MSIP Accelerator

The MSIP Accelerator is an intense business accelerator designed to help ambitious, young companies who are developing new solutions in sustainable mobility and decarbonisation achieve a step-change in their business.

This structured programme is modelled on best-in class tech accelerators, designed to help you achieve a step change in your venture, build confidence and increase momentum for growth.

The MSIP Accelerator is structured around 3 key pillars of activity:

1. Learning – Gaining proven start-up skills, tools and frameworks.
2. Executing – Applying learnings to your venture.
3. Connecting – Growing your network, learning from experts and meeting investors.

The MSIP Accelerator is delivered over 12 weeks, including:

• Self-Study e-learning modules (weekly) – Accessed via a private portal so you can explore at your convenience.
• Three full day in-person sessions at MSIP (Launchpad week 1, mid-point and final event).
• Live Online Workshops (weekly, between in-person sessions) – Interactive workshops to practice key concepts with peers, linking to how you can apply the learning to your venture. Each session will include either group problem solving or a Roundtable event, which will give you the opportunity to meet a guest speaker and build your network.
• 1:1 Coaching – You will be assigned a coach that will meet your 3 times over the programme. The coach will provide accountability and support as required around the development of your opportunity, your investor readiness and/or pitch practice.

The programme ends with an exciting final pitch event in front of a panel of investors and funders, giving you the opportunity to showcase your venture to investment experts and your peers.

We will soon be opening applications for Cohort 5 of the MSIP Accelerator Programme, to begin in Autumn 2024.

If you feel your organisation could benefit from participating, send an expression of interest to [email protected].

Our fourth Accelerator Cohort finished in Winter 2023. Cohort 4 participants included:

Other Way Climate Limited: Accelerating climate action in every journey and every vehicle.

Donaa Ltd: Donaa delivers a powerful AI tool to detect defects in real-time during 3D printing, enabling manufacturers to save costs and protect the environment.

BOABER by Innovate Rural: Boaber is an on-demand boat travel booking app using the power of AI to keep it live and current.

BioBright: Elevating Interiors with Algae Elegance – Enhancing Spaces, Oxygenating Lives, and Nurturing the Planet.

Copper & Carbon Ltd: IRIS- A powerful wind turbine which can speed up the NetZero ambition by controlling the wind flow, yielding better at low wind and operating beyond cutoff range.

Redbarn Group Ltd t/as ‘Veritherm‘: Decarbonising buildings and empowering sustainability by making measurement mainstream.

Recarbox: The Garage innovation that fits into any common car parking space and makes electric driving and safe parking accessible to anyone.

Well Spent Ltd: Upcycling Brewers Spent Grain into Healthy, Sustainable Snacks.

HydroTrux (Greenway Fuels): Drive CH2ange – Co-Combustion H2 kits made for fleets NOW!

Our third Accelerator Cohort concluded in December 2022. Cohort 3 participants were:

Kinetic Hydro Ltd: River turbines that are reliable and easy to use for off-grid communities.

Láidir Circular Mobility Ltd: Láidir Circular Mobility is focussing on enabling a circular bioeconomy energy and materials future for global off road vehicle, van and medium to heavy truck markets.

Tronius Ltd: EV technologies and Renewable Energy Management Solutions.

Shakey Robotics Innovators Ltd: A company formed to create, develop and spin out bespoke technology solutions which accelerate the maritime sectors drive towards Net Zero by 2040.

Myriad Wind Energy Systems Ltd: designing the next generation of high-performance wind turbines.

CalPac Resources Limited (previously Neocycl UK Ltd): We are a green metals technology company producing refined non-ferrous metals from scrap with zero carbon emissions.

Carruthers Renewables Ltd: Low Head Hydropower to Decarbonise the Global North and Electrify the Global South.

dpSun Ltd / IC2EV: Sustainable Electrification IC2EV is a project developed by dpSun to transform a combustion vehicle into a 100% electric vehicle, taking a polluting and long-lived vehicle such as a motorhome off the streets by incorporating the latest technology and a new e-Brain control unit, Reborn Electric.

4SB: A solution for city living electric car owners with limited access to roadside and overnight charging: an attachable, swappable ‘top-up’ battery. 4SB provides a solution for city living electric car owners with limited access to roadside and overnight charging: an attachable, swappable ‘jerry can’ battery.

ThermaFY Eco Solutions: ThermaFY offers the first holistic approach to improving the efficiency of heating systems and delivering a journey to net zero for individual homes.

Vahanomy Ltd: Vahanomy provides B2B AI-driven solutions to accelerate the rollout of the EV charging infrastructure through a location data analysis tool and marketplace for the EV charging infrastructure ecosystem.

HANA (Electric Motion) Ltd: Developing innovative solutions for ultra rapid EV charging in rural and semi-rural locations.

Our second MSIP Accelerator programme concluded in Autumn 2021. Cohort 2 participants were:

Bounce – SOFTWARE

Electric vehicle solution provider

Boxergy: HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

Smart energy system

Caigan Vehicle Technologies: HARDWARE

Fleet vehicle conversion to zero emissions

City Q: HARDWARE

Car-eBike platform – an ebike and a “micro car”

Cyclopic: HARDWARE

Zero emission mobility platform technology

Danu Robotics: HARDWARE

Robotics for waste management

DCarbon: HARDWARE

Decarbonisation of existing home heating

ELE Group:  CONSULTANCY

Energy Systems

Kottackal /GreenPoint: SOFTWARE

EV Charging

QuickBlock Ltd: HARDWARE

Flat-packed, 100% recycled, rapid assembly building blocks. No tools or skills required

TraPar: SOFTWARE

Zero emission travel vehicle booking system

Our first MSIP Accelerator programme concluded in Spring 2021. Cohort 1 participants were:

Frisco E-Bikes: HARDWARE
Ebike and Solar Docking Station

Genista Energy: HARDWARE
Design/installation of custom battery systems

Intra-Drive: HARDWARE
E-bike powertrain technology with combined gearbox and motor mid-drive system

LIND Products: HARDWARE
A unique energy storage and heating solution

PowerCircle: SOFTWARE
New social Energy Service Company (esco) and Virtual Power Plant (VPP)

Power to go Hydro: HARDWARE
Inflatable waterwheel

SolarisKit: HARDWARE
World’s first Flat-packable solar thermal collector

Zuos: SOFTWARE
Smart local energy systems for a low carbon future.