A Couple of Recent Speaking Opportunities

Over the last few weeks, Carbon Voyage has been fortunate to be able to speak about what we are doing – firstly at GreenNet 2010 in San Francisco run by GigaOm’s Earth2Tech and more recently at Low Carbon South West’s Low Carbon Startup Fest in Bath which was chaired by James Watson of the Economist Intelligence Unit. In both cases it was great to see some of the innovation from the other startups presenting Soneter and get a good insight into what is happening on both sides of the Atlantic. I think there is still a lot that the UK investment community can learn from what is happening in the US – things like Y-Combinator would be a welcome addition over here and schemes such as the EFG are proving to not deliver what they are intended for (Richard Tyler quoted me as saying something similar about the Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme in the Daily Telegraph back in January 2009). It has been useful in both cases to get a bit of feedback from venture capitalists and private investors about what they are after which will hopefully be of use when we do start actively seeking investment.