CISL’s Canopy are participating in the Cambridge Wide Open Day on Wednesday 17 June.
This year we are opening the door for two sessions, an introduction to Canopy + networking lunch (open to all) followed by an Investor Insight workshop (open to impact focused founders).
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Part one: step inside the Canopy – open day information and tour
11:00 – 11:15: Registration
11:15 – 11:45: Introduction to CISL and the Canopy innovation community + Q&A
11:45 – 12:15: Tour of the Entopia Building
12:15 – 13:00: Networking lunch – an opportunity to connect with members of the Canopy community to find out more about groundbreaking innovations in climate tech.
Who should attend: Founders | innovation ecosystem professionals | investors
Over the past five years, CISL has supported over 500 ventures to scale through our Canopy innovation community and accelerator programmes. The open day even will provide an overview of how CISL are support emerging innovation to scale, pilot and access markets, drawing on examples from our programmes with L’Oreal, UNICEF, The British Standards Institute and our community of high impact potential startups.
This will be followed by a tour of the award-winning Canopy workspace, housed within the Entopia Building, a world leading example of sustainable retrofit.
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Part two: Canopy workshop - Investor Insight
13:00 – 14:30
Join this one-hour workshop to hone your skills in how to identify and land investment for your startup. This forum for early-stage ventures will help you build a personal playbook on how to run a successful fundraise with intel including how to approach conversations; building a narrative and how to identity and engage target investors. With expert insight from Lucy Mortimer, Founding Partner at Archipelago Ventures, this interactive workshop is and designed to facilitate shared learning and input from fellow founders and entrepreneurs. Attendees will be invited to share their questions and challenges in advance of the workshop.
Archipelago Ventures Founding Partner Lucy Mortimer is an environmental finance specialist with 25+ years’ experience within climate finance and low carbon investment. Lucy has a strong commercial background, having built businesses and teams across large financial institutions including Tradition and Nedbank. She has advised and worked for funds including Althelia’s first Natural Capital investment fund and has an excellent network to help startups and young companies succeed in overcoming commercial barriers.
Who should attend: Founders/early stage team members from impact focused ventures.
The workshop will focus on seed fundraise rounds, although earlier and later stage are welcome to attend.
