Die Dekarbonisierung und der massive Einfluss von Artificial Intelligence sowie digitaler Technologien ganz generell transformieren den Energiesektor massiv – auch wenn das Tempo, mit dem das vonstatten geht, geringer ist als in anderen Industrien, ist das beherrschend.

Dr. Eveline Steinberger is a serial entrepreneur in climate-tech and energy transformation. Experienced in deep-tech trends like machine learning, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing and in cybersecurity, she serves as independent supervisory board member at Unicredit Bank Austria AG (Austria/Italy) and on the board of the Evergreen Privatstiftung (Austria/Canada), as well as on the advisory board of Sunvest Capital Partners (Israel/US) and Jerusalem Venture Partners (Israel/US).

In 2014, she founded The Blue Minds Company GmbH, a venture capital and consultancy company focusing on global energy transformation and digitization. Since then, she successfully invested at pre-seed/seed stage into various startups and scaleups like has.to.be GmbH (the leading electric vehicle billing and roaming SaaS provider, exit to Chargepoint Inc/NYSE: CHPT), FSight (energy market AI, exit to Tigo Energy/NASDAQ:

TYGO), Cylus Ltd. (rail cybersecurity), Circunomics (battery analytics and marketplace) and others. She acts as board observer at Israel-based climatetech hardware incubator NetZero Technology Ventures, which targets very early-stage climate-tech ventures through a fund backed amongst others by Total Energies, Eren, Delek and BGV.

Prior to her time as entrepreneur, Eveline spent 20 years in various C-level and senior management positions in the utility and infrastructure sector. Amongst others, she led Siemens AG’s energy segment business in Central & Eastern Europe and set up the enduser business segment for leading Austrian utility VERBUND AG.

Eveline Steinberger earned her PhD diploma at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz in economic science and graduated from INSEAD’s executive management course.