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🎉 Celebrating a Successful NECEC Navigate Investor Corporate Customer Connect in NYC! 🎉 On Tuesday, NECEC Navigate's flagship event brought together investors, late-stage startups, and partner organizations to network and build new business relationships. The dynamic event was hosted by Grégoire Burdeau and Laura Romine at BNP Paribas, kicking off with networking for investors and partners, followed by a roundtable discussion, and curated one-on-one meetings between startups and investors. Key Highlights: 💡 Tabrez Haider and Soumya Guha from BNP Paribas led an informative roundtable, including an introduction on how banks support scaling the energy transition by Ravina Advani, Head of the Low Carbon Transition Group Americas. 💡 Attendees discussed the technological breakthroughs, transformation of long-established practices, and massive levels of investment required to achieve economy-wide decarbonization by mid-century. 💡 NECEC Navigate curated one-on-one meetings between 21 investors and 18 startups, resulting in great discussions, productive meetings, and numerous follow-up conversations. A huge thank you to our wonderful hosts BNP Paribas, our dedicated event sponsor NYSERDA, and our great program sponsors Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Clean Energy Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, CEV, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, EIT InnoEnergy, Sunstein LLP, and Mintz. Congratulations to all of the innovative startups who participated– and were selected out of 160 applicants– Spottitt, Hub Controls Global Inc., Sylvatex (SVX), Infinite Cooling, Transaera, Inc., Lamarr.AI, C-Motive Technologies, Invert Inc., Stepwise Electric Inc., Dynami Battery Corp, Ardent Process Technology, Reframe Systems, Scoobic, Natrion Inc., Treau, Inc. DBA Gradient, Zinc8 Energy Solutions USA, Graphenix Development Inc., and Glass Dyenamics. Working with partners across the US, Canada, and Europe, nearly 400 companies have participated in ICCC events, resulting in over 2,600 connections. Thank you to everyone who made this event possible, including the NECEC team– Alistair Pim, Magdalena Wilk, Juliana Gannon, and Georgia Connolly– and to all participants for their invaluable contributions! #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #Innovation #Networking #Investment #StartupSupport #Decarbonization #NavigatePlatform #BNPParibas