Cleantech Challenge Netherlands

Siemen Brinksma: a business developer with a focus on sustainability, disruptive hardware and organisation building. He has participated in the CTC 3 times, and has been a judge 1 time. Siemen has experience in deploying innovative products such as modular plastic recycling systems and is currently the founder of Biosphere Solar, a company pioneering circular solar energy.

Manuela Cox, an associate at international law firm Bird & Bird, specializes in regulatory matters, focusing on data protection and telecommunications law. With a background in advising tech companies and previous experience at an NGO and leading law firms, she brings a deep understanding of the challenges faced by businesses in navigating complex regulatory frameworks in the telecommunications and information technology sectors.

Marie-Anne de Gier is the chair of GreenTU, the green office of TU Delft. In this role, she leads a team of students dedicated to improving the university's overall sustainability.

Sophie Janssen is a venture capital investor at Graduate Entrepreneurs Pre-seed fund with a background in International Business Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She focuses her time on investing in early-stage startups and is responsible for the founder programs and partners at Graduate Entrepreneur.

*COMING SOON!!!*
Our first workshop given by Green TU on the 14th of February 16.30

- Take your first steps into the world of sustainability and entrepreneurship! 🌱
- Work on a business idea. 💡
- We will teach you how to make a sustainable business model canvas. 💫

Don't forget to sign up for the finals as a team or individually! 🚀
*REGISTER NOW*: https://form.typeform.com/to/bcKFlVI6

Any questions? Visit our website https://www.cleantechchallenge.nl/

Don't forget to sign up for the online speed dating session tomorrow and get to know your fellow CleanTech students! 💚

This week marks the Global CleanTech Challenge Finals!

In the past few weeks team Flux, the winners of this years Dutch CTC, has been working hard to develope their idea further, supported by the coaches Leon Pulles and Iva Tsvetkova.

We wish team Flux all the best of luck in the global finals!

DUTCH CLEANTECH CHALLENGE WINNER 2021!

Congratulations FLUX for winning the first place in yesterdays finals!
The team behind FLUX realized that one of the most important issues we will face in the upcoming decades is water scarcity. Keeping this in mind they came up with a technology creating awareness and transparency on water consumption. With FLUX they want to change people’s perception of water consumption, which will be the first step towards reducing water consumption. FLUX will represent the Netherlands in the Global CleanTech Challenge next month …

To all, thank you for participating in this years Dutch CleanTech Challenge! We have seen inspiring and diverse ideas in the field of sustainability, innovation, and the environment. Every team can be very proud of their accomplishments in the last couple of months. We want to urge every one of you to continue with your sustainable and entrepreneurial spirit!

A big thanks also goes to all the jury members and workshop hosts, who collaborated with us. The teams have learned valuable skills and lessons from your workshops and feedback, that will stay with them forever.

MEET THE JURY FOR THE CTC FINALS:

Leon Pulles
Leon Pulles is a senior investment advisor and managing partner at Energy Investment Management BV with more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry.

Andreea Bota
Andreea Bota is the Head of Scouting at Yes!Delft and has a valuable background in madia and tech.

Yuri van Engelshoven
Yuri van Engelshoven is the Co-Founder & CFO at Polytential. In 2016 Yuri and his team won the Dutch CleanTech Challenge with this startup.

Leonardo Fuligni
Leonardo Fuligni is Head of Scaleup Research and Project Manager at the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. Leonardo is responsible for the research activities of ECE around fast-growing companies.

Exciting times in the CleanTech Challenge!

After last weeks semi-finals, six teams progress to the final. However, not before they receive a pitching workshop from Jelmer Smits from PresentThing.
Tomorrow the participants will learn what it takes to deliver a convincing pitch to sell their idea!

CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS OF THE SEMI-FINAL!

We are beyond proud of every team that participated in the semi-finals yesterday.
The ideas and presentations of all teams were diverse, inspiring and very impressive.
We wish those teams that did not make it to the finals all the best of luck in developing their ideas further. And we are looking forward to seeing the six winning teams of the semi-final in the upcoming CTC final!