Talented entrepreneurs with big ideas for solving the world’s most pressing environmental challenges abound, but for these innovators who receive little support from the government or traditional funding sources, their challenge is not only raising the necessary capital to take their ideas to market, but also how best to get there. The Cleantech Open has helped startups raise $800 million for over 700 alumni since its inception in 2006.
Together with Cleantech Open business development co-chairs, Marianne Canero and Sonia Succar Ferré, Sean O’Hanlon, Cleantech Open Area Director for Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America, is launching Cleantech Open in South Florida to attract the best and brightest cleantech entrepreneurs, technologists and researchers from all over Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The launch event will be held on March 28 starting at 6pm and will be hosted in partnership with Wexford Science & Technology at the state-of-the-art University of Miami Life Science & Technology Park, located at the intersection of NW 7th Avenue and NW 20th Street.
The launch event will be the start of an eight-month business accelerator program in which clean and green entrepreneurs from around Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America are invited to submit their business concept to receive training and mentoring from business leaders that cultivate into funding for their business. The accelerator program will culminate in November when finalists go on to compete at the national level competition. Learn more at www.cleantechopen.org.