Corporate Innovation
Building partnerships to advance climate tech
Looking to accelerate your organisation’s Net Zero journey?
Our Corporate Innovation team brings together leading businesses looking for sustainability solutions with climate tech startups ready to scale. With expert guidance, access to thousands of high-growth startups across our ecosystem, and proven engagement models, we enable you to build impactful partnerships for a lasting competitive edge in the transition to a greener future.
Advancing climate tech together
Access to our climate tech startup community
50+
Startups in the investment portfolio
800+
Startups directly supported
2,800
Startups connected in wider ecosystem
Partnership Engagement Approaches
Advancing climate tech requires dedicated collaboration across diverse stakeholders. At Sustainable Ventures, we connect leading corporations with our global startup ecosystem, fostering impactful, high-value partnerships that unlock sustainable innovation and growth. We find that the best landing point typically starts from 1 of 3 approaches:
Accelerate
Connect with our startup community and contribute to scaling climate tech whilst sourcing innovative solutions for your business.
Catalyse
Venture into new ways of working with climate tech startups. Unlock new innovation capabilities to develop market-ready solutions.
Pioneer
Redefine markets through multi-stakeholder collaboration around complex, systemic sustainability challenges.
Why work with us?
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Our team is full of experienced innovators and entrepreneurs, bringing 12+ years of sector-specific knowledge in commercially scaling sustainability solutions
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We’re building one of the world’s most impactful climate tech ecosystems - having supported supported hundreds of startups and built deep connections with investor, innovation and academic networks.
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Our mission is built on achieving both financial success and meaningful impact. This principle underpins our approach to partnerships, ensuring corporate-startup collaborations create win-win opportunities for all stakeholders.
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Our Fellows programme connects experienced business leaders with pioneering climate-tech founders, fostering knowledge sharing, bridging talent gaps, and preparing founders for scalable growth.
FAQs
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Get in touch with our Corporate Innovation team. We will set up a call to understand your scope, ambition and priorities in more detail.
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Yes, but it isn’t a requirement. We are always happy to introduce you to our investment team but many of our corporate partnerships do not involve direct investments into the startups.
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Not at all. We recognise that each corporation is at a different stage of their sustainability transition, so work to identify the most impactful, feasible starting point to begin a partnership. This evolves over time based on your needs, ambition and priorities.
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Please complete this short nomination form here and we will be in touch.