Urban Bavcar

Deep Tech Alliance Panel: Corporate-Start-up Collaboration in Deep Tech: Open Innovation and Venture Clienting Across Europe

• Urban BavcarELESUrban BavcarCommercial Project Specialist, ELESUrban is a Commercial Project Specialist in the Strategic Innovation Division at ELES, Slovenia’s combined transmission and distribution system operator. ELES manages more than 3,000 km of high-voltage infrastructure. He is one of the driving forces behind ELES’s corporate venture capital initiative, building the company’s path to becoming an active strategic investor in Europe’s energy-transition technology ecosystem. He also manages the company’s open-innovation process with startups, which takes early-stage technologies from scouting to pilot deployment on the grid. Urban leads ELES’s participation in EU Horizon projects including SUNRISE and HEDGE-IoT. He holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business and is an alumnus of UC Berkeley’s VC program.

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