ClimateLaunchpad North East-West Bengal, the world’s largest green business ideas competition, launched the inaugural edition of its climate and cleantech startup accelerator in the state in an effort to solve climate and environmental problems through entrepreneurship. The programme is part of the entrepreneurship offerings by EIT Climate-KIC, the European Union’s innovation program for climate change, and has been supported in the North-East by Care Luit and the Climate Collective Foundation.
Care Luit partnered with the Climate Collective for the ClimateLaunchpad North East Bootcamp. Teams from North East, West Bengal had a focused, intensive and definitely fun experience, shaping their climate change fixing ideas.
The NE & West Bengal Boot Camp was held in Guwahati on August 17-18 at Aranya Bhawan in Panjabari. 13 startup teams were selected from a pool of over 30 applications to participate in the North-East bootcamp.
The competition enables startups in the east of India to foster cleantech entrepreneurship.
BEYOND, a Guwahati based startup was selected to participate in the Global Finals held in the Netherlands in November.
