Christian Bogatu

Christian Bogatu
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Christian is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He works with SPRIND - the German Federal Agency 
for Disruptive Innovation (www.sprind.org), identifying and supporting innovators with 
radical ideas with a billion Euro budget. Since 2018, Christian also serves as Venture Partner 
for Eurazeo/Idinvest Partners, the largest EU based Venture Capital fund, investing in 
cleantech startups. From 2017 until 2020 he was co-founder and CEO of Fresh Energy, 
generating unparalleled insights based on smart meter data, before selling Fresh Energy to 
EWE end of 2020. From 2011 until 2017 he was co-founder and managing director of 
KIWI (www.kiwi.ki), building a city-scale handsfree access-as-a-service system. Prior to 
KIWI, he co-founded Kirsen Global Security in the Silicon Valley that became global leader 
in container security and exclusive provider for DB Schenker. Christian has more than 5 
years of experience as senior consultant with McKinsey. Christian holds/held several Board 
memberships: innogy (former RWE) Digital Transformation Board; German PropTech 
Initiative (GPTI); Vali Berlin - The Entrepreneurship Hub at ESMT Berlin; UC Berkeley BA 
International Diploma. Christian holds a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in security technology and logistics 
and a master (Diplom) in energy management and chemical engineering from the University 
of Technology in Berlin, Germany

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Weltretten oder Profitmaximieren: Das Große Versprechen von Innovationen als Ausweg aus der Krise und wie wir es eingelöst bekommen

Bart de Witte, Martina Schraudner, Christian Bogatu, Geraldine de Bastion

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Wie kann in Zukunft Innovationsfinanzierung aussehen? In dieser Diskussionsrund werden wir uns damit auseinandersetzen wie der Zugang zu Wissen und technischen Innovationen weltweit gestaltet werde kann, um ihr volles Potenzial freizusetzen, so dass sie nicht nur einzelnen Unternehmen oder Ländern zugutekommen, sondern der gesamten Menschheit.
Stage 6
Panel discussion
German
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