BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures

BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures is a Munich based venture capital firm looking for early stage investment opportunities in the energy market all over Europe and Israel. They focus on scalable business models in the areas of digital energy solutions, storage and e-mobility. They believe the key to success is ensuring great chemistry and collaboration between the founders, management team and investors. As the venture capital unit of the BayWa r.e. Holding, they combine corporate stability and a deep understanding of the energy market with the entrepreneurial experience and mindset within their dedicated team.

Elizabeth Intsiful

Senior Investment Manager

Iris Jensen

Senior Associate

Raamu Moneyam

Senior Associate

Greg Zavorotniy

Investment Management Representative

7 past transactions

Pexapark

Series B in 2022
Pexapark provides an energy investment platform that specializes in software and advisory services for post-subsidy renewable energy sales and risk management. The company provides an operating system to facilitate the entire energy trading and sales workflow from price discovery to analytics, execution and monitoring, covering solar and on- and offshore wind in 18 countries. Its platform also helps renewable investors to assist them in selling their energy and address clients transact PPAs and managing energy sales. Additionally, it helps clients to structure power sales, complete power purchase agreement transactions, and monitor their energy risks. Pexapark was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland.

Roofit.solar

Series A in 2021
Roofit.solar designs, manufactures and builds 2-in-1 building-integrated solar roofs. The unique, electricity-producing solar roof modules combine high-tech solar technology with traditional Nordic steel roofing techniques and materials. The solar roofs by Roofit.solar are the best option for house owners building a new house or renovating a roof. The installation time is faster, and the CO2 footprint is lower than for regular rooftop PV panels. Aimed at premium customers who value the overall design of their house, the high-end solar roofs offer a beautiful design solution for a competitive price. The sleek black solar modules are seamlessly integrated with the architecture of the building, lightweight, long-lasting, easy to care for, and also suitable for façades.

zolar

Series B in 2020
With the zolar online configurator, homeowners can customise the components of their PV system to suit their individual requirements and receive personal assistance from one of our solar energy experts at the same time. zolar’s extensive network of local partner companies takes care of the installation on site. The Berlin-based start-up employs around 200 employees across Germany and pursues the vision of installing a PV system on every roof in the world in order to make private households more independent from the mains grid. The dovetailing of energy generation, electricity storage and mobility allows customers to design electrified and smart households. As a next green energy company, zolar enables its customers to become energy providers for their own four walls, neutralise their carbon footprint and, in turn, make an effective contribution to climate protection.

Pexapark

Series B in 2020
Pexapark provides an energy investment platform that specializes in software and advisory services for post-subsidy renewable energy sales and risk management. The company provides an operating system to facilitate the entire energy trading and sales workflow from price discovery to analytics, execution and monitoring, covering solar and on- and offshore wind in 18 countries. Its platform also helps renewable investors to assist them in selling their energy and address clients transact PPAs and managing energy sales. Additionally, it helps clients to structure power sales, complete power purchase agreement transactions, and monitor their energy risks. Pexapark was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland.

zolar

Series B in 2019
With the zolar online configurator, homeowners can customise the components of their PV system to suit their individual requirements and receive personal assistance from one of our solar energy experts at the same time. zolar’s extensive network of local partner companies takes care of the installation on site. The Berlin-based start-up employs around 200 employees across Germany and pursues the vision of installing a PV system on every roof in the world in order to make private households more independent from the mains grid. The dovetailing of energy generation, electricity storage and mobility allows customers to design electrified and smart households. As a next green energy company, zolar enables its customers to become energy providers for their own four walls, neutralise their carbon footprint and, in turn, make an effective contribution to climate protection.

Raycatch

Series B in 2018
Raycatch is an AI diagnostics technology for solar energy, on a mission to revolutionize the PV market by enabling automated management of solar assets. By deciphering existing solar energy data, Raycatch transforms PV Operation and Maintenance (O&M) tasks from traditional manual scheduled operations to on-demand automatic management. The Raycatch app, DeepSolar™, analyzes production data on a daily basis and aims to generate a full diagnostic mapping of all components in a PV portfolio. All insights are ROI driven and fully quantified, include panels under warranty but below the spec, maintenance on demand (dust + grass), disconnected cables, PID, temperature coefficient, MPPT/Inverter efficiency, tracking systems and many more. The result is maximized performance and maintenance of solar assets, leading to increased yield, decreased operational costs and the acceleration of solar energy penetration in the global energy market. No hardware or software installation, No site visits are needed.

Blixt

Seed Round in 2018
Blixt offers semiconductor-based circuit breakers and household fuses. These will enable various smart metering and smart grid solutions. Together with angel investors, the total funding amounts to a total of two million euros since Blixt was founded in February 2018. BayWa re Energy Ventures is the main investor in the seed round of financing. The venture capital company of BayWa re was founded in April 2018.
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