As a part of The Asia Pacific Low Carbon Lifestyles Challenge, Massive Earth Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme are organizing a 9 week virtual Bootcamp to train and mentor startups, and help them become investment-ready. The selected entrepreneurs will attend an online bootcamp to build their knowledge and skills in sustainability, communications, carbon footprinting and business planning. The bootcamp will also build a support network between likeminded entrepreneurs.

The bootcamp covers the following topics:

• Business skills and entrepreneurship. Idea formulation and validation, Pitch decks, Business plan preparation, financial projections, team development, ideal team mix and size, Legal and finance, accounting, profit and loss, balance sheets, cashflow, financial statements, term sheets, pitching to investors, key parameters, scaling up and leadership.

• Sustainability.Low carbon lifestyles, the psychology of consumption patterns, gender mainstreaming, inclusive business, sustainability policy.

• Carbon footprinting.Establishing your life cycle inventory, using carbon intensity characterisation factors, reporting on carbon footprints.

• Communication and marketing.Branding, digital marketing, design.

Entrepreneurs joining this bootcamp will learn how to strengthen their businesses and bring their vision for a green recovery from COVID-19 to reality.

Over the course of the program, participants will learn from experts in startup growth, pitching to investors, carbon footprinting and sustainability. The program provides a great opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs in sustainability.

For the winning startups participating in the full program, the combination of webinars and one-to-one sessions are aimed at developing an investor deck, measuring your impact and improving your pitch. In order to make the program as productive as possible, we ask that startups come prepared with their investor deck and pitch deck, so that they have a starting point that can be further developed and refined as needed over the course of the program.

Full agenda and registration details can be found at: 

https://www.unenvironment.org/regions/asia-and-pacific/asia-pacific-low-carbon-lifestyles-challenge/bootcamp