Ocean Business b2match 2025

10 Apr 2025 | European Way, United Kingdom

Andrew Smith

M.D.

Greenbackers Investment Capital

Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Andrew co founded Greenbackers Investment Capital , and founded the Deja Blue consultancy

My organisation

GREENBACKERS Investment Capital are specialists for cleantech and climate technology venture capital (both equity and debt) and first-institutional funding. We are the go-to fundraising advisory for Climate Tech ventures seeking to raise first institutional capital. Greenbackers are a highly experienced, but down-to-earth team who remove a lot of the fear and confusion from fundraising for founders. We offer a goldilocks (just right) value proposition which falls in-between (a) founders trying to raise on their own (low cost but soul destroying) and (b) retaining a major investment bank or mainstream advisory firm (cripplingly expensive and generalist), Greenbackers uses a combination of digital and on-premises channels to help make the founder and investor experience as efficient, engaging and effective as possible. Effective fundraising in cleantech today requires a different approach. We have your back. For most for cleantech founders, raising first institutional capital can be very hard. Accessing venture capital today is a world apart from first-round funding via angels or crowdfunding. Greenbackers can help. Our superpower is in finding right institutional investor for right opportunity, from a community of over 4000 cleantech funds which we have identified globally. Greenbackers is focused only on cleantech/climate tech and have a 20-year track record in the sector., We provide early input and feedback to founders to ensure their pitch proposition is on-point and investor-ready., We manage a Digital Deal platform promoting our client’s deals in detail, coupled with in-person events and robust post-event follow-up with our global network of investors., Greenbackers also have a strong Ecosystem community of Service Partners who provide support, (i.e. ‘more than money’) including Grant Funding, AI enablement, Patent strategy, Recruitment (technical and C-suite), IPO advisory, term sheet support and more
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About me

Andrew co founded Greenbackers Investment Capital , and founded the Deja Blue consultancy and before that ran the £103m Renewable Energy Investment Fund by Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) and was Head of Investment for DP Energy.

At SIB Andrew invested into the marine energy sector, including ground-breaking, and still world leading, investments into wave and tidal businesses and projects. Andrew is intimately involved, on a daily basis, with the marine energy sector, including engagements with offshore wind, aquaculture and oil and gas as they seek to find ways of decarbonising and electrifying. The use cases of and for marine energy are part of Andrews daily work.

Greenbackers delivered the largest technology showcase at COP26 and are currently delivering their 2024 Program taking clean, climate technologies to investment hotspots around the world.

Andrew is a current board member of the UK Marine Energy Council a registered Expert with the European Commission, a member of the FTech2Zero working Group, a member of the expert panel advising the EU on its new Innovation Fund,  a member of the United Nations' Sustainable Blue Finance Initiative of the World Ocean Council, an assessor for the Solar Impulse Foundation’s 1000 Solutions program and a Global Scot.

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    Greenbackers is catalysing investment by connecting disruptive technology providers to our large network of climate focused investors

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    Andrew Smith

    M.D. at Greenbackers Investment Capital

    Glasgow, United Kingdom