The official launch of the Indo-Swedish Innovation Platform - an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency that has a goal of helping Swedish cleantech innovations to enter the Indian market - has attracted media attention during the Energy Efficiency Summit in Hyderabad on 24th of August, where an MoU has been signed with the Indian partners, Confederation of Indian Industry. Cleantech Scandinavia is an operational partner on the Swedish side. Continue to reading the article »

 

Swedish Tomologic won the title of the best Nordic cleantech start - up of 2012 at the NCO finals in Finland last week. The event's audience of over 100 investors, industrials and entrepreneurs voted and helped deciding the winner. Finnish Ultranat came in second place, and the third place was shared by Danish Black Silicon Solar and Finnish MetGen. 

 

Tomologic is a Stockholm based company that offers a scalable online optimization service for sheet metal cutting. The process reduces scrap from raw material in this energy intensive industry up to 50%. It was clearly a combination of Tomologics smart technology and go-to-market strategy that swinged, which earned them the number one spot.

Read more in our press room »

The latest additions to Cleantech Scandinavia network, Evonik Corporate Venturing and Volvo Technology Transfer, inspired us to analyse the current market situation from the point of view of an industrial VC. We believe that industrials have a much bigger role to play as cleantech investors and potentially LPs, and that it will benefit both their core businesses as well as accelerate commercialising clean technologies, an area where funding is most needed. Read and share your ideas for the next CTS Industry Group Meeting due this fall!

Continue to reading the article »

 

 

Industrifonden is a Swedish fund, which has been the most active Nordic VC investor in 2011. It has also been a member of Cleantech Scandinavia from the start, widely involved in our activities and events. We interviewed Srefan for this year’s NCO Top-25 Report.

Read the interview here »

In 2012 Cleantech Scandinavia will celebrate 5 years in business. These have been exciting times and we are not one bit less curious and excited about what we do. We are glad that the network is growing every year and we do our best to keep up with the changing market and, despite clowdy economic conditions, keep the flag of the Nordic Cleantech flying high. Read the account of our work and impressions of 2011, and find out if we thing it's been a good year!  Read the full article »

19 start-ups from the Nordic Cleantech Open and an equal number of investors and industrials spent a great weekend at the astonishing castle of Trolleholm on the 11-12 of February. See a video clip from the event:

Nordic Camp from Nordic Cleantech Open on Vimeo.

Nordic Cleantech Showcase in California

 

Successful Launch of CTS Industry Group

 

Bridging the investment gap in Nordic cleantech

Cleantech Spring in Copenhagen - big success!

Copenhagen from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Nordic Cleantech in London - Read and Watch!

Nordic Cleantech Showcase from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Markku Koivisto is the next Hall of Fame nominee!

Markku Koivisto, Director of UPM ProFi was awarded The Scandinavian Cleantech Hall of Fame nomination during the Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti, Finland, on November 4th. He joins two people that are already in there, Lassi Noponen and Alf Bjørseth.
UPM ProFi is a business unit of UPM, one of the biggest wood product companies in the world, that manufactures a wood plastic composite material utilising the waste streams from the existing production. The material has superior qualities and can also be used for substituting tropical hardwood.
The official motivation for the award is: For changing the way a big company does business by turning waste and CO2 emissions into a business opportunity. The rapid growth of the UPM ProFi business unit shows by example that a cleantech business area inside a company can achieve superior results even in hard times. Read more in the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Scandinavia expands into the Baltics

Nordic Cleantech Open unveiled

A new busi- ness competi- tion has seen the light of day! Why? Because we beleive that there needs to be a strong pipeline of new cleantech ideas and that they need to be shown to the world. We also beleive that a strong dealflow pipeline will benefit not only the Nordic cleantech industry but also our members.
Read the full article »

 

Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti Video

Our next event in Lahti is approaching, with already over 160 participants registered. Watch the video with Mika Sulkinoja of Lahti Science and Business Park speaking about the event, the companies who are going to present, and why Lahti is called the "Davos of Cleantech"! All the information related to the event is on www.cleantechday.fi

Cleantech Venture Day, Lahti, Finland, 3-5 November 2010 from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Interviews from the Oslo event

Helle Moen, Investment Manager at Investinor

 

Alf Bjørseth in the Hall of Fame!

Alf Bjørseth, founder of Norwegian companies REC and Scatec, was inducted to Cleantech Scandinavia’s Hall of Fame during Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo on June 3rd.
Mr. Bjørseth created one of the most successful solar energy companies in the world, and continues to inspire Nordic entrepreneurs. The company went from idea to a stock listing of 50 billion NOK in little over ten years providing the Nordic region with a clear-cut success story of cleantech growth along the way. Alf moved on to manage Scatec, a cleantech venture capital/incubator focusing on renewable energy and environmentally friendly materials.

Check out the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo – our fastest event ever!

Feeling a little like James Bonds of cleantech we raced through the Oslo Fjord on RIB boats to Tofte were nothing less than the worlds first attempt to produce power through reverse osmosis is located. The sold-out event continued with a panel on the state of cleantech in Norway that took off very well. A team of kids took over and presented the most applauded business pitch so far.

The second day gave way to renewables and solar and a selection of commercialisation and expansion stage companies entered the stage...

Read the full article »

Norwegian Cleantech Award - Winner selected!

Cleantech Scandinavia in partnership with Statkraft, Investinor and Innovation Norway presents the Norwegian Cleantech Award. 27 Norwegian companies applied to be selected as one of the 5 companies to present on June 2nd in Oslo. One winner was awarded a 10,000 EUR prize and free advisory services from Statkraft and Investinor. As a result of the audience voting, Trondheim-based  WindFlip was named winner! The Prize was handed over by the Ambassador of the United States to Norway, Mr Barry B. White during the reception at his residence. Congratulations!
For more information about the Award and the five finalists download the Norwegian Cleantech Award brochure!

Read the press release about the finalists selection »
Read the press release about the winner »

 

Norway - in a state of cleantech expansion

Norwegian cleantech dominates 2010 venture investments so far. Following the trend of 2009, the first four months show Norway in the lead among the Nordic countries. The biggest five cleantech investments during 2010 were all attracted by Norwegian companies. Wafer cutting slurry recycling company Metallkraft, electric vehicle company THINK and silicon carbide manufacturer Norstel are top three so far.
Read the full article »

 

Future Norwegian Cleantech Stars

Read the full article »

 

Applied Nano Surfaces - Cleantech company in the spotlight

We continue highlighting Nordic cleantech companies, and the next one is Applied Nano Surfaces, a young Swedish company which commercialises an innovative technology of coating steel surfaces that reduces process costs and highly improves friction energy losses. We talked to the CEO, Mattias Karls, about the company, technology and the market prospects. Read the interview »

 

Featured article in Borenius Group Magazine

In the most recent issue of the corporate magazine of Borenius & Kemppinen, a Finnish corporate law firm, which is a member of Cleantech Scandinavia network, there is a featured article about cleantech, which includes interviews with Alexander Lidgren, Cleantech Scandinavia's chairman and Maria Carlsson, a specialist partner who focuses on venture capital and intellectual property and works with cleantech. Borenius & Kemppinen acted as a legal advisor in the largest venture capital deal recorded so far in the Nordics, the EUR 120 million investment of Masdar Energy Ltd. into the Finnish windpower company WinWind, that took place in 2008.

Borenius Group Magazine iDeal 1/2010 »

 

Read older articles:

Nordic press coverage of the Dealflow Report 2009 » and a Press-release »

Lahti leaves a taste for more »

Success of the Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day 2009 »

 

 

The official launch of the Indo-Swedish Innovation Platform - an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency that has a goal of helping Swedish cleantech innovations to enter the Indian market - has attracted media attention during the Energy Efficiency Summit in Hyderabad on 24th of August, where an MoU has been signed with the Indian partners, Confederation of Indian Industry. Cleantech Scandinavia is an operational partner on the Swedish side. Continue to reading the article »

 

Swedish Tomologic won the title of the best Nordic cleantech start - up of 2012 at the NCO finals in Finland last week. The event's audience of over 100 investors, industrials and entrepreneurs voted and helped deciding the winner. Finnish Ultranat came in second place, and the third place was shared by Danish Black Silicon Solar and Finnish MetGen. 

 

Tomologic is a Stockholm based company that offers a scalable online optimization service for sheet metal cutting. The process reduces scrap from raw material in this energy intensive industry up to 50%. It was clearly a combination of Tomologics smart technology and go-to-market strategy that swinged, which earned them the number one spot.

Read more in our press room »

The latest additions to Cleantech Scandinavia network, Evonik Corporate Venturing and Volvo Technology Transfer, inspired us to analyse the current market situation from the point of view of an industrial VC. We believe that industrials have a much bigger role to play as cleantech investors and potentially LPs, and that it will benefit both their core businesses as well as accelerate commercialising clean technologies, an area where funding is most needed. Read and share your ideas for the next CTS Industry Group Meeting due this fall!

Continue to reading the article »

 

 

Industrifonden is a Swedish fund, which has been the most active Nordic VC investor in 2011. It has also been a member of Cleantech Scandinavia from the start, widely involved in our activities and events. We interviewed Srefan for this year’s NCO Top-25 Report.

Read the interview here »

In 2012 Cleantech Scandinavia will celebrate 5 years in business. These have been exciting times and we are not one bit less curious and excited about what we do. We are glad that the network is growing every year and we do our best to keep up with the changing market and, despite clowdy economic conditions, keep the flag of the Nordic Cleantech flying high. Read the account of our work and impressions of 2011, and find out if we thing it's been a good year!  Read the full article »

19 start-ups from the Nordic Cleantech Open and an equal number of investors and industrials spent a great weekend at the astonishing castle of Trolleholm on the 11-12 of February. See a video clip from the event:

Nordic Camp from Nordic Cleantech Open on Vimeo.

Nordic Cleantech Showcase in California

 

Successful Launch of CTS Industry Group

 

Bridging the investment gap in Nordic cleantech

Cleantech Spring in Copenhagen - big success!

Copenhagen from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Nordic Cleantech in London - Read and Watch!

Nordic Cleantech Showcase from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Markku Koivisto is the next Hall of Fame nominee!

Markku Koivisto, Director of UPM ProFi was awarded The Scandinavian Cleantech Hall of Fame nomination during the Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti, Finland, on November 4th. He joins two people that are already in there, Lassi Noponen and Alf Bjørseth.
UPM ProFi is a business unit of UPM, one of the biggest wood product companies in the world, that manufactures a wood plastic composite material utilising the waste streams from the existing production. The material has superior qualities and can also be used for substituting tropical hardwood.
The official motivation for the award is: For changing the way a big company does business by turning waste and CO2 emissions into a business opportunity. The rapid growth of the UPM ProFi business unit shows by example that a cleantech business area inside a company can achieve superior results even in hard times. Read more in the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Scandinavia expands into the Baltics

Nordic Cleantech Open unveiled

A new busi- ness competi- tion has seen the light of day! Why? Because we beleive that there needs to be a strong pipeline of new cleantech ideas and that they need to be shown to the world. We also beleive that a strong dealflow pipeline will benefit not only the Nordic cleantech industry but also our members.
Read the full article »

 

Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti Video

Our next event in Lahti is approaching, with already over 160 participants registered. Watch the video with Mika Sulkinoja of Lahti Science and Business Park speaking about the event, the companies who are going to present, and why Lahti is called the "Davos of Cleantech"! All the information related to the event is on www.cleantechday.fi

Cleantech Venture Day, Lahti, Finland, 3-5 November 2010 from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Interviews from the Oslo event

Helle Moen, Investment Manager at Investinor

 

Alf Bjørseth in the Hall of Fame!

Alf Bjørseth, founder of Norwegian companies REC and Scatec, was inducted to Cleantech Scandinavia’s Hall of Fame during Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo on June 3rd.
Mr. Bjørseth created one of the most successful solar energy companies in the world, and continues to inspire Nordic entrepreneurs. The company went from idea to a stock listing of 50 billion NOK in little over ten years providing the Nordic region with a clear-cut success story of cleantech growth along the way. Alf moved on to manage Scatec, a cleantech venture capital/incubator focusing on renewable energy and environmentally friendly materials.

Check out the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo – our fastest event ever!

Feeling a little like James Bonds of cleantech we raced through the Oslo Fjord on RIB boats to Tofte were nothing less than the worlds first attempt to produce power through reverse osmosis is located. The sold-out event continued with a panel on the state of cleantech in Norway that took off very well. A team of kids took over and presented the most applauded business pitch so far.

The second day gave way to renewables and solar and a selection of commercialisation and expansion stage companies entered the stage...

Read the full article »

Norwegian Cleantech Award - Winner selected!

Cleantech Scandinavia in partnership with Statkraft, Investinor and Innovation Norway presents the Norwegian Cleantech Award. 27 Norwegian companies applied to be selected as one of the 5 companies to present on June 2nd in Oslo. One winner was awarded a 10,000 EUR prize and free advisory services from Statkraft and Investinor. As a result of the audience voting, Trondheim-based  WindFlip was named winner! The Prize was handed over by the Ambassador of the United States to Norway, Mr Barry B. White during the reception at his residence. Congratulations!
For more information about the Award and the five finalists download the Norwegian Cleantech Award brochure!

Read the press release about the finalists selection »
Read the press release about the winner »

 

Norway - in a state of cleantech expansion

Norwegian cleantech dominates 2010 venture investments so far. Following the trend of 2009, the first four months show Norway in the lead among the Nordic countries. The biggest five cleantech investments during 2010 were all attracted by Norwegian companies. Wafer cutting slurry recycling company Metallkraft, electric vehicle company THINK and silicon carbide manufacturer Norstel are top three so far.
Read the full article »

 

Future Norwegian Cleantech Stars

Read the full article »

 

Applied Nano Surfaces - Cleantech company in the spotlight

We continue highlighting Nordic cleantech companies, and the next one is Applied Nano Surfaces, a young Swedish company which commercialises an innovative technology of coating steel surfaces that reduces process costs and highly improves friction energy losses. We talked to the CEO, Mattias Karls, about the company, technology and the market prospects. Read the interview »

 

Featured article in Borenius Group Magazine

In the most recent issue of the corporate magazine of Borenius & Kemppinen, a Finnish corporate law firm, which is a member of Cleantech Scandinavia network, there is a featured article about cleantech, which includes interviews with Alexander Lidgren, Cleantech Scandinavia's chairman and Maria Carlsson, a specialist partner who focuses on venture capital and intellectual property and works with cleantech. Borenius & Kemppinen acted as a legal advisor in the largest venture capital deal recorded so far in the Nordics, the EUR 120 million investment of Masdar Energy Ltd. into the Finnish windpower company WinWind, that took place in 2008.

Borenius Group Magazine iDeal 1/2010 »

 

Read older articles:

Nordic press coverage of the Dealflow Report 2009 » and a Press-release »

Lahti leaves a taste for more »

Success of the Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day 2009 »

 

 

The official launch of the Indo-Swedish Innovation Platform - an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency that has a goal of helping Swedish cleantech innovations to enter the Indian market - has attracted media attention during the Energy Efficiency Summit in Hyderabad on 24th of August, where an MoU has been signed with the Indian partners, Confederation of Indian Industry. Cleantech Scandinavia is an operational partner on the Swedish side. Continue to reading the article »

 

Swedish Tomologic won the title of the best Nordic cleantech start - up of 2012 at the NCO finals in Finland last week. The event's audience of over 100 investors, industrials and entrepreneurs voted and helped deciding the winner. Finnish Ultranat came in second place, and the third place was shared by Danish Black Silicon Solar and Finnish MetGen. 

 

Tomologic is a Stockholm based company that offers a scalable online optimization service for sheet metal cutting. The process reduces scrap from raw material in this energy intensive industry up to 50%. It was clearly a combination of Tomologics smart technology and go-to-market strategy that swinged, which earned them the number one spot.

Read more in our press room »

The latest additions to Cleantech Scandinavia network, Evonik Corporate Venturing and Volvo Technology Transfer, inspired us to analyse the current market situation from the point of view of an industrial VC. We believe that industrials have a much bigger role to play as cleantech investors and potentially LPs, and that it will benefit both their core businesses as well as accelerate commercialising clean technologies, an area where funding is most needed. Read and share your ideas for the next CTS Industry Group Meeting due this fall!

Continue to reading the article »

 

 

Industrifonden is a Swedish fund, which has been the most active Nordic VC investor in 2011. It has also been a member of Cleantech Scandinavia from the start, widely involved in our activities and events. We interviewed Srefan for this year’s NCO Top-25 Report.

Read the interview here »

In 2012 Cleantech Scandinavia will celebrate 5 years in business. These have been exciting times and we are not one bit less curious and excited about what we do. We are glad that the network is growing every year and we do our best to keep up with the changing market and, despite clowdy economic conditions, keep the flag of the Nordic Cleantech flying high. Read the account of our work and impressions of 2011, and find out if we thing it's been a good year!  Read the full article »

19 start-ups from the Nordic Cleantech Open and an equal number of investors and industrials spent a great weekend at the astonishing castle of Trolleholm on the 11-12 of February. See a video clip from the event:

Nordic Camp from Nordic Cleantech Open on Vimeo.

Nordic Cleantech Showcase in California

 

Successful Launch of CTS Industry Group

 

Bridging the investment gap in Nordic cleantech

Cleantech Spring in Copenhagen - big success!

Copenhagen from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Nordic Cleantech in London - Read and Watch!

Nordic Cleantech Showcase from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Markku Koivisto is the next Hall of Fame nominee!

Markku Koivisto, Director of UPM ProFi was awarded The Scandinavian Cleantech Hall of Fame nomination during the Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti, Finland, on November 4th. He joins two people that are already in there, Lassi Noponen and Alf Bjørseth.
UPM ProFi is a business unit of UPM, one of the biggest wood product companies in the world, that manufactures a wood plastic composite material utilising the waste streams from the existing production. The material has superior qualities and can also be used for substituting tropical hardwood.
The official motivation for the award is: For changing the way a big company does business by turning waste and CO2 emissions into a business opportunity. The rapid growth of the UPM ProFi business unit shows by example that a cleantech business area inside a company can achieve superior results even in hard times. Read more in the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Scandinavia expands into the Baltics

Nordic Cleantech Open unveiled

A new busi- ness competi- tion has seen the light of day! Why? Because we beleive that there needs to be a strong pipeline of new cleantech ideas and that they need to be shown to the world. We also beleive that a strong dealflow pipeline will benefit not only the Nordic cleantech industry but also our members.
Read the full article »

 

Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti Video

Our next event in Lahti is approaching, with already over 160 participants registered. Watch the video with Mika Sulkinoja of Lahti Science and Business Park speaking about the event, the companies who are going to present, and why Lahti is called the "Davos of Cleantech"! All the information related to the event is on www.cleantechday.fi

Cleantech Venture Day, Lahti, Finland, 3-5 November 2010 from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Interviews from the Oslo event

Helle Moen, Investment Manager at Investinor

 

Alf Bjørseth in the Hall of Fame!

Alf Bjørseth, founder of Norwegian companies REC and Scatec, was inducted to Cleantech Scandinavia’s Hall of Fame during Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo on June 3rd.
Mr. Bjørseth created one of the most successful solar energy companies in the world, and continues to inspire Nordic entrepreneurs. The company went from idea to a stock listing of 50 billion NOK in little over ten years providing the Nordic region with a clear-cut success story of cleantech growth along the way. Alf moved on to manage Scatec, a cleantech venture capital/incubator focusing on renewable energy and environmentally friendly materials.

Check out the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo – our fastest event ever!

Feeling a little like James Bonds of cleantech we raced through the Oslo Fjord on RIB boats to Tofte were nothing less than the worlds first attempt to produce power through reverse osmosis is located. The sold-out event continued with a panel on the state of cleantech in Norway that took off very well. A team of kids took over and presented the most applauded business pitch so far.

The second day gave way to renewables and solar and a selection of commercialisation and expansion stage companies entered the stage...

Read the full article »

Norwegian Cleantech Award - Winner selected!

Cleantech Scandinavia in partnership with Statkraft, Investinor and Innovation Norway presents the Norwegian Cleantech Award. 27 Norwegian companies applied to be selected as one of the 5 companies to present on June 2nd in Oslo. One winner was awarded a 10,000 EUR prize and free advisory services from Statkraft and Investinor. As a result of the audience voting, Trondheim-based  WindFlip was named winner! The Prize was handed over by the Ambassador of the United States to Norway, Mr Barry B. White during the reception at his residence. Congratulations!
For more information about the Award and the five finalists download the Norwegian Cleantech Award brochure!

Read the press release about the finalists selection »
Read the press release about the winner »

 

Norway - in a state of cleantech expansion

Norwegian cleantech dominates 2010 venture investments so far. Following the trend of 2009, the first four months show Norway in the lead among the Nordic countries. The biggest five cleantech investments during 2010 were all attracted by Norwegian companies. Wafer cutting slurry recycling company Metallkraft, electric vehicle company THINK and silicon carbide manufacturer Norstel are top three so far.
Read the full article »

 

Future Norwegian Cleantech Stars

Read the full article »

 

Applied Nano Surfaces - Cleantech company in the spotlight

We continue highlighting Nordic cleantech companies, and the next one is Applied Nano Surfaces, a young Swedish company which commercialises an innovative technology of coating steel surfaces that reduces process costs and highly improves friction energy losses. We talked to the CEO, Mattias Karls, about the company, technology and the market prospects. Read the interview »

 

Featured article in Borenius Group Magazine

In the most recent issue of the corporate magazine of Borenius & Kemppinen, a Finnish corporate law firm, which is a member of Cleantech Scandinavia network, there is a featured article about cleantech, which includes interviews with Alexander Lidgren, Cleantech Scandinavia's chairman and Maria Carlsson, a specialist partner who focuses on venture capital and intellectual property and works with cleantech. Borenius & Kemppinen acted as a legal advisor in the largest venture capital deal recorded so far in the Nordics, the EUR 120 million investment of Masdar Energy Ltd. into the Finnish windpower company WinWind, that took place in 2008.

Borenius Group Magazine iDeal 1/2010 »

 

Read older articles:

Nordic press coverage of the Dealflow Report 2009 » and a Press-release »

Lahti leaves a taste for more »

Success of the Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day 2009 »

 

 

The official launch of the Indo-Swedish Innovation Platform - an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency that has a goal of helping Swedish cleantech innovations to enter the Indian market - has attracted media attention during the Energy Efficiency Summit in Hyderabad on 24th of August, where an MoU has been signed with the Indian partners, Confederation of Indian Industry. Cleantech Scandinavia is an operational partner on the Swedish side. Continue to reading the article »

 

Swedish Tomologic won the title of the best Nordic cleantech start - up of 2012 at the NCO finals in Finland last week. The event's audience of over 100 investors, industrials and entrepreneurs voted and helped deciding the winner. Finnish Ultranat came in second place, and the third place was shared by Danish Black Silicon Solar and Finnish MetGen. 

 

Tomologic is a Stockholm based company that offers a scalable online optimization service for sheet metal cutting. The process reduces scrap from raw material in this energy intensive industry up to 50%. It was clearly a combination of Tomologics smart technology and go-to-market strategy that swinged, which earned them the number one spot.

Read more in our press room »

The latest additions to Cleantech Scandinavia network, Evonik Corporate Venturing and Volvo Technology Transfer, inspired us to analyse the current market situation from the point of view of an industrial VC. We believe that industrials have a much bigger role to play as cleantech investors and potentially LPs, and that it will benefit both their core businesses as well as accelerate commercialising clean technologies, an area where funding is most needed. Read and share your ideas for the next CTS Industry Group Meeting due this fall!

Continue to reading the article »

 

 

Industrifonden is a Swedish fund, which has been the most active Nordic VC investor in 2011. It has also been a member of Cleantech Scandinavia from the start, widely involved in our activities and events. We interviewed Srefan for this year’s NCO Top-25 Report.

Read the interview here »

In 2012 Cleantech Scandinavia will celebrate 5 years in business. These have been exciting times and we are not one bit less curious and excited about what we do. We are glad that the network is growing every year and we do our best to keep up with the changing market and, despite clowdy economic conditions, keep the flag of the Nordic Cleantech flying high. Read the account of our work and impressions of 2011, and find out if we thing it's been a good year!  Read the full article »

19 start-ups from the Nordic Cleantech Open and an equal number of investors and industrials spent a great weekend at the astonishing castle of Trolleholm on the 11-12 of February. See a video clip from the event:

Nordic Camp from Nordic Cleantech Open on Vimeo.

Nordic Cleantech Showcase in California

 

Successful Launch of CTS Industry Group

 

Bridging the investment gap in Nordic cleantech

Cleantech Spring in Copenhagen - big success!

Copenhagen from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Nordic Cleantech in London - Read and Watch!

Nordic Cleantech Showcase from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Markku Koivisto is the next Hall of Fame nominee!

Markku Koivisto, Director of UPM ProFi was awarded The Scandinavian Cleantech Hall of Fame nomination during the Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti, Finland, on November 4th. He joins two people that are already in there, Lassi Noponen and Alf Bjørseth.
UPM ProFi is a business unit of UPM, one of the biggest wood product companies in the world, that manufactures a wood plastic composite material utilising the waste streams from the existing production. The material has superior qualities and can also be used for substituting tropical hardwood.
The official motivation for the award is: For changing the way a big company does business by turning waste and CO2 emissions into a business opportunity. The rapid growth of the UPM ProFi business unit shows by example that a cleantech business area inside a company can achieve superior results even in hard times. Read more in the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Scandinavia expands into the Baltics

Nordic Cleantech Open unveiled

A new busi- ness competi- tion has seen the light of day! Why? Because we beleive that there needs to be a strong pipeline of new cleantech ideas and that they need to be shown to the world. We also beleive that a strong dealflow pipeline will benefit not only the Nordic cleantech industry but also our members.
Read the full article »

 

Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti Video

Our next event in Lahti is approaching, with already over 160 participants registered. Watch the video with Mika Sulkinoja of Lahti Science and Business Park speaking about the event, the companies who are going to present, and why Lahti is called the "Davos of Cleantech"! All the information related to the event is on www.cleantechday.fi

Cleantech Venture Day, Lahti, Finland, 3-5 November 2010 from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Interviews from the Oslo event

Helle Moen, Investment Manager at Investinor

 

Alf Bjørseth in the Hall of Fame!

Alf Bjørseth, founder of Norwegian companies REC and Scatec, was inducted to Cleantech Scandinavia’s Hall of Fame during Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo on June 3rd.
Mr. Bjørseth created one of the most successful solar energy companies in the world, and continues to inspire Nordic entrepreneurs. The company went from idea to a stock listing of 50 billion NOK in little over ten years providing the Nordic region with a clear-cut success story of cleantech growth along the way. Alf moved on to manage Scatec, a cleantech venture capital/incubator focusing on renewable energy and environmentally friendly materials.

Check out the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo – our fastest event ever!

Feeling a little like James Bonds of cleantech we raced through the Oslo Fjord on RIB boats to Tofte were nothing less than the worlds first attempt to produce power through reverse osmosis is located. The sold-out event continued with a panel on the state of cleantech in Norway that took off very well. A team of kids took over and presented the most applauded business pitch so far.

The second day gave way to renewables and solar and a selection of commercialisation and expansion stage companies entered the stage...

Read the full article »

Norwegian Cleantech Award - Winner selected!

Cleantech Scandinavia in partnership with Statkraft, Investinor and Innovation Norway presents the Norwegian Cleantech Award. 27 Norwegian companies applied to be selected as one of the 5 companies to present on June 2nd in Oslo. One winner was awarded a 10,000 EUR prize and free advisory services from Statkraft and Investinor. As a result of the audience voting, Trondheim-based  WindFlip was named winner! The Prize was handed over by the Ambassador of the United States to Norway, Mr Barry B. White during the reception at his residence. Congratulations!
For more information about the Award and the five finalists download the Norwegian Cleantech Award brochure!

Read the press release about the finalists selection »
Read the press release about the winner »

 

Norway - in a state of cleantech expansion

Norwegian cleantech dominates 2010 venture investments so far. Following the trend of 2009, the first four months show Norway in the lead among the Nordic countries. The biggest five cleantech investments during 2010 were all attracted by Norwegian companies. Wafer cutting slurry recycling company Metallkraft, electric vehicle company THINK and silicon carbide manufacturer Norstel are top three so far.
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Future Norwegian Cleantech Stars

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Applied Nano Surfaces - Cleantech company in the spotlight

We continue highlighting Nordic cleantech companies, and the next one is Applied Nano Surfaces, a young Swedish company which commercialises an innovative technology of coating steel surfaces that reduces process costs and highly improves friction energy losses. We talked to the CEO, Mattias Karls, about the company, technology and the market prospects. Read the interview »

 

Featured article in Borenius Group Magazine

In the most recent issue of the corporate magazine of Borenius & Kemppinen, a Finnish corporate law firm, which is a member of Cleantech Scandinavia network, there is a featured article about cleantech, which includes interviews with Alexander Lidgren, Cleantech Scandinavia's chairman and Maria Carlsson, a specialist partner who focuses on venture capital and intellectual property and works with cleantech. Borenius & Kemppinen acted as a legal advisor in the largest venture capital deal recorded so far in the Nordics, the EUR 120 million investment of Masdar Energy Ltd. into the Finnish windpower company WinWind, that took place in 2008.

Borenius Group Magazine iDeal 1/2010 »

 

Read older articles:

Nordic press coverage of the Dealflow Report 2009 » and a Press-release »

Lahti leaves a taste for more »

Success of the Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day 2009 »

 

 

The official launch of the Indo-Swedish Innovation Platform - an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency that has a goal of helping Swedish cleantech innovations to enter the Indian market - has attracted media attention during the Energy Efficiency Summit in Hyderabad on 24th of August, where an MoU has been signed with the Indian partners, Confederation of Indian Industry. Cleantech Scandinavia is an operational partner on the Swedish side. Continue to reading the article »

 

Swedish Tomologic won the title of the best Nordic cleantech start - up of 2012 at the NCO finals in Finland last week. The event's audience of over 100 investors, industrials and entrepreneurs voted and helped deciding the winner. Finnish Ultranat came in second place, and the third place was shared by Danish Black Silicon Solar and Finnish MetGen. 

 

Tomologic is a Stockholm based company that offers a scalable online optimization service for sheet metal cutting. The process reduces scrap from raw material in this energy intensive industry up to 50%. It was clearly a combination of Tomologics smart technology and go-to-market strategy that swinged, which earned them the number one spot.

Read more in our press room »

The latest additions to Cleantech Scandinavia network, Evonik Corporate Venturing and Volvo Technology Transfer, inspired us to analyse the current market situation from the point of view of an industrial VC. We believe that industrials have a much bigger role to play as cleantech investors and potentially LPs, and that it will benefit both their core businesses as well as accelerate commercialising clean technologies, an area where funding is most needed. Read and share your ideas for the next CTS Industry Group Meeting due this fall!

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Industrifonden is a Swedish fund, which has been the most active Nordic VC investor in 2011. It has also been a member of Cleantech Scandinavia from the start, widely involved in our activities and events. We interviewed Srefan for this year’s NCO Top-25 Report.

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In 2012 Cleantech Scandinavia will celebrate 5 years in business. These have been exciting times and we are not one bit less curious and excited about what we do. We are glad that the network is growing every year and we do our best to keep up with the changing market and, despite clowdy economic conditions, keep the flag of the Nordic Cleantech flying high. Read the account of our work and impressions of 2011, and find out if we thing it's been a good year!  Read the full article »

19 start-ups from the Nordic Cleantech Open and an equal number of investors and industrials spent a great weekend at the astonishing castle of Trolleholm on the 11-12 of February. See a video clip from the event:

Nordic Camp from Nordic Cleantech Open on Vimeo.

Nordic Cleantech Showcase in California

 

Successful Launch of CTS Industry Group

 

Bridging the investment gap in Nordic cleantech

Cleantech Spring in Copenhagen - big success!

Copenhagen from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Nordic Cleantech in London - Read and Watch!

Nordic Cleantech Showcase from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Markku Koivisto is the next Hall of Fame nominee!

Markku Koivisto, Director of UPM ProFi was awarded The Scandinavian Cleantech Hall of Fame nomination during the Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti, Finland, on November 4th. He joins two people that are already in there, Lassi Noponen and Alf Bjørseth.
UPM ProFi is a business unit of UPM, one of the biggest wood product companies in the world, that manufactures a wood plastic composite material utilising the waste streams from the existing production. The material has superior qualities and can also be used for substituting tropical hardwood.
The official motivation for the award is: For changing the way a big company does business by turning waste and CO2 emissions into a business opportunity. The rapid growth of the UPM ProFi business unit shows by example that a cleantech business area inside a company can achieve superior results even in hard times. Read more in the Hall of Fame!

 

Cleantech Scandinavia expands into the Baltics

Nordic Cleantech Open unveiled

A new busi- ness competi- tion has seen the light of day! Why? Because we beleive that there needs to be a strong pipeline of new cleantech ideas and that they need to be shown to the world. We also beleive that a strong dealflow pipeline will benefit not only the Nordic cleantech industry but also our members.
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Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti Video

Our next event in Lahti is approaching, with already over 160 participants registered. Watch the video with Mika Sulkinoja of Lahti Science and Business Park speaking about the event, the companies who are going to present, and why Lahti is called the "Davos of Cleantech"! All the information related to the event is on www.cleantechday.fi

Cleantech Venture Day, Lahti, Finland, 3-5 November 2010 from Cleantech Scandinavia on Vimeo.

 

Interviews from the Oslo event

Helle Moen, Investment Manager at Investinor

 

Alf Bjørseth in the Hall of Fame!

Alf Bjørseth, founder of Norwegian companies REC and Scatec, was inducted to Cleantech Scandinavia’s Hall of Fame during Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo on June 3rd.
Mr. Bjørseth created one of the most successful solar energy companies in the world, and continues to inspire Nordic entrepreneurs. The company went from idea to a stock listing of 50 billion NOK in little over ten years providing the Nordic region with a clear-cut success story of cleantech growth along the way. Alf moved on to manage Scatec, a cleantech venture capital/incubator focusing on renewable energy and environmentally friendly materials.

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Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo – our fastest event ever!

Feeling a little like James Bonds of cleantech we raced through the Oslo Fjord on RIB boats to Tofte were nothing less than the worlds first attempt to produce power through reverse osmosis is located. The sold-out event continued with a panel on the state of cleantech in Norway that took off very well. A team of kids took over and presented the most applauded business pitch so far.

The second day gave way to renewables and solar and a selection of commercialisation and expansion stage companies entered the stage...

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Norwegian Cleantech Award - Winner selected!

Cleantech Scandinavia in partnership with Statkraft, Investinor and Innovation Norway presents the Norwegian Cleantech Award. 27 Norwegian companies applied to be selected as one of the 5 companies to present on June 2nd in Oslo. One winner was awarded a 10,000 EUR prize and free advisory services from Statkraft and Investinor. As a result of the audience voting, Trondheim-based  WindFlip was named winner! The Prize was handed over by the Ambassador of the United States to Norway, Mr Barry B. White during the reception at his residence. Congratulations!
For more information about the Award and the five finalists download the Norwegian Cleantech Award brochure!

Read the press release about the finalists selection »
Read the press release about the winner »

 

Norway - in a state of cleantech expansion

Norwegian cleantech dominates 2010 venture investments so far. Following the trend of 2009, the first four months show Norway in the lead among the Nordic countries. The biggest five cleantech investments during 2010 were all attracted by Norwegian companies. Wafer cutting slurry recycling company Metallkraft, electric vehicle company THINK and silicon carbide manufacturer Norstel are top three so far.
Read the full article »

 

Future Norwegian Cleantech Stars

Read the full article »

 

Applied Nano Surfaces - Cleantech company in the spotlight

We continue highlighting Nordic cleantech companies, and the next one is Applied Nano Surfaces, a young Swedish company which commercialises an innovative technology of coating steel surfaces that reduces process costs and highly improves friction energy losses. We talked to the CEO, Mattias Karls, about the company, technology and the market prospects. Read the interview »

 

Featured article in Borenius Group Magazine

In the most recent issue of the corporate magazine of Borenius & Kemppinen, a Finnish corporate law firm, which is a member of Cleantech Scandinavia network, there is a featured article about cleantech, which includes interviews with Alexander Lidgren, Cleantech Scandinavia's chairman and Maria Carlsson, a specialist partner who focuses on venture capital and intellectual property and works with cleantech. Borenius & Kemppinen acted as a legal advisor in the largest venture capital deal recorded so far in the Nordics, the EUR 120 million investment of Masdar Energy Ltd. into the Finnish windpower company WinWind, that took place in 2008.

Borenius Group Magazine iDeal 1/2010 »

 

Read older articles:

Nordic press coverage of the Dealflow Report 2009 » and a Press-release »

Lahti leaves a taste for more »

Success of the Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day 2009 »

 

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