EIC Corporate Day with Vattenfall

The European Innovation Council’s (EIC) collaboration with Vattenfall, one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat, reached a new milestone. After many months of collaboration, on December 5-6, 2024, Vattenfall co-hosted the EIC Corporate Day aimed at creating synergies between EIC-funded innovators and Europe’s leading corporations. 

Vattenfall’s Partnership with the EIC 

In the framework of the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme, the EIC has been working hand-in-hand with Vattenfall, one of the leading providers of electricity and heat across Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, as well as Finland. Committed to “Fossil Freedom”, a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways to move, make, and live, the company is actively working to reduce its carbon footprint across all operations.  

For the past 4 months, the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme team has been scouting for new technologies to help Vattenfall achieve its ambitious sustainability goals and unlock new business opportunities. After months of vetting Europe’s most promising deep tech startups and scaleups, the EIC was able to present Vattenfall the most relevant innovations in Wind Power, Energy Grid Management, and Heating from the EIC portfolio of over 6000 startups and scaleups. 

The EIC has a broad knowledge about different startups, what they’re capable of and investing a lot of money in them. In that regard, we can rest assured to get the right companies to present the right knowledge and the right needs for our challenges.  

Chista Bella Tuyisabe - Procurement Manager Offshore & Wind, Vattenfall (Denmark) 

Check out the video of the EIC Corporate Day with Vattenfall here. 

The EIC Corporate Day with Vattenfall 

Held at Vattenfall Deutschland-Zentrale in Berlin, Germany, 12 EIC-selected startups, SMEs, and scale-ups from seven countries presented ground-breaking solutions for the most critical challenges faced by the Swedish multinational power company and its clients.  

The pitching session was followed by one-on-one meetings between the startups and Vattenfall's senior decision-makers from several geographies and business units scouting for innovative solutions. Representing the EIC, Mali M. Baum, an EIC Board member, highlighted the EIC portfolio companies' dedication to presenting a curated and specific approach to collaborate with Vattenfall. 

Mali M. Baum, EIC Board Member, introducing the EIC Corporate Day With Vattenfall.  

One of the companies from the EIC portfolio participating in the Programme, Carbo Culture, highlighted:  

The Corporate Partnership Programme is great because you meet a range of different profiles within Vattenfall. It is very valuable for a startup to get access to so many different personas corporation.  

Charlotta Liukas - Head of Operations, Carbo Culture 

Carbo Culture has a patented carbolysis reactor that takes waste biomass and converts it into stable biochar, locking carbon safely away for centuries and generating renewable energy in the process. 

Learn more about the 12 EIC-founded companies selected by Vattenfall: 

• ADAPTIVE BALANCING POWER GMBH (Germany) 

• CARBO CULTURE OY (Finland)  

• DYNELECTRO APS (Denmark) 

• EOLOGIX SENSOR TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Austria) 

• GBM WORKS B.V. (Netherlands) 

• KRAFTBLOCK GMBH (Germany) 

• MAGMENT GMBH (Germany) 

• QARNOT COMPUTING (France) 

• TERALOOP OY (Finland) 

• TWAICE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Germany) 

• VANEVO GMBH (Germany) 

• Zaphiro Technologies SA (Switzerland) 

Family Picture EIC Corporate Day with Vattenfall. 

Additional information 

About the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme    

Since 2017 the  has developed its  to allow EIC companies to boost their network and meet relevant decision-makers from the largest companies in Europe. Since October 2017, over 70 initiatives have been organised with +120 corporate partners.  

Over 1200 EIC-funded startups/scaleups and +2500 corporate high-level representatives have been able to participate in these initiatives reporting a significant business impact, follow-ups, and business deals in less than 6 months, including numerous pilots, proofs of concept and other business collaborations.    

For large corporations with open innovation spirit, interested in integrating innovations coming from startups, scaleups and research projects directly into their business offering, procurement and R&D activities as well as investing in highly innovative/deep tech companies, learn about the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme and apply here.   

    

About the EIC Business Acceleration Services       

The EIC Corporate Partnership Programme is part of the EIC Business Acceleration Services.  

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