EcoIntense rounds up 22 million euro cash injection
One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital are on board. Together, the private equity firms invest 22 million euros in Berlin-based EcoIntense. The late stage software startup has been cashflow positive since 2012 and even debt free since 2014. But “it’s almost like an old saying: you should have a financing round, when you don’t need any cash,” Markus Becker, Co-founder of EcoIntense explained his reason for raising capital anyhow.
Read moreWeSustain 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 moreMarkus Becker pitches sustainability software startup EcoIntense
Ecosummit TV: Markus Becker pitches EcoIntense at Ecosummit Düsseldorf 2012. The Berlin-based smart green startup develops sophisticated software for health, security and environmental management (HSE). EcoIntense was founded in 2007, has got 35 employees, doubled its revenues 2 years in a row and now enjoys profitability. EcoIntense’s customer list is really impressive and features Siemens that uses EcoWebDesk in 3 of their 4 business units. Having reached so many milestones, Markus is interested in talking to late stage financial or corporate VCs that can add strategic value.
Read moreTristan Foerster presents ClimatePartner and climate change management
Ecosummit TV: Tristan Foerster, Managing Director of ClimatePartner, talks about climate change management and explains what companies can do to protect the climate. First, companies have to measure, avoid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Then they can offset their residual carbon footprint which cannot be reduced any further by buying CO2 certificates in the market. In fact, we are doing it and cooperate with ClimatePartner as Ecosummit’s carbon offset partner. Together we made both ECO12 Berlin and ECO12 Düsseldorf climate neutral. Do you know other cleantech conferences that invest in being climate neutral?
Read moreManfred Heil pitches WeSustain which helps companies optimise their sustainability performance
Ecosummit TV: Manfred Heil, Co-Founder and CEO of WeSustain, pitches the German Green IT startup at Ecosummit Berlin 2012. WeSustain provides a web-based software platform that supports the internal and external processes of sustainability management. WeSustain’s software helps companies measure, improve and communicate their sustainability performance.
Read moreManfred Heil pitches Enterprise Sustainability Management Startup WeSustain
Manfred Heil, CEO and Co-Founder of WeSustain, pitches the Enterprise Sustainability Management (ESM) startup to investors at ECO11 in Berlin. WeSustain provides a software-as-a-service suite that helps companies improve their sustainability management across all products, processes and divisions. Think of it as the SAP of sustainability.
Read moreSustainability in everything we do – Michael Bueltmann presents Nokia’s Sustainability Management
Sustainability in everything we do – that’s one of the key principles of Nokia’s Sustainability Management presented by Michael Bueltmann, Managing Director (Public & Legal Affairs) of Nokia Germany. Another green success factor is lifecycle thinking, i.e. measuring and optimising the product carbon footprint across the whole product lifecycle. This includes the management of recycling processes. Michael says the key problem is the laziness of consumers who prefer to keep old devices at home. Here’s my idea: Renting smartphones instead of selling them and offering a reward for returning the old device to upgrade to the new one. Easy device upgrading also accelerates the rollout of new innovations.
Read moreNicole Roettmer of The CO-Firm on Carbon Business Models
Nicole Roettmer, Founder and CEO of The CO-Firm, talked about Carbon Business Models at ECO11. The Carbon Opportunity Firm is a consulting boutique focused on strategy development and implementation in the areas of energy efficiency, energy mix, carbon offset, carbon certificate monetisation and many other smart green business models.
Read moreOur Smart Green Business Network is looking for Clients, Sponsors and Partners
Going green is smart. Here is our new strategy: Ecosummit is the Smart Green Business Network providing management consulting, marketing, event and media services to startups, investors, corporates and cities. Our goal is to contribute with a growing leverage to the fast transformation to the Smart Green Economy. Smart stands for the ubiquitous use of information and communication technology (ICT). Green is about bringing Cleantech to the mass market and making sustainability the default strategy of every company in every industry. Being smart and green enables intelligent sustainability management, i.e. automated sustainability.
Read moreDie Smart Green City TXL+ als nachhaltiger Wettbewerbsvorteil für Berlin
Die schnelle Transformation zur Smart Green Economy ist die Lösung unserer globalen Klima- und Ressourcenprobleme. Jeder zweite Weltbürger lebt urban. Die Stadt spielt die Hauptrolle beim Aufbau der intelligenten grünen Ökonomie und muss zur Smart Green City werden. Smart steht für automatisierte Intelligenz dank ubiquitärer Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Green steht für Nachhaltigkeit und Cleantech im Massenmarkt. Das Ziel ist automatisierte Nachhaltigkeit, die den City Footprint permanent minimiert.
Read moreEcosummit TV – Markus Becker pitches Smart Green Software startup Ecointense at ECO11
It’s startup time on Ecosummit TV. Markus Becker, Founder and CEO of Berlin-based Ecointense, pitches his smart green software startup to investors at Ecosummit 2011 (ECO11). Founded in 2007, Ecointense offers the sustainability management support system called EcoWebDesk, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution helping companies manage Health, Safety and Environment (HSE).
Read moreEcosummit TV – ECO11 – Andreas Muth – Bank Sarasin
Andreas Muth, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the German Bank Sarasin AG, talks about sustainable banking and investing. Employing 50 analysts Bank Sarasin tracks the sustainability performance of public companies and puts the best companies into their sustainability fund products. The key insight is that in recent years best-in-class sustainable public companies finally outperformed unsustainable companies on the stock market. Sustainability management pays off. That’s good news. The ultimate goal, of course, is to achieve 100% sustainable investments.
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