Enfucell selected as a nominee for GCCA later stage award

周二, 2010年 12月 14日 11:56

Enfucell Ltd has been nominated for the first annual Global Cleantech Later Stage Awards, hosted by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA). The nomination is for the energy efficiency category and it was made by the Finnish Cleantech Cluster, a founding member of the GCCA.

Judged by leading venture capital investors and entrepreneurs from around the world, the awards vet the very best in established clean technology. Winning companies will receive international investment exposure and business support.

"The world does not have the luxury to wait for the next, game changing clean technology to gradually rise to the surface," said Ben Taube, Chair of the GCCA. "With the Global Cleantech Later Stage Awards we spotlight the very best the industry has to offer and expose them to investment and business opportunities around the world."

Judges for the Global Cleantech Later Stage Awards include prominent investors and entrepreneurs including: US Venture Partners, BASF Venture Capital, UK Trade & Investment: Global Entrepreneur Programme, SOFINOVA Partners, Mountain Cleantech and Generation Investment Management.

"These judges will apply the same rigorous due diligence they bring to their own investments," said Shawn Lesser of Sustainable World Capital and a co-founder of the GCCA. "Companies will have to prove their technology is viable, has a customer base and is producing revenue in order to win."

Global Cleantech Later Stage Awards will be given in 10 categories, including renewable energy, transportation, green building materials, water, waste, energy efficiency and agriculture. In addition, three Most Impactful awards will be given to technologies that are improving the quality of life for people around the world, particularly in developing countries.

Global Cleantech Cluster Association

Global Cleantech is a non-profit association, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.  that creates conduits for companies to harness the tremendous benefits of international cleantech cluster collaboration in an efficient, affordable, and structured way. Global Cleantech provides a gateway for established and emerging cleantech companies to gain exposure to potential investors, new markets, influential networks, innovative technologies and best practices. GCCA was founded by swisscleantech, the Finnish Cleantech Cluster, and Sustainable World Capital.

For more information, please visit www.globalcleantech.org.

Enfucell Oy

With main focus on printed electronics, Enfucell Oy is a Vantaa, Finland based technology company with its roots in the Helsinki University of Technology, today known as the Aalto University School of Science and Technology. Enfucell has developed SoftBattery®, a thin, flexible 1.5 - 6 V environmentally friendly power source optimally utilized in disposable and short lifetime products. SoftBattery® applications include RFID, micro sensors, displays, OLED, functional packaging, cosmetic and pharmaceutical transdermal delivery systems, and Enfucell's customers and partners include many of world's largest corporations in their fields.

Earlier Enfucell's SoftBattery® technology has been recognized as The Technology Pioneer 2007 by World Economic Forum, The Red Herring 100 Europe in 2007 and The Guardian European Cleantech100 in 2008. In addition, Dr. Xia-Chang Zhang, CTO of Enfucell was appointed as one of ten most influential Chinese in the world in 2007, and nominated as an honorary professor of the East China University of Science and Technology.

Enfucell was founded in 2002 and employs ca. ten people, having also a presence in the United States and France. The company is owned by its founders, private investors, Vera Venture Ltd, a Finnish governmental venture fund, and Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co., the largest investor in Finland with investment assets ca. 30 billion Euros. Enfucell is also financially supported by Tekes, The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. In total Enfucell has raised ca. 6,3 million Euros by December 2010.

At the moment Enfucell is working on raising 1-2 million € for further commercialization of SoftBattery.

For more information, please contact:
Mr. Risto Huvila, COO Enfucell, tel. +358 400 755 661, 该E-mail地址已受到防止垃圾邮件机器人的保护，您必须启用浏览器的Java Script才能看到。