PHOTON’s 3rd PV Start-up Conference

It seems the solar start-up scene is recovering from the hard times of the financial crisis. In Q2/2010, solar companies raised $870 million in venture capital funding – that’s the third-best quarter ever for solar. But this impressive result must be viewed with caution: just three companies received more than half of this total, while early start-ups – especially if they work on capital-intensive manufacturing processes – still often face challenges in finding the right investors.

PHOTON’s 3rd PV Start-up Conference builds on the success of our previous two events, which featured a number of start-ups that have since accomplished or are in the last stages of moving from R&D and pilot stages to mass production. While the 2007 event included power-optimizer company SolarEdge, cell producers Suniva and CaliSolar, and equipment maker SiGen, last year’s conference showed the first public presentations of CIS module maker AQT and UK-based microinverter company Enecsys.

This conference will provide:

• An overview on venture-capital flow, as well as technological challenges
• Company presentations from promising non-public, early-stage PV start-ups in the fields of silicon technologies, thin films, concentrators and system technology
• Case studies on start-up financing from investors’ perspectives
• A panel discussion

PHOTON's 3rd PV Start-up Conference is a forum for all decision makers – from management and leading scientists to investors and big system operators – interested in the latest updates on PV start-up activities.

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