Scale-Up Finance for Energy & DeepTech

Scale-Up Finance for Energy & DeepTech 

• Marta Czekaj, Private Credit Investments, DWS Group

• Felix Ries, Vice President – Growth Capital & Solutions, BNP Paribas

• Niklas von Kuczkowski, Senior Director, LIQUIDITY

• Dr. Tobias Lechtenfeld, Executive Director, Tech for Net Zero

moderated by Kelsey Emms, Founder, MoxonPeak

This panel explores how energy and deep tech startups can unlock exponential scale by strategically leveraging the full capital stack. As breakthrough technologies move from pilot to industrial deployment, scale-up finance becomes the critical bottleneck — requiring coordinated equity, scale-up debt, guarantees, and institutional capital to drive rapid growth while aggressively reducing unit costs. The discussion will unpack how different forms of capital align across various scale-up stages. Panelists will examine how structured financing, risk-sharing mechanisms, and long-term institutional backing can accelerate commercialization, crowd in private investment, and enable startups to scale infrastructure-heavy technologies quickly and at lower cost.