WeSustain raises €4M Series B from VNT Management, HTGF, KfW and MBG
Ecosummit TV: Every company in every industry has to go green and make and sell sustainable products. At the same time, smart green investors take sustainability reports very seriously when making investment decisions. In September 2014, the EU Commission issued their long-awaited directive for mandatory sustainability reports for companies with more than 500 employees that has to be translated into national law within 2 years. Now Enterprise Sustainability Management (ESM) software providers like WeSustain are en vogue. CEO Manfred Heil expects the market to triple within the next 4 years. Customer references like Daimler, Commerzbank and Allianz as well as reseller Telekom will help the well positioned German startup and its team of 20 employees to grow even faster than the market.
Read moreElon Musk – Super hero of the smart green economy
Elon Musk turns 40 this year and is already the super hero entrepreneur of the smart green economy. Being an engineer he believes entrepreneurship means applying logic and critical thinking to a given problem in order to develop the best new solution. Elon likes to reinvent and reengineer problems on a big scale, especially transportation on the road and in space and production of clean energy. Next to being CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors, Elon is also CEO and CTO of SpaceX and Chairman of Solar City.
Read moreEcosummit 2011 Preview Video
Looking forward by looking back – this Ecosummit 2011 (ECO11) Preview HD video (runtime 09:44) was in fact recorded at the Green Venture Summit 2010 (GVS10) on 10 May 2010 in Berlin. GVS10 is the predecessor of ECO11. We hope you like it and look forward to your feedback. The wonderful trumpet Jazz is from the album Kitchen Music by Thomas Siffling Trio. Video editing is done by Gernot Toegel. The video features short interviews with GVS10 speakers and participants. Thanks a lot to the whole GVS10 team for a great event!
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