The ECO14 Award jury decides which startups win the €6K prize money and includes smart green industry experts representing VCs, accelerators, corporates, service providers and specialised press. Jury members are welcome to propose award candidates and contact the ECO14 Award Nominees to learn more about their startups. Here you can find the ECO13 Award jury and ECO12 Award jury.

Fundable smart green startups are welcome to apply until 20 May 2014 to get the attention of our outstanding smart green jury. Then the judges select their 3 winners from the list of ECO14 Award Nominees until 25 May 2014 by sending their individual top 3 votes (Gold 3 points, Silver 2 points and Bronze 1 point) with short statements to the Ecosummit team. The 3 startups collecting the most points win the award.

39 ECO14 Award jury members voted for their 3 favourite startups. We are very grateful for their support:

• Bart Markus, General Partner, Wellington Partners (VC)
• Dr. Tarja Teppo, Partner, Cleantech Invest (VC)
• Rene Savelsberg, CEO, Chrysalix SET (VC)
• Harri Ollila, Partner, VNT Management (VC)
• Dr. Peter van Gelderen, Partner, Icos Capital (VC)
• Alexander van Os, Partner, Yellow&Blue (VC)
• Alexander Schlaepfer, Partner, Aster Capital (VC)
• Dr. Tim Jungblut, Venture Partner, Electranova Capital (VC)
• Dr. Martin Kröner, Managing Partner, Munich Venture Parnters (VC)
• Dr. Arne Morteani, Principal, ETF (VC)
• Robert Gallenberger, Principal, Gimv (VC)
• Josko Bobanovic, Partner, Sofinnova (VC)
• Maximilian Erb, Investment Manager, NRW Bank (VC)
• Dr. Ingo Potthof, Managing Partner, UnternehmerTUM Fund (VC)
• Juergen Kosch, Management Board Member, MIG (VC)
• Dr. Paul-Josef Patt, Managing Partner, eCapital (VC)
• Stephan Schulze, Senior Investment Manager, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (VC)
• Susana Quintana-Plaza, VP, Innovation Scouting & Co-Investments, E.ON (Corporate VC)
• Dr. Guido Ketteler, Corporate Venturing Manager, Lanxess (Corporate VC)
• Philipp Schröder, Country Manager Germany & Austria, Tesla Motors (Corporate)
• Rolf Adam, Director Business Development Energy & Smart Grid EMEAR, Cisco (Corporate)
• Ruth van Wieren, Program Manager, Rockstart (Accelerator)
• Alex Farcet, CEO, Startupbootcamp (Accelerator)
• Alexander Bigge Lidgren, Portfolio Manager, Swedish Energy Agency (Accelerator)
• Nina Harjula, Head of Cleantech Development, LADEC (Accelerator)
• Andrew Wordsworth, Managing Director, Sustainable Ventures (Accelerator)
• Jay Marathe, Partner, Cartagena Capital (Service Provider)
• Dr. Steven Fawkes, Energy Efficiency Advisor, Only Eleven Percent (Service Provider)
• Dr. Jörg Fabri, Managing Partner, Allocate (Service Provider)
• Conrad Ess, Managing Director, Green Technology Staffing (Service Provider)
• Chris Raczkowski, CEO, Azure International (Service Provider)
• Tristan Foerster, Managing Director, ClimatePartner (Service Provider)
• Thomas Grigoleit, Director Renewable Energies & Resources, GTAI (Service Provider)
• Stephan Decher, Partner, Clean Capital (Service Provider)
• Dr. Denis Gross, Director, Cleantech Investor (Press)
• Martin Jendrischik, Editor-in-chief, Cleanthinking.de (Press)
• Benjamin Reuter, Editor, Wirtschaftswoche (Press)
• Benjamin Heimlich, Editor, VC Magazin (Press)
• Jan Michael Hess, CEO, Ecosummit (Startup)