Enfucell’s fund raising presentation to international investors was awarded as the best presentation in the LOPE-C Investor Forum in Frankfurt, Germany on June 1, 2010.

The judging panel consisted of investment and technology professionals and was chaired by Dr. David Fyfe, advisor of Sumitomo Chemicals and former CEO of Cambridge Display Technology. The other members were Dr. Alexei Andreev, managing director and executive vice president of Harris & Harris Group Inc., USA; Andrew Hannah, president and CEO of Plextronics Inc., USA; Wolfgang Mildner, chairman of LOPE-C Advisory Board and managing director of PolyIC, Germany; Dr. Thomas Skordas, European Commission, Belgium; and David Yormesor, European Investment Fund, Luxembourg.

According to the panel, the presentation given by Risto Huvila, COO of Enfucell, was strong in all the criteria: quality of presentation; closeness to commercialization; quality of business plan; technology quality; and quality of market.

Earlier, Enfucell’s SoftBattery technology has been recognized as The Technology Pioneer 2007 by World Economic Forum, The Red Herring 100 Europe in 2007 and The Guardian European Cleantech100 in 2008. In addition, Dr. Xia-Chang Zhang, CTO of Enfucell, was appointed as one of ten most influential Chinese in the world in 2007, and nominated as an honorary professor of the East China University of Science and Technology.

At the moment, Enfucell is working on raising €1 million to €2 million for further commercialization of SoftBattery.