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- May
2013
Joerg Fabri Analyses Wind Energy and Recommends Operational Excellence
Ecosummit TV: The Energiewende, i.e. the transformation to a smart green energy system, is a massive challenge for the energy industry and the government. Globally, renewable energy attracts $200B investment per year to which wind energy contributes one third. In his talk at ECO12 Düsseldorf, Joerg Fabri of allocate, analyses how we can keep up the pace in the European wind energy sector if the level of subsidies further decreases.
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- April
2013
Osborne Clarke’s Carsten Schneider Discusses Term Sheets and other Legal Challenges
Ecosummit TV: As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson write in Venture Deals, 2 key things matter in a term sheet negotiation: economics and control. Carsten Schneider is a German Partner at the European law firm Osborne Clarke. In his presentation at ECO12 Düsseldorf, he gives condensed legal advice to cleantech startups and also discusses term sheets. During the lifetime cycle of a cleantech startup from seed stage to exit usually a number of financing rounds take place during which the interests of the startup, existing and new investors have to be balanced in a smart and sustainable way. In fact, the relationship between founders and investors is exit-driven and entrepreneurs should understand what this means in reality – for them and their startup.
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- April
2013
Cleantech for Africa – Meeting Helioz and Solarkiosk at CeBIT Code_n 2013
Ecosummit TV: Helioz from Vienna and Solarkiosk from Berlin are 2 cleantech startups that target emerging markets and tackle 2 big problems: drinking water and offgrid electricity. At CeBIT Code_n 2013, we interview Martin Wesian, CEO of Helioz, and Marc Zedler, Grant Manager at Solarkiosk, about their startups, products and milestones reached. Helioz already sold 2.000 Wadi devices that measure how long it takes to disinfect a bottle of water using sunlight. Now they look for €1M to scale up production. Solarkiosk installed 7 kiosks in Ethiopia and 5 in Kenya to enable local commerce in offgrid communities powered by the sun. Andreas Spiess, CEO of Solarkiosk, will pitch at Ecosummit Berlin 2013 to raise new capital for their international rollout.
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- April
2013
Florian Meyer-Delpho Pitches Solar E-Commerce Startup Greenergetic
Ecosummit TV: Florian Meyer-Delpho pitches Greenergetic at ECO12 Düsseldorf and believes that the market is ready for their solar e-commerce business model thanks to grid parity. Greenergetic develops an online portal to bring PV and smart home solutions directly to residential end customers. Houseowners can plan, finance and order their preferred PV system online. The Bielefeld-based cleantech startup also offers a whitelabel solution for utilities that are increasingly interested in selling solar systems to their customer base. Backed by eCapital and following the role model of Solarcity, Greenergetic is about to launch their new portal very soon.
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- April
2013
Philipp Pausder Pitches FutureWatt
Ecosummit TV: The Energiewende is not only about electricity but also about heat. Philipp Pausder pitches the Berlin-based startup FutureWatt at Ecosummit Düsseldorf 2012. For business customers, FutureWatt controls the design, the financing and the operation of distributed energy systems with the aim of significantly reducing the energy bill. In December 2012, Philipp and his team launched the B2C Internet platform called heizkosten-senken.de which helps consumers reduce their heating costs.
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- April
2013
Urban Keussen Introduces Connecting Energies, the new CVC of EON
Ecosummit TV: Urban Keussen presents EON’s innovation strategy for its smart green utility transformation and introduces their new corporate venture capital (CVC) activities. At ECO12 Duesseldorf, Urban announced EON’s CVC called “Connecting Energies” that co-invests in mid and late stage startups in Europe and the US that are focused on distributed renewable energy, energy storage, smart grid and customers and data. Moreover, Urban and his team work on a lot of innovation that does not have a business case yet but may well have in the future. Thus they are open for joint projects with smart green startups, especially if their solution is able to accelerate the Energiewende (energy transformation), the key task of all utilities.
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- April
2013
Rolf Adam Discusses Critical Infrastructure for the New Energy System
Ecosummit TV: On 15 November 2012, the city of Munich experienced a power outage affecting 450.000 people, the first one in 20 years. Just in time Rolf Adam of Cisco goes on stage at Ecosummit Düsseldorf to discuss 6 megatrends affecting large and small utilities in their efforts to manage the critical infrastructure for the new energy system: economics, employees, resources, innovation, industry fragmentation and regulation. To be fit for the future, Rolf recommends that utilities take a system approach, embrace rapid innovation and align their business model with 2050 rather than betting the company on today’s industry setup.
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- April
2013
Cleantech Crowdfunding Rocks – Meeting Carzapp and Seedmatch at CeBIT Code_n 2013
Ecosummit TV: P2P car sharing meets crowdfunding at CeBIT Code_n 2013. Jan Michael Hess interviews Oliver Lünstedt of Carzapp and Jakob Carstens of Seedmatch to learn more about Carzapp’s recent cleantech crowdfunding round and enjoy a magic ZappKit demo. Carzapp raised €250K within 3 weeks from 350 investors on Seedmatch, Germany’s crowdfunding pioneer. At Code_n13, Carzapp won a useful award sponsored by Continental who invites Carzapp to join their big booth at IAA 2013. Since September 2011, Seedmatch raised more than €4.5M for 36 startups from more than 3.000 investors. Cleantech crowdfunding rocks!
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- April
2013
Ecosummit Award 2013 – Call for Smart Green Startups
Ecosummit Berlin 2013 takes place on 4-5 June and features Ecosummit Award 2013. The ECO13 Award brings fame and fortune to the best early and late stage smart green startups. Ecosummit Award is integrated with our new online platform Ecosummit Market. To apply for the award, please create a public startup profile on Ecosummit Market and click on “Apply for ECO13 Award.” The application deadline is 20 May 2013. 39 cleantech startups are nominated.
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- March
2013
Bernard Scherrer Discusses Open Innovation at EDF and Introduces Electranova Capital
Ecosummit TV: Bernard Scherrer discusses open innovation at EDF, one of the biggest utilities in Europe. Part of the long-term innovation strategy is the new corporate venture capital fund called Electranova Capital that already made 2 startup investments in Actility (smart grid M2M applications) and Seatower (offshore wind foundations). To get the cooperation started, Bernard and his colleague Valerie are interested in doing pilot projects with the best cleantech startups in Europe that fit into their open innovation areas. Please get in touch if you are interested in doing business with EDF.
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- March
2013
Peter van Gelderen Pitches Early Stage Cleantech VC Icos Capital from the Netherlands
Ecosummit TV: Peter van Gelderen is a Dutch piano-playing cleantech investor who pitches his VC firm Icos Capital at ECO12 Düsseldorf. Founded in 2006, Icos Capital has got €75M under management and a portfolio of 9 cleantech startups. Peter likes to point out that his firm is an early stage investor because this is where the fun is and smart green company builders are needed the most. To be successful as early stage Cleantech VC, close relationships with corporates are a key success factor. Peter is Ecosummit Advisor and currently raises a new fund to which he invites German corporates as new LPs. Whether you are a corporate or startup, go and find Peter to discuss the art of early stage cleantech investing and the benefits of working together.
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- March
2013
Thomas Grigoleit Invites Startups to Invest in the Cleantech Nation Germany
Ecosummit TV: Thomas Grigoleit, Director Renewable Energies & Resources at Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), invites the best smart green startups from all over the world to invest in the cleantech nation Germany at Ecosummit Düsseldorf 2012. GTAI is a governmental organisation that provides a free location consulting service to cleantech startups and corporates interested in taking advantage of Germany’s Energiewende (energy transformation) and its long-term business opportunities. Thomas presents a few case studies of foreign startups GTAI successfully attracted to Germany including Bsolar from Israel and Parmenion from Canada. Talk to Thomas if you want to follow their example.
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