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Smart green startups you should know
Ecosummit TV on Youtube proudly presents 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 Solar, 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 Berlin 4-5 June 2024
106 videos recorded at Ecosummit Berlin 2023 are public on our Youtube channel Ecosummit TV and linked next to each speaker in the agenda. We’re very happy to invite you to our 15th anniversary Ecosummit Berlin 4-5 June 2024 taking place at Spindler & Klatt, Köpenicker Strasse 16-17, 10997 Berlin. 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. Early bird tickets are available until 3 October 2023. Take a look at our sponsorships and save this date, too: Ecosummit Berlin 3-4 June 2025.
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 329 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.
Read moreEcosummit Zoom 10 March 2023
Ecosummit is the place to be for fundraising startups and active investors. Our online events are sustainable, time-efficient and lots of fun. Let’s meet at Ecosummit Zoom 10 March 2023, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, co-hosted by Bart Markus, Julia Padberg and David Hunt. 9 speakers share their screens and stories: Davor Sutija (Nexwafe), Rod MacGregor (GlassPoint), Susan Graham (Dendra Systems), Carsten Brinkschulte (Dryad Networks), Axel Dickenbrock (InnoEnergy), Alejandro Cabrera Muñoz (Green Eagle Solutions), Mamoun Taher (Graphmatech), Ulf Stenerhag (Wayout) and Charlotta Holmquist (Blixt). Ecosummit Zoom is invitation-only for sponsors and participants of Ecosummit Berlin 14-15 June 2023. Let’s co-invest, cooperate and build big startups with big impact.
Read moreEcosummit Zoom 20 January 2023
It’s a new year, a new game and a new chance to raise big financing rounds and make smart green investments to maximise our impact until 2030. Ecosummit is the place to be for fundraising startups and active investors. Let’s get together online at Ecosummit Zoom 20 January 2023, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, co-hosted by Gerard Reid, Bart Markus and Julia Padberg. 9 inspiring speakers share their screens and stories: Gerard Reid (Alexa Capital), Julia Padberg (SET Ventures), Melchior Schulze Brock (Enviria), Janice Goodenough (Hydrogrid), Matthew Chagan (Sustainable Future Ventures), Emanuel Heisenberg (Ecoworks), Sergey Ogorodnov (Voltaware), Marcel Smit (Energyworx) and Arthur Singer (Stabl Energy). Ecosummit 2023 Sponsors get free access to Ecosummit Zoom. Alternatively, you may buy your tickets to join us. Let’s co-invest, cooperate and build big startups with big impact.
Read moreAerones raises $30M Series A led by Lightrock and Haniel
We love this startup since we got to know it in April 2021. Applying the power of robotics to make the wind industry more efficient is a great idea. Our ecoportfolio company Aerones raises $30M Series A led by Lightrock and Haniel with participation of new investor Blume Equity. Aerones is based in Riga (Latvia), develops and manufactures a family of smart robots and provides their robot-enabled services for the maintenance of wind turbines with a team of 200 employees to more than 100 customers in 20 countries including Vestas, GE, Siemens Gamesa, NextEra and Enel. The goal is to minimise downtime when wind turbines are inspected, cleaned, coated or repaired. In fact, Aerones’ services are 6 times faster, 40% more efficient and a lot safer for humans that don’t need to climb up wind turbines because the robots do. This enables huge cost savings in the $30B wind turbine maintenance market that is forecasted to grow to $50B by 2028.
Read moreEcosummit Zoom 10 November 2022
Let’s get together online again and connect fundraising startups and active investors at Ecosummit Zoom 10 November 2022, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, co-hosted by Gerard Reid, David Hunt and Jan Michael Hess. 9 smart green startups are pitching: Ed Gunn (Lunar Energy), James Johnston (Piclo), Friedrich Rojahn (Solandeo), Martin Baart (Ecoligo), Laurent Coulot (Insolight), Christoph Berger (Vilisto), Mike Rosenberg (Circadian), Tobias Wagner (ChargeX) and Christian Adelsberger (Ubiq). Please note that ECO22 Berlin participants get free access to Ecosummit Zoom 10 November 2022. Alternatively, you may buy your tickets to join us. Let’s co-invest, cooperate and build big startups with big impact.
Read moreEnphase Energy acquires GreenCom Networks and Lunar Energy acquires Moixa
Exciting exit times for the Ecosummit community and joyful reasons to celebrate 2 happy endings of the famous startup investor relationship: On 29 August 2022, Enphase Energy announced its acquisition of GreenCom Networks and, on 24 August 2022, Sunrun announced that Lunar Energy acquired Moixa. Both exits are very similar: 2 US-based public solar energy companies are buying European startups to grab established software products, local teams and customers and accelerate their market expansion on the continent. GreenCom Networks first pitched at Ecosummit Berlin 2016 and Moixa at Ecosummit London 2014 and both smart green startups had many Ecosummit investors in their cap tables.
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