SunnyBAG
| SunnyBAG GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 2012 |
| Seat |
Graz Austria
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| management | Stefan Ponsold ( CEO ) |
| Branch | solar power |
| Website | www.sunnybag.at |
The SunnyBAG GmbH is an Austrian company in the field of solar energy with headquarters in Graz and branches in Shenzhen (China) and in Sunnyvale (USA). SunnyBAG develops, produces and sells solar panels for mobile energy supply, which allow smartphones , tablets and other mobile companions to be charged with solar energy . The SunnyBAG product range consists primarily of solar backpacks, solar shoulder bags and solar protective bags for GoPro cameras, but also of freely usable flexible and rigid solar panels without a pocket.
history
SunnyBAG was founded in 2010 by Stefan Ponsold as a sole proprietorship . The first product was a solar bag, which was initially soldered and sewn by Stefan Ponsold himself. In 2011, SunnyBAG cooperated with aid organizations for the first time and won awards such as the Fast Forward Award, the Clean Tech Media Award (now GreenTec Award) and the Primus Award. In 2012 the reorganization to SunnyBAG GmbH followed. At the end of 2013, Stefan Ponsold, as managing director of SunnyBAG GmbH, had his first major TV appearance in the startup show "2 Minuten 2 Mio" from PULS4 , in which no investment was made. In the years that followed, there were several collaborations with aid organizations such as SOS Children's Villages , Doctors Without Borders , UNICEF and the WHO , which at the end of 2014 resulted in the AidEX Award. In 2015, SunnyBAG financed the production of a new product group for the first time via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com, which was launched in Austria at the time . The over this Kickstarter campaign funded solar charger PowerTAB was in the summer of 2016 in a slightly slimmed-down version at discount Hofer offered. In autumn 2016, he took part in the German founder show Die Höhle der Löwen on the TV channel VOX , in which Ralf Dümmel could not be won as an investor, but as a partner.
In 2017 a new development from SunnyBAG comes onto the market. These are all-in-one VR glasses that have raised more than € 85,000 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com. In addition, it became known in mid-2017 that the Kelag company was taking a 40 percent stake in the company as an investor, which it claims has been profitable since the end of 2015. Around 32,000 bags are already in circulation.
Awards
- Fast Forward Award 2011
- Clean Tech Media Award 2011
- Primus Award 2011
- TRIGOS Styria 2013
- Sustainable Future Award 2013
- AidEX Award 2014
- ISPO Award 2017
Web links
- SunnyBAG webshop
- EXCHIMP website
- A power plant in your pocket. ORF, “Living Consciously”, transcript for Radio Steiermark on September 15, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sunnybag: Solar chargers from Graz as an export hit , Futurezone, February 8, 2016 (accessed July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Stefan Ponsold: "I should have founded two years earlier" Die Presse, May 31, 2014 (accessed on August 1, 2017)
- ↑ SunnyBAG history: 2010-2011 (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ SunnyBAG history: 2012 (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Sunnybag: Solar chargers from Graz as an export hit , Futurezone, February 18, 2016, section "Supplying crisis regions" (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ No more power socket: PowerTAB charges with sunlight , Computerwelt, July 15, 2015 (accessed July 27, 2017)
- ↑ "Sunnybag" from Graz is working on a solar charger , Kurier, August 4, 2015 (accessed on August 1, 2017)
- ↑ SunnyBag PowerTab in the test: Top and a bit of a flop. Futurezone, June 8, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018
- ↑ Die Höhle der Löwen 2016: The "SunnyBAG" is not just a bag , VOX, October 11, 2016 (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Lions' Den: Deal with Sunnybag is broken , Kleine Zeitung, November 2, 2016 (accessed July 27, 2017)
- ↑ VR glasses from Graz compete with Google. ORF, Hitradio Ö3, May 6, 2017
- ↑ Exchimp: VR glasses from Austria are launched , Der Standard, May 3, 2017 (accessed on August 1, 2017)
- ↑ Mobile phone charger: Kelag joins "SunnyBAG". ORF Carinthia, July 26, 2017
- ↑ Sunnybag receives financial boost from Kelag. ORF Styria, June 30, 2017
- ↑ Fast Forward Award winner 2011 , Steirische Wirtschaftsförderung SFG (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung interview with Primus Award winner 2011 (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Winner Trigos Steiermark 2013 , Trigos (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Winner Sustainable Future Award 2013 (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ SunnyBAG wins AidEX Award 2014 (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ ISPO Award Winner 2017 ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ISPO (accessed on July 27, 2017)
