The online Cleantech ecosystem, announces the release of its global Cleantech Grants, Awards and Production Incentives database

Hundreds of funding sources, from all over the world and updated daily, will help green entrepreneurs, startups and larger companies access capital to kickstart their projects, accelerate their innovation process and grow their business. End Quote

The largest database of grants, cash awards and incentives to help green entrepreneurs, startups and companies around the world grow their business.

(1888PressRelease) February 04, 2010 - Skipso (http://www.skipso.com), the technology start-up whose mission is to connect the global Cleantech community and help Cleantech Companies go to market faster and accelerate their innovation process, is announcing the release of its global online database of Cleantech Grants, Awards and Production Incentives. With hundreds of Cleantech grants already browsable for free on its website, Skipso addresses one of the biggest roadblocks for today's Cleantech entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies at large: access to capital.

Whether it's seed capital to get groundbreaking ideas off the ground, government grants to finance research in next generation clean technologies, production incentives and tax reliefs to stimulate the installation of specific Cleantech products, or simply cash prizes and awards to reward leading green companies and entrepreneurs, Skipso has it all!

With a simple and intuitive user interface (http://www.skipso.com/grants/grid.html), Skipso enables users to search and browse through over 600 grants, awards and incentives (over $38 billion in cumulative value!) from all over the world. New grants are added on a daily basis from sectors that include Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Waste & Emissions, Water Management, Materials & Industrial Production and other Sustainability sectors. Users can search by key industry sector as well as by a number of other parameters such as geographic location, type of grant, type of provider, application eligibility, or keyword.

About Skipso
Skipso is a UK-based start-up that leverages the power of the Internet and Open Innovation (Crowdsourcing) to accelerate the next wave of Cleantech innovation.

Skipso's virtual ecosystem helps Cleantech companies, innovators and entrepreneurs around the world kick-start their projects, grow their business, accelerate their innovation process and find resources more efficiently and at lower costs. In particular, Skipso allows them to:

• Have easier access to capital and research grants to fund their business
• Tap into a worldwide community of experts to access new ideas or tackle complex business and scientific challenges at a fraction of the cost
• Find top talent to fill key job vacancies
• Identify quality suppliers to implement their Cleantech projects or partners to commercialise products and services
• Promote their products and services reaching out to potential customers on a global scale

By connecting a highly fragmented and disaggregated Cleantech industry, Skipso's platform aims to foster innovation and open collaboration.

http://www.skipso.com

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