much you can learn from like-minded. In GreenUP Accelerator, you will grow with 14 other climate startups. You can follow each other on your journey from startup to scale-up, both in the good times and more challenging times that evidently will happen during the 20 months.
As a part of GreenUP, you will also get a free desk in Futurebox and have access to unique peer-to-peer learning in a community of 40+ deep tech and hardware startups, a strong investor network, a state-of-the-art prototype workshop, events, close contact to leading researchers at DTU, and much more. You will be part of Futurebox’s thriving community.
The Futurebox community
Everything centres around the unique community in Futurebox. During the GreenUP Accelerator program, your everyday life will be a continuous ‘learn from the best’ experience where startups who made the journey co-exist and nurture each other through network, sparring, events, and informal meetings. You will also have access to the Futurebox business developers and former entrepreneurs with several years of experience with acceleration and incubation – we know your challenges, and we help you prepare to tackle them.
Watch a recap of the onboarding week of the 22/23 season of the GreenUP Accelerator
Meet our Partners
