The annual ARENA Renewables Startup Showcase is heading to Melbourne this 12 months, with functions now open for startups eager about collaborating.
Pioneering startup community Innovation Bay and the Australian Renewable Vitality Company (ARENA) have teamed up once more for the fourth showcase, which takes place on Wednesday, November 1, at Cargo Corridor in Melbourne.
They’re on the lookout for early stage founders within the renewables, cleantech and climatetech sectors, prepared for funding, to use to pitch at this 12 months’s occasion, with 4 founders and firms chosen to pitch to a dwell viewers on the day. You possibly can apply to be a part of the pitch right here.
Tickets for this 12 months’s occasion will go on sale this week. You possibly can register your expression of curiosity to attend right here.
Greater than 100 of the nation’s main enterprise capitalists and angel traders, are anticipated to attend the ARENA Renewables Startup Showcase, bringing funding, connections, and recommendation to the desk. Earlier occasions have featured drone stringing system, Infravision, photo voltaic producer 5B, and “photo voltaic thermal” pioneer RayGen go on to boost capital amid constructing new connections for fulfillment.
On prime of the pitches, the showcase additionally options thought management panel on the way forward for rising applied sciences within the renewable power sector, a gala dinner and networking alternatives.
ARENA CEO Darren Miller stated the showcase is now the premier occasion within the cleantech sector matching the perfect startups with traders.”
“Supporting startups within the renewable power and local weather change sector is essential to ARENA. A few of our best concepts and improvements originate from startups and entrepreneurs and we have to encourage all accessible expertise and new enterprise fashions to assist us to attain our objective of web zero emissions,” he stated.
“We have now funded some unbelievable startups alongside the way in which, together with MGA Thermal and Infravision, who each pitched eventually 12 months’s Renewables Startup Showcase. Innovation Bay is all about bringing collectively progressive startups with non-public funding to spice up development of those wonderful new applied sciences.”
Innovation Bay CEO Phaedon Stough stated the November showcase fills him with enthusiasm and delight.
“The expertise we’ve on this nation within the renewables, climatetech and cleantech sector is unbelievable. Yearly we run this occasion alongside ARENA the extra inspired I turn into for the longer term,” he stated.
“Being the automobile to shine a lightweight on the sheer expertise and innovation of firms on this house is actually inspiring.”
The deadline for founder pitches is midnight on Friday, September 1.