Deadline: 4 April 2024
Rise Start-Up Academy: Climate FinTech Edition is looking to support entrepreneurs bringing a Climate FinTech solution to market. Here you’ll think about your entire business and all its moving parts, learn to pitch for funding, grow your customer base, and launch with confidence. Continue to refine your MVP, explore pricing, and develop an understanding of business model dynamics
The Rise Start-Up Academy: Climate FinTech Edition is delivered to you by Rise, created by Barclays and Rainmaking. Committed to being the catalyst for change in financial services they have teamed up to support your entrepreneurial growth. To ensure you can access the support flexibly, the Rise Start-Up Academy: Climate FinTech content will be delivered online through ASPIRE, Rainmaking’s’ digital learning and development platform.
The programme is entirely virtual, meaning you can learn from anywhere. You will just need a laptop and Wi-Fi to access the weekly workshops and dedicated support available through the programme. Note that all verbal and written communications are in English.
Across the 10 weeks, you’ll fine-tune your product, get to grips with the foundations of pricing, understand how to increase sales and learn how to build out your team. At the same time you’ll be searching for a repeatable and scalable business model. Participants will benefit from a collection of products and services that are highly demanded by entrepreneurs, including Amazon Web Service (AWS), HubSpot for start-ups, 7Cups, Rooney Law and Accelerate Law.
You will have the opportunity to showcase your business and practice your pitch by pitching to the Academies Team and getting feedback from experts. They encourage you to keep learning as you will have access to the online content for 6 months post-programme. You will also be invited to join the Rise Academies alumni network, allowing you to continue to connect with like-minded individuals.
Why should you consider applying?
- Over 10 weeks, you will access the skills, tools and resources to help you take your start-up to market. With other like-minded founders, you’ll:
- Learn from anywhere: 24/7 access to your curriculum, benefit from the structure of weekly modules and bite-sized videos to help you gain the tools and mindset to build your business.
- Learn by doing: Through weekly activities and live workshops, keep yourself accountable by applying, testing and building on what you’ve learned.
- Learn as a community: Build your network with a cohort of like-minded fintech founders and growth experts so you can share your experiences, challenges and opportunities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals or teams from Europe (including the UK), the US and Canada. You’re building a Climate FinTech solution which falls into one of the following categories; Carbon management, Direct mitigation, Climate risk management.
- The Rise Start-up Academy: Climate FinTech Edition is best suited for Climate FinTech founders of an early-stage start-up who have raised either pre-seed or seed-stage funding and has a team up to 6. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to identifying successful founders/ideas, in terms of age, education, work experience or geographical location.
For more information, visit Rise.
