Martin Garratt, CEO at Cambridge Cleantech, comments: “We congratulate Azuri Technologies and Wirepas for being named as top 10 winners 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 these two companies have been successful. The GCCA awards will be held in the UK in late 2017 and Cambridge Cleantech will be hosting and organising the event.”
The Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) has named the Global Top 10 Winners for its 6th GCCA Later Stage Awards 2016. The mid- to late-stage companies originate from the major cleantech industries, including solar, wind and clean web to lighting, energy efficiency, mobility, urban agriculture and water.
The Top 10 Winners were sorted from nominees from the world’s leading GCCA cleantech clusters. Each nominee was then assessed by the KeyStone Compact™ business risk rating methodology. The Global Top 3 and the GCCA Grand Prize Winner will be announced in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA on December 13th, 2016.
"The 2016 Global Top 10 Winners demonstrate investment grade, strong product differentiation, scalable business models and have market traction," said Dr. Peter Adriaens, Head Judge of the GCCA Later Stage Awards and developer of the Keystone Compact™.
"Narrowing down the nominations from more than 105 to 10 follows a detailed and robust data analytics process. The 2016 Global Top 10 are some of the world's most sought after and up-and-coming equity investable cleantech companies across our member clusters."
For more about the assessment tool, please visit www.corymbus.co
The GCCA Later Stage Awards 2016 ceremony will be held on December 13th at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock in conjunction with the Global Solutions Summit (GSS) 2016.
GSS 2016 will meet in collaboration with the Club de Madrid (CdM), an organisation comprised of more than 100 former Presidents, Prime Ministers and Heads of State which will be reconvening in the Club de Madrid - P80 Group “Reunion Proceedings”, and the 6th GCCA Awards Dinner.
GSS 2016 builds on the widely-acclaimed inaugural Global Solutions Summit which first convened at the US State Department in April 2014. "Enabling large scale commercial deployment of proven sustainable technologies is a key focus of GCCA since 2010," said Christian Haeuselmann, GCCA’s Co-Founder and Chairman.
“The annual GCCA Later Stage Awards bring the best companies of our cluster partners to the forefront - we encourage you to engage with them and benefit from their unique services and business models.”
The 2016 Later Stage Award Global Top 10 Winners are:
- FluidSolids - Switzerland - Bioenergy/Biomaterials
- GreenSync - Australia - Energy Storage/Smart Grid
- Magrow - Ireland - Food/Urban Agriculture
- Enervalis - Flanders - Lighting/Energy Efficiency
- M-Field Energy - Taiwan - Energy Storage/Smart Grid
- CleanSpark - San Diego, California - Energy Sorage/Smart Grid
- SmartWires - San Diego, California - Energy Storage/Smart Grid
- Wirepas - Finland - CleanWeb/Sustainable IT
- WaterTectonics – Seattle, Washington – Water
- Azuri Technologies – Cambridge, UK - Solar/Wind
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. For more information about Cambridge Cleantech, please visit www.cambridgecleantech.org.uk
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. For more information about the Top 50 Cleantech Growth Companies, please visit: www.cambridgecleantech.org.uk/top-50-cleantech-growth-companies-announced-at-cambridgecleantech-conference
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 martin.garratt@cambridgecleantech.org.uk
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