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- July
2020
Ecosummit Zoom 2 September 2020
We accelerate smart green startups, investors and corporates in energy, mobility and cities to save our climate and planet. The 5th Ecosummit Zoom takes place on 2 September 2020, 10:00-12:00 and 15:00-17:00 Berlin time. Gerard and Jan co-host 18 passionate speakers including many fast growing and capital efficient startups that are launching new Seed, Series A or B financing rounds. Further highlights are the preview of Volta Zero, the first 16-tonne electric truck for sustainable cities, a briefing on EON’s CVC strategy after the acquisition of Innogy, the amazing new solar wafer technology of NexWafe as well as updates from our angel portfolio companies Dendra Systems and Solar for Schools. The secret success factor of Ecosummit Zoom is the test pitch that we practice and optimise with each individual speaker in advance. Please get in touch if you want to speak at our monthly online events and get your tickets to join us. Let’s automate sustainability in every industry and build big startups with big impact.
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- July
2020
Ecosummit Zoom 4 August 2020
The 4th Ecosummit Zoom takes place on 4 August 2020, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time, and is co-hosted by Gerard Reid, Alexa Capital, and Jan Michael Hess, Ecosummit, to educate and entertain you during the summer holidays. We bring together Europe’s leading smart green startups, investors and corporates in energy, mobility and cities. The agenda presents 10 speakers. A highlight will be the update of Martin Kröner and Yann Lagalaye on their Green European Tech Fund. Our third online event presented a lot of hot startups currently fundraising as well as corporate VCs actively looking at new dealflow and supporting their portfolio in good and bad times. Please get in touch if you want to pitch at Ecosummit Zoom and get your tickets to join us.
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- June
2020
Ecosummit Zoom 1 July 2020
Our third Ecosummit Zoom 1 July 2020, 10:00-12:00 and 15:00-17:00 Berlin time, presents 22 smart green startups, investors and corporates in energy, mobility and cities. 2 weeks ago our second online event unveiled happy investors and outstanding investment opportunities. Energy Impact Partners launched its European fund and is in the process of making new investments and signing term sheets. The first closing of Rockstart’s energy fund is also around the corner and will enable the Amsterdam-based accelerator to make follow-on investments in its portfolio.
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- May
2020
Ecosummit Zoom 3 June 2020
Our first Ecosummit Zoom 6 May 2020 was super successful with over 120 concurrent online participants. We featured 11 speakers in our 2h session including several smart green startups with open financing rounds: Greencom Networks Series C, Discovergy Series B and Solar for Schools Series A. The traction of EO Charging is very impressive and its 28-year old founder Charlie Jardine is ready to talk to new investors, too. Driven by the overwhelmingly positive feedback we’re happy to announce our second Ecosummit Zoom 3 June 2020, 10:00-12:00 and 15:00-17:00 Berlin time and third Ecosummit Zoom 1 July 2020, 10:00-12:00 and 15:00-17:00. 22 speakers are confirmed and included in the agenda below. Get your tickets and join our online events and the next physical Ecosummit Berlin.
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- April
2020
Ecosummit Zoom 6 May 2020
Due to the global COVID-19 crisis our physical Ecosummit Berlin 2020 is postponed from 6-7 May 2020 to a new date in 2021. We’ll announce the new date and location of our physical Ecosummit as soon as we know that it is feasible and legal again to run conferences in Berlin and our participants from all over Europe can travel freely to Berlin without going into quarantine. In the meantime, life goes on and Ecosummit goes online. We kindly invite our existing customers, i.e. all Ecosummit 2020 sponsors, speakers and ticket holders, to our online events on Zoom. The first Ecosummit Zoom takes place on 6 May 2020, 10:00-12:00 Berlin time (Central European Summer Time). The agenda is presented below and features 11 speakers.
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- March
2020
Coronavirus: Ecosummit Berlin 2020 postponed
The global coronavirus pandemic grows exponentially and has already completely changed our economy and way of life. Bill Gates saw it coming: “COVID-19 has started to behave a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about. I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume that it will be until we know otherwise.” Governments all over the world have taken actions to flatten the epidemic curve of new infections and protect their citizens. Social distancing is key while vaccine development is being accelerated (CEPI, Moderna, BioNTech, CureVac). European and national borders have been closed, public events are forbidden, curfews are declared in Italy, Spain and France and other countries may follow suit. Nobody knows how long the lockdown will continue and what other restrictions and hardships we will experience. But it is now clear that Ecosummit Berlin 2020 is postponed to 2021. Setting the new date is an ongoing process and we’ll announce our rescheduled physical Ecosummit Berlin when the time is right.
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- March
2020
Energiency raises €4.5M Series A led by Encevo
Ecosummit startups are startups that pitched at least once at Ecosummit. Ecosummit investors are investors that have at least one Ecosummit startup in their current portfolio. Today the Ecosummit startup Energiency announces its €4.5M Series A led by the Ecosummit investor Encevo. At the same time, we get one more assist because CEO Arnaud Legrand first met VC Analyst Quentin Dupraz at Ecosummit Paris on 6 March 2018. The French startup and the Luxembourg utility speak the same language and quickly found out that they not only understand each other but also have similar ideas for developing joint business opportunities in the industrial energy market. As Nicolas Milerioux and his team are on the mission to expand corporate venturing and open innovation, Energiency turned out to be a really good match for Encevo’s strategy and portfolio.
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- February
2020
Solar data manager Solytic raises Series A from EWE and Vattenfall
Data is key and enables new business models. The more data you have the better. This is also true in the solar industry and that’s why solar data manager Solytic is a hot startup these days. We’re happy to break the news that Solytic celebrates the first closing of its Series A raising almost €5M from new investor EWE and existing investor Vattenfall, 2 of the top 5 utilities in Germany. As a result, Vattenfall owns a bit more than 20% and EWE a bit less than 20%. The A round was also joined by 3 business angels led by ex-Goldman Sachs banker Frank Oliver Lehmann. EWE’s impressive investment manager Justin Müller met Solytic’s Enrico Ohnemüller and Vattenfall’s Alexander Hain on 16 May 2019 at Ecosummit Berlin and learned that Solytic was planning a new round. As EWE is transforming into a smart green utility that believes in the power of data and wants to grow its renewable energy business, the Berlin-based startup immediately looked like a good strategic fit and smart investment. In fact, Solytic is open to talk to new investors providing strategic value because the next financing round is already planned.
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- February
2020
Epilot raises Series A from Enercity after meeting at Ecosummit
At Ecosummit deals get done. We saw the need for bringing new climate tech to the global market a long time ago. Thus we already have 10 years track record of matching smart green startups with investors. Here’s one more success story about a fast growing energy e-commerce startup and a transforming city utility that met for the first time at Ecosummit Berlin 2019 to explore common ground with the help of coffee. Good deals take time. 9 months later, on 11 February 2020, Epilot announced at E-world the closing of its Series A in which Enercity invests a significant but undisclosed amount of growth capital to buy a 25,1% stake in Epilot’s cap table. After finishing our startup tour running around Germany’s leading energy trade fair, we joined Epilot’s lively stand party to celebrate the deal closing, interview the co-founders and enjoy a few Kölsch together.
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- February
2020
Mobile battery pioneer Instagrid raises €8.5M Series A led by SET Ventures
They take mobile electricity where it has never gone before. Their goal is smart green electrification without local CO2 emissions. Their solution is replacing stinky diesel gensets with silent mobile batteries. Today Instagrid makes a big step forward and celebrates the closing of its €8.5M Series A led by SET Ventures and joined by Segnalita Ventures, part of the Swarovski family office which also owns Tyrolit, Germany’s early stage power house HTGF and the Frankfurt-based family office blueworld.group. At the same time, this transaction boosts our Ecosummit track record of successfully matching startups and investors. In fact, Instagrid and SET Ventures met for the first time at Ecosummit Berlin 2019. While this sounds very romantic, the A round is a major milestone for every startup and the beginning of a long-lasting relationship with many board meetings and follow-ons until the M&A or IPO exit.
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