Start-up Pitch Session | New Players in BESS: Technologies, Business Models and Market Entry

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Recording from Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | Battery Business & Development Forum | Language: English | Duration: 54:23 .

Innovation in battery storage is increasingly driven by new market entrants developing technologies, software and business models across the value chain. In this fast-paced session, selected start-ups present their solutions and explain how they position themselves in a competitive and rapidly evolving market.

Each company gives a short pitch, followed by brief discussion and feedback from the moderator.

What you will discuss:

  • Which specific problems in the BESS value chain new companies are addressing

  • How software tools and AI-based approaches can support areas such as performance analysis or O&M

  • How new solutions aim to improve project returns, scalability or operational efficiency

  • Which applications and customer segments these companies are targeting

  • How these approaches fit into today’s storage market

Moderator

Matthias Engel
Managing Partner
Vireo Ventures

Speaker

Elias Aruna
Founder
Scale Energy

Florian Heise
Co-Founder
Re-Twin Energy

Laura Laringe
CEO
reLi Energy

Joseph Perrotta
Founder
Invertix

Peter Bruins
Founder
Fudura

Volker Schöller
CTO
Schoenergie GmbH

Jörg Beringer

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