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- April
2017
ONZO: Treating home energy like high finance
ONZO’s cloud-based analytics are powering into domestic energy markets. Emerging from the buzzing London tech scene in 2007, the company first focused on hardware, creating a clip-on power meter with wireless display. However, in 2012 the rapid roll out of smart meters led them to sell off the hardware business to Scottish utility SSE. Steven Daniels, one of the private equity investors, took the reins as CEO and the company re-started as a pure energy analytics company floating in the cloud.
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- July
2014
Benjamin Kott pitches EnergyDeck
Ecosummit TV: Benjamin Kott, who used to manage green operations for Google in Europe, pitches EnergyDeck at ECO13 London. 40% of total energy is consumed by buildings and up to 30% of consumption is typically wasted. Moreover, 80% of today’s buildings will exist in 2050. This translates into £8B annual savings potential in the UK alone from increasing commercial building efficiency by 20%. EnergyDeck is an online platform for community-based resource tracking and building performance benchmarking and it includes a best practice database. Benjamin’s ultimate vision is a supplier marketplace that aggregates the best solutions in the market for optimising building efficiency. EnergyDeck is a young startup based in London that is backed by angels and public grants. Now EnergyDeck is fundraising again and invites investors who love software, buildings and energy efficiency and are able to add value on top of providing capital.
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- February
2014
Claire Cockerton presents the future city accelerator Level39
Ecosummit TV: Claire Cockerton presents the future city accelerator Level39 at ECO13 London. Based in Canary Wharf and backed by the Canary Wharf Group, Level39 is a technology accelerator specialised in fostering startups in the financial, retail and smart green city industries. While Level39 does not invest, they provide affordable office space which in some cases may be sponsored by a corporate. Moreover, the accelerator facilitates coaching sessions with mentors and business relationships with local companies that act as pilot customers for bringing new services to the market. Level39 welcomes startups from all over the world that want to touch down in the Docklands to co-invent the city of the future.
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- June
2013
Richard Youngman presents the third wave of cleantech companies at ECO13 Berlin
Ecosummit TV: Cleantech is a theme spanning many industries including energy, transportation, buildings and agriculture. At ECO13 Berlin, Cleantech Group’s Richard Youngman shares his optimism and talks about the third wave of cleantech companies coming to the market with scalable value propositions that follow the idea of doing more with less. Richard confirms that cleanweb is an attractive investment area with many lean startups applying smart algorithms to all kinds of resource efficiency challenges. Geographically speaking, Richard votes for China as the key target market startups should approach rather sooner than later due to the huge demand stemming from a nationwide industrial policy inspired by cleantech.
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- June
2013
Ecosummit London 15-16 October 2013 – join our smart green city conference at the Crystal
Ecosummit TV: We want to live and work in a Smart Green City. And we like London. The smart green capital is an important cleantech hub, provides access to the UK market and serves as the bridge to America. Therefore, we are very proud to invite you to Ecosummit London 2013, our 6th cleantech conference for startups, investors and corporates. ECO13 London will be held on 15-16 October at the Crystal, the new urban sustainability headquarter of Siemens in the Docklands. Take a look at our short Ecosummit TV video and get ready for your cable car pitch. ECO13 London explores the city of the future and your company should be part of it.
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- May
2013
Ecosummit in London: ECO13 Berlin, Market, Award, WHEB Partners and Friedola
Ecosummit TV: This is a short video recorded at our second Ecosummit Lounge London on 2 May 2013 at Taylor Wessing. It features very nice pictures of the city, another red bus going green for London and a preview of ECO13 Berlin, our 5th cleantech conference for startups, VCs and corporates. We also talk about the launch of Ecosummit Market, our new online platform for startups. Ecosummit Market is integrated with Ecosummit Award. 43 award nominees are busy mobilising votes on Facebook until 27 May. The application deadline for new startups to join the competition is 20 May.
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- March
2013
Ecosummit Lounge London 2 May 2013
Ecosummit and Taylor Wessing, the international law firm with extensive cleantech and private equity experience, co-host the second Ecosummit Lounge London on 2 May 2013 at Taylor Wessing’s magnificent office. We will enjoy an inspiring evening of smart green business networking with a group of local and international cleantech startups, investors and corporates. Rob Wylie, Partner at WHEB Partners, gives a keynote on the current state of cleantech venture capital, followed by startup pitches of the 3 ECO13 Award Nominees Ubitricity, Tado and Loowatt. Tickets are available for £30,00. Thanks a lot to Simon Walker and his team for hosting us and sharing the super cool roof terrace.
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- January
2013
Sefaira, Ventive, Energydeck, Solarfuel, Carzapp and Ecosummit pitch at Ecosummit Lounge London
Ecosummit TV: Ecosummit and Taylor Wessing, the international law firm with extensive cleantech and private equity experience, joined forces to organise our first Ecosummit Lounge London on 19 September 2012 at Taylor Wessing’s magnificent London office. We enjoyed an inspiring evening of Smart Green Business Networking with 60 representatives of cleantech startups, investors and corporates. This Ecosummit TV episode features Simon Walker (Taylor Wessing), Niki Rosinski (Generation Investment Management), Sarah Williamson Atkins (Sefaira), Robert Morrison (Ventive), Benjamin Kott (EnergyDeck), Paul Mooney (SolarFuel), Oliver Lünstedt (Carzapp) and Jan Michael Hess (Ecosummit). Thanks a lot to Simon Walker and his team for hosting us. Save the date: Ecosummit Lounge London 2 May 2013
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- June
2012
Ecosummit Lounge London at Taylor Wessing on 19 September 2012
Ecosummit and Taylor Wessing, the international law firm with extensive cleantech and private equity experience, joined forces to invite you to a high-voltage evening of Smart Green Business Networking. Our first Ecosummit Lounge London takes place on 19 September 2012 at Taylor Wessing’s spacious London office. At the lounge, we will enjoy a keynote by Niki Rosinski, Partner at Generation Investment, talking about Sustainable Capitalism, 6 startup pitches by SolarFuel, Sefaira, Carzapp, Ventive, EnergyDeck and Ecosummit, tasty drinks, finger food and all that Jazz. Tickets for the Ecosummit Lounge London are available for £30,00. The amazing list of participants is included at the bottom of this article. We look forward to seeing you in London.
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- May
2011
Mads Jensen pitches Smart Green Building Software Startup Sefaira
Every city has to become a smart green city and every building should go smart green, too. Mads Jensen, Co-Founder and CEO, pitches Sefaira at ECO11. The UK- and US-based startup offers software for designing sustainable buildings and optimising their energy efficiency and carbon footprint. Sefaira is currently in private beta and invites innovative architects and building engineers to test it for new projects. Investors are also welcome to join and accelerate the smart green building design revolution.
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