We’re excited to announce we’ve been accepted onto the 2025 cohort of the Converge Challenge’s Net Zero programme.
At Etive Mor, we’re building software tools to help make international trade more sustainable. Global trade accounts for around 1% of GHG emissions. We believe that we can reduce this impact by finding more sustainable transportation opportunities, at price-points competitive with the status-quo option.
Selected from hundreds of applicants, we’ll join a cohort of 15 net-zero aligned companies. The challenge will provide hands-on business training and entrepreneur support, as well as a chance to pitch for part of a £400k fund.
Co-founders Liam and Steve say that they’re “excited and honoured to be selected from such a competitive applicant pool of budding entrepreneurs”.
The Converge Challenge is supported by all 19 of Scotland’s universities, with at least one company from each university in attendance. It empowers Scottish academic entrepreneurs (including students, researchers, and academics) to build novel business ideas. Each project is given expert business training, led by the Entrepreneur Business School. The Challenge was setup in 2011, and since then it has built an astonishing track record. In the years since opening, it has provided business support to more than 400 companies, who have gone on to raise over £400m in follow-on funding.
We’re looking forward to meeting colleagues from across Scotland, and ideating alongside the other 14 net-zero-aligned entrepreneurs working on the net-zero part of the challenge.
We’re working through product development right now, and we’d love to chat to anyone working in trade forfaiting and/or financing. We want to conduct a few interviews about the challenges you face in your job, particularly around sustainability.
You can follow our progress on the Converge Challenge cohort by following us on LinkedIn. If you’re interested in chatting about our sustainable trade software, reach out through our Contact Form.