Katharina Porenta

Katharina Porenta is co-founder and Managing Director of colibrie, an Austrian energy technology company making decentralised energy sharing accessible to households, businesses and energy providers. More than 100 energy communities already run on its platform. Katharina leads the development of business models for colibrie’s white-label offering and its expansion into peer-to-peer energy trading. Before founding colibrie, she worked in venture capital fundraising at Speedinvest and gained experience in finance and consulting across London, Brussels and Frankfurt. She holds degrees in finance from Frankfurt School and in Environment, Politics and Society from University College London. At Enlit, she will show how partners can offer energy sharing under their own brand, using the infrastructure colibrie already operates.