ECO17 Award Jury
Ecosummit Award 2017 is part of our flagship event Ecosummit Berlin 2017 on 9-10 May 2017 and brings publicity and €6K prize money to the best smart green startups in Europe. Application deadline for Ecosummit Award 2017 is Monday, 24 April 2017.
We assembled the ECO17 Award jury to focus on smart green investors (angels, accelerators, VCs and impact investors) and corporates that are actively looking for new investment and open innovation opportunities. Casting their votes, the judges assess growth potential (product market fit, revenues and international competitiveness), product innovation and environmental impact.
€1.500, €1.000 and €500 plus 2 ECO17 Berlin tickets go to the best 3 startups in the Early Stage Startup and Late Stage Startup categories that convince the jury and collect the most points during the online jury voting between 25 April and 2 May 2017. Per vote the Gold candidate gets 3 points, the Silver candidate gets 2 points and the Bronze candidate gets 1 point. The winners of the ECO17 Award will be announced at ECO17 Berlin on Tuesday, 9 May 2017.
Jury members may invite startups in their portfolio and network to apply and contact the nominees to learn more about their startups during the voting process.
We are grateful to our online judges who vote and support the Ecosummit Award 2017:
- Susana Quintana-Plaza, Partner, Next47 (Corporate VC)
- Matthias Engel, Managing Director, innogy Corporate Ventures (Corporate VC)
- Claus Wattendrup, Managing Director, Vattenfall Europe Innovation (Corporate)
- Boris Lesjean, Innovation Director, Veolia Germany (Corporate)
- Petr Mikovec, Managing Director, Inven Capital (Corporate VC)
- Dr. Philipp Ulbrich, VP Co-investments and Innovation Scouting, EON (Corporate VC)
- Fabio Lancellotti, Partner, Aster Capital (VC)
- Dr. Dirk Bessau, Director Berlin Office, InnoEnergy (VC & Accelerator)
- Inga Müller, Investment Manager, EnBW New Ventures (Corporate VC)
- Leonie Baneke, Manager Corporate Venturing, Eneco Innovation & Ventures (Corporate VC)
- Alexander van der Have, Investment Manager, DOEN Foundation (Impact VC)
- Ben Murphy, Cleantech Business Builder, IP Group (VC)
- Stephan Schulze, Senior Investment Manager, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (VC)
- Alois Flatz, Senior Advisor, Generation Investment Management (VC)
- Sven Thate, Investment Manager, BASF Venture Capital (Corporate VC)
- Joanna Kozak, Investment Manager, Suez Environnement (Corporate VC)
- Dr. Matthias Dill, Managing Director, Statkraft Ventures (Corporate VC)
- Heribert Uhl, Senior Investment Director, Robert Bosch Venture Capital (Corporate VC)
- Yann Fiebig, Investment Manager, High-Tech Gründerfonds (VC)
- Peter Auner, Partner, VNT Management (VC)
- Dr. Martin Kröner, Managing Partner, Munich Venture Partners (VC)
- Rob Genieser, Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund (VC)
- Dr. Peter van Gelderen, Partner, Icos Capital (VC)
- Sam Salisbury, Investment Principal, Ignite (Corporate VC)
- Rene Savelsberg, CEO, SET Ventures (VC)
- Cedric Mutz, Investment Director, Emerald Technology Ventures (VC)
- Dr. Paul-Josef Patt, Managing Partner, Ecapital (VC)
- Dr. Tarja Teppo, Partner, Cleantech Invest (VC)
- Nick Stokman, Investment Manager, Lucros Investment (VC)
- Christian Reitberger, General Partner, Wellington Partners (VC & Angel)
- Benjamin Wainstain, Partner Innovation, Demeter Partners (VC)
- Paul Decraemer, Head Cleantech Investment Practice, Capricorn (VC)
- Andreas Aepfelbacher, Deputy Head, Fraunhofer Venture (VC)
- Dr. Ilian Iliev, CEO, Ecomachines Ventures (VC)
- Robert Gallenberger, Venture Partner, b-to-v (VC)
- Tom Schulz, Managing Director, AQAL Capital (Investor)
- Dr. Freerk Bisschop, Program Director Smart Energy, Rockstart (Accelerator)
- Gerard Reid, Partner, Alexa Capital (Service Provider)
- David Wortmann, Managing Director, DWR eco (Service Provider)
- Alisa Murphy, CEO, Life Size Media (Service Provider)
- Jan Michael Hess, CEO, Ecosummit (Host)