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Zest Eco is a London, UK-based EV charging company. It is democratizing EV adoption in the UK by rapidly filling the gaps in the maturing public charging infrastructure.

Taulia Inc. is a technology company specializing in supply chain management and financing software solutions, founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a range of services for businesses, including dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, cash forecasting, invoice automation, and supplier management. Its platform enables organizations to convert invoices into revenue opportunities by facilitating early payments and providing access to electronic invoicing without imposing fees on suppliers. Additionally, Taulia empowers suppliers through self-service tools, enhancing their operational efficiency. With a presence in various global locations, including offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, Taulia has formed a strategic alliance with KPMG to strengthen its offerings in the financial technology sector.

Readly is the new way of reading magazines on tablets and smartphones Readly's mission is simple: To be on the cutting edge of the digital magazine revolution. Our expert management team has more than 25 years of experience in the publishing, digital gaming, and broadcasting industries. Readly has headquarters in Sweden.

Workable Software Limited is a recruitment technology company that offers an online platform designed to streamline the hiring process for businesses in the United Kingdom and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Athens and Boston, Workable provides a range of features including automated job postings, candidate sourcing, employee referrals, and interview scheduling. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance candidate sourcing and simplify decision-making, allowing hiring teams to collaborate effectively. Workable's software is available on both desktop and mobile devices, making it accessible for a diverse clientele. Over its operational history, the company has assisted more than 20,000 organizations in hiring over one million candidates, serving a variety of sectors.

EO Charging is a designer and manufacturer of smart electric vehicle chargers, headquartered in Stowmarket, United Kingdom. Founded in 2015, the company provides a range of charging solutions for home, work, and various destinations. Its product lineup includes EO home chargers for residential use, EO work chargers for commercial environments, and the eoApp, a smartphone application that allows users to manage their chargers remotely. Additionally, EO Charging offers accessories such as cables and signage to enhance the user experience. By focusing on innovative charging solutions, the company aims to contribute to a cleaner and more sustainable environment.

Readly is the new way of reading magazines on tablets and smartphones Readly's mission is simple: To be on the cutting edge of the digital magazine revolution. Our expert management team has more than 25 years of experience in the publishing, digital gaming, and broadcasting industries. Readly has headquarters in Sweden.

Green Hedge is a prominent developer and operator of low carbon electricity generation and storage projects, established in 2010. The company has successfully developed over 200 megawatts of renewable energy projects, primarily focusing on large-scale solar photovoltaic systems for grid-connected and on-site generation. In the United Kingdom, Green Hedge is actively engaged in building and operating a substantial pipeline of electricity storage assets, which includes utility-scale battery storage projects. The firm also specializes in financing "behind the meter" storage installations, branded as "Savings in a Box," aimed at large energy users. These initiatives assist businesses in lowering their energy costs and reducing their carbon footprints, providing tailored electricity generation and storage solutions.

Readly is the new way of reading magazines on tablets and smartphones Readly's mission is simple: To be on the cutting edge of the digital magazine revolution. Our expert management team has more than 25 years of experience in the publishing, digital gaming, and broadcasting industries. Readly has headquarters in Sweden.

InstaVolt Ltd is a prominent provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the United Kingdom, established in 2016 and headquartered in Basingstoke. The company focuses on the development, installation, ownership, and operation of rapid charging stations strategically located at retail and food sites, as well as fuel forecourts. By offering an open charger model, InstaVolt allows users to access charging points on a pay-as-you-go basis without the need for subscriptions or membership cards, addressing concerns such as range anxiety that potential EV owners often face. The company aims to facilitate the transition to electric vehicles by making charging quick and accessible, thereby contributing to improved air quality and reduced carbon emissions across the UK. InstaVolt also provides landowners with opportunities to earn rental income by hosting their charging units, thereby fostering a collaborative approach to building the necessary infrastructure for a sustainable future.

Taulia Inc. is a technology company specializing in supply chain management and financing software solutions, founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a range of services for businesses, including dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, cash forecasting, invoice automation, and supplier management. Its platform enables organizations to convert invoices into revenue opportunities by facilitating early payments and providing access to electronic invoicing without imposing fees on suppliers. Additionally, Taulia empowers suppliers through self-service tools, enhancing their operational efficiency. With a presence in various global locations, including offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, Taulia has formed a strategic alliance with KPMG to strengthen its offerings in the financial technology sector.

iZettle is reinventing technologies and banking services that help small-business owners live better, work less and earn more. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2010 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, small-business owners around the world use iZettle’s powerfully simple services to improve the speed and ease of payments at checkout, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding

Readly is the new way of reading magazines on tablets and smartphones Readly's mission is simple: To be on the cutting edge of the digital magazine revolution. Our expert management team has more than 25 years of experience in the publishing, digital gaming, and broadcasting industries. Readly has headquarters in Sweden.

ip.access solves in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business. ip.access has been deploying small cell solutions for over 10 years providing more than 90 customers around the world with the capability to accelerate the introduction of small cell solutions into their networks irrespective of use case, technology or deployment model. The company’s success is built upon its ability to provide its Service Provider customers with a range of small cell solutions across all technologies (2G, 3G, and 4G), alongside a deployment philosophy that integrates the small cell access points with converged access gateways and comprehensive network management and performance tools. The methodology and solution capability provided by ip.access enables its customers to better manage the economic challenges of delivering against ever more demanding coverage and capacity requirements. This, along with the ease of integration to higher order management solutions and the robust and elegant macro network interaction reduces the ‘cycle time’ from installation to commercial service. In addition, ip.access has focussed diligently on providing the intelligence and application layers to enable its customers to deliver rapid monetisation of their small cell deployments, drive new and complimentary revenue streams to further enhance the small cells business case.

Cyphort Inc. specializes in developing software and appliance-based solutions to protect enterprises and governments from cybercrime, particularly advanced threats and targeted attacks. Founded in 2008 and based in Santa Clara, California, Cyphort offers a comprehensive threat protection platform that utilizes behavioral analytics, machine learning, and security analytics to enhance threat detection. Its network-layer agnostic approach is designed to safeguard multi-tenant cloud infrastructures and virtual environments, addressing security gaps created by extensive virtualization. The platform ingests and analyzes raw data from various sources, including web and email traffic, enabling organizations to identify and respond to advanced threats that may have evaded initial security measures. As of September 2017, Cyphort operates as a subsidiary of Juniper Networks, enhancing its capabilities in the cybersecurity landscape.

Urban Wind Assets Ltd has a large number of sites, most of which are now currently built and operating, with a few still in the late stages of construction and connection. 14 sites have been acquired so far – 10 Emergya Wind Technologies (“EWT”) and 4 Northern Power Systems (“NPS”) turbines – across the UK.

Levenseat Limited is a Recycling & Waste Management company based in Central Scotland. With over 25 years’ experience, Levenseat has established a reputation for reliability, accessibility and innovation. We are committed to developing new waste solutions to provide customers with an environmental and economic solution and with the construction of our new plant together with our wider already established facility, we will be delivering to the market Scotland’s largest integrated facility providing treatment and recovery for a wide range of waste materials.

Sigfox is the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has built a global network to connect billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy as possible, as simply as possible. Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud communications addresses the three greatest barriers to global IoT adoption: cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Today, the network is present in 26 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018 – covering a population of 397 million people. With millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox empowers companies to create new innovations on the IoT. Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai and Singapore.

Taulia Inc. is a technology company specializing in supply chain management and financing software solutions, founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a range of services for businesses, including dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, cash forecasting, invoice automation, and supplier management. Its platform enables organizations to convert invoices into revenue opportunities by facilitating early payments and providing access to electronic invoicing without imposing fees on suppliers. Additionally, Taulia empowers suppliers through self-service tools, enhancing their operational efficiency. With a presence in various global locations, including offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, Taulia has formed a strategic alliance with KPMG to strengthen its offerings in the financial technology sector.

Huddle is an enterprise content collaboration company that simplifies and secures document collaboration for teams. By providing features such as version control, task management, and mobile access, Huddle enables users to share, discuss, and work on content efficiently. This platform serves various industries, including accounting, consulting, government, marketing, logistics, media, and construction. Huddle streamlines the collaboration process, reducing the time spent on organizing documents, chasing approvals, and searching through emails, ultimately allowing teams to focus on delivering exceptional results. Its transparent tracking of version changes and comments ensures a comprehensive audit trail, giving users control over document visibility and actions.

Zola Electric provides off-grid solar solutions primarily for African markets, focusing on Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. The company offers solar home kits that can be either leased or purchased, utilizing a pay-as-you-go micro-finance model that accommodates various income levels. By employing advanced solar, battery, and power electronics technology, Zola Electric delivers renewable energy systems tailored to the needs of individual households and businesses in rural communities. Since its inception in 2012, the company has powered over 180,000 homes and businesses. Formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited, it rebranded to Zola Electric in July 2018 and has established its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania, with an additional office in San Francisco, California. The company has garnered recognition through various awards and has attracted investment from notable firms, including Tesla and EDF.

iZettle is reinventing technologies and banking services that help small-business owners live better, work less and earn more. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2010 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, small-business owners around the world use iZettle’s powerfully simple services to improve the speed and ease of payments at checkout, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding

Lighting Science Group Corporation specializes in designing, developing, and marketing general illumination products that utilize light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as their light source. The company offers a wide range of LED retrofit lamps as replacements for traditional incandescent, compact fluorescent, and halogen lamps, along with various LED luminaires, including a solar-powered street lighting solution known as FreeLED. Additionally, Lighting Science produces biological lighting products tailored for specific needs, such as circadian replacement lamps, grow lights, and outdoor luminaires. The company's products serve diverse markets, including residential, retail, government, and educational sectors, through various distribution channels including branded and co-branded programs, direct sales, and independent agents. Incorporated in 1988, Lighting Science Group is headquartered in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and emphasizes environmentally friendly solutions that enhance energy efficiency and reduce costs.

SpaceTime Insight develops and delivers innovative advanced analytics and IIoT applications for asset-intensive industries. With its software, customers reduce cost and risk, increase capital efficiency, pinpoint theft, spoilage, and shrinkage, lower the frequency and duration of service outages, optimize field crews and operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and more. They understand the entire breadth of their operations in motion, in context, and in real-time, and generate greater returns at lower risk, lower cost, and greater speed. The company's advanced analytics applications help companies realize the full value of their people, processes, and assets. SpaceTime Insight’s software powers mission-critical systems for some of the largest companies around the world in diverse industries including utilities, shipping, manufacturing, and energy.

The Mobility House AG, founded in 2009 and based in Zurich, Switzerland, specializes in electric vehicle charging systems and energy management solutions. The company aims to promote e-mobility by offering safe, sustainable, and affordable alternatives to fossil fuel consumption. As one of Europe’s leading providers in the electric mobility sector, The Mobility House focuses on charging solutions and battery management for energy storage. They cater to both businesses and individual customers, working with the automotive industry, leasing services, and energy utilities. By emphasizing customer satisfaction through high-quality products, competitive pricing, and excellent service, The Mobility House strives to meet the evolving needs of the market and facilitate a transition to renewable energy sources in the realm of mobility.

OZZ Electric is a leading full service electrical contractor, specializing in large scale projects as well as high profile design/build work. Since 1991, OZZ Electric and its predecessor companies have been taking on a wide array of diverse and complex projects, enabling the company to develop a dynamic and innovative approach to solving construction challenges.

Lighting Science Group Corporation specializes in designing, developing, and marketing general illumination products that utilize light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as their light source. The company offers a wide range of LED retrofit lamps as replacements for traditional incandescent, compact fluorescent, and halogen lamps, along with various LED luminaires, including a solar-powered street lighting solution known as FreeLED. Additionally, Lighting Science produces biological lighting products tailored for specific needs, such as circadian replacement lamps, grow lights, and outdoor luminaires. The company's products serve diverse markets, including residential, retail, government, and educational sectors, through various distribution channels including branded and co-branded programs, direct sales, and independent agents. Incorporated in 1988, Lighting Science Group is headquartered in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and emphasizes environmentally friendly solutions that enhance energy efficiency and reduce costs.

ffk environment provides a comprehensive range of waste disposal and secondary raw material production services in the business areas of logistics & disposal, raw material production and raw material trade. The family company was founded in 1992 as a waste logistics company with headquarters in Peitz near Cottbus in Germany. It now employes more than 116 members of staff.

va-Q-tec is a dynamic high-tech company and has been pioneering the development of innovative solutions in the insulation industry since 2001 on the basis of energy efficient, space saving and environmentally friendly vacuum insulation panels (VIPs). The efficient technology of va-Q-tec products saves expensive energy in areas of everyday use: transport of pharmaceutical products, in refrigeration and freezer appliances, in buildings, in technology & industry as well as in automobiles and aircraft.

Anesco is a national company dedicated to helping businesses, local authorities, housing associations and homeowners to reduce their carbon emissions. They provide comprehensive energy services, from audits through to recommendations, installations and capital funding plans. Their specialist team has managed some of the UK’s largest and most complex energy efficiency projects.

Trilliant Holdings, Inc. engages in providing smart grid software and communications solutions. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

Enviromena Power Systems operates in the solar energy sector, focusing on the design, financing, installation, and operation of solar power plants across the Middle East and North Africa. The company provides comprehensive turnkey solar solutions, which include system design, supply, installation, and long-term operations and maintenance services. Additionally, Enviromena offers consulting services related to energy efficiency, power purchase agreements, and solar irradiation analysis. Their offerings cater to both residential and utility-scale projects, providing roof-mounted and architecturally integrated solar systems for homeowners, as well as extensive solutions for utility-scale solar projects that connect to local power grids, serving governments, utilities, and power developers. Based in Dubai, the company emphasizes sustainable energy solutions and operational excellence in the solar power industry.

Trilliant Holdings, Inc. engages in providing smart grid software and communications solutions. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

SulfurCell is a German developer and manufacturer of thin-film, electricity-generating solar modules. Sulfurcell's thin-film modules have demonstrated some of the highest energy conversion efficiencies for thin-film PV. Sulfurcell's product also offers scalability — a crucial component for high-volume supply — bringing the solar industry one step closer to mainstream applications.

Nanotron Technologies is a leader in the development of wireless products that combine high speed data transmission and location information at about 1 meter accuracy. Their wireless technology guarantees high signal robustness and low energy consumption. Nanotron's key product nanoLOC delivers both wireless communication and location in one solution. The wireless industry has many technologies for wireless communication and has some solutions for location, but only nanoLOC delivers both in one chip.

The SiC Group is one of world's leading service providers in the field of mechanical wet-cutting technologies for the wafer industry, including corresponding logistic solutions. It specializes in preparing cutting fluids that are used to produce wafers for the photovoltaic and semiconductor industries. Cutting fluids are a viscous slurry consisting of solid silicon carbide and fluid glycol.Silicon carbide is used as a sawing agent in the wafer sawing process, where it is applied to the wiresaw in order to give it the necessary specific hardness to saw wafers. The Glycol acts a substrate for the silicon carbide as well as a coolant. Slurry must be replaced after multiple uses and then either properly disposed of or recycled.With the aid of two processes based on hydrocyclone technology, SiC recovers silicon carbide and glycol from the slurry used by wafer producers and conditions these components such that they can be reused in the sawing process. By doing so, SiC provides its customers long-term cost advantages. In addition to the actual recovery and conditioning services, the SiC Group also offers comprehensive logistics services for wafer manufacturers in the field of cutting fluid management. These include transport, storage and procurement of input materials and slurry. SiC currently has four locations worldwide and already has specific plans for setting up an additional production line in and two other production sites in Asia .

Solarcentury, established in 1998 and headquartered in the UK, is a prominent global solar power company that develops, constructs, owns, and operates utility-scale solar projects and smart technology across Europe, Latin America, and Africa. The company is recognized for its significant contributions to solar energy, having developed some of the largest utility-scale solar projects in countries such as the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, Kenya, and Mexico. Notable projects include the world’s first solar bridge at Blackfriars Station in Central London. Solarcentury aims to combat climate change by promoting solar power as a leading energy source worldwide. Over its 22-year history, the company has played a crucial role in mainstreaming solar energy, generating 6 billion kWh of clean electricity and reducing CO2 emissions by over 1.7 million tonnes.

Nanotron Technologies is a leader in the development of wireless products that combine high speed data transmission and location information at about 1 meter accuracy. Their wireless technology guarantees high signal robustness and low energy consumption. Nanotron's key product nanoLOC delivers both wireless communication and location in one solution. The wireless industry has many technologies for wireless communication and has some solutions for location, but only nanoLOC delivers both in one chip.

Gas Turbine Efficiency designs, manufactures and supplies proprietary cleantech energy saving and performance enhancing solutions to the power generation, oil and gas, and aviation industries. The company’s extensive portfolio of patented cleantech solutions save fuel, reduce emissions, increase availability, and extend turbine and parts life.

Orb Energy Private Limited, established in 2006 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, specializes in designing, manufacturing, marketing, selling, installing, and servicing solar photovoltaic and solar water heating systems. The company caters to residential and commercial clients, offering a range of products including polycrystalline and monocrystalline solar panels, solar inverters, solar street lights, solar rooftops, solar power plants, solar water pumping systems, and heat pumps. Orb Energy also operates a franchise model to expand its reach, leveraging a robust retail distribution network with 90 branches currently in operation. The company aims to provide affordable renewable energy solutions, particularly for off-grid households, with plans to double its branch network and workforce in the coming years to enhance accessibility for low-income customers. Additionally, Orb has expanded its operations to Kenya, furthering its mission to deliver sustainable energy solutions.

Oplayo is a German company that provides its clients with data driven online marketing expertise. It offers a targeted mix of communication tools such as SEO, SEA, Content Distribution Services, and a converting LandingPages. Oplayo is based in Berlin, Munich and Vienna.

AVS Technologies (AVS) is a technology company developing next generation video distribution technology for both wireless and fixed Internet. AVS solutions work with standard Internet browsers without specific plug-in.