US start-up tour for the best clean tech start-ups

Climate-KIC is organizing its beta tour for climate starters to the US! This is a trip for start-ups contributing to climate change mitigation and / or adaptation that have a good reason to look outside of Europe for new opportunities, wanting to explore market opportunities,  find customers and partners and maybe even seek investments in the USA. The Climate-KIC Entrepreneurship team will select the applicants up to a maximum of 15 start-ups for this year's tour. 

The tour starts on September 5th in the Bay area. On day one we have a programme at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley. This day will be like an 'Entrepreneurship Guide to the Silicon Valley ecosystem'. The rest of the week is up to the start-ups, with central elements and specific meetings with potential investors, business partners and customers.

Sunday 9th we re-group in Washington. There we hope to meet representatives of the Embassies related to the five Climate-KIC centres. On Monday 10 will meet with key people at ARPA-E to gain insight in the priorities of the US government for climate change and the business opportunities that arise from that. Late in the afternoon we fly to Boston.

In the Boston area (11-13 September) our kick-off on Tuesday is at the MIT Deshpande Center. The day is co-hosted by the Harvard Business School's Innovation Lab and Entrepreneurship Ventures. Like at Berkeley, it's an introduction into clean tech in the greater Boston region. From there on, the start-ups will organise their own programme. Some elements of the programem will be open to all start-ups, and some will be specific meetings that are of interest to the individual ventures.

Application deadline is 18 June. Start-ups from Switzerland have to send their application to