Martin Garratt CEO at Cambridge Cleantech (pictured accepting the award on behalf of Azuri Technologies) comments: “We congratulate Azuri Technologies for being awarded the winner in this prestigious international cleantech competition. We nominated a range of companies from our recently compiled list of Cleantech 50 Growth companies and are delighted that Azuri Technologies has been announced as the top international cleantech company, fending off competition from across the globe. The GCCA awards will be held in the UK in late 2017 and this result underlines our decision and commitment to host and organise the event.”
The GCCA Awards ceremony and dinner was held this week at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas in conjunction with the Global Solutions Summit and the Club de Madrid (CdM), an organisation comprised of more than 100 former Presidents, Prime Ministers and Heads of State.
"We are particularly proud to announce Azuri Technologies as the GCCA Grand Prize Winner 2016 together with the Founder of the nominating cluster Martin Garratt from Cambridge Cleantech, UK," said Christian Haeuselmann, Chairman of the GCCA and Cluster Manager for Swiss Cleantech. "The GCCA Grand Prize recognizes exceptional positioning opportunities for the company, due to its market, industry, and management strengths, relative to the benchmark."
Dr Peter Adriaens, Head Judge of the GCCA Later Stage Awards and developer of the Keystone Compact™, comments "The 2016 Global Winners demonstrate investment grade, scalable businesses that have market traction. The 2016 winners are some of the world's most sought after and up-and-coming equity-investable cleantech companies from across our member clusters."
The top three winners are:
- Azuri Technologies, Cambridge Cleantech, UK.
- Enervates, Flanders Cleantech Association, Belgium.
- GreenSync, Australia Cleantech.
About Cambridge Cleantech
Cambridge Cleantech is the members’ organisation supporting the growth of environmental goods and services or “cleantech” companies in Greater Cambridge and across the region. Our ambitious plans are to further develop Cambridge as a leading cleantech centre in Europe and in doing so help promote the next wave of the Cambridge hi-tech cluster. Cambridge Cleantech encourages supply chain opportunities for companies in the sector, enables shared experience of innovative growth businesses and provides collective services such as access to finance, government regulatory updates and links to international partners.
More information about Cambridge Cleantech
About the Top 50 Cleantech Growth Companies
The Top 50 Cleantech growth companies represent the list of the next generation of cleantech growth companies has been compiled by Cambridge Cleantech and KPMG. The list is comprised of those companies which have developed beyond the start-up phase and are showing real growth against a range of criteria from year on year revenue growth to higher staffing levels and internationalisation.
More information about the Top 50 Cleantech Growth Companies
About the Global Cleantech Cluster Association
The Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) is a Swiss Foundation that provides access to capital, corporates, markets and insights. Vision is to drive sustainable regional economic development, on a global scale.
GCCA is a fully independent open platform designed to support the development towards a shared economy and low carbon prosperity. Since its launch in 2010, more than 50 clusters from across the world have joined the GCCA, representing 10,000 Cleantech companies.
With the GCCA Deployment HUB Network and its digital platforms in Europe, Asia and North America, GCCA drives the modernization of cross-border business collaboration by converging physical and digital cluster ecosystems. A GCCA focus task is the development of new financial mechanisms to enable large-scale commercial deployment of proven technologies. Goal is to provide an investment alternative at appropriate risk and return expectations for institutional investors, e.g. pension funds.
For more information about the GCCA, please visit www.globalcleantech.org
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For more information contact:
Martin Garratt, CEO tel: 07789 922487 or 01223 750017
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