Solarbrush did meet with the Vice President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes.
Ridha Azaiz did present the latest Solarbrush robot to Mrs Kroes at the world's largest trade show, CeBIT, in Hanover.
He was part of a panel explaining the business model and challenges of today's start ups.

SOLARBRUSH is exhibiting at the world's largest Information Technology show, CeBIT Hannover in Hall 16, Booth D30_12.
The show runs 5th to 9th of March.

In addition, SOLARBRUSH is publishing a major press release. Download and get in touch. English and German version available.

Public Relations:

Jonas Kristen

E-mail   press@solarbrush.de
Phone   +49 30 25 76 205 21

SOLARBRUSH won the competitive start up competition "hy! Berlin" on yesterday.
An international top-class jury gave all votes in the hardware category to the robotic cleaning system for solar generators and its founder.




Earlier this week, SOLARBRUSH presented its latest development at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi
and is nominee for the green idea prize of 2013.

The system was very well received as it frees solar panels from sand and dust with the focus on arid regions
such as the "sunbelt countries". Testimonials shall drive the maturity phase, next.



Press:

"The Next Web"

For now though, Hy Berlin’s was one of the first, and SolarBrush, essentially a Roomba for solar panels was declared the winner.  This robot ‘walks’ and jumps across solar panels to clean them in order to make them more efficient. As the device’s founder put it, “a fleet of robots to fight global warming.” SolarBrush is already seeing strong demand in parts of the world such as South America and the Middle East.

"Berliner Morgenpost"

Der zweite Preis (Hardware-Kategorie) blieb in Berlin: Ingenieur Ridha Azais (aus der hub:raum-Talentschmiede Betahaus) kehrte gerade von einer Messe in Abu Dhabi zurück, um seinen Solarpanel-Roboter auf der "hy! Berlin" vorzustellen. Staub kann die Effizienz von Photovoltaikanlagen bis zu 35 Prozent reduzieren. Abhilfe schafft Solarbrush, ein Roboter, der Photovoltaikplatten reinigt. Das Hightechgerät aus Berlin kann Dachneigungen bis 25 Grad bewältigen.

SOLARBRUSH met the Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, Tim Murray. SOLARBRUSH talked about its research activities and market ambitions. The Governor was on a tour through Germany and explained how Massachusetts is home to technology driven industries and institutes, such as iRobot and the MIT.



On a further occasion, the founder of SOLARBRUSH got to meet the German Minister of Economics and Technology, Dr. Philipp Rösler. Ridha Azaiz explained the hassle and difficulties when starting up while attending university and after graduating. He referred to the countries well known "Exist" fund for which Ridha remains not eligible to apply for formal reasons.

SOLARBRUSH won the pitch for support and space in the coworking space "Betahaus" in Berlin.
The Jury, consisting of Start Up pioneers from Silicon Valley and  Google Product Managers selected SOLARBRUSH to win the
competitive award after pitching the business idea to an audience of 150 people.

Blog: "..I never expected to hear a crowd cheering like this for a solar panel cleaning solution."

SOLARBRUSH exhibits at "Woche der Umwelt" (environment week) at booth 173 in Park of Schloss Bellevue, the residence of the German Presidency. There he met with the former director of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer.

This month SOLARBRUSH is being featured in Germany's popular 'Hochschulanzeiger' magazine of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Solarbrush has been featured in Photovoltaik Magazin, January edition. The article gives an overview of different approaches towards the cleaning of solar modules.