Co-founder
Evoluwind S.L.
- EVOLUWIND SL (NBW) was founded in Navarre (Spain) in Jan 2014 for the design & development of a new generation of highly efficient wind power generators. The entrepreneurial team has a very long experience in technology development in general, particularly wind technology:
- Odilon Camargo (Lages, Brazil, 1953). Aeronautical Engineer, he started his career performing the aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotor blades of the first commercial wind turbines in the German market. Co-founder of Camargo Shubert Wind Engineering, his company has produced the wind atlases of Brazil and most of its regional states, as well as providing consultancy for more than 50% of the wind farm projects in Brazil.
- Hely Ricardo Savio (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1953). Aeronautical Engineer (PhD), he has worked for the main aircraft manufacturers in Brazil (Embraer), France (Airbus) and Spain (Airbus, GDA). He was Blades Engineering Manager in Gamesa. Apart from that, Ricardo Savio founded several engineering companies. One of them, JADE Systems, was bought by Tecsis, the main blade manufacturer in Brazil.
Co-founder
Innovarain S.L.U.
Eneko Sanz (Pamplona, Spain, 1976). Industrial Engineer, he has worked in the wind industry since 1999 in Gamesa. Along the past 22 years Eneko has leaded several projects for blades and tools development. He was the Project Manager of Innoblade (modular blade technology of Gamesa), which required a lot of innovations and 18 patents were granted. He is the inventor of more than 40 patents about wind energy.
Co-founder
Iñaol S.L.U
Iñaki Alti (Bilbao, Spain, 1963). Aeronautical Engineer, he is an expert in Industrial Property and has worked in both patents agencies and private industries, having a deep expertise in both sides needs and requirements. During his period in Gamesa, he created an Intellectual Property department and managed a new IP portfolio of more than 400 patents.
Financial Investor
Fortescue future industries
Established in 2003, Fortescue is a proud West Australian company that has become a global business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.
As one of the world’s lowest cost iron ore producers, Fortescue is now shipping at an annual rate of over 190 million tonnes with more than 1.9 billion tonnes of iron ore delivered to our customers since 2008. Through our renewable energy projects and mining technology developments, we are rapidly diversifying our business to become an integrated, global green energy and metals company.
Key to this transition is our industry leading target to achieve real zero for Scope 1 and 2 terrestrial emissions across our iron ore operations by 2030 and net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2040. For our size and scale, there is no other heavy industry company in the world that is taking the action we are to eliminate emissions.
Financial Investor
Barinaga y Alberdi S.A.
Barinaga y Alberdi, SA is a family-run industrial Company founded in 1918, located in Basque-Country and dedicated to copper alloy casting and manufacturing of building construction products. After three generations, Barinaga y Alberdi SA keeps its industrial and commercial activities alive.
In the year 2015, the Company expanded into new ventures, backed up by family and company funds. Nowadays it has a financial activity with a total investment of 2.5 million euro.
Financial Investor
SODENA S.L.
Sodena is the instrument of financial support of the Government of Navarra for attracting and developing business projects with added value for the Autonomous Community, also collaborating in its Smart Specialization Strategy.
Sodena operates as a limited company, with the only shareholder being CPEN (Corporación Pública Empresarial de Navarra), subsidiary of the Government of Navarra.
It works by taking an active role in the different phases of business projects that contribute to the balanced and sustainable development of Navarra.
Financial Investor
Basarro 2005 S.L.
Basarro is an investment company of Navarre capital. Established in 2005 by the Arguiñano family in order to diversify investments, it took force starting in 2015 after the exit of the shareholding of the family business Papeles El Carmen. It seeks stability, permanence in the capital and to encourage the development of local companies.
With assets in excess of €22m, Basarro has a diversified investment portfolio ranging from real estate assets to holdings in industrial companies as well as infrastructure funds.
In the year 2015, the Company expanded into new ventures, backed up by family and company funds. Nowadays it has a financial activity with a total investment of 2.5 million euro.Financial Investor
KIC InnoEnergy LTE
EIT InnoEnergy is the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship in sustainable energy in Europe. It has developed three lines of business: educational programs, collaborative innovation projects and help for startups.
Founded in 2010, it offers support and investment in innovation at every stage of the journey for young companies. Having the support of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), it also has 22 shareholders and works with more than 400 associates and project partners across Europe in the fields of education, innovation and business.
In Iberia, EIT InnoEnergy has invested during its first 9 years of life more than 70 million euros in developing an innovation ecosystem and accelerating innovative companies and projects related to the energy transition. It is currently one of the most important ecosystems in the sector and has more than 50 startups and corporate partners.
