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Building Bridges to Scale: A Roadmap to Sustainable Financing

29 Apr 2025
Finance Forum
Accelerate

This session examines what is required to create the optimal enabling environment for UK clean tech innovations to stay continually funded domestically through successive rounds and achieve scale.

With many start-ups either being acquired by overseas firms, or falling prey to the infamous ‘valley of death’, we ask how UK investors across investment stages and asset classes can collectively coordinate and streamline the process by which an innovation moves from Seed to Series A, B, and beyond.

Confirmed Speakers
Bertrand Badré, Managing Partner and Founder - Blue Like an Orange
Beverley Gower-Jones OBE, Managing Partner and Founder - Clean Growth Fund
Bob Wigley, Chairman - UK Finance
Speakers
Bertrand Badré, Managing Partner and Founder - Blue Like an Orange