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Building Bridges to Scale: A Roadmap to Sustainable Financing

29 Apr 2025
Finance Forum
Start-Ups Funders (Investors & Lenders)

This session examines what rules and regulations are required to create the optimal enabling environment for clean tech innovations to stay continually funded through successive rounds and achieve scale. We ask how investors in both domestic and emerging markets can collectively coordinate and streamline the process by which an innovation moves from Seed to Series A, B, and beyond.

Moderator
James Hooton, Managing Director - Green Finance Institute
Confirmed Speakers
Bertrand Badré, Former MD of the World Bank, and Managing Partner and Founder - Blue Like an Orange
Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer - Standard Chartered
Beverley Gower-Jones OBE, Managing Partner and Founder - Clean Growth Fund
Rushad Nanavatty, Managing Director - Third Derivative / Rocky Mountain Institute
Bob Wigley, Chairman - UK Finance