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Rockstart is an early stage investor that empowers purpose-driven founders across three domains: Energy, AgriFood, and Emerging Technologies. Rockstart invests in early-stage startups from each of the three funds and provides access to capital, market, and expertise by connecting founders with co-investors, mentors, partners, corporates, and the wider Rockstart network. Rockstart has invested in more than 350 startups and its alumni value to date is more than €1.3bn. Rockstart is an international team of 45+ professionals dedicated to empowering purpose-driven founders to become scalable and drive positive change on a global scale. Rockstart has notable exits such asWercker, Dan.com, Hubs.Com, Bouw7, iClinic, and s and Brincr. The company has offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Bogota.

At ScaleUpNation we are on a mission to significantly increase the number of impact-oriented scale-ups in the world. The urgent challenges that our society is facing create an opportunity for new enterprises to deliver innovative products and business concepts that combine planet, people and profit. We know that only those that scale can move the impact needle. That’s why we join those ambitious teams on the ground. Through carefully crafted interventions and tools, we help them make the transition to full-scale professional – every step of the way.

InsingerGilissen is a private bank aimed at wealthy individuals and families, foundations, associations and institutional parties. 4 years in a row winner of IEX Gouden Stier | Best Private Bank in The Netherlands. In addition to independent asset management and investment advice, we offer a wide range of private banking services, including financial planning, estate planning and loans. Services for institutional parties comprise asset management, asset consulting and investment products. Under the name InsingerGilissen Services we act as a custodian bank on behalf of independent asset managers. We have offices in Amsterdam (headquarters), The Hague, Eindhoven, Groningen and Rotterdam. InsingerGilissen is part of the network of Quintet Private Bank S.A. the network of leading private banks.

CAVIM is an independent Corporate Finance advisory firm. Services include: Acquisition and divestments advise, Valuations, Debt advisory, etc. Our focus is (Dutch) SME across different sectors. Our team consists of experts who have demonstrable track record in CEO, CIO, CFO, CLO and COO positions.

Rockstart is an early stage investor that empowers purpose-driven founders across three domains: Energy, AgriFood, and Emerging Technologies. Rockstart invests in early-stage startups from each of the three funds and provides access to capital, market, and expertise by connecting founders with co-investors, mentors, partners, corporates, and the wider Rockstart network. Rockstart has invested in more than 350 startups and its alumni value to date is more than €1.3bn. Rockstart is an international team of 45+ professionals dedicated to empowering purpose-driven founders to become scalable and drive positive change on a global scale. Rockstart has notable exits such asWercker, Dan.com, Hubs.Com, Bouw7, iClinic, and s and Brincr. The company has offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Bogota.

Many cold stores, polder-managers, hospitals, data centers have a degree of flexibility in their power consumption. They posses Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) systems, heating- and cooling systems and pumping installations with a collective capacity to shortly adjust their energy demand profile. By monitoring their potential range of flexibility, we can monetize on these existing systems by automatically adjusting their demand profile depending on profitable price fluctuations on the electricity market. This swarm of flexible power units creates a virtual battery that can both deliver and take up power, enabling CE to serve both sides of the need for balance management needs. CE reimburses the customer whose flexibility is exploited with a margin of the revenues made and retains 25-50%.