Main Partners
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BLUE ORANGE
Jean-Michel Laine - R&D Portfolio Manager Blue Orange is SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT’s corporate investment fund with a prime focus on water and waste technologies. Blue Orange acts as a shareholder and industrial partner: starting from a capital stake our team nurture the commercial and industrial development of young companies that promote innovative technologies. With EUR 50 million over 10 years Blue Orange invests at seed, early and development stages. |
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AUTODESK
Erwin Burth - Head of Business Development Clean Tech EMEA Erwin Burth is an industry expert in the area of 2D and 3D design and engineering solutions for the manufacturing, automotive and building industry. Mr. Burth is leading Business Development at Autodesk in Europe, with a specific focus on CleanTech and the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program. The programme is supporting start-ups and established companies which are significantly contributing to a more efficient utilization of scarce resources like energy and raw material. Autodesk is a leading provider of 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software used by more than ten million people worldwide. Mr. Burth is an engineer by education with a postgraduate MBA in international Marketing.
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INVEST SECURITIES
Jean-Emmanuel Vernay - Co-Founder & Managing Partner The Invest Securities group is one of the leading investment banks on the mid cap segment in France, first initiator over the past 10 years (in number of initiations) on Euronext and Alternext with over 50 IPOs and one of the prominent actors in M&A with over 100 operations on the SME segment (takeover, merger, fund raising, capital increase, bond issue, LBO, etc.).Invest Securities has developed an expertise on the Renewable Energy & Environmental Technologies segments with its two specialized analysts, Laurent Wilk and Louis Bazy. As of today, Invest Securities has a team of over 60 professionals in Paris and Beijing working in the fields of financial analysis, brokerage, M&A and investment. During the past 12 months the group has raised more than 350 million euros through 12 Public Offerings and private placements. |
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ICHAY et MULLENEX
Frédéric ICHAY - Partner & Head of the Corporate Department Ichay & Mullenex Avocats confirmed its position as a leading technology focused law firm, praised both by Chambers and Legal 500. Our lawyers are specialised in corporate and new technologies matters and are proud to dedicate their expertise to our green business practice. Ichay & Mullenex Avocats has a strong international focus with clients coming from many parts of the world, and in particular Israel where we are often acting as a legal go-between between French and Israeli companies. |
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INRIA Established in 1967, Inria is the only public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, Inria’s 3,400 researchers strive to invent the digital technologies of the future. Educated at leading international universities, they creatively integrate basic research with applied research and dedicate themselves to solving real problems, collaborating with the main players in public and private research in France and abroad and sharing the fruits of their work with innovative companies. The researchers at Inria published over 4,800 articles in 2010. They are behind over 270 active patents and 105 start-ups. In 2010, Inria’s budget came to 252.5 million euros, 26% of which represented its own resources. |
Partners & Speakers
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Adamas Energy Investments |
Richard DOVERE
Richard Dovere is an entrepreneur who founded Adamas Energy Investments, LLC in 2009 to capitalize on unusual investment opportunities in the alternative energy sector. Adamas is a project development firm that invests in mid-size utility-scale power assets in the United States and Europe. Complete Profile |
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CARBON WAR ROOM news.carbonwarroom.com |
Peter BOYD Complete Profile The Carbon War Room harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to implement market-driven solutions to climate change. The world needs entrepreneurial leadership to create a post-carbon economy. The War Room’s unique approach focuses on bringing together successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, policy experts, researchers, and thought leaders to focus on market-driven solutions. Our approach is to identify the barriers that are preventing market-based scale up of climate change solutions and thereby perpetuating the status quo. In addition to technology and policy gaps, these barriers include principal-agent problems, information gaps, and lack of common standards or metrics. |
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Emergy Advisors |
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Emertec www.emertec.fr |
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ERC PARTNERS www.erc-partners .com |
César DE BRITO
Eco Responsible Capital is an advisory company specialized in sustainable and green investments. We offer access to sophisticated investors (Familly Offices, Private Banks, Private Equity funds or industrial players) to green companies looking for strategic partners or investors. We have an extensive experience in renewable energy companies with more than 1500MW advised in Europe so far. |
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Georgieff Capital www.georgieffcapital.com |
Nicholas ATKINS Nicholas Atkins has over 20 years of corporate finance and private equity experience. He has successfully led a number of private equity transactions both as an advisor and principal (with 3i). He has also advised on a range of M&A and corporate finance transactions across various industry groups, including the technology sector whilst at SG Cowen, and now heads up Georgieff Capital’s clean technology advisory practice. Mr. Atkins has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has dual British and US citizenship. Complete Profile |
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IdInvest Partners www.idinvest-partners.com |
Nicolas CHAUDRON Nicolas Chaudron joined Idinvest Partners, formerly AGF Private Equity and an affiliate of Allianz, in 2001. Since 2006 he has been focusing on the cleantech sector and he led AGF Private Equity's investment in several companies including Odersun (thin-film solar cells), Akol Energies (independent solar energy producer), or Nenuphar (vertical axis wind turbine manufacturer). Complete Profile |
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TTP Ventures www.ttpventures.com |
Clennell COLLINGWOOD clennell.collingwood@ttpventures.com  Clennell specialises in cleantech and has over 10 years experience as an Investment Director at TTP Ventures. He is currently working with ZBD Displays; previous investments include Alphamosaic. Clennell also established the Carbon Trust – TTP Incubator, which supports start-up and early-stage businesses in the low carbon sector. He has first class BA and MEng degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge |
Richard Dovere is an entrepreneur who founded Adamas Energy Investments, LLC in 2009 to capitalize on unusual investment opportunities in the alternative energy sector. Adamas is a project development firm that invests in mid-size utility-scale power assets in the United States and Europe. The Firm’s Investment Committee includes trusted utility and finance sector veterans who are actively involved in the firm alongside its top-tier management team. Previously, Richard co-founded a technology services firm where he ran business development and operations and led the company to a successful strategic exit. Richard also worked in senior staff positions in municipal, state and national level political campaigns. Richard, who is active in policy initiatives, conferences around the world and research, consults for leading hedge funds and corporations on policy issues facing the energy sector. He holds a BA in US History and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Associations Partners
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OSEO
Jerome Barel - Chief Project at OSEO Capital PME London School of Economics. Begin his career in e-commerce with the launch of RueDuCommerce.com, before joining Anvar in charge of IT sector expertise. He is now in charge of OSEO capital PME and INVESTnet matchmaking platforms, for companies and investors. |
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Club Cleantech AFIC |
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CARBON TRUST |
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CleanTech Market |
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Pike Research |
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Watervent www.watervent.com |
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Jacobs Family Office |
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Yoel Guilatt |
Yoel Guilatt Cell: +972 50 722 02 80 |
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Clean Capital UK www.cleancapital.co.uk Clean Capital is an independently owned, London based, yet internationally operating, strategic and corporate finance advisory firm, focused 100% on cleantech growth companies and their investors. Within cleantech we are particularly interested in new materials, products and engineering processes, which promote resource and energy efficiency. We have a broad cleantech focus however, which includes solar, wind, water, bio-chemistry, waste management and recycling too. Typically we engage with companies which intend to raise between EUR0.5m and EUR10m in equity and which are either suitable for our pool of private investors, European cleantech VC/PE houses or a combination of both. Most of our clients come from outside the UK.   Peter Whiting & Stephan Decher |
Media Partner
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GREENUNIVERS www.greenunivers.com |
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance http://bnef.com |
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Massolia www.massolia.com |
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Venture Capital Magazin www.vc-magazin.de |
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Clean Energy Pipeline www.cleanenergypipeline.com |
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Israel Science Info www.israelscienceinfo.com |
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MergerMarket www.mergermarket.com |
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Cleantech Republic GreenVivo.com |
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Green News Techno www.green-news-techno.fr |
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Thomson Reuters www.hugingroup.com |
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Private Equity Magazine www.pemagazine.fr |
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Dutch Green Technology www.dutchgreentechnology.nl |
