Michael Bowring

Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA operates as a holding company with interests in paper, fabrics, and hydro power generation. The firm’s principal activities are manufacturing of paper machinery, textile machinery, hydro fluid machinery, and turbo power transmission engineering. Its products and services include automation and digital solutions, drives & transmissions, connection components & couplings, hydropower components, hydraulics, pneumatics, cooling, braking systems and papermaking components. The company was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Heidenheim, Germany.

Timmerije BV designs and manufactures plastic products. The firm products include gas injections, gas counter-pressured, prototype, and counter-pressured moldings. Its core market areas include domestic appliances, internal transport, furniture, personal home and care, recreation, process appliances, industrial appliances and HVAC. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Neede, the Netherlands.

Kenda Capital BV (Kenda) is an independent Dutch venture capital firm which was established by Erik Vollebregt in 2001 to manage the Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 BV. Located in Rijswijk with a U.S. office in Houston, Texas, Kenda manages the Shell Technology Ventures Fund, a large scale investment fund focused at reducing the cost of energy by accelerating the development and deployment of new technologies. The firm's energy sector expertise is fostered through a unique technology relationship with the Shell Group. The Fund also has proprietary access to oil and gas field operations and wells in order to test, prove and demonstrate combinations of new technologies.

AWS Ocean Energy Ltd. develops marine wave energy systems for offshore aquaculture and utility power generation. It offers aquaculture solutions, utility power, breakwater systems, active moorings, and consultancy services. The company was founded by Simon Grey, Fred Gardner, and Hans van Breugel in 2004 and is headquartered in Inverness, the United Kingdom.

Brightlands Venture Partners is an independent regional venture capital firm headquartered in Brightlands, Netherlands. The firm was founded in 2004.

Caloritum NV offers innovative technology to industrial customers. The firm provides transform wasted heat into useful process heat and reduces the total energy bill by saving fossil fuels and CO2 emissions. The company was founded by Wouter Ducheyne and Christian Heeren in 2012 and is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium.