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How Streamline helps startups unlock $100B in climate grant funding | EP 057 with Helena Merk
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How Streamline helps startups unlock $100B in climate grant funding | EP 057 with Helena Merk
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Jan 3, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We're joined by Helena Merk, CEO of Streamline Climate. Helena, who started as a coder, now leads the charge in helping startups navigate the tricky world of climate tech funding. What led her from coding to this niche? How startups succeed in this complex world?
Helena shares insights into different grant programs, the importance of building relationships with grant issuers, and the challenges startups face in the grant landscape. Helena also emphasizes Streamline's role in aiding companies to find and apply for appropriate grants.
About Streamline Climate:
Streamline Climate is an innovative platform designed to assist climate companies in the fast and efficient drafting of proposals, particularly for grants, RFPs, permits, accelerator applications, and awards. The service is geared towards teams looking to maximize their impact in the climate sector, providing a streamlined process for generating and managing documents.
Streamline Climate offers a variety of features including templates, AI-driven suggestions for key points in proposals, and tools for building a compelling narrative, all aimed at saving time and enhancing the quality of submissions.
About VSC Ventures:
For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building.
Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds.
Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.
Helena shares insights into different grant programs, the importance of building relationships with grant issuers, and the challenges startups face in the grant landscape. Helena also emphasizes Streamline's role in aiding companies to find and apply for appropriate grants.
About Streamline Climate:
Streamline Climate is an innovative platform designed to assist climate companies in the fast and efficient drafting of proposals, particularly for grants, RFPs, permits, accelerator applications, and awards. The service is geared towards teams looking to maximize their impact in the climate sector, providing a streamlined process for generating and managing documents.
Streamline Climate offers a variety of features including templates, AI-driven suggestions for key points in proposals, and tools for building a compelling narrative, all aimed at saving time and enhancing the quality of submissions.
About VSC Ventures:
For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building.
Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds.
Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.
Released:
Jan 3, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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