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Highway®

Beyond Acceleration

We are co-creators, smart investors and industry catalysts for entrepreneurs who want global impact and a sustainable world. This is long-term business creation with global vision and purpose.

5 reasons why start-ups join the Highway

The right partners make all the difference. This is why entrepreneurs choose to work with us.

Added-value investor

Added-value investor

“InnoEnergy has provided a tremendous value add to Act & Sorb. Their network and know-how still makes all the difference. The value of our partnership was much more important than the financial investments they made. To us, they are a true partner, a real value-add investor.“
Kenny Van Reppelen, CEO, Act & Sorb
Trusted ecosystem

Trusted ecosystem

“InnoEnergy’s support was key to finding our first customer. The ecosystem includes big gas utilities like Gas Natural, who agreed to run our first pilot. We now have pilots running with companies from the InnoEnergy’s international network: Volkswagen, South California Gas Utility, Eesti Gas... the future certainly looks bright!“
Robert Strods, Founder and COO, HYGEN
Global impact

Global impact

“InnoEnergy has helped us with understanding complex business energy landscape in Europe and has given us direct links to potential customers and access to new customer channels through their business development support. We have also raised €1 million with an investor that we met at InnoEnergy’s Business Booster event.  “
Siten Mandalia, CEO, Solaris Offgrid
Hands-on approach

Hands-on approach

“Cascade Drives was established to exploit the gear box technology used in the CorPower solution for other industrial applications such as linear actuators for heavy vehicles. Cascade Drives has attracted substantial interest for their solution and is now a growing start-up in itself. InnoEnergy has played an active, instrumental role in establishing our start-up.“
Kristian Floresjö, CEO, Cascade Drives,
Tailored programmes

Tailored programmes

“Having InnoEnergy as a partner has been instrumental for shortening the time to market in the research to market process, significantlys. Their support was tailored made to  our needs, Elestor is not an average start up and fixed programs would not have suited us.“
Wiebrand Kout, Founder & CTO, Elestor

42

Patents filed

221

Start-ups selling

16

Months in average of time to market

€160 M

external funding raised

97%

Survival rate of our start-ups after 3 years

Our focus is always on creating sustainable businesses with sustainable revenues. Because when you succeed, so do we.

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What you get on the Highway?

Your rolling programme of tailored support is drawn from the following:

Product

  • Analysis of your product’s potential, competitors, and patent chances
  • Support for intellectual property protection
  • Enhancement, development, and pilots
  • Access to R&D infrastructure

Market

  • Evaluation of business case and market positioning
  • Business plan, and commercialisation strategies
  • Finding your first customer
  • Support from InnoEnergy sales team.

People

  • Mapping your team’s capabilities, competencies, and skills gaps
  • Training, coaching and mentoring
  • Bringing in people to take the company forward
  • Expert board members

Finance

  • Introductions to pre-seed and seed funding opportunities, VCs, business angels, and public funding
  • Physical office space
  • Administrative and legal support

Who can apply?

We are looking for startups that:

  • Have a proven prototype or proof of concept for an innovative product in the energy sector
  • Have a maximum time to market – and first revenues – of two years
  • Are looking to enhance and complement the business skills of their current team
  • Are looking for financing, including equity partners
  • Are easy to work with and willing to commit to stable, long-term relationship with InnoEnergy
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The Highway effect

Read some of the supported start-ups stories

Watch-e

“Energy is a very complex market. Having InnoEnergy as partner and investor is very helpful for us, because they understand what energy is about.“
Barbera van der Hoek, CEO, Watch-e

Ferroamp

“InnoEnergy has helped us to adopt global mind set from the start.“
Björn Jernström, founder and CEO, Ferroamp

Wohnwagon

“InnoEnergy really helped us to move from a start-up state and scale internationally to find the right partners and grow our impact and we are now waiting for the next investment round to even scale further and internationalize.“
Theresa Steininger, CEO, Wohnwagon

Solaris

“The key benefits of joining the Highway were building our product, commercialisation and exposure: we have raised €1 million from an investor at The Business Booster.“
Siten Mandalia, CEO, Solaris Offgrid