Energy Startup Day 2020 Highlights

With over 295 registrations, over 150 simultaneously participants and 42 startups the 6th Energy Startup Day was a full success. On the 1st of December Startups, incumbents, investors and industry experts were able to expand their network and make interesting new contacts. Our highlights were:

✨ 70 Speed Datings that connected startups with key investors
✨ Keynote Speeches of Anne-Claire Pliska, Verena Lübken and Christian Schaffner
✨ 42 inspiring Startup Pitches

 

The winners of the #EnergyStartupDay Awards and their interviews with Swisspreneur Podcast.

Public Choice Award : Insolight

Investors Choice Award : Exnaton

Experts Choice Award : BluAct Technologies

 

A big thank you to CKW and Energie 360° AG for supporting the event and to all the participants for the active contribution.

We hope to see you all in June 2021 at the 7th Energy Startup Day at the Powertage in Messe Zürich!

Find here selected filmed interviews with prominent Swiss Energy Startups.

Some Impressions from the Event

Startups 2020

BePooler

BePooler is a smart mobility operator focused on travel sharing (Private Car, Shuttle, Taxi, Car Sharing, etc.), offering a technologically advanced car pooling platform dedicated to commuters and business travelers in Europe
https://www.bepooler.com/

CLEMAP

CLEMAP is specialized in the metering and evaluation of energy data through their proprietary IoT Edge Device and Cloud solution. Important fields of application are the dynamic charging of EV, energy monitoring of industrial applications and flexibility management in decentralized energy grids.
https://www.clemap.com/

EH Group Engineering

EH Group promotes clean energy and is focused on the design and production of our innovative fuel cell technology. Their innovative and patented fuel cell technology offers high power density, simplified system architecture and scalable fuel cell production.
https://www.ehgroup.ch/

Eturnity

Eturnity is a B2B Saas software and combines two digital tools that focus on an automated, precise and customer-oriented process: The Eturnity Calculator and Expert, each for the PV and heating sectors. This covers customer acquisition, consulting, planning and sales of renewable energy systems. Simulation results of different technologies are directly converted into a customer offer. In doing so, they are the first software solution that enables a combination of different technologies such as PV systems, battery systems, heat pumps and e-mobility.
http://www.eturnity.ch

Exnaton

Exnaton is an ETH Spinoff that builds a software platform for the energy market of tomorrow. The software empowers utility companies to set up energy communities and dynamic tariffing models for renewable energy in an easy way. Using The Exnaton's software, utilities can tap into new revenue streams and offer new innovative products to their customers, e.g. households can directly buy renewable electricity from their neighbors on the PowerQuartier platform and can track their environmental impact with the PowerQuartier whitelabel app.
https://www.exnaton.com/

Gilytics

Gilytics is a solution for automated design of energy and transportation infrastructure. It provides power grid operators with a 3D power line routing software. Within a few seconds, our cloud platform calculates routes for new power line projects, for example connecting a wind farm with the existing power grid, with the least impact.
https://www.gilytics.com/

Green-Y

Green-Y revolutionizes the energy sector: The combination of an electricity storage together with a heating and cooling unit in one decentralized device makes the integration of renewable energy on a large scale possible. A profitable and efficient system with unrivalled low amortization periods around 5 years results. Besides that, Green-Y is eco-friendly by using only air and water as working fluids.
https://www.green-y.ch/

Hive Power

Hive Power provides digital solutions for Smart Grid Analytics, Energy Communities, and V2G. It helps Energy Suppliers and Grid Operators in optimising their operations and asset management. The solution includes tools for the forecasting of energy demand, scheduling of hydropower plant, designing new tariff schemes, and optimal management of energy communities and aggregated flexible loads.
https://hivepower.tech/

Hivoduct

Hivoduct entwickelt und produziert Druckluftkabel mit geerdetem Gehäuse für die Mittel- und Hochspannung. Hivoduct Druckluftkabel können höhere Leistungen übertragen, benötigen weniger Platz, haben kleinere Feldemissionen und weniger Verluste im Betrieb. Sie sind ideal bei hohen Nennströmen. Druckluftkabel sind vorteilhaft für Systemintegratoren, Netzbetreiber, Umwelt und Anrainer.


https://www.hivoduct.com/

Insolight

As a startup based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Insolight develops a new generation of solar modules, opening up new deployment opportunities in the agrivoltaic market.
https://insolight.ch/

Joulia

Instead of letting valuable heat energy from shower water go to waste, the Joulia shower drain channel recovers this energy and provides a sustainable shower experience with the highest comfort level. Thanks to simple cold water diversion, the heat recovery system saves up to 60% energy and thus provides more comfort with less energy.
https://joulia.com/

LEDCity

The lighting sector is responsible for 14 % of the electricity consumption - the saving potential is huge. LEDCity develops sensor-controlled lighting system to reduce the energy consumption of business buildings.
https://www.ledcity.ch/

LINIA

The software LINIAair enables power grid operators to acquire a huge amount of data of infrastructure fast and autonomous with drones. Their cloud based platform LINIAgrid processes, visualizes and analyzes data with AI-algorithms, to find damage or threats to power lines.
https://www.linia.ch

MOOST

MOOST is a SaaS solution for Utilities and Home Energy Service providers. Its award-winning technology turns households‘ energy data into smart recommendations and controls. This reduces households‘ energy bill up to 40%, saves +1Mt GHG emissions and yields +CHF 1.3M additional ARR for customers.


https://www.moost.io/

myFacility

myFacility connects heating, ventilation and IoT systems in buildings and reduces energy costs and CO2 emissions using artificial intelligence.
http://www.myfacility.io

myNewEnergy AG

myNewEnergy operates a sustainable and comprehensive electricity comparison service with direct ordering options for private and SME-customers. In addition to price, product quality is also taken into account, which is measured in terms of the energy transition.
https://www.mynewenergy.ch/

Plutinsus

Plutinsus helps energy service providers and building owners to make the maintenance of their heating systems more efficient, to maximise the life expectancy of these systems, and to optimize the heating-related fuel or electricity consumption.
https://www.plutinsus.com/

Sympheny

Sympheny empowers the planners and managers of buildings & local areas to drive the global energy transition. Their SaaS platform supports optimized energy planning & management of sites from a building to a neighborhood to an entire city. With their unique synthesis of digital twin technology and powerful algorithms, energy performance objectives which previously seemed unthinkable are transformed into practicable design solutions and analyses, which previously took days, can be completed in hours. For their customers, this means more confidence and transparency in achieving their sustainability objectives, and less time & money wasted along the way.
https://www.sympheny.com/

Urbio

Urbio's SaaS platform accelerates 10x the decarbonization of buildings with generative AI, enabling energy actors to make the best investments for individual buildings, entire portfolios – or even large cities.


https://www.urb.io/

WeGaw

Wegaw process remote sensing satellite data with machine learning to optimize renewable energy production and trading, helping energy utilities and trading companies to forecast better energy production improving distribution, generation and trading of renewable energy.
https://www.wegaw.com/

zevvy AG

zevvy helps owners of multi family houses to easily bill their complex energy costs with an intelligent online platform. This includes solar power, heat, cooling or charging stations. More than 5000 flats are billed with zevvy and the trend of energy communities in Europe just pick up speed.


https://www.zevvy.ch/

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