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Elevate Your Visibility. Impact. Capital.

Strategic Communication, PR and Go-to-Market Advisory for Tech Companies & VCs reshaping industries that will define the next decade.

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Organisations Advised
Companies & VCs we've helped define their next chapter
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Years Experience
Decades of hands-on expertise across deeptech, energy, and industrial sectors
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Client Retention
Our clients stay because we deliver results that matter
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Capital Unlocked
Major funding rounds supported and mobilised for our clients

How we do it

No endless decks. No deliberation. We execute.

We bring strategy that's built on real industry experience, not pattern-matching and we stay long enough to make it land. From understanding your technology to integrating the work operationally inside your team.

You Share the Challenge
You don't have enough leads or not cutting through the noise? Tell us your goal — or the wall you've hit. We've usually been there before.
We Show the Path
A clear, sector-specific roadmap built on two decades of seeing what works in energy, climate, deeptech and industrial markets — not on a generic framework.
We Execute
We run the work with your team or independently. We don't hand you a slide deck and disappear. We deliver.

From Complexity to Conviction

We get your technology, the regulatory and your market as well as the people who amplify it and back it.

What we do

  • Create Stories
    We turn complex solution & tech into stories investors, regulators, the press and your customer actually remember.
  • Build Trust
    We bring 20+ years of industry relationships that turn into investor conviction, customer commitment and stakeholder alignment. The kind of trust that survives a difficult quarter and opens doors.
  • Drive Conviction
    We move audiences from interest to action — turning doubt into capital, attention into partnerships, and bystanders into believers.
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Executive Positioning·
Fundraising Strategy·
Investor Relations·
Pitch & Deck Strategy·
LP Introductions·
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Mentoring·
Go-to-Market·
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Placements and Engagements

Seen. Heard. Placed.

We place our clients in the media that drive the conversation and at the events that matter.

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Doreen Rietentiet · Keynote Speaker
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Impact Loop article preview
Fika with Impact Strategist Doreen Rietentiet: Focus Less on How Much CO₂ You Save
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“What Skill Sets Are Needed to Speed Up the Energy & Climate Transition”
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REUTERS
Climate-focused VC firm Junction Growth Investors raises €115 mln
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Urban Innovation Forum panel, Is Berlin Bad at Scaling
Urban Innovation Forum · Main Stage
“Is Berlin Bad at Scaling, and Why That Might Be Its Strength”
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Handelsblatt article preview
Ecoworks-Gründer: „Robotik hat das Potenzial, Bauen deutlich günstiger zu machen“
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British Embassy Berlin, Securing the Future panel
British Embassy Berlin · Climate-KIC
“Securing the Future: Shifting Narratives to Fund Diversity & Climate Innovation”
Doreen Rietentiet · Moderator
Capital article preview
Wie Batteriespeicher für Supermärkte die Stromkosten senken
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Norrsken Impact Week, How to Cut Through the Noise panel
Norrsken Impact Week
“How to Cut Through the Noise with Your Impact Startup”
Doreen Rietentiet · Moderator
Doreen Rietentiet speaker at Hydroverse
Hydroverse
Doreen Rietentiet, Speaker
Business Insider / Gründerszene article about Invertix
Business Insider / Gründerszene
Climate-Tech-Startup Invertix sammelt 1,7 Millionen Euro ein
KI-Agenten für die Energiebranche – 1,7 Mio. Euro Pre-Seed
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Wall Street Journal article preview
Volkswagen Pivots to North America as Europe Loses Its Shine
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Article preview
Vulcan Energy: Fixing EV Batteries’ Dirty Secret
Read →
TUM Sustainability Day 2026, Resilient Futures panel
TUM Sustainability Day 2026
“Resilient Futures” Panel, Doreen Rietentiet
TUM München
Sifted article preview
When Not to Take VC Advice
Read →
Impact Loop article preview
One Female VC Partner Is Optics, Two Change the Conversation
Read →
Doreen Rietentiet speaker card, Urban Innovation Forum
Urban Innovation Forum
Doreen Rietentiet, Speaker
CIC Berlin · 19 March 2026
Financial Times article preview
Financial Times
Vulcan increases lithium targets as demand grows from carmakers
Read →
Sifted article preview, TerraOne raises €150 million from Aviva Investors
TerraOne Raises €150 Million Financing from Aviva Investors
Read →
Handelsblatt article preview
Energie-Start-up Voltfang bekommt Finanzpartner für Batteriespeicher
Lesen →
Norrsken Impact Week 2024 Barcelona
Norrsken Impact/Week 2024
Impact Communication that Sparks Media & Investor Interest
Norrsken House Barcelona
Fast Company article preview
The Surprising Way This Potato Chip Factory Slashed Its Emissions
Read →
Impact Loop article preview
Exclusive: Vireo Ventures Backs Einklang as Europe’s Battery Storage Sector Booms
Read →
Valeria Do speaker card, Urban Innovation Forum
Urban Innovation Forum
Valeria Do, Speaker
CIC Berlin · 19 March 2026
Frankfurter Allgemeine article preview
Start-up aus Dresden beginnt mit Produktion von Solarmodulen
Lesen →
StartupValley article preview
startupvalley
Re-Fresh Global: Interview über innovatives Textilrecycling
Lesen →
brand eins article preview
brand eins
1komma5° – Brodelnde Geister gesucht
Lesen →
Süddeutsche Zeitung article preview
Bau von Batteriepark bei Neuruppin 2026 geplant
Lesen →
Doreen Rietentiet keynote at Hydroverse Convention Essen
Hydroverse Convention Essen
Keynote & Panel Appearance
Doreen Rietentiet · Keynote Speaker
WirtschaftsWoche article preview
Ex-Mitarbeiter von Enpal ziehen Start-up für Haussanierung hoch
Lesen →
Impact Loop article preview
Fika with Impact Strategist Doreen Rietentiet: Focus Less on How Much CO₂ You Save
Read →
herCAREER Expo Munich, Energy & Climate Transition panel
herCAREER Expo · Womxn for Climate Tech & Innovation
“What Skill Sets Are Needed to Speed Up the Energy & Climate Transition”
MOC München
Reuters article preview
REUTERS
Climate-focused VC firm Junction Growth Investors raises €115 mln
Read →
Urban Innovation Forum panel, Is Berlin Bad at Scaling
Urban Innovation Forum · Main Stage
“Is Berlin Bad at Scaling, and Why That Might Be Its Strength”
CIC Berlin · 19 March 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · Doreen Rietentiet · Moderator
Handelsblatt article preview
Ecoworks-Gründer: „Robotik hat das Potenzial, Bauen deutlich günstiger zu machen“
Lesen →
British Embassy Berlin, Securing the Future panel
British Embassy Berlin · Climate-KIC
“Securing the Future: Shifting Narratives to Fund Diversity & Climate Innovation”
Doreen Rietentiet · Moderator
Capital article preview
Wie Batteriespeicher für Supermärkte die Stromkosten senken
Lesen →
Norrsken Impact Week, How to Cut Through the Noise panel
Norrsken Impact Week
“How to Cut Through the Noise with Your Impact Startup”
Doreen Rietentiet · Moderator
Doreen Rietentiet speaker at Hydroverse
Hydroverse
Doreen Rietentiet, Speaker
Business Insider / Gründerszene article about Invertix
Business Insider / Gründerszene
Climate-Tech-Startup Invertix sammelt 1,7 Millionen Euro ein
KI-Agenten für die Energiebranche – 1,7 Mio. Euro Pre-Seed
Lesen →
Wall Street Journal article preview
Volkswagen Pivots to North America as Europe Loses Its Shine
Read →
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Testimonials

What Our Clients Say

In my 20+ years as an entrepreneur and investor, I've learned that technology alone doesn't win markets, positioning, timing, and stakeholder alignment do. Elevate2Impact gets this intuitively. What sets them apart is rare: they combine deep industry insights with strategic communications expertise and genuine execution capabilities. They help companies anticipate market shifts, not just respond to them.

Emanuel Heisenberg
CEO & Founder, ecoworks

Energy tech founders face a unique challenge: you need to be visionary and credible, bold and precise, at the same time. elevate2impact helped us strike that balance. They built narratives and stories that land with impact investors, industry partners, and policymakers, without losing what made it ours. They don’t just communicate your story, they become part of it.

David Oudsandji
CEO & Founder, Voltfang

As an energy investor, you need partners who understand not just what you’re building, but the full complexity of the ecosystem around it. elevate2impact helped us sharpen it. The result is a positioning that genuinely resonated with the right people and a social media presence that delivers the right attention, from the right people, at the right time.

Jan Lozek
CEO, Future Energy Ventures

Who we are

The People

Elevate2Impact is a team of communications and technology experts spanning Europe, the USA, and APAC. Founded and led by Doreen, Amelie, Valeria, and Kayla, who built their partnership over many years before launching E2I. The firm brings more than 20 years of experience working alongside founders, investors, and institutions across energy, infrastructure, real estate, space tech, and agri tech.

We are deeply rooted in these ecosystems. What sets us apart is the rare combination of range and depth: strategic communications, genuine technical fluency, and real relationships at the highest levels of every sector we serve. We don't just know how to tell a story, we understand how decisions actually get made in the rooms that matter: in the press, in government, inside investment committees, and within the companies building what comes next.

Doreen Rietentiet
Doreen Rietentiet
CEO & Executive Sparring Partner
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Valeria Do
Valeria Do
VC & C-Level Communication
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Amelie Grassl
Amelie Grassl
Start- & Scale-Up PR and Communication
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Kayla Ebert
Kayla Ebert
Corporate Communication & Regulatory
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Leveraging Our Ecosystem

We don't just advise the ecosystem, we're an active part of it.

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Want to know more?

We're experts, not generalists. We've worked with over 300 companies across energy, climate and deeptech, and we actually understand your technology, your regulatory environment and your market. We're not just advisors to the ecosystem — we build it and are deeply embedded within it. Classical PR agencies pitch and place — we operate. With 20+ years in go-to-market, fundraising and communications, we build the narrative, run it, and stay until it lands. No deck-and-disappear.
We help you cut through the noise — which has only gotten louder in the age of AI — and we're here to help you grow, fundraise and go to market. We know what message lands with the investor or media, and when the right time is. We either run inside your team or independently. Across the arc: PR and media relations, thought leadership and executive positioning; VC and investor relations, fundraising, pitch and deck strategy, LP introductions; regulatory mapping and advice; and go-to-market and strategy consulting.
Founders, funds and institutions reshaping industries — deeptech, energy, climate, industrial, infrastructure, space, aviation, mobility, life sciences, material tech and circular economy — across Europe, the US and APAC.
Initially, you share the challenge or goal, and we develop a clear, sector-specific path to achieve it. Then we execute — either taking over entire projects or working alongside your team. In weekly jour fixes we set priorities and decide on strategic matters together.
By outcomes that move the business: capital raised, partnerships closed, regulatory and stakeholder alignment, and credible visibility with the right audiences at the right moment.

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Elevate Your Impact

Whether you’re raising, scaling, entering new markets or repositioning for the next chapter — we help you cut through the noise with clarity, credibility and a network that delivers. Built on two decades of doing the work, with the founders, funds and institutions shaping tomorrow’s industries.

Ali Oudsandji

New business & partnerships

Ali Oudsandji

Direct line for new business, client relationships and strategic engagements.

ali@elevate2impact.com
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