Launching your sustainability product with CISL Canopy
Join this programme to launch your sustainability innovation product or service with CISL Canopy.
Are you ready to launch your sustainability innovation product/service and you are thinking what else you can leverage to maximise the impact? CISL’s Canopy is running this programme to support selected impact-focused entrepreneurs to launch their innovations on the 30th of March 2023.
In this programme, you will be joined by other entrepreneurs who have the similar schedule as you to launch their impact solutions, and you will be able to leverage the critical mass theory to maximise impact through this group products launch event.
Leading up to the event, there will be 4 virtual sessions to get your final preparations done:
- Scope your launch, access your target audience and prepare your post launch marketing
- Design your sale funnel in advance and learn how to write your press release
- How to arrange your launch deck and pitch practice
- Master your networking and sales skills
The event will be organised and funded by CISL Canopy with ERDF funding, and it will be entirely free for selected businesses to launch their solutions. (However, any product marketing materials preparations are the businesses’ responsibility.) CISL Canopy will be inviting their corporate network, investor network and ecosystem stakeholders to attend this event, and it will be a fantastic opportunity for businesses to network afterwards.
Applications have now closed.
Who’s it for?
Small businesses, including startups, who are ready to launch their products to the market at the end of March 2023.
Format
After meeting the cohort in person in the CISL Canopy in Cambridge, there will be 4 virtual sessions to get your final preparation done for the launch and an in-person group launch event hosted by CISL Canopy in Cambridge.
Dates
Virtual sessions: 16 (programme launch - meet the cohort), 20, 22, 24, 28 March 2023
In-Person: Launch Event on 30 March 2023
Contributors
Viola Jardon
Viola is currently working as a Senior Programme Manager with CISL Canopy where she has worked with more than 150 early-stage start-ups with sustainability innovations.
Ivan Lopez Jr.
Ivan has over 20 years of global senior leadership and entrepreneurial experience with core experience in technology, licensing, e-commerce, content, operations, early stage investment, business development and marketing.
Natasha Terinova
Partner at REACH UK, Second Century Ventures technology scale-up programme, Natasha was voted one of the 50 leaders of sustainable change by #ProptechForGood for bringing a unique perspective on the sustainability in the built environment.
Simon Hombersley
Simon is a serial entrepreneur and venture builder, with a focus on climate tech. He is a founder and CEO of two companies spun out from the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.
Satu Apukka
Satu is the Chief Experience Officer at Finnish EdTech company Kide Science, an exciting start-up delivering play-based lesson plans to teachers worldwide based on the University of Helsinki academic research, and has years of experience in marketing and sales in different companies.
Ramon Crespi
Ramon Crespi is a Spanish entrepreneur and investor currently residing in Helsinki. He has earned recognition for his exceptional communication abilities, his mastery of emotional intelligence, and his expertise in constructing behaviour profiles.
Elisabeth Picart
Elisabeth’s 7+ years of agency experience include FMCG, Automotive, Beauty and Arts with industry-leading clients Lexus, Nespresso, Coty and Christie’s before joining the LVMH team.
James Cole
James is a core member of the 150-person, £15m turnover Institute's Executive Team. He leads four central functions (Corporate Relations, Canopy and Accelerator, Marketing and Communications) and has substantially contributed to growing the organisation from £5.5m - £15m pa.