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Last week, we welcomed the VERBUND X Ventures portfolio companies to Vienna for our annual Portfolio Day: a key milestone that brings our founders together to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and unlock new opportunities for collaboration. 🤝 It was great to have so many of them represented, including: NECTURE, eFriends Energy, EOLOGIX-PING, Reduxi - AI Electricity Control, Ogre AI, SPiNE Energy, Easelink, Qurrent, zerothird — as well as our fund partners Vireo Ventures and Noctua Science Ventures. This year was particularly special: by co-locating the event with VERBUND’s Innovation Day, we created a unique platform connecting ~170 internal VERBUND innovators, decision-makers, and founders under one roof. The result? Deeper dialogue, stronger partnerships, and new pathways for co-innovation. 💡 The Portfolio Day featured: ✅ Inspiring knowledge sharing sessions with experts and industry leaders such as Kilian Kaminski, 🌱🤝🌍 Nicolas Sauvage or Marco Vitula ✅ Portfolio-only exchange formats hosted by Hannah Wundsam and Marina Schwenzner ✅ Deep dives with VERBUND business units to explore real collaboration opportunities Some key takeaways: 🔹Growth and profitability need to go hand-in-hand 🔹Hire curious and hungry people, and take care of them 🔹Speed leads to conversion 🔹Team, clients, suppliers, investors: you rely on them, therefore build meaningful relationships 🔹Always aim for win-win situations in your startup-investor relationships A big thank you to all founders, speakers, and colleagues who made this event such a success. We’re excited to continue accelerating the future of energy together. ⚡#verbundx