Finalists Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2015 announced

The preliminary jury of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2015 selected five finalists from the 25 entrepreneurs nominated for the challenge. The entrepreneurs represented companies with clever products, technologies or services that show how people around the globe are working to build social enterprises that could help solve the climate problem. The finalists are: Fleet Cleaner (NL), Evrnu (US), Ooho! (UK), Land Life Company (NL) and Muufri (US).

The five finalists will come to Amsterdam from September 7 until September 11, 2015. They will pitch their business plan on stage before a selected audience and expert international jury on Thursday September 10, at the Gashouder venue in Amsterdam. In the week leading up to the event, the finalists will attend pitch and presentation training sessions that are hosted by Rockstart. The winner will receive € 500,000 to help bring his or her plan to market. An additional € 200,000 will go to one runner-up.
To encourage and aid the invention of great new green products and services, the Dutch Postcode Lottery hosts the annual competition 'Postcode Lottery Green Challenge'. The competition calls on creative, innovative thinkers from around the world to submit business plans for sustainable products and services. Entries should directly reduce CO2 emissions, score highly on design, user-friendliness and quality, and ready to be in the market in two years. The challenge is open to any individual from any country from the age of 18 years and to companies, businesses, institutions and all other organisations.