Hepta Insights
Venture Round in 2025
Hepta Airborne Ltd specializes in airborne inspection and technical analysis, offering consulting services primarily for the electricity infrastructure sector. Utilizing advanced drones with a six-hour flight capability, the company conducts inspections of poles, lines, insulators, transformers, and other equipment, while also assisting in the planning and route selection for overhead lines, land cables, and renewable energy projects. Hepta Airborne integrates its drone technology with autonomous data processing platforms and various sensors to deliver accurate assessments, thereby enhancing efficiency for power grid operators. Additionally, the company provides geographic information system consulting and utility construction design services, ensuring comprehensive support for clients' needs. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Hepta Airborne emphasizes the importance of big data in optimizing inspection processes and reducing environmental impact.
Pionierkraft
Series A in 2024
Founded in 2019, Pionierkraft is a Munich-based company that develops sustainable solutions to increase on-site energy consumption. It focuses on making renewable energy affordable and accessible by facilitating its distribution among neighboring households.
Eneida Wireless & Sensors, SA is a company based in Coimbra, Portugal, specializing in the development of solutions for optimizing electric grid assets. Founded in 2012, Eneida focuses on creating smart sensors and artificial intelligence applications to enhance the resilience and efficiency of low voltage networks. Its key offerings include a Low Voltage Monitoring system that alerts staff to equipment failures, Theft Avoidance Smart Systems to combat theft in secondary distribution substations, and a Smart Flooding Solution to prevent flooding in underground installations. Additionally, the company provides monitoring and control solutions for Rural PV Parks, enabling real-time oversight of equipment and production in remote areas. Eneida's collaborative energy IoT platform, known as Deep Grid, integrates smart sensor networks with data analytics to facilitate the optimization of grid-critical assets, aiming to support electric utilities in delivering reliable and affordable energy.
Hepta Insights
Venture Round in 2024
Hepta Airborne Ltd specializes in airborne inspection and technical analysis, offering consulting services primarily for the electricity infrastructure sector. Utilizing advanced drones with a six-hour flight capability, the company conducts inspections of poles, lines, insulators, transformers, and other equipment, while also assisting in the planning and route selection for overhead lines, land cables, and renewable energy projects. Hepta Airborne integrates its drone technology with autonomous data processing platforms and various sensors to deliver accurate assessments, thereby enhancing efficiency for power grid operators. Additionally, the company provides geographic information system consulting and utility construction design services, ensuring comprehensive support for clients' needs. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Hepta Airborne emphasizes the importance of big data in optimizing inspection processes and reducing environmental impact.
Enline is a global software company specializing in Digital Twin technology for power grids. The company's IIoT software creates and operates digital representations of assets, capturing electrical, mechanical and thermal behavior without the need for sensors, and can be deployed remotely in days at a competitive cost. It serves clients across power generation, transmission and distribution, industry, mining and financial sectors, with customers on five continents and offices in Portugal, Germany, Brazil and Peru. Enline's platform enables predictive and real-time monitoring, fault detection, transmission loss reduction, system modeling, forecasting, design and optimization, helping grid operators improve asset efficiency, availability and reliability while lowering operational costs. The company emphasizes speed of innovation, vertical expertise and global reach to simplify complex grid challenges at scale.
Silbat develops molten silicon batteries for long-duration energy storage, using the latent heat of fusion of metal-grade silicon to store energy for up to about 100 hours. The device back-converts stored heat to electricity via thermophotovoltaics, enabling cost-effective dispatchable storage with a capital expenditure under $10 per kilowatt-hour that can support 100% dispatchability of variable renewable energy and compete with fossil and nuclear plants on price.
Pionierkraft
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2019, Pionierkraft is a Munich-based company that develops sustainable solutions to increase on-site energy consumption. It focuses on making renewable energy affordable and accessible by facilitating its distribution among neighboring households.
Hepta Insights
Seed Round in 2020
Hepta Airborne Ltd specializes in airborne inspection and technical analysis, offering consulting services primarily for the electricity infrastructure sector. Utilizing advanced drones with a six-hour flight capability, the company conducts inspections of poles, lines, insulators, transformers, and other equipment, while also assisting in the planning and route selection for overhead lines, land cables, and renewable energy projects. Hepta Airborne integrates its drone technology with autonomous data processing platforms and various sensors to deliver accurate assessments, thereby enhancing efficiency for power grid operators. Additionally, the company provides geographic information system consulting and utility construction design services, ensuring comprehensive support for clients' needs. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Hepta Airborne emphasizes the importance of big data in optimizing inspection processes and reducing environmental impact.
Enline is a global software company specializing in Digital Twin technology for power grids. The company's IIoT software creates and operates digital representations of assets, capturing electrical, mechanical and thermal behavior without the need for sensors, and can be deployed remotely in days at a competitive cost. It serves clients across power generation, transmission and distribution, industry, mining and financial sectors, with customers on five continents and offices in Portugal, Germany, Brazil and Peru. Enline's platform enables predictive and real-time monitoring, fault detection, transmission loss reduction, system modeling, forecasting, design and optimization, helping grid operators improve asset efficiency, availability and reliability while lowering operational costs. The company emphasizes speed of innovation, vertical expertise and global reach to simplify complex grid challenges at scale.
Eneida Wireless & Sensors, SA is a company based in Coimbra, Portugal, specializing in the development of solutions for optimizing electric grid assets. Founded in 2012, Eneida focuses on creating smart sensors and artificial intelligence applications to enhance the resilience and efficiency of low voltage networks. Its key offerings include a Low Voltage Monitoring system that alerts staff to equipment failures, Theft Avoidance Smart Systems to combat theft in secondary distribution substations, and a Smart Flooding Solution to prevent flooding in underground installations. Additionally, the company provides monitoring and control solutions for Rural PV Parks, enabling real-time oversight of equipment and production in remote areas. Eneida's collaborative energy IoT platform, known as Deep Grid, integrates smart sensor networks with data analytics to facilitate the optimization of grid-critical assets, aiming to support electric utilities in delivering reliable and affordable energy.
Pionierkraft
Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2019, Pionierkraft is a Munich-based company that develops sustainable solutions to increase on-site energy consumption. It focuses on making renewable energy affordable and accessible by facilitating its distribution among neighboring households.
RVE.SOL - Solucoes de Energia Rural
Series A in 2020
Rural populations forced reliance on biomass and kerosene for their energy needs is causing over 1.6M# deaths per annum. Their lack of access to clean water causes over 5M people to die; 2M of them are children under the age of 5.
RVE.SOL's _Changing Rural Life Forever_ initiative is creating alternative, renewable energy choices for the rural poor, allowing them to take advantage of natural resources like sunlight, cattle manure and raw water to manage their own way to a better future.
Our _KUDURA_ rural village energy hub is community managed; provides communities with potable water, solar electricity, biogas for cooking and organic fertiliser for agriculture.
A holistic approach, the solution seeks to target the four areas of rural life that prevalently cause poverty to propagate:
1. Access to clean water to obviate transmission of water borne disease
2. Access to renewable electricity to obviate the dependance on kerosene for light and improve children's opportunity to study at night
3. Access to Biogas to obviate mass destruction of primary forest in a bid to be able to cook food
4. Access to fertiliser to reinvigorate over-used soils and so increase quality and quantity of crop harvest for subsistence farmers.
Ultimately, this approach seeks to create wealth for rural farmers by offering a choie of more cost effective and efficient services utilising naturally available resources.
Klugit Energy
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Klugit Energy develops a smart plug that converts standard electric water heaters into intelligent, Wi-Fi-connected devices. By learning users' hot water usage patterns through AI, Klugit reduces energy waste and provides immediate savings to households while offering utilities an affordable peak shaving solution.
RVE.SOL - Solucoes de Energia Rural
Series A in 2018
Rural populations forced reliance on biomass and kerosene for their energy needs is causing over 1.6M# deaths per annum. Their lack of access to clean water causes over 5M people to die; 2M of them are children under the age of 5.
RVE.SOL's _Changing Rural Life Forever_ initiative is creating alternative, renewable energy choices for the rural poor, allowing them to take advantage of natural resources like sunlight, cattle manure and raw water to manage their own way to a better future.
Our _KUDURA_ rural village energy hub is community managed; provides communities with potable water, solar electricity, biogas for cooking and organic fertiliser for agriculture.
A holistic approach, the solution seeks to target the four areas of rural life that prevalently cause poverty to propagate:
1. Access to clean water to obviate transmission of water borne disease
2. Access to renewable electricity to obviate the dependance on kerosene for light and improve children's opportunity to study at night
3. Access to Biogas to obviate mass destruction of primary forest in a bid to be able to cook food
4. Access to fertiliser to reinvigorate over-used soils and so increase quality and quantity of crop harvest for subsistence farmers.
Ultimately, this approach seeks to create wealth for rural farmers by offering a choie of more cost effective and efficient services utilising naturally available resources.
Eneida Wireless & Sensors, SA is a company based in Coimbra, Portugal, specializing in the development of solutions for optimizing electric grid assets. Founded in 2012, Eneida focuses on creating smart sensors and artificial intelligence applications to enhance the resilience and efficiency of low voltage networks. Its key offerings include a Low Voltage Monitoring system that alerts staff to equipment failures, Theft Avoidance Smart Systems to combat theft in secondary distribution substations, and a Smart Flooding Solution to prevent flooding in underground installations. Additionally, the company provides monitoring and control solutions for Rural PV Parks, enabling real-time oversight of equipment and production in remote areas. Eneida's collaborative energy IoT platform, known as Deep Grid, integrates smart sensor networks with data analytics to facilitate the optimization of grid-critical assets, aiming to support electric utilities in delivering reliable and affordable energy.
Sepin is a developer of a utility platform that assists energy providers in navigating digital transformation. Their SEPIN Utilities Platform combines enterprise software with IoT capabilities, enabling utilities to digitize and streamline business and operational processes. This platform provides accurate, real-time data from a single source, accessible to all users across various departments including billing, marketing, and sales. Additionally, Sepin's platform enhances customer experience through mobile applications and features a gamification module, fostering engagement and interaction. By leveraging their technology, utility companies can achieve greater efficiency and competitiveness in an evolving industry landscape.
Ferroamp Elektronik
Seed Round in 2016
Ferroamp Elektronik AB specializes in developing and manufacturing innovative power electronics aimed at enhancing the efficiency of electrical energy use. The company's primary product is the ACE, a four-quadrant inverter that facilitates quicker electric vehicle charging and helps reduce grid fees. ACE is a component of the modular EnergyHub system, which can be expanded with solar cells and energy storage solutions according to user needs. This smart grid concept optimizes the versatility and economic viability of solar installations, benefiting both homeowners and utility companies. Additionally, Ferroamp offers a range of energy optimization solutions, including solar string optimizers, energy storage optimizers, and adaptive equalization, primarily catering to property companies, energy consultants, and electric power firms.
HYGEN is an innovative company that specializes in developing home fueling appliances designed to enhance the use of natural gas vehicles (NGVs). By utilizing its patented liquid piston gas compression technology, the company offers a supercharger that allows users to refuel gas-powered vehicles at home or in the office within just three minutes. This technology addresses challenges in the NGV market by transforming the existing gas distribution grid into a decentralized fueling infrastructure. HYGEN's appliances not only eliminate maintenance and operational inefficiencies but also extend the service life of gas compression systems and significantly reduce the total cost of ownership. Through its solutions, HYGEN enables gas utilities to enter the transportation fuel market by providing clean and affordable fuel options directly to consumers, thus modernizing the perception of NGVs and promoting a more appealing alternative to conventional fueling methods.