The Cleantech Open 2012 Business Competition
About the Cleantech Open
The Cleantech Open is the world’s largest accelerator. We provide entrepreneurs and technologists the resources needed to launch successful cleantech companies. Our mission is to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges.
About the Business Competition
The Cleantech Open Business Competition consists of a number of key activities; extensive mentoring, training, business clinics, access to investors and capital, numerous opportunities to showcase to the media and the public, and the competition itself. Since its inception in 2006, the Cleantech Open has awarded over $5M in cash and services to support cleantech growth companies. The 581 participating companies of the Cleantech Open’s accelerator programs have raised more than $660 million in external capital.
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How the Business Competition Works

*Grand Prize up to $100,000 cash (grant and/or investment). All cash prizes may be cash grant and/or investment and are subject to change.
Alumni Success stories
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Members of the press gather to hear about the newest Cleantech Open successes.
2009 Launch guests view the prototype from Electric Vehicle Research Company.
A crowd of hundreds eagerly await the announcement of the national prize package, worth $250,000.
Platinum Sponsor, PG&E, hosts a table at a recent event. Many sponsors participate in multiple ways with the Cleantech Open.