SAFT
SAFT
— PROJECT NAME
SAFT
— ROLE
Instigator
Program Design
Sponsorship Development
Startup coach
Industry Liaison
— DATE
Feb – Jun, 2016
To help Switzerland accelerate its Energy Strategy 2050, I got together with the Impact Hub Zurich to support the internationalization of its early energy startup rock stars.
We designed an internationalization bootcamp that was held in Zurich to support an international market expedition to the San Francisco Bay Area. Key to this accelerator design was getting support for it from a mix of public and private entities, including a Swiss utility company, a Swiss telecom company, a European cleantech foundation, and a private Swiss foundation. Funding partners were also invited to join the international market expedition, which led to pilots and commercial deals between the utility and a couple of the startups.
Doing this program also helped to put me in touch with a German utility company, innogy (now E.ON), a relationship that ultimately led to the creation of the Free Electrons global energy accelerator.