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Ecosummit Berlin 4-5 June 2024
Our mission is maximising our impact until 2030. Founded in 2010, we accelerate smart green startups and investors in climate tech, energy, mobility and cities to decarbonise our economy, electrify our planet and save our climate. We enable fundraising, lead and co-investing, portfolio marketing, open innovation, corporate venturing and M&A. Ecosummit takes place on 4-5 June 2024 at Spindler & Klatt, Köpenicker Strasse 16-17, 10997 Berlin. Pitch your startup, get your tickets or become a sponsor. We look forward to hosting you, it’s going to be magic.
Read moreEcosummit Zoom 1 March 2024
Our online events are sustainable, time-efficient and fun. Let’s meet at Ecosummit Zoom 1 March 2024, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, co-hosted by Gerard Reid, Bart Markus, Julia Padberg and Jonathan Gifford. 8 speakers share their screens and stories: Gerard Reid (Alexa Capital), Julia Padberg (SET Ventures), Davor Sutija (Nexwafe), Mattias Hansson (Raymond Solar), Jannik Kupke (Voltaro), Franka Birke (Metr), Paul McCorquodale (Grid Edge) and Robert Erdmann (Holyvolt). Ecosummit Zoom is invitation-only for the participants of Ecosummit Berlin 4-5 June 2024 (sponsors and ticket buyers). Get your tickets and join us.
Read moreInstagrid raises €88M Series C led by Teachers’ Venture Growth
Instagrid got rhythm. The mobile battery making machine from Germany grooves and moves ahead with a new financing round every 2 years tripling the capital raised: €8.5M Series A in February 2020, €29M Series B in February 2022 and €88M Series C on 23 January 2024. Teachers’ Venture Growth, the venture arm of Ontario Teachers’ pension fund ($185 billion AUM), leads the Series C and Morgan Stanley Investment Management ($1.5 trillion AUM) co-invests implementing their investment strategy to avoid 1 gigaton of CO2 emissions. The new funds will be used to expand into North America, scale production to satisfy the unlimited demand and grow the product family with bigger batteries.
Read moreSmart green deals: Taylor, Einhundert, Ineratec, 42watt, Aira and Tibo Energy
Today is a good day to share 6 noteworthy smart green deals which involve startups and investors in the Ecosummit community and beyond. As you know, pitching at Ecosummit is a great idea to launch and accelerate new financing rounds or promote the investment strategies and portfolios of climate tech funds. Congrats to the outstanding founders, employees and investors of Taylor, Einhundert, Ineratec, 42watt, Aira and Tibo Energy who have all been very busy and diligent building new relationships and negotiating shareholder agreements during the last months. Now the hard work to save our climate, decarbonise our economy and electrify our planet continues.
Read moreSmart green VCs you should know
Here’s our list of smart green VCs in Europe that back startups in energy, mobility, cities, climate tech, advanced materials, food and circular economy to generate impact as well as environmental, financial and strategic returns for their fund investors. In the VC food chain, early stage investors prefer to invest, at lower valuations and higher risk, in the Seed and Series A financing rounds of young startups working on product market fit and traction (customers, revenues). Afterwards, late stage VCs join startup cap tables from Series B onwards, expecting more than €5M revenues, experienced management teams, positive unit economics and fast growth. Facing climate change, technology revolution and global competition, the majority of corporates are active in corporate venturing and open innovation to invest and cooperate with startups. As a result, VCs follow different investment strategies to build their portfolios that startups should know before pitching.
Read moreEcosummit Zoom 17 November 2023
Let’s meet online at Ecosummit Zoom 17 November 2023, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, co-hosted by Bart Markus and David Hunt. 8 speakers share their screens and stories: Susan Graham (Dendra), Terhi Vapola (Greencode Ventures), Knut Hechtfischer (Decarbon1ze), Matthew Hobbs (Hydrogrid), Peter Roos (Novatron), José Noldin (GravitHy), Will Tope (LiNa Energy) and Bernhard Adler (Ecop). Ecosummit Zoom is invitation-only for Ecosummit Berlin 2023 participants. Let’s co-invest, cooperate and build big startups with big impact.
Read moreSmart green startups you should know
Your deal flow is on Youtube. We proudly present 80 outstanding smart green startups that pitched at Ecosummit Berlin in the last 3 years: Easelink, Instagrid, CorPower Ocean, Ecoworks, Sunfire, 1KOMMA5°, First Light Fusion, Nexwafe, Electrochaea, Ineratec, Kiwigrid, LiveEO, Aerones, VoltStorage, Sunvigo, ESFORIN, Enspired, Piclo, Enviria, 5B, Gradyent, Heaten, Mixergy, Sunmaxx PVT, Naked Energy, Roofit.solar, DataThings, Prisma Photonics, Kairos Aerospace, Glasspoint, Modvion, Hydrogrid, Vutility, Energyworx, Ostrom, Lumenaza, Decarbon1ze, Einhundert, Stabl Energy, LiNa Energy, Wayout, Epishine, Dryad Networks, Vyntelligence, EcoG, Wirelane, Amina Charging, Epilot, Green Eagle Solutions, Node.energy, Ecoligo, Solytic, Ezzing, Eturnity, Home Power Solutions, Tau, Elaphe, Swobbee, Jedlix, Ubiq, Eliq, Eologix, Fibersail, Phytonics, Taylor, Insolight, Dexter Energy, Energiency, Grid Edge, PowerUp, Volytica Diagnostics, Suena, Voltfang, Exnaton, Pionierkraft, Scone, Omniflow, Graphmatech, Powall and Vytal. These hardware and software startups represent exciting investment opportunities with environmental, financial and strategic returns for (C)VCs and family offices. All of them work hard to generate climate impact and some of them have the potential to become smart green unicorns. Pitch at Ecosummit Berlin 4-5 June 2024 to tell your startup growth story and increase the quantity and quality of the term sheets in your next financing round.
Read moreEcosummit Zoom 22 September 2023
Let’s meet online at Ecosummit Zoom 22 September 2023, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, co-hosted by Gerard Reid, Bart Markus and David Hunt. 6 speakers share their screens and stories: Gerard Reid (Alexa Capital), Paul Barrett (Hysata), Christopher Brandon (EH Group), Michael Peters (Sunvigo), Markus Glatthaar (PV2+) and Ulf Stenerhag (Wayout). Please get in touch to pitch your startup. Ecosummit Zoom is invitation-only for Ecosummit Berlin 2023 participants. Let’s co-invest, cooperate and build big startups with big impact.
Read moreEcosummit Berlin 14-15 June 2023
Ecosummit accelerates smart green startups in energy, mobility and cities to save our climate, decarbonise our economy and electrify our planet. Our events are startup markets enabling fundraising, lead and co-investing, portfolio development, corporate venturing, open innovation and M&A. Ecosummit Berlin 14-15 June 2023 is supported by 46 sponsors and takes place at Spindler & Klatt, Köpenicker Strasse 16-17, 10997 Berlin, the perfect location for sunshine and outdoor networking. The agenda features 116 speakers including 79 startups. Get your tickets and start arranging your meetings with our 330 participants using Linkedin. We look forward to hosting you.
Read moreEcosummit facilitates Eturnity Series A, ESFORIN Series B and Installion exit
Ecosummit is startup paradise as we bring together fundraising startups and active investors that want to create impact. Our goal is to enable as many new investments as possible in smart green startups that focus on saving our climate, decarbonising our economy and electrifying our planet. It makes us especially happy if startups meet their investors at Ecosummit for the first time as it happened between Eturnity and Klima or ESFORIN and SEB last year. Sometimes we also make introductions during the year. Connecting Installion and their Series A lead Eneco Ventures in 2021 turns out to have been truly impactful. In April 2023, Lichtblick, the German subsidiary of Eneco, acquired Installion. Next week, you all have the chance again to make more deals creating impact at Ecosummit Berlin 14-15 June 2023.
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