The European Cleantech Challenge is part of Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative a comprehensive program aimed at start-ups looking for concrete business opportunities. Every few months, a rigorous selection and training process leads the best start-ups to high-profile, technology-specific events called Arena Meetings, where they can pitch to international investors and corporations.
Skipso has partnered with Intesa providing the platform and support to manage this year’s European Cleantech Challenge. We would like to report here the profiles of the 10 startups that have been selected by Intesa’s expert judging panel to take part in this year’s International investor Arena that will see these companies pitch to top investors in Milan, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Boston and San Francisco.
For more information about any of these startups please contact Intesa Sanpaolo or send us an email at info@skipso.com
A+ Sun Systems
A+ Sun Systems is focused on design, production and commercialization of innovative high quality mounting systems for photovoltaic plants. Its mission is to create and apply effective and innovative technical solutions to photovoltaic systems to reach “grid parity”. A+ Sun Systems pillars are innovation and quality. Whether in the office, factory or at the installation site, our team enthusiastically creates and applies innovative technical solutions to better serve you and make your photovoltaic installations more competitive.
Genport
GENPORT is the Italian progressive spin-off of Politecnico di Milano, developer and manufacturer of an advanced, lightweight technology for portable power generation and storage in medical, defense, emergency, telecommunication and industrial applications.
GENPORT combines Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) and Ion Lithium technologies, in order to provide advance power solution to any off-grid external equipment up to 1000 Watt, with superior performance, reliability and satisfy such requirements as long life, design flexibility, high energy density, compact configuration, high cycling, high rate discharge, reducing to zero both noise and emissions and operating in extreme environmental conditions.
GENPORT brings the strong expertise and mutual beneficial partnerships of a value chain which includes companies and academic institutions. Our corporate partners are: Politecnico di Milano, Elemaster Group, Genbee, Petrone Group, SAATI Group.
Pontoon Power
Pontoon Power AS is a Norwegian company, established in 2010. The company’s primary purpose is to develop electric power production based on offshore wave power by means of our patent pending wave power converter, the Pontoon Power Converter (PPC).
Qualisteo
Qualisteo is an eco-innovative start-up company taking an active role in the electricity «smart grid» endeavour.
Its mission is to help electricity consumers take ownership and control of their consumption patterns, thereby managing and reducing their ecological footprint.
Qualisteo has engineered an innovative and patented solution, which makes it possible to measure and tell apart power consumption of multiple devices from a single measurement point. Qualisteo products and services enable cost efficient, non-intrusive and meaningful measurement of electricity flows by usage and efficiency, in any building.
Underground Power
UP’s mission is to become the leader in production of energy harvesting devices based on linear motion. UP aims to develop and market its patented, innovative LYBRA. LYBRA is an energy harvesting device similar to a flat speed bump that recovers energy wasted by vehicle brakes in decelerating lanes, reduces the speed and produces electric energy.
Voltalink
Voltalink develops and commercializes innovative telecontrol solutions for photovoltaic systems
Our solutions have been designed to achieve the highest communication reliability while keeping high system scalability to address either small photovoltaic installations or big photovoltaic farms.
Voltalink products are “plug & play” to assure easy installation procedures and allow our customers to remotely monitor their photovoltaic systems through easy and secure web access.
Windesign
Windesign is an innovative micro wind generator system.
Black Silicon Solar
Black Silicon Solar has developed a technology for improving the absorption of light in silicon solar cells. Its unique technology increases the efficiency of solar cells in a cost-efficient way, making solar cells significantly cheaper.
Clean Power Tech
Clean Power Tech has developed a patented low-emission diesel engine that allows substantial reduction in production, maintaining high-engine efficiency.
EnerCloud
EnerCloud is a cloud-based decision support system for energy efficiency: data collection from the field, sophisticated analysis and simple presentation.
The 10 startups were also awarded €100,000 worth of Autodesk Digital Prototyping software. Autodesk was in fact a sponsor of this year’s European Cleantech Challenge.
The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program supports early-stage clean technology companies by providing design and engineering software that accelerates their development of solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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