SuperCluster
ClimAccelerator

Industrial Decarbonisation 2025

The SuperCluster ClimAccelerator is a unique programme designed to accelerate high-impact industrial decarbonisation startups in the Climate Tech SuperCluster region. This 16-week hybrid programme, starting in spring 2025, is a collaboration between Cambridge Cleantech, Cambridge Consultants — the Deep Tech powerhouse of Capgemini — and EIT Climate-KIC.

Why us?

World-leading Deeptech and Climate Tech Expertise

Cambridge Consultants is one of the World’s leading deeptech consultancies with unparalleled expertise in developing and commercialising cutting-edge deep tech solutions. Alongside Cambridge Cleantech and the Climate Tech SuperCluster the accelerator has a unique combination of skills to support emerging and scaling industrial decarbonisation innovators.

Global Ecosystem

The Climate Tech SuperCluster is emerging as a new engine of economic growth for the UK and Europe. Centred around London as a global financial hub it has the UK and Europe’s highest concentration of start-ups, investment and innovation.

Global Networks and Investment

Through EIT Climate-KIC participants gain access to a global network of resources, partners and investors. The programme is also connected to the Cleantech Venture Day, one of Europe’s foremost cleantech investment days providing access to UK and European cleantech investor networks.

Meet the cohort

Oxford, UK

Electrogenos sits at the cutting-edge of the Alkaline Electrolyser technology, advancing innovation in the field of green-hydrogen production. Its mission is to facilitate the widespread adoption of green hydrogen.

Cambridge, UK

H2Upgrade is a technology that produces H2 on-demand and in a distributed manner, using value-less industrial waste.

Cambridge, UK

Shuffle Energy is a software company providing commercial and residential heat asset (e.g. heat pumps) manufacturers and controllers with a seamless way to provide energy flexibility revenue to their customers.

London, UK

NANOPLUME is developing high-performance, super-insulating bio aerogels to minimise energy loss and enhance efficiency in the built environment and cold chain logistics.

Madrid, Spain

NIDO Hydrogel gives thermal inertia, fire resistance and acoustic insulation to wood construction systems (CLT and timber-frame).

Cambridge, UK

Prospectral has designed a new approach to spectral imaging and is building a technology to empower companies with dramatically lower-cost, more compact, and less complex cameras for gathering the data required to detect and analyse materials.

Cambridge, UK

Protonera’s innovative approach combines photoreforming with an enzymatic pre-treatment step, allowing unsorted waste plastics to be converted into a variety of breakdown products, including high-value monomers and oligomers.

Cambridge, UK

Remedium is developing a new carbon capture technology, carbon capture heat battery. Carbon capture heat battery operates by capturing carbon dioxide from high emitting industries and monetizes the variation in cost of electricity to drive down the cost of carbon capture.

Grenoble, France

Shifted stores electricity by combining pumped hydro and compressed air to solve the intermittency of Wind and Solar PV. The solution provides electricity at half the cost of lithium-ion batteries, can be deployed anywhere, and does not rely on critical materials.

Madrid, Spain

Silbat is developing a long-duration (100hrs) battery based on the latent heat of fusion of silicon. It can attain energy-related CAPEX <$10/kWh that would enable 100% dispatchable variable renewable energies, operating at competitive prices with nowadays fossil or nuclear-fueled power plants.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

TerraWaste's innovative technology, htloop, is based on the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). This process converts household (organic and inorganic) and industrial waste into useful products, like synthetic crude oil, biochar, or synthetic gas, under the influence of high pressure and temperature.

16 weeks
Hybrid online and in-person
11
High-potential startups
750+
Scientists, engineers, designers, and consultants

Programme highlights

Intensive training
4-day in-person training in Cambridge and once a fortnight 2-hour masterclasses / fireside chat / industry leaders advice and feedback sessions.
Targeted support
Fortnightly (1 hour) one-to-one mentoring with senior Cambridge Consultants experts and technical leads to address your company's specific techno-commercial challenges.
World-class expertise
Access in-depth business planning and technology roadmapping guidance from Cambridge Consultants.
Rigorous validation
Third-party technology and investment readiness evaluations to enhance investor confidence.
Climate-SAFE
Access to EIT Climate-KIC's financial sustainability tool.
Cleantech Venture Day
Demo day during the Supercluster Cleantech Venture Day in London.
Climate Impact Hypothesis
Preliminary assessment of the potential climate impact of the company's innovative solutions by Impact Forecast.
International ecosystem & networking access
Integration into the Climate Tech SuperCluster ecosystem, including access to Climate-KIC's investor network.

Timeline

22 Jan 2025
21 Feb 2025
3 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025
24-27 Mar 2025
25 June 2025
30 June 2025
Applications open
Applications deadline
Cohort selection announcement
Online programme start
In-person week (Cambridge)
In-person demo day (London)
Programme close

The Team

Cambridge Consultants - Part of Capgemini Invest
Eric Griess, Programme Lead at Cambridge Consultants

Eric Griess

Programme Lead, Cambridge Consultants
Steve Thomas, Commercial Lead at Cambridge Consultants

Steve Thomas

Commercial Lead, Cambridge Consultants
Tony Dickens, Technical Lead at Cambridge Consultants

Tony Dickens

Technical Lead, Cambridge Consultants
Cambridge Cleantech
Sam Goodall, CEO at Cambridge Cleantech

Sam Goodall

CEO, Cambridge Cleantech
Camila Vila-Echagüe, Head of Innovation and International Projects at Cambridge Cleantech

Camila Vila-Echagüe

Head of Innovation and International Projects, Cambridge Cleantech
Sylvie Russell, COO at Cambridge Cleantech

Sylvie Russell

COO, Cambridge Cleantech

Partners

Climate Tech SuperCluster

The ClimateTech SuperCluster is a groundbreaking initiative spanning five European nations – the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. It fosters a powerful concentration of entrepreneurship, research and development (R&D), innovation, and markets dedicated to the fast-growing ClimateTech sector. This geographically diverse cluster encompasses 15 cities, with the ambitious goal of accelerating the development of a globally competitive ClimateTech industry while aiding individual nations and regions in their climate transition journeys.

Cambridge Consultants - Part of Capgemini Invest

Cambridge Consultants (CC) is the deep tech powerhouse of the Capgemini Group. Deep tech is a mindset, a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It delivers transformative business value and growth for our clients, who gain defensible commercial and operational advantage from new-to-the-world products, services and processes that they own. We overcome the ultimate business challenge: turning something that doesn’t yet exist into a reality. Our advice is built on practice, with over 750 scientists, engineers, designers and consultants working globally across more than 20,000 sq. m of state-of-the-art R&D facilities. As part of Capgemini Invent, CC is backed by 340,000+ Capgemini team members in more than 50 countries.

Cambridge Cleantech

Cambridge Cleantech is a UK and European-based innovation network that connects SMEs, investors, corporations, and academics for a smarter, more sustainable future. Founded in 2011, we are the UK's leading cleantech cluster firmly embedded in Cambridge, UK, and in international climate tech innovation ecosystems. We work across the low-carbon economy to facilitate innovation partnerships and technology commercialisation in some of the most dynamic sectors, including energy, transport, green buildings, water, smart cities, advanced materials, and hydrogen.

Climate KIC

EIT Climate-KIC is Europe's leading climate innovation agency and community, supporting cities, regions, countries and industries to meet their climate ambitions through systems innovation and place-based transformations.

Ready to be part of something bigger?

The Climate Tech SuperCluster is driven by the people inside it. From breakthrough innovators to those who help build and back the ecosystem, there are many ways to be part of it.

Climate Tech SuperCluster
The climate innovation ecosystem for the UK and Europe.