ECO17 London Sponsors

Ecosummit accelerates smart green startups, investors and corporates in energy, mobility and cities. Our conferences are physical marketplaces to enable business development, co-investing, open innovation and corporate venturing. Leveraging our network and experience, we also advise selected startups on their Series A/B, work on a smart green coworking space in Berlin and want to raise a €10M accelerator fund.

Since 2010, we organised 16 international conferences in Berlin (8), London (4), Amsterdam (2), Stockholm (1) and Düsseldorf (1) with 3.000 participants and 625 startup pitches. Ecosummit TV on YouTube provides 815 videos and surpassed 320K video views. You are welcome to sponsor and join our next events:

The Ecosummit pitch for sponsors and fund investors (PDF) explains the available sponsorship packages and provides details on the Ecosummit Hub and Ecosummit Accelerator. Sponsor benefits include dealflow generation, portfolio promotion, co-investor networking and fund marketing. All sponsors are invited to the exclusive Ecosummit sponsor dinner on the evening before the conference. Please contact us if you are interested in sponsoring or partnering.

Past Ecosummit sponsors: ECO17 Stockholm, ECO17 Amsterdam, ECO17 Berlin, ECO16 London, ECO16 Amsterdam, ECO16 Berlin, ECO15 London, ECO15 Berlin, ECO14 London, ECO14 Berlin, ECO13 London, ECO13 Berlin, ECO12 Düsseldorf and ECO12 Berlin.

ECO17 London Gold Sponsors

Smart green accelerator: The Swedish Energy Agency works for a smarter energy use, which involves among other things to channel practically all Swedish state funds that go into energy research. The Business Development and Commercialisation department is focused on making business from this research by bringing together researchers and business developers, contractors, customers and capital. This department also provides their own funding to cases with technical uniqueness, high energy relevance as well as a strong team behind the concept.

Smart green corporate VC: Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with operations in more than 70 countries and territories with businesses including oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of liquefied natural gas and gas to liquids; manufacturing, marketing and shipping of oil products and chemicals and renewable energy projects. Visit the website for further information on Shell’s approach to meeting the world’s demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways. Shell Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”). With major offices in Europe and the USA, STV invests in technology companies to enhance the development of new technologies that have the potential to create substantial deployment value in Shell. Continuing Shell’s tradition in venture capital since 1998, STV’s investment focus includes oil & gas, renewable energy technologies, water and IT. STV co-invests with other corporate investors, venture capital funds and angels and will invest in both early stage and late stage (growth capital) companies.

ECO17 London Silver Sponsors

Smart green corporate VC: innogy SE is one of the leading European energy companies. With its three business areas of Renewables, Grid & Infrastructure as well as Retail, it addresses the requirements of a modern, decarbonised, decentralised and digital energy world. The focus of innogy SE’s activities is on offering existing and potential customers innovative and sustainable products and services which enable them to use energy more efficiently and improve their quality of life. The key markets are Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and several countries in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe, especially the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. In renewable power generation, the company is also active in other regions, e.g. Spain and Italy. The new subsidiary of RWE AG started operations on 1 April 2016. On 29 June 2016, the name of the European stock company was announced: innogy. The new name is expected to take formal effect as of September 2016, at which time the company as well as its products and services will be gradually rebranded. Until then, the subsidiary will continue under the name innogy SE. Based on the combined financial statements for 2015, the company would have a revenue of around €46 billion and an EBITDA of €4.5 billion. The company is expected to employ around 40,000 out of a total of around 60,000 employees of the RWE Group once the restructuring process has been completed.

Smart green corporate VC: Sustainable energy for everyone. That is what drives Eneco’s endeavours. We are a leading Dutch utility, focused on sustainable, smart energy solutions. We provide for the daily energy needs of over 2.2 million private and business customers through trading, supply and generation, but increasingly by offering smart, decentralized solutions in area’s such as smart home, solar & storage, smart charging etc. Instead of defending old business models, we aim to lead the transition towards more decentralized, sustainable and cooperative energy systems. Eneco Innovation & Ventures is our business unit dedicated to developing new products and services together with business partners and startups. We collaborate with, and invest in, innovative businesses in order to jointly innovate and create commercial success for new smart energy services. We seek technologies and business models that can accelerate our development of sustainable, decentralized, smart energy services. In turn, we can offer scaling opportunities, knowledge and access to markets as well as capital investments as part of our venturing portfolio.

Baker Botts is an international law firm of approximately 725 lawyers practicing throughout a network of 14 offices around the globe. Baker Botts corporate lawyers have represented startup companies and their investors throughout the long history of our firm. Many of our oldest and largest institutional clients are businesses we have worked with since their formation – in some cases for many decades. That tradition continues today as a natural intersection of our experience in corporate transactions and in intellectual property matters, particularly in clean energy, information technology, life sciences and nanotechnology. We counsel entrepreneurs, early stage and emerging growth companies, as well as investors, venture capitalists and underwriters in a wide variety of industries, in addition to frequently representing universities and large commercial enterprises licensing their new technologies. We advise technology and other emerging growth companies from formation through rounds of venture capital or other private equity financing, initial public offering, sale or merger and beyond. Our lawyers represent a number of venture capital and other private equity funds, not only in raising their funds and making their portfolio investments, but also in the management or disposition of those investments.

ECO17 London Bronze Sponsors

Smart green VC: IP Group is a leading intellectual property commercialisation company which focuses on evolving great ideas, mainly from its partner universities, into world-changing businesses. The Group has pioneered a unique approach to developing these ideas and the resulting businesses by providing access to business building expertise, capital (through its 100%-owned FCA-authorised subsidiary IP Capital), networks, recruitment and business support. IP Group has a strong track record of success and its portfolio comprises holdings in approximately 100 early-stage to mature businesses across four main sectors – Biotech, Cleantech, Healthcare and Technology. The Company is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the code IPO.

Sustainable Ventures has successfully conceived and developed a portfolio of businesses since 2011 including Powervault Ltd, and E-Car Club Ltd which was sold to Europcar in 2015. The portfolio includes Sustainable Workspaces which has curated Europe’s leading physical community of sustainable start-ups. 50 start-ups will be co-located across two spaces when Sustainable Bankside is launched in late 2017. In 2017 Sustainable Accelerator was launched to invest in and support pre-series A sustainable start-ups for a one-year accelerator programme.

Smart green startup: Ubitricity was founded in Berlin in 2008 to develop new services for households with electric vehicles. We are now one of the few independent energy providers in Germany who deliver renewable electricity to households. In the future, ubitricity will offer its customers who drive EVs the possibility to charge up everywhere (e.g. at work) in total security and confidence, and with one single, simple bill to pay. Customers will receive the benefits of a new infrastructure concept – delivery, metering and billing services for green electricity. In 2010, ubitricity was able to win Earlybird, one of Europe’s most successful venture capital investors, for a Series A financing round. ubitricity’s Mobile Metering concept makes a comprehensive charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EV) affordable. The metering and communications technology necessary for recharging a vehicle is mobilized. It is installed in the EV or inside the charging cable rather than inside every single charging point. As a result, charging points can be reduced to lean and affordable ubitricity system sockets that can easily be installed anywhere users need them, and allow for truly unlimited mobility.

Hyperion Executive Search is a specialist headhunter within the clean energy, energy storage, e-mobility and cleantech markets. Our focus is across EMEA. We help our clients achieve their strategic growth and revenue goals by enabling them to attract, attain and retain the key talent they need. In particular we work with post-investment startups and fast growth companies, to recruit high impact leaders, management teams, and sales tigers. We also build full teams, and help our clients set up new territories or product/service lines.

ECO18 Paris Platinum Sponsors

Bpifrance is France’s leading public investment bank that offers financing, investment and investment banking services for innovative projects. Bpifrance Le Hub is the connection platform between the traditional economy and the best of French innovation. Bpifrance Le Hub is your tech deal maker and evangelises, creates key partnerships and multiplies the opportunities to accelerate innovation and growth.

ECO18 Paris Silver Sponsors

Smart green VC: With more than €8 billion under management, Idinvest Partners is a leading pan-European private equity firm focused on the mid-market segment. Idinvest Partners has developed several complementary areas of expertise including investments in innovative European start-ups in the digital, healthcare and Smart City sectors. In this last sector, Idinvest Partners’ Smart Cities practice boasts 20 years of cumulative experience in both energy and digital technology companies. The goal is to capture the exciting growth opportunities in smart city, smart energy and new mobility which are driven by the rapid adoption of data-driven services and digitalized solutions. Idinvest Partners also specialises in the areas of mid-market direct lending (unitranche, senior loans and junior financing), primary and secondary investments in unlisted European companies, and private equity consulting. Founded under the name AGF Private Equity in 1997, Idinvest Partners was formerly part of Allianz until 2010 when it became an independent firm.