>SMART> GREEN: The Green Tech Accelerator
Our focus
Financing and business modeling are the most important factors for your startup’s success. With SEED, we train early stage startups to become real startup professionals and stimulate impact.
With our PRE-SEED FUNDING program (Start-up BW Pre-Seed), we pursue the goal of securing initial financing for innovative startups, developing a clear financing strategy for the next few years, and laying guardrails for follow-up financing rounds.
Innovation through collaboration! With GROW we connect you with future-oriented corporate companies and you will take the next step together. Strategic collaborations or investments are the goal!
Germany’s Southwest is home to a wealth of entrepreneurial experience that has grown over many years thanks to the many innovative and successful small and medium-sized enterprises. With GrüNetz, we mediate future-proof collaborations between green startups and established local SMEs.
The startup award for the energy transition: With our innovation partner, EWS, we are looking for the startup pioneers of the green energy industry. EWS donates 40.000€ and we award the MakeItMatter-prize to the winning teams at our >SMART> GREEN Startup Night.
Startup Highlights of the >SMART> GREEN programs
All our startup highlights with a short profile can be found in our startup section.
This wayOUR SERVICES
You're not doing it on your own: An individual case manager supports you, but also challenges you within the framework of the program. In concrete terms, this means that we help you as initiators, consultants and project managers at the same time to advance your business and possible collaborations.
We connect you with investors, lawyers, financial experts, successful founders, friends accelerators from Germany, Israel and Switzerland as well as decision makers of a huge Green Tech network. Within our event formats you will receive honest feedback and lots of insights.
You cooperate with our innovation partners right from the start and work together on concrete milestones!
We don't want your shares. So: Keep calm & keep your money! ;-)
Mi casa es su casa: Work in Germany's most innovative container village, the Lokhalle Creative Park, side by side with other startups, sustainability innovators and a strong community with numerous events and offers!
OUR PARTNERS
Together with our corporate partners, we are Germany’s largest dark green energy accelerator. We also support selected industrial companies in producing more sustainably, resource-efficiently and digitally. Startups benefit from concentrated insider expertise, access to customers and markets, and support in rolling out their business model.
We are a platform for all actors in the green start-up ecosystem. Our goal is to create something new by connecting the right people. All those who are committed to innovation, progress, digital and sustainability are welcome.
Our Accelerator is part of the Start-up BW startup campaign of the state of Baden-Württemberg and is carried out in a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism Baden-Württemberg, the Economic Development Agency / Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe GmbH & Co. KG (FWTM) and the innovation and startup hub Grünhof GmbH.
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