The Bau Night 2026
The Bau Ventures and Urban Impact invite you to an intimate salon evening showcasing a new way of investing with purpose.
Together with our partner GRAFT, The Bau Night brings together portfolio founders, investors, partners, and friends from across the urban, energy and real estate industries ecosystem for a summer evening of inspiration and exchange.
What awaits you:
🎤 Moderation by Jonas Schorr, Founder & CEO, Urban Impact
🎤 Impulse: Hampus Jakobsson, General Partner at Pale blue dot
Hampus Jakobsson is a software engineer turned founder, turned angel investor, turned VC. Now General Partner at Pale blue dot, a seed-stage climate tech VC that backs visionary founders, building future-shaping businesses.
🎤 Keynote: The New Kid on The Block
Daniel Hinz, Managing Director at The Bau Ventures & Sascha Hempel, Partner for International Business at Drees & Sommer
🎤 Keynote: The Future of Cities
Thomas Willemeit, Founding Partner & CEO, GRAFT
Thomas Willemeit is a member of the Zukunftsinstitut expert team and a frequent keynote speaker (BMW Future Forum, SAP Design Talks, MIPIM). Thomas is involved in Berlin's Expo 2035 and the future of the iconic ICC Berlin. His talk will explore where technology meets the built environment.
🥂 Catering & networking with great minds
Hosts
The Bau Ventures
The Bau Ventures is an early stage VC and venture studio for urban tech. It backs early-stage startups transforming the built environment with construction technology, climate innovation, and urban infrastructure solutions. With Drees & Sommer as a strategic investor, startups gain instant market access and deep domain expertise.
Urban Impact
Urban Impact operates at the intersection of urban tech startups, investors, and public and private city stakeholders, Urban Impact connects, advises, and educates around the impact of new technologies in cities, building novel alliances that drive real-world change.
Partner
GRAFT
Our space hosts, GRAFT, are an internationally acclaimed architecture and urban design studio established in 1998 in Los Angeles, now headquartered in Berlin with around 100 architects and designers worldwide. GRAFT works at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, mobility, and social innovation. The studio's portfolio includes landmark projects like the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Volocopter VoloPort vertiport design, and E.ON's ultra-fast charging infrastructure.
This is an exclusive event. Register early to secure your spot.