Our Programs for your Innovations
As part of Europe's first accelerator for forest and climate, we offer three individual program formats in which you, as a startup with a connection to forest and climate, are offered tailor-made access to mentors and experts, potential investors, and implementation partners. With our formats for innovation and events, we connect you with forest owners and relevant stakeholders from business, science and politics, we accompany and organise pilot projects and initiate strategic partnerships for your successful brand entry.
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If you are an early-stage team or startups, with Future Forest #connect we give you access to an immense pool of knowledge and a strong, interdisciplinary network! To do this, we bundle partner offers with our own formats, e.g. an online workshop series on relevant startup topics, where you can get to know us. In order to strengthen the ecosystem, we work together with various partner organizations who offer interesting formats, in which the focus is on the transfer of business know-how and the development of business models in the context of forest and climate change.
As a more mature Pre-Seed or Seed-Startup you should apply for our #accelerate Program, that is aimed to support you with your go-to-market strategy. The core of the #accelerate pillar is an accelerator program lasting several months with face-to-face and online formats and the finale (Demo Day) at the Future Forest Forum at the impressive Blankenburg Castle in the Harz Mountains. To this end, we provide you with a network of over 40 mentors who will support you with your milestones, as well as attractive partners with whom you can optimise your solutions. The program's main language is English, since #accelerate is also aimed at international startups from all over Europe.
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The third pillar of our Accelerator is aimed at successful start-ups, which we support individually on two levels: Market entry and financing.
Become market-ready in our Future Forest Innovation Lab. Here you can test your innovations in practice and prepare or accelerate your market entry. You will receive access to space, partners, experts, individual support and (partial) funding for your pilot projects. The programme is challenge-based, i.e. you can apply for specific topic calls, e.g. on the topic of biodiversity.
If you are looking for financing, we will support you individually with your financing strategy in our new finance bootcamps, e.g. through access to our investor network, workshops and an investor dinner. The application is open to all startups.
OUR FOCUS
The focus of our accelerator programs is on impact startups from the forest, wood, and climate tech areas that pursue entrepreneurial goals. We support in particular pre-seed and seed stage startups with an existing prototype or an existing business model. Thematically, we act under 3 pillars: Smart Forestry, Ecosystem Services and Climate Solutions.
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