Cleantech Group

Luxembourg for Finance (LFF) is the Agency for the Development of the Financial Centre. It is a public-private partnership between the Luxembourg Government and the Luxembourg Financial Industry Federation (PROFIL). Founded in 2008, its objective is to develop Luxembourg’s financial services industry and identify new business opportunities.

LFF connects international investors to the range of financial services provided in Luxembourg, such as investment funds, wealth management, capital market operations or advisory services. In addition to being the first port of call for foreign journalists, LFF cooperates with the various professional associations and monitors global trends in finance, providing the necessary material on products and services available in Luxembourg. Furthermore, LFF manages multiple communication channels, organises seminars in international business locations, and takes part in selected world-class trade fairs and congresses.

Luxinnovation is Luxembourg’s national innovation agency. It encourages and supports companies to innovate and to grow, whilst facilitating their collaboration with public research players. Luxinnovation offers a wide portfolio of services to companies and public research organisations in order to foster innovation, thus supporting the Government’s economic development objectives. The agency also ensures that Luxembourg continues to attract international investment, companies and skills that are a perfect fit for the country.

Luxinnovation hosts a network that supports the various players of the CleanTech sector in Luxembourg with the goal of creating and developing new and sustainable business opportunities through collaborative R&D and innovation projects in Europe and beyond.

BP Ventures identifies and invests in private, high growth, game-changing technology companies, accelerating cutting edge innovations across the entire energy spectrum. Since 2006, BP Ventures has invested over $400 million in corporate venturing and has 42 active investments in its current portfolio.

BP Ventures’ portfolio is primarily focused on emerging technologies in oil and gas exploration and production and downstream conversion processes. In addition, it has a renewed strategic focus on five key areas: bio & low carbon products, carbon management, power & storage, advanced mobility and digital transformation.

The Paul Wurth Group is a leading player in the global market for design and supply of equipment and plant facilities for the ironmaking industry. Headquartered in Luxembourg since its beginnings back in 1870, the company has developed in the course of its history into an engineering company which is active on the international market. The Group is today an established technology provider and supplier of complete plants for the primary stage of integrated steelmaking, i.e. blast furnaces, coke oven plants, direct reduction plants as well as environmental protection technologies for the iron and steel industry. In addition to its core competence in development and execution of new construction projects and modernisations, Paul Wurth also offers a full range of products and services in engineering, project management, site supervision, commissioning assistance, operator consulting and after-sales, with a focus on digital solutions.

Given today’s environmental challenges the steel industry has to cope with, Paul Wurth is committed to support its customers on their journey to low CO2 or CO2-free iron ore reduction. In this regard, Paul Wurth offers a number of technological solutions to save CO2 at existing plants and is concentrating on the scenario of hydrogen-based iron ore reduction, enabling the production of CO2-neutral, green steel.

Paul Wurth also offers, through its subsidiary Paul Wurth Geprolux, in the Greater Region of Luxembourg tailor-made services, in particular project management, technical building design and strategic consultancy services for town planning, civil construction and infrastructure projects.

With more than 1 500 employees and entities in around 20 countries, the Paul Wurth Group has a strong presence primarily in those regions of the world where a significant iron and steel industry operates.

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) develops competitive and market-oriented product/service prototypes for public and private stakeholders.

LIST works across the entire innovation chain, from fundamental and applied research, to the incubation and transfer of technologies.

With its more than 600 employees, 75% of whom are researchers or innovation experts from all around the world, LIST is active in the fields of informatics, materials and environmental innovation. By transforming scientific knowledge into technologies, smart solutions and tools, LIST is about empowerment:

·       Empower European citizens in their choices

·       Empower public authorities in their decision-making

·       Empower businesses in their sustainable strategies

 At the Cleantech Forum Europe 2020, LIST will present a selection from its greentech, biotech and sustainability portfolio.

BGL BNP Paribas (www.bgl.lu) is one of the largest banks in Luxembourg and part of the BNP Paribas Group. It offers an especially wide range of financial products and bancassurance solutions to individuals, professionals, businesses and private banking clients. At end 2018, BGL BNP Paribas employed 2,474 people in Luxembourg.

BGL BNP Paribas was named Bank of the Year 2018 in Luxembourg by The Banker and, in 2019, Best Bank in Luxembourg by Euromoney for the fourth year in a row.

Energy Catalyst, an Innovate UK programme, helps early- to late-stage innovators develop market-based technologies and business models that accelerate access to clean, modern and affordable energy in Africa, Asia and Indo-Pacific regions.

Energy Catalyst is run by Innovate UK and is co-funded by partners including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Global Challenges Research Fund.

Encevo Group is the leading energy player in Luxembourg and active in Germany, France and Belgium. Encevo is active all along the energy value chain: Production, storage, supply, transport, trading, distribution and services. The group is based on three pillars, essentially represented by three distinct entities and their respective subsidiaries: energy supply and the production of renewable energies through Enovos , grid operation through Creos and energy related services (distributed production, energy efficiency, eco mobility …) through Enovos Services .

The group currently employs a workforce of over 1,900 staff members, has over 300,000 delivery points (electricity and natural gas) and operates more than 10,150 km of electrical power lines and over 3,700 km of gaslines.

The House of Startups (HoST) was set up in 2018 by Luxembourg’s Chamber of Commerce with a vision to become a driving force of the innovation ecosystem in Luxembourg by building bridges between startups, actors of the startup ecosystem and established businesses. With nearly 6,000 square metres spread out over five floors, HoST welcomes a diverse community as home to several innovation hubs (LHoFT, Luxembourg-City Incubator, Hub@Luxembourg and ICFA Luxembourg) in the heart of Luxembourg-City.

Find out more about HoST online: www.host.lu.

• Education to help create an informed and ambitious workforce that understands the demands of sustainability and the needs of industry.
• Innovation Projects to bring together ideas, inventors and industry to create commercially attractive technologies that deliver real results to customers.
• Business Creation Services to support entrepreneurs and start-ups who are expanding Europe’s energy ecosystem with their innovative offerings.

The Luxembourg-City Incubator is a startup incubator launched in September 2017 by the Chamber of Commerce with the City of Luxembourg as its main sponsor. It is one of the larger incubators hosted within the House of Startups.

The LCI aims at supporting and reinforcing the economic and social dynamics of the city and the country. Its objective is to attract local and international startups with a priority for the industries critical to its founders.

The idea is to help startups offer innovative, concrete and practical solutions to the local population and companies. The LCI also contributes to the development of the innovation community, both locally and internationally.

The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) provides its clients with practical advice on foreign markets and on-the-ground intelligence to help them make better, more timely and cost-effective decisions in order to achieve their goals abroad.

Trade commissioners offer services across a wide range of trade sectors, to those members of the Canadian business community who contribute to Canada’s economic growth, have a demonstrated capacity for internationalization and have good potential to add value to the Canadian economy.

The Trade Commissioner Service promotes Canada’s economic interests in global markets, by engaging in a range of activities, including:

• contributing to export market development
• conducting advocacy and foreign market access activities
• understanding and analyzing trade policy
• attracting foreign investment to Canada
• developing a network of international business contacts
• identifying and communicating business leads
• fostering strategic alliances
• linking Canadian businesses to global value chains
• supporting licensing and venture capital linkages
• promoting joint-venture partnering and foreign equity investment
• facilitating R&D collaboration and technology transfer
• promoting responsible business conduct
• facilitating Canadian direct investment abroad

Capricorn Venture Partners is an independent European manager of venture capital and equity funds, investing in innovative growth companies with breakthrough technologies in Cleantech, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, IT and Materials Sciences. Capricorn’s 6^th venture capital fund, Capricorn Sustainable Chemistry Fund (CSCF), captures growing opportunities emerging from wave of innovation across the value chain, from renewable feedstocks to more sustainable solutions for everyday products in food & feed, fibers & fuels, and functional materials in a broad range of applications, that provide both performance and value, while protecting and enhancing human health. As the world is facing the growing challenges of climate change, the number of breakthrough, innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) will increase rapidly. CSCF is uniquely positioned to help develop sustainable alternatives that offer significant reduction in GHG emissions, as compared to existing petrochemical processes. The objective of the CSCF is to create shareholder value through financial return, combined with the sustainability impact of planned investments.

CLEAN is a world-leading cleantech cluster based in Denmark with an international focus. Our mission is to accelerate the green and sustainable transition while realising growth for the Danish cleantech sector.

Cube4T8 is the innovation company of Losch Luxembourg. In addition to creating new mobility concepts and digitalization, Cube4T8 maintains close contact with academic institutions, start-ups and public authorities to develop ideas and concepts for Luxembourg and the Greater Region to make everyday life more comfortable.

Renewable energies, circular economy, innovation, and sustainability are the foundations Cube4T8 stands for. Due to considerable changes in mobility, industry, and technology, Cube4T8 tries to think one step further – every day at every task. To master this challenge, Cube4T8 is continually looking for competent business partners to develop reliable and innovative products and services jointly. Besides of cooperation with external institutions, Cube4T8 also concentrates on internal optimization potentials. These include process improvements in the core business, innovative communication channels, and the implementation of new technologies to optimize after-sales tasks and create better conditions for employees.

Stagnation means regression, and therefore Cube4T8 has set itself the goal to continuously develop itself further to be able to offer customers of Losch Luxembourg – but also of Cube4T8 directly – a high-quality and innovative experience in the field of mobility. Passion is the most valuable asset a company’s employees can contribute.

Every day we live the passion for innovation in each of our projects!

ENGIE New Ventures was founded in May 2014, when 115M€ of Corporate Venture Capital was set aside for investment as minority stakes in startups, to complement existing resources coming from the technology and research centres and from internal innovation.

To address environmental challenges without compromising economic growth, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have identified 1000+ clean and profitable solutions, and are now committed to going even further. By offering political and economic decision-makers a Guide to Solutions that can be implemented on a large scale, the Foundation will help them establish a roadmap for the adoption of much more ambitious energy and environmental programs and thus achieve their carbon neutrality objectives.

The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute is your premier gateway for doing business with Israeli companies. Established and funded by the government and the private sector, IEICI’s expertise in technology and product scouting, joint ventures and strategic alliances with Israeli companies spans more than half a century.

Whatever your field is, IEICI offers access to relevant businesses and government resources. With expertise in Israel’s leading Industries, IEICI will provide the information you need to connect, negotiate and do business.

The Cleantech, Energy & Environmental Technologies Department has an intimate acquaintance with the Israeli Cleantech industry exporters, which includes more than 400 companies, and about 200 start-ups. It has a proven ability to identify and match suitable potential business partners, organizing one-on-one business meetings and is a focal point for contacts with the government as well as with the industry.

London & Partners is the business growth and destination agency for London. Our mission is to create economic growth that is resilient, sustainable and inclusive.  We do this by focusing on supporting international and domestic businesses in high-growth sectors to scale through our investment, trade, growth and innovation programmes.

We are a social enterprise, combining purpose with commercial rigour. We are funded by grants, partners and our portfolio of venture businesses.

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