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Solar­na­tive Wins Best Pitch Award

Solarnative wins Best Pitch Award

At the Infi­neon Start­up Night on Novem­ber 9th, 2022 at Campe­on in Munich/Neubiberg, the pho­to­volta­ic start­up Solar­na­tive won the Best Pitch competition.

Five star­tups from the Infi­neon Co-Inno­va­tion Pro­gram pre­sent­ed their inno­v­a­tive tech solu­tions in 5‑minute pitch­es to the audi­ence of more than 650 peo­ple made up of Infi­neon Tech­nolo­gies AG employ­ees and some exter­nal guests. After­wards, a live vot­ing, in which all guests were invit­ed to use their smart­phones to vote for one of the star­tups, brought out the win­ner of the evening: Solar­na­tive con­vinced the biggest num­ber of guests with its Smart Ener­gy Home and the Pow­er Stick, the small­est and fastest invert­er in the world, in which 8 chips from Infi­neon are cur­rent­ly incor­po­rat­ed. In a short award cer­e­mo­ny, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Julian Matthe­is was pre­sent­ed with the prize of the evening: a chal­lenge tro­phy in the shape of a rock­et, which had already been award­ed to the star­tups Dryad (2021), Breeze (2020) and Innat­era (2019) in pre­vi­ous years. In his short accep­tance speech, Matthe­is promised that he would not launch the rock­et into space – and if he did, then it would only use solar ener­gy gen­er­at­ed with their own prod­ucts. Solar­na­tive will hold the tro­phy for one year – then it will be passed on to a new up-and-com­ing com­pa­ny from the Infi­neon Co-Inno­va­tion Pro­gram at the next Start­up Night.

About Solarnative

Solar­na­tive is a start­up com­pa­ny in the pho­to­volta­ic indus­try based in Frank­furt a. M., Ger­many. With its Smart Ener­gy Home, the com­pa­ny aims to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the mar­ket: the mod­u­lar plug & play sys­tem ensures max­i­mum yield and safe­ty at the same costs, com­pared to stan­dard PV sys­tems. Found­ed in 2019 by Henk Old­enkamp and Julian Matthe­is, the com­pa­ny cur­rent­ly employs 12 peo­ple at two loca­tions. In Hofheim am Taunus, Ger­many, Solar­na­tive is now set­ting up their own pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty aimed to become a Smart Gigafac­to­ry with an annu­al capac­i­ty of 3M invert­ers with­in the next years.

About Infineon

Infi­neon Tech­nolo­gies AG is a world leader in semi­con­duc­tor solu­tions that make life eas­i­er, safer and green­er. Micro­elec­tron­ics from Infi­neon are the key to a bet­ter future. With around 50,280 employ­ees world­wide, Infi­neon gen­er­at­ed rev­enue of about €11.1 bil­lion in the 2021 fis­cal year (end­ing 30 Sep­tem­ber) and is one of the ten largest semi­con­duc­tor com­pa­nies worldwide.

Infi­neon is list­ed on the Frank­furt Stock Exchange (tick­er sym­bol: IFX) and in the USA on the over-the-counter mar­ket OTCQX Inter­na­tion­al Pre­mier (tick­er sym­bol: IFNNY).

Julian und Henk mit PowerStick in der Hand

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