Energy Tech Summit will be held in a dynamic new format designed to inspire, connect and amplify impact in the fight against climate change.

Energy Tech Summit Bilbao​

Contrarian Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in climate technology, is the promoter of the Energy Tech Summit, an event recognized as the main conference in its sector in Europe. The event brings together the main actors in the ecosystem of innovation and investment in climate technologies -'climate tech'-; startups, investors, corporations and institutional representatives.

The global head of Sustainability Strategy and CIB at BBVA, Antonio Bravo, explains that “companies that operate in the 'climate tech' space face relevant financing challenges to achieve the scaling of their businesses, which are very investment-intensive. in infrastructure, while the challenge for large industrial corporations is the adoption of innovative technologies that allow them to advance in their decarbonization".

BBVA joins Contrarian Ventures to organize, within the congress, parallel events of Growth Meets Capital and Growth Meets Industry. The first of them will connect climate technology companies in more mature stages (Series A+) with the main global investors in climate technology specialized in investing in growth phases; Among them are the funds in which BBVA has investment commitments. 'Growth Meets Industry' seeks to connect innovative companies with industrial corporations from around the world that are at the forefront of the decarbonization of their respective sectors.

Rokas Peciulaitis, founding partner of Contrarian Ventures and founder and president of the Energy Tech Summit, stated that “we are excited to start this collaboration with BBVA and bring the Energy Tech Summit to Bilbao, a new innovation hub to bring together the community. global climate technology. With the launch of the Growth Meets Capital event, our goal is to accelerate the process of raising funding by concentrating the largest investors in climate technology… It will be one of the most productive days this year for climate technology funds".

The new edition of the Energy Tech Summit will be held in Bilbao with a new dynamic format designed to inspire, connect and amplify the impact in the fight against climate change. Bilbao-Bizkaia is already home to the circularity hub and the green hydrogen corridor; will host the main interest groups in the field of technological and climate innovation, in a public-private collaboration exercise that is helping to promote the energy transition.