A2A Life Ventures Webinar Notes - In Case You Missed It!
Your opportunity to get the answers direct from the experts, direct to your Solver Community!
In recent NPS surveys, we had received requests for write-ups of our Challenge webinars for those who can’t make it on the day or who cannot watch the recording due to time constraints. Here’s the third in this series, relating to yesterday’s Challenge Space: #Change the world with A2A! Call for Ventures: Clean Tech Solutions.
As a reminder, the video recording and transcript are available on the event page above, but here are the notes I took during our webinar!
To @Branko’s question How critical for estimation and selection of submitted projects is willingness of submitter to participate in further development of submittals with A2A?, Giacomo from A2A responded that participation in the enrichment of the solution is required, but there is no hard requirement for participation in incubation, acceleration, and scale phases.
To @Daniel Cohen’s question Please could you clarify what happens if our application is successful?, Giacomo answered: the successful applicants after evaluation and the Investor Day competition could work with A2A Venture Architects to submit their idea benchmark to the board of A2A and further conversations would occur about the next steps for transferred IP.
To @Pavel Levin’s question is solar system proposal/patent of interest for A2A?, Giacomo replied simply that yes they would be!
To @ryan2-5_4’s question about complexity of solutions and how far A2A would go for partnerships, Giacomo said that while the A2A Life Ventures CVB program is relatively new, they will not exclude software.
To @Stan Tomlinson’s question What level of readiness and development risk are acceptable?, Giacomo responded: A2A is interested in anything that aligns to their business units or areas of innovation exploration, but ideas that would take a long, long time to come to fruition may be of less interest to evaluators.
To @Vittorio Di Mauro’s question about their solution to increase security for urban cycling using A2A and IoT to deter bike theft, Giacomo said: “yes, e-mobility and leveraging A2A’s infrastructure could be interesting, you should definitely apply.”
To @Tahsin Adnan’s question about volcanic heat and power generation for district heating, Giacomo agreed saying that district heating is a core business for the Life company, and he’s intrigued to see any applications for geothermal energy.
To @Manisha Deshpande’s question about interest in joining the ventures being a must, Giacomo clarified that the incubation, acceleration, and scale phases of the venture are optional both for the Solver (interest and applicability) and for the Seeker (dependent on eligibility criteria), but that the enrichment part of the Challenge is a must.
To @techrex’s question before the day about the Land Art Generator Initiative, Giacomo said he would look into it should it arrive into the Challenge and thanks for letting him now.
To @ryan2-5_4’ s question before the day about thermal energy storage, Giacomo responded that this is one of their verticals of interest and encouraged you to apply.
Hopefully this was a helpful round-up and as mentioned on the day, remember to sign up and apply to the Challenge in order to be considered.
Thanks again to our guests from A2A and good luck to all Solvers participating in the Challenge! As a reminder, it closes on the 13th May at 23:59 US Eastern Time, and this Challenge has various awards up to $50,000 depending on the type of solution submitted! to be shared amongst finalists.