The European Sustainable Energy Accelerator

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1 The European Sustainable Energy Accelerator KIC InnoEnergy Highway

2 KIC InnoEnergy Highway accelerates your business idea on its route to success 4 unique assets that give us a head start over any other European accelerator: European coverage: KIC InnoEnergy Highway is one single European accelerator with six entry points. The ventures we support have access to our whole European network. We specialise in Sustainable Energy: This allows us to offer energy-related technology due diligence, labs, proof of concept (POC), prototypes and technical expertise. A commitment to finding your first customer: As it is the customer who is held to legitimise an invention, a product or a service, KIC InnoEnergy Highway is actively involved with you, the entrepreneur, in finding your launching customer. An integral approach: KIC InnoEnergy Highway helps start-ups in those 4 dimensions that we believe to be vital to creating and running a successful business: Technology: Due diligence, mapping vs. competitive products/services, IP protection, technology enhancement or development, piloting and industrialisation. Market: Opportunity assessment, market positioning, business cases, finding and validating customers, business planning and commercialisation. Personnel: Team assessment, training, team completion and legal constitution. Finance: Access to money sources, and to our extensive KIC InnoEnergy and Business Angel networks. How does it work? Submit your idea Opportunity Assessment Coach Assignment Services delivery First customer Send your business idea (e.g. business plan, presentation) to one of our offices. Your business idea is assessed based on three criteria: innovation novelty and technology, market potential and team competencies. If the assessment is positive, you and your assigned coach will collaborate on designing a completely individualised roadmap, complete with a customised package of services. A complete package of services can be provided thanks to our diverse and extensive network of European partners, who cater to every aspect of your project s needs. KIC InnoEnergy is committed to finding you your first customer. This is a real milestone for a start-up, and a first step towards consolidating a successful business.

3 KIC InnoEnergy Highway is A one-stop shop offering a tailor-made service to help you create your Business, and make it work. We can offer this service thanks to our extensive network of European partners that includes 200 players in the energy field, sourced from industry as well as universities and research centres. Our partners represent the whole energy value chain. They provide us with their expertise and their services, and are among the first to adopt the innovative solutions that our ventures launch on the market. Equity participation KIC InnoEnergy is more than just another accelerator. Rather than asking for a fee, we invest, through equity participation, in those start-ups that we believe can really make a difference. Facts & Figures until December 2014 Applicants Ventures supported per sector Ventures supported (accumulated) Total Total 3% 6% 13% 11% 3% end of % New start-ups created* Total *For KIC InnoEnergy, a start-up is a venture that: has received a positive report after an internal evaluation. has either achieved its first launching customer or has acquired more than 0,5M in external funding. Renewable Energies Smart and Efficient Buildings and Cities Smart Electric Grid Sustainable nuclear and Renewable Convergence 31% Clean Coal technologies Electricity Storage Energy Efficiency Energy from Chemical fuels

4 Our beliefs We do not believe in the best ideas but in the right questions. Success does not come from having the best idea or technology, but from asking the right questions. Questions that matter respond to a need and to an opportunity. We do not believe in the superman or superwoman but in the super team. Success comes from a working in a team, each member of which can contribute to a wholly successful enterprise. We do not believe in easy money but in good money. Simply giving cash to an entrepreneur is not considered money well spent. Instead, we help the entrepreneur source cash directly from customers. We do so by helping them find their first customer, as well as through our market-oriented approach that contributes to the creation of a well-rounded business. Our ventures talk about us Coaching provided by KIC InnoEnergy has proven to be of great value. We have dealt with several situations much better thanks to the help of our coach and to the perspectives we were given on how to assess problems. Being in contact with other start-ups is also an opportunity. We believe that business collaboration with one of the start-ups in the incubator could be profitable. We would be interested in using KIC InnoEnergy s network of partners to reach the whole European market in the future. Elisabeth Cuenca, CEO, OpenDomo KIC InnoEnergy has allowed me to work with experts from all over Europe. Our technology has been tested by specialists from IST, (Portugal), while Iberdrola, (UK and Spain), has begun testing our prototype. What s more, our first customer has been found thanks to the efforts of our French partners. The opportunity to take advantage of such a network is something unique. Patrick Möller, CorPower

5 Some of our ventures Recycles dry agricultural by-products into agropellets in order to offer turnkey heating services. France The democratisation of solar energy via an innovative financial mechanism. France Smart grid enabled power electronics. Sweden Lidar buoy, and highly accurate software program for forecasting wind, waves and currents. Spain Design, building, services for plants that purify and use biomass gases. France Mobile sensor systems for fluid applications. Germany Optimal heat controlling systems. Sweden Wood based modular construction systems for energy efficient buildings. Spain High efficiency wave power. Sweden Cost efficient multi-junction solar cell for sustainable green energy. Sweden Monitoring solution for energy saving in buildings. Portugal Intelligent monitoring and control solutions in the energy efficiency field. Spain Printed solar cells that produce power to charge small devices. France Development and manufacturing of hydraulic microturbines for electric power generation. Spain Data analytics tool for automating the energy efficiency process in buildings. Sweden Clean energy solution for rural and under-developed areas. Portugal A new generation of solar trackers. France Design, manufacture and market of innovative 100% renewable solutions in energy autonomy. France Thermal storage of renewable energy and its integration in a hybrid microgrid. Low-cost electricity storage. Electrical heated cushions for seats and integrated electrically heated seats. Helps battery pack makers prolong the lifetime of their products. France On-line platform for designing energy efficient buildings. Integration and optimisation of renewable energy sources. Poland Online software for renewable energy forecasting and grid integration management. Spain Generating business in smartgrids from residential customers. Spain Smart management system for water and energy savings. Spain Technology of manufacturing of a composite cathode materials for li-ion batteries applications. Poland Devices that generate electricty from oscillations. Spain Innovative software services algorithms for energy and value optimisation of business. Belgium Active control of heat and light in buildings preventing obsolete heat accumulation and optimising daylight usage. Benelux Highly-specialised laboratory equipment. Poland Solar system optimisation, making photovoltaic systems insensitive to shading effects. Aggregated virtual energy storage. Sweden Integrated system for wind farm management. Poland Mobile application for monitoring energy consumption. Sweden

6 About KIC InnoEnergy KIC InnoEnergy invests in research, innovation and education, offering a complete support package to entrepreneurs in the commercialisation and development of their companies and products. Our overall goal is to secure Europe s global competitiveness in the field of sustainable energy technologies. We are a commercial company with more than 200 partners involved in our activities. 27 of these we call our formal partners as they are also our main shareholders, their company logos appear on the map. KIC InnoEnergy Highway Contact us and submit your project to: info.highway@ kic-innoenergy.com Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands. [email protected] France. [email protected] Germany. [email protected] Spain and Portugal. [email protected] Poland Plus. [email protected] Sweden. [email protected] EUROPE BENELUX FRANCE GERMANY IBERIA POLAND PLUS SWEDEN KIC InnoEnergy is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union