Sponsors

Kiko Ventures is a new $450m evergreen cleantech venture investor. Launched by the FTSE 250 listed investment firm IP Group, and using its flexible capital structure, Kiko Ventures’ purpose is to create new possibilities for a regenerative future. Kiko Ventures is a highly flexible investment platform that can be a long-term partner to climate tech innovators and often tackles the most difficult and rewarding opportunities.

Since 2007 Amsterdam-based, SET Ventures has invested in digital technology for a carbon-free energy system by backing pioneering founders with capital, community, and insights. SET Ventures invests in companies with sustainable solutions and a strong digital DNA leading the systemic change of how energy is generated, distributed, stored and consumed. They invest across sectors such as distributed infrastructure, energy retail, buildings, mobility and industry as well as enabling technologies. SET is currently raising its fourth fund of €200M.

Encevo Group serves clients in Luxembourg, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is present all along the energy value chain, from production, storage, supply, transport to trading, distribution and services. Encevo actively helps shaping the transition to a sustainable energy sector by embracing technology, deploying innovative solutions and partnering up with local communities. The CVC team actively supports such objective, by selecting leading European start-ups for our business units and, when relevant, performing hand-picked equity investments, preferably at Series A stage.

Aramco Ventures is the corporate venturing arm of Aramco, the world’s leading fully integrated energy and chemical enterprise. Headquartered in Dhahran with offices in North America, Europe and Asia, Aramco Ventures’ strategic venturing programmes invest globally in startup and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to its parent company, Aramco, primarily supporting its operational decarbonization, new lower-carbon fuels businesses, and digital transformation initiatives. Aramco Ventures also operates Prosperity7, the company’s disruptive technologies investment programme.

GÖRG is one of the top independent business law firms in Germany, at the head in all core areas of business law, such as corporate/M&A, venture capital, private equity, real estate, restructuring, public procurement and energy law. More than 350 lawyers and tax advisors, with many years of national and international professional experience, work at the five GÖRG offices in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich, advising our clients personally, pragmatically, collaboratively and with great competence. Our clients include many renowned national and international companies, medium-sized enterprises, financial investors, founders and shareholders as well as public corporations in all areas of business and the public sector.

ESFORIN (Energy Services FOR INdustry) is the market leading digital provider of flexibility marketing in power short-term markets. Founded by experienced energy entrepreneurs, the company currently employs about 50 people, executed more than 6 million trades on EPEX Spot and generated revenues of €644 million in 2022. ESFORIN operates a sophisticated automated trading infrastructure for flexibility optimisation serving leading industrial and energy-intensive customers, municipal utilities as well as renewable energy and batteries. ESFORIN is located in Essen and Berlin. The company ESFORIN transforms customers in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium and France with controllable flexibility as key players within the sustainable energy transition, allowing further integration of volatile renewable energies corresponding to 362.267 tons of CO2 reductions in 2022.

Our product, HYDROGRID Insight, is an all-in-one water management platform designed to optimize and simplify hydro power plant operations. It integrates inflow forecasting, short- to long-term dispatch planning, and the automated handling of environmental and regulatory requirements. This seamless, real-time hydro-tailored solution enhances efficiency, reduces spill, and increases power generation by up to 10%. By allowing hydro operators to sell energy at optimal prices, it can increase revenue per megawatt-hour by an average of 15%, with some users seeing improvements of up to 50%. In addition to increased revenues, our customers receive a login to our online dashboard, giving them full transparency over their daily operations. The platform's modular design allows operators to choose the functionalities they need, ensuring compatibility with existing IT systems through automated APIs. With a user-friendly interface, HYDROGRID Insight is suitable for power producers of all sizes, from 1 megawatt to over 1 gigawatt of capacity. In 2019, HYDROGRID was awarded the national digitalization award for its cutting-edge technology and currently supports power producers of all sizes in 11 countries around the globe to optimize their operations.

At Jolt, we understand that companies using catalytic coated electrodes (manufacturers of electrolysers, redox flow batteries, efuels and carbon reduction solutions) need to gain a competitive edge in order to scale quickly. The stable supply of low-cost, greener and more efficient electrodes can give them this edge. Our patented Sparkfuze process introduces the 21st century standard for catalytic coatings, unlocking a number of important sectors, especially green hydrogen and industrial decarbonisation. Jolt electrodes are easy to integrate in existing industrial designs, yet Jolt's Sparkfuze process is transformative in terms of scaling, cost effectiveness, durability and energy efficiency. Jolt is the largest spinoff of ICIQ, a prestigious global research institute ranked amongst the world’s top five, and one of the few focused on catalysis, electrolysis and Solar to X. Our pioneering PhD team of electrochemists, material scientists and physicists are supported by leading climate funds and public bodies. Our process is moving from lab to fab at speed – we have scaled from TLR 3 to TLR9 in only 2 years, with our first clean 4 GW factory operating and supplying customers since June 2024.

Easelink, an Austrian high-tech company, is a key player in the mobility and energy sectors, providing essential technology for the future of electric vehicles. With the rise of autonomous driving and the accessibility of EV batteries for V2X applications, Easelink's Matrix Charging® offers a fully automated, cost-effective, patent-protected and efficient charging solution. Matrix Charging enables convenient charging during short parking stops, creating new energy supply concepts for e-mobility and preparing EVs for autonomous driving. Easelink, with over 40 employees in Austria and China, collaborates with leading OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and infrastructure providers to introduce Matrix Charging to the global market, fostering the sustainable growth of new energy vehicles. Easelink is backed by prominent investors including SET Ventures, EnBW New Ventures, Smartworks, Hermann Hauser, Verbund AG and the European Commission.

Net Zero Insights is dedicated to driving the $6.2 trillion annual capital flow needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Its data-driven platform, the Net0 Platform, empowers Climate Tech investors, corporations, researchers, and consultants with comprehensive data, insights, and research. Clients use the platform for market research, deal sourcing, competitive analysis, and more, benefiting from its climate-specific focus and unmatched coverage of Climate Tech companies. With detailed tracking of startups, investors, deals, and funds, along with a climate-first taxonomy, the Net0 Platform enables users to explore the Climate Tech ecosystem and uncover niche opportunities.