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The long play: helping 倍奇能源 open a new market
How years of partnership—and a climate innovation challenge—helped 倍奇能源 bring its waste-to-energy technology to Indonesia.
How years of partnership—and a climate innovation challenge—helped 倍奇能源 bring its waste-to-energy technology to Indonesia.
多年坚持，迎来新的开端
A promising technology becomes a business through the people who develop it, the customers willing to try it and the partners who help it reach the next market. 倍奇能源’s journey brings all three together.
For 遨问创投, that journey began well before an investment. Patrick Berbon met co-founder Stéphane Vernède through an alumni connection in France, then reconnected with him and co-founder Zhuoya Li in China in 2013. Over the following years, Patrick stayed close to their progress, including a visit to the Haimen pilot plant in 2016. 遨问创投 invested in 2018.
As Patrick described in his original account, 倍奇能源’s founders had already made an important decision: moving away from a costly centralized model toward compact systems that treat organic waste where it is produced. That change brought their technology closer to a customer’s daily operations, turning waste into a source of useful energy.
将技术与机遇相连接
In 2024, 遨问创投’s relationship with Temasek Foundation opened another door. 遨问创投 became an outreach partner for the Climate Impact Innovations Challenge (CIIC), jointly organised by East Ventures and Temasek Foundation, and helped connect 倍奇能源 with the opportunity to participate.
The challenge offered a relevant setting for 倍奇能源’s capabilities: practical climate solutions that could be piloted in Indonesia. 倍奇能源 entered and earned a place among nine finalists selected from more than 500 applications spanning 50 countries.
一个开启合作的奖项
At the grand finale on 6 September 2024, Sinar Mas Agribusiness & Food awarded 倍奇能源 a US$50,000 cash prize. It was recognition from a potential industrial partner with a substantial need for the technology: converting palm oil mill waste into renewable energy.
倍奇能源 described how the funding would help adapt its technology to palm oil mill waste and support work with Sinar Mas on implementation. The award became a starting point for a pilot collaboration, bringing 倍奇能源’s engineering expertise into a new industrial application and a new geography.
遨问创投’s outreach partnership helps connect 倍奇能源 with CIIC 2024.
入围决赛并获得5万美元金光集团奖金。
一个聚焦棕榈油厂废弃物可再生能源的试点项目。
把工作带到工厂现场
The next stage took the relationship beyond the competition. 倍奇能源 and its partners visited Indonesian facilities and worked on the practical requirements of treating palm oil mill waste. The task was to demonstrate how the technology could fit existing operations and create a pathway toward broader deployment.
The opportunity is compelling. Agricultural processing creates organic waste at scale; 倍奇能源’s technology offers a way to recover energy from that material. Success in this setting could give industrial customers a useful renewable fuel while opening a significant new market for the company.
积极参与的投资人的角色
遨问创投’s contribution extended across the journey: understanding the science, maintaining a relationship with the founders, investing as the technology and market developed, and helping 倍奇能源 access an international platform that led to industrial engagement.
The achievements belong to the 倍奇能源 team and its partners. 遨问创投’s role was to help create the conditions in which their work could reach the right audience—and to remain involved as a new connection developed into a commercial opportunity.
That continuity is the long play Patrick wrote about. Years of technical progress and relationship building can meet a decisive opening: a new customer, a relevant challenge, a partner willing to try a different approach. For 倍奇能源, CIIC and Sinar Mas became an important next chapter.
Patrick 讲述早期历程
Patrick’s original essay explores the founding idea, the years before 遨问创投’s investment and the importance of timing in hard tech. It provides the earlier chapter of the relationship that underpins this story.
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