Corporate & Strategic Partnerships in Cleantech
Building the right strategic partnerships can be a powerful catalyst for growth. Join Launch NY's Emerging Cleantech Opportunity (ECO) Incubator for a practical session designed to help cleantech founders understand how to identify, engage, and secure partnerships that support commercialization and scale.
During this workshop, we'll explore what corporate and strategic partners look for in emerging companies, how to refine your value proposition to attract the right opportunities, key diligence and risk considerations, and ways to align partnership strategies with long-term business goals.
Featured Speakers:
Jon DeWald, Founder & CEO, HelixIntel
Paul Burgon, Partner, KittyHawk
Paul Burgon is a Partner at KittyHawk Frontier, specializing in energy and infrastructure technologies. Paul has led nearly 100 M&A and corporate venture capital investments and exits worth over $3 billion. Paul co-created the Danaher acquisition and corporate venture system, which has been recognized as one of the most successful in the U.S. As a venture capital investor in the energy, infrastructure, critical materials and related industries, Paul focuses on investing in highly disruptive early-stage technologies and startups and creating strategic exits for these investments. Paul works with over 150 global corporate venture capital groups in these industries to reduce investment risk and accelerate the commercial development of his portfolio companies.
Paul is a regular speaker at worldwide venues on energy and infrastructure technologies and market trends, including various engagements at Davos, Switzerland as part of the World Economic Forum events, Bloomberg events, panels with US Senators, and related events.
Moderated by Kyle Blumin, Launch NY Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Kyle Blumin is a successful entrepreneur with an established record of success. Three exits to both private equity and Fortune 50, experiences in turnarounds, early-stage start-ups and M&A have provided Kyle a unique skill set for working with early-stage founders. Since his last exit, Kyle has been working with founders to scale their businesses and realize their own success and dreams.
Whether you're preparing for your first strategic partnership or looking to strengthen existing relationships, this session will provide actionable insights to help accelerate your company's growth.
This program is supported by NYSERDA.