CLEANTECH FUNDING SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE
This conference has the simple objective of bringing together investors, advisers and potential investees to inform participants about the diverse sources of funding and the rich seam of investment oppportunities that are available. It is widely appreciated that finding funding has become harder so there is little point in emphasising the issue. This conference will set out what the real alternatives are and how to go about bringing the funding home successfully. Participants will hear about some totally new avenues for raising finance, where they are most likely to be successful and what they need to have to be seriously considered by the equity and finance providers.
|
1.30pm |
Keynote address: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State DECC - presentation |
David Kidney |
|
1.45pm |
A status report on the cleantech financing market: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
David Armfield |
|
2.10pm |
Overcoming the pre-revenue financing hurdles |
|
|
|
Chair: Oxford Capital Partners |
David Mott |
|
|
Who are the potential investors in pre-revenue businesses? How visible do future earnings have to be? What stage does my technology need to be? What does the senior management team need to include? What other things make a business attractive to investors? |
|
|
|
Panel: |
|
|
|
Vertical Wind Energy |
Tony Gordon |
|
|
Intelligent Energy |
Mark Lawson-Statham |
|
|
NESTA |
Alex Hook |
|
|
TTP Ventures |
Alex McCracken |
|
|
Carbon Trust Investment Partners |
Rachael Nutter |
|
|
Beer & Partners |
Michael Weaver |
|
2.55pm |
Equity Valley of Death for cleantech - myth or reality? |
|
|
|
Chair: Religare Hichens Harrison and Tiptree Investments |
Mark Thompson |
|
|
Who will back late stage technology development? Who will fund technologies being deployed in anger for the first time? Who will invest in small facilities with proven technology? How visible must earnings be for VCs to be interested? Is there a size of deal that is not attracting investors? |
|
|
|
Panel: |
|
|
|
Environmental Technologies Fund |
Patrick Sheehan |
|
|
Foresight Ventures |
Tom Thorp |
|
|
Climate Change Capital |
Alex Betts |
|
|
Envestors |
Nick Taylor |
|
|
Impax Asset Management |
Nigel Taunt |
| Axiom Venture Capital | Guus Keder | |
| 3.40pm | Break | |
|
4.00pm |
Cleantech funding solutions |
|
|
|
Chair: Turquoise International |
Ali Naini |
|
|
What alternative sources of finance are there if grants are not available and UK VCs are not showing interest? Who are the more unusual investors and how can they be accessed? How are overseas investors best accessed? Are there debt solutions? Are AIM/PLUS Markets a possibility for fund raising and VC exits? Are corporate venturers taking the place of true VCs? |
|
|
|
Panel: |
|
|
|
Catapult Ventures |
Rob Carroll |
|
|
Bergensis Capital AS |
Frederik Mowinckel |
|
|
MIC Ventures |
Claus Georg Mueller |
| Matrix Group | Steven Fawkes | |
|
|
Close Asset Finance |
Chris Etherington |
|
|
North Star Equity Investors |
Richard Exley |
|
|
Noble Venture Finance |
Andrew Webster |
|
|
|
|
|
4.45pm |
Keynote address: Speech |
Peter Ainsworth |
|
5.00pm |
Network in Show area |
|
|
6.30pm |
Rushlight Awards 2009 Gala Dinner Reception in the Balmoral Suite, Grand Connaught Rooms |
|
|
7.00pm |
Rushlight Awards 2009 Gala Dinner in the Great Room, Grand Connaught Rooms |
|