Future Energy Ventures

Founded in 2020, Future Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Essen, Germany. It invests globally in early-stage startups focusing on digital and digitally enabled technologies within the energy sector.

Konrad Augustin

Partner

Ines Bergmann-Nolting

Managing Partner

Yi Jean Chow

Principal

Conor Clifford

Principal

Patrick Elftmann

Partner

Veronique Hördemann

Investor

Felix Krause

Venture Partner

Jan Lozek

Managing Partner

Ohad Mamann

Principal

Natalie Milde

Analyst

Christopher Natter

Principal

Jan Palasinski

Venture Partner

Giancarlo Savini

Principal

Mischa Wetzel

Venture Partner

85 past transactions

KUGU

Series A in 2024
KUGU develops digital solutions to improve building energy efficiency and support a CO2-free future. Its real-time decarbonization platform collects, processes, and optimizes building energy data to deliver measurable energy and carbon savings, while monitoring energy use and power management. It also provides decarbonization analytics to help real estate and energy companies reduce emissions and make existing properties more sustainable without structural modifications.

eSmart Systems

Venture Round in 2024
Founded in 2012, eSmart Systems develops AI-driven software solutions for the energy industry. Its cloud-born platform collects and analyzes vast data quantities from sensors in real-time, enabling optimized energy decisions, resource savings, and predictive maintenance. The company offers tailored solutions for utilities and applications for consumers, with a focus on global markets.

Piclo

Venture Round in 2024
Piclo operates an independent energy marketplace that makes electricity grids smarter, more flexible, and sustainable. Its platform enables renewable generators, battery owners, and electric vehicles to provide local flexibility to distribution networks, helping utilities balance the grid, integrate renewable energy, and reduce costs while improving resilience. The marketplace promotes participation and standardization to level the playing field and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.

Reev

Series A in 2024
Reev is a company that provides a cloud-based, automated charging platform for managing and controlling electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The platform supports real-time monitoring of charging stations, automated billing and payment processing, user authentication, load balancing, and integration with a range of hardware providers. It is designed for businesses, municipalities, and property owners to efficiently manage EV charging networks, improve user experience, and enhance operational efficiency.

Hololight

Series B in 2023
Hololight is a technology leader in AR/VR. Founded in 2015, our team combines passionate developers and experienced business experts. We create unique, industry-proven AR/VR technology: highly innovative and precisely tailored to scale use cases and business models. Our solutions enable companies to reduce production errors and costs, and get to market faster. We unleash the potential of XR in various industries – automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering and many more – creating competitive advantages in the age of digital transformation.

Prisma Photonics

Series C in 2023
Prisma Photonics Ltd. is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that specializes in developing advanced fiber sensing solutions for critical large-scale infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by a team with expertise in lasers, optical fibers, algorithms, and machine learning, the company focuses on monitoring various infrastructures such as highways, railroads, pipelines, power lines, and bridges. Prisma Photonics employs innovative optical fiber technology that enhances sensitivity and classification capabilities, allowing for effective monitoring without the need for traditional sensors. By integrating hyper-scan fiber-sensing technology with machine learning, the company aids utility operators in achieving their environmental and renewable energy objectives while maintaining operational efficiency in their pursuit of net-zero emissions. Currently, Prisma Photonics is in the commercial deployment stage of its products.

Nuventura

Series A in 2023
Nuventura GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the design and development of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) technology. The company has innovated a solution that replaces sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) with dry air, maintaining the advantages of traditional SF6 switchgear while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Nuventura's technology is compatible with existing IEC standards, allowing industries to effectively control, protect, and isolate electrical equipment while monitoring the health of the switchgear. This advancement positions Nuventura as a key player in promoting sustainable practices within the global energy sector.

Ev.energy

Series B in 2023
Ev.energy is a London-based company established in 2018, specializing in smart charging software for electric vehicles (EVs). Its platform optimizes EV charging during off-peak hours, tracks energy usage and costs, supports solar energy integration, and enables drivers to schedule and monitor charging via an app, thereby reducing both costs and carbon emissions.

Virta

Private Equity Round in 2023
Virta is a company that specializes in managing electric vehicle charging services on various scales, providing a comprehensive solution for both charging networks and businesses. Its offerings encompass the entire value chain, connecting electric vehicle drivers, charging points, and the energy system to facilitate seamless charging experiences. By utilizing a user-friendly mobile application or tag, clients can easily identify and access charging stations. Virta aims to enhance the adoption of electric mobility by delivering high-quality charging services that meet the needs of users while also helping real estate and other businesses differentiate themselves in the market.

Sunvigo

Series B in 2023
Sunvigo is a company that specializes in making solar power accessible to residential homeowners. It simplifies the use of rooftop solar energy by offering electricity contracts that enable customers to buy or rent solar systems. By leveraging a robust network of partners, including smart meter operators and photovoltaic installers, Sunvigo provides affordable solar power solutions. The company aims to democratize access to clean energy, ensuring that homeowners can benefit from local and emission-free energy sources.

Piclo

Series B in 2023
Piclo operates an independent energy marketplace that makes electricity grids smarter, more flexible, and sustainable. Its platform enables renewable generators, battery owners, and electric vehicles to provide local flexibility to distribution networks, helping utilities balance the grid, integrate renewable energy, and reduce costs while improving resilience. The marketplace promotes participation and standardization to level the playing field and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.

eSmart Systems

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2012, eSmart Systems develops AI-driven software solutions for the energy industry. Its cloud-born platform collects and analyzes vast data quantities from sensors in real-time, enabling optimized energy decisions, resource savings, and predictive maintenance. The company offers tailored solutions for utilities and applications for consumers, with a focus on global markets.

Jungle AI

Series A in 2022
Jungle AI enhances renewable energy efficiency using Artificial Intelligence. It improves solar and wind energy output by analyzing existing sensor data, benefiting global energy transition efforts.

Buildots

Series C in 2022
Founded in 2018, Buildots is a technology company that specializes in transforming construction sites into data-driven digital environments. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes with minimal effort by turning every site walk into valuable process data. The solution offers AI-powered progress tracking, predictive analytics, and real-time reporting to improve project outcomes and operational efficiency.

Libryo

Funding Round in 2022
Libryo is a London-based provider of automated, cloud-based legal compliance software. The platform delivers context- and place-specific regulatory summaries in plain language to help organizations and their employees understand obligations in any situation. It tracks changes to applicable legislation and notifies relevant parties, enabling on-demand answers to legal questions and easier management of site-specific regulatory registers. Libryo serves clients across industries and distributes its solution through partners. Founded in 2015, Libryo aims to reduce legal insourcing costs and improve regulatory awareness by increasing employee knowledge and safety around the law.

Oriient

Series A in 2022
Oriient provides an indoor positioning platform that delivers real-time location awareness inside buildings without beacons, Wi‑Fi, or requiring installation in the venue. The system uses smartphones to determine precise positions, enabling navigation and location analytics. It supports applications in smart retail, smart buildings, IoT and augmented reality, and offers traffic and motion analytics. The platform is designed to work across any building and location, allowing integration with existing apps to improve service, operations and customer experiences.

Akselos

Venture Round in 2022
Akselos is a technology company that develops Integra, a cloud-based engineering simulation platform and digital twin for asset-centric industries. The platform enables engineers to build high-resolution, component-based models of large systems and run parameterized simulations that cover geometric and physical properties, loads, and boundary conditions. It supports hydrodynamic analysis of floating assets and structural assessment of fixed offshore installations, as well as analysis of composites used in wind blades, pressure vessels, pipelines, and rotating machines. Designed for design, virtual prototyping, and real-time monitoring, Integra leverages fast, patented algorithms that can model large-scale assets on portable hardware. The company's vision emphasizes preventative maintenance and reduced unplanned downtime through real-time asset condition and future-state insights, often described as a digital twin with sensors and big data analytics. Akselos was founded in 2011 in Lausanne, with a Cambridge, Massachusetts office and operations in Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia.

SkenarioLabs

Series A in 2022
SkenarioLabs is a real estate analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence to deliver in-depth diagnostics on property portfolios. The company offers a platform designed to assist property owners, portfolio managers, banks, and insurance companies in making informed decisions through objective and transparent risk and value assessments. By using advanced AI technology, SkenarioLabs enables clients to plan maintenance and renovations effectively while evaluating technical risks and their potential impact on real estate value, rental income, and overall investment returns. This approach allows enterprises to optimize the performance of their properties in response to local market conditions.

Ev.energy

Series A in 2022
Ev.energy is a London-based company established in 2018, specializing in smart charging software for electric vehicles (EVs). Its platform optimizes EV charging during off-peak hours, tracks energy usage and costs, supports solar energy integration, and enables drivers to schedule and monitor charging via an app, thereby reducing both costs and carbon emissions.

Prisma Photonics

Series B in 2022
Prisma Photonics Ltd. is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that specializes in developing advanced fiber sensing solutions for critical large-scale infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by a team with expertise in lasers, optical fibers, algorithms, and machine learning, the company focuses on monitoring various infrastructures such as highways, railroads, pipelines, power lines, and bridges. Prisma Photonics employs innovative optical fiber technology that enhances sensitivity and classification capabilities, allowing for effective monitoring without the need for traditional sensors. By integrating hyper-scan fiber-sensing technology with machine learning, the company aids utility operators in achieving their environmental and renewable energy objectives while maintaining operational efficiency in their pursuit of net-zero emissions. Currently, Prisma Photonics is in the commercial deployment stage of its products.

Hololight

Venture Round in 2021
Hololight is a technology leader in AR/VR. Founded in 2015, our team combines passionate developers and experienced business experts. We create unique, industry-proven AR/VR technology: highly innovative and precisely tailored to scale use cases and business models. Our solutions enable companies to reduce production errors and costs, and get to market faster. We unleash the potential of XR in various industries – automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering and many more – creating competitive advantages in the age of digital transformation.

ShieldIoT

Series A in 2021
ShieldIoT is an Israeli company based in Tel Aviv, founded in 2017, specializing in IoT embedded device-level security solutions. Their flagship product, ShieldIOT, is a technology platform that protects Linux-based devices across IoT networks without requiring changes to the device, application, or network. The platform comprises ShieldCenter, a centralized security management module, and ShieldSupervisor, a device-level agent module. ShieldIoT offers comprehensive security features including application sandboxing, device resource protection, firewall, VPN secured communication, disk encryption, fleet monitoring, and threat prevention. These solutions cater to various industries such as smart homes, healthcare, transportation, retail, and more, enabling manufacturers and operators to secure their devices efficiently without needing extensive development resources or security expertise.

Bidgely

Venture Round in 2021
Bidgely is a technology company that provides disaggregation-powered utility analytics and customer engagement solutions. Its cloud-based HomeBeat platform disaggregates household energy consumption to the appliance level, enabling utilities to understand usage patterns and tailor energy programs. The UtilityAI Platform delivers customer energy insights based on actual energy habits, supporting energy efficiency initiatives and consumer engagement for utilities serving residential customers worldwide. Bidgely uses machine learning to monitor energy data and identify appliance-level usage, helping utilities manage peak demand and reimagine customer engagement. The company serves utilities globally and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an office in Bengaluru, India.

Buildots

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Buildots is a technology company that specializes in transforming construction sites into data-driven digital environments. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes with minimal effort by turning every site walk into valuable process data. The solution offers AI-powered progress tracking, predictive analytics, and real-time reporting to improve project outcomes and operational efficiency.

Ev.energy

Series A in 2021
Ev.energy is a London-based company established in 2018, specializing in smart charging software for electric vehicles (EVs). Its platform optimizes EV charging during off-peak hours, tracks energy usage and costs, supports solar energy integration, and enables drivers to schedule and monitor charging via an app, thereby reducing both costs and carbon emissions.

Lumenaza

Series B in 2021
Lumenaza GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing and operating a software-as-a-service platform for the buying and selling of renewable electricity. The company's platform connects producers and consumers of green distributed energy, utilizing sophisticated algorithms to ensure a secure and balanced supply of renewable electricity within regional communities. Lumenaza's software, available since early 2014, supports the management of renewable power plants, balancing groups, and provides real-time energy management data to market participants. The company has collaborated with municipal utilities, energy cooperatives, and project developers to create regional electricity products. In 2016, Lumenaza expanded its offerings to include a modular and highly automated "utility in a box" solution, which encompasses all services typical of an energy service provider.

Libryo

Convertible Note in 2021
Libryo is a London-based provider of automated, cloud-based legal compliance software. The platform delivers context- and place-specific regulatory summaries in plain language to help organizations and their employees understand obligations in any situation. It tracks changes to applicable legislation and notifies relevant parties, enabling on-demand answers to legal questions and easier management of site-specific regulatory registers. Libryo serves clients across industries and distributes its solution through partners. Founded in 2015, Libryo aims to reduce legal insourcing costs and improve regulatory awareness by increasing employee knowledge and safety around the law.

Nuventura

Venture Round in 2021
Nuventura GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the design and development of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) technology. The company has innovated a solution that replaces sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) with dry air, maintaining the advantages of traditional SF6 switchgear while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Nuventura's technology is compatible with existing IEC standards, allowing industries to effectively control, protect, and isolate electrical equipment while monitoring the health of the switchgear. This advancement positions Nuventura as a key player in promoting sustainable practices within the global energy sector.

Tracks

Seed Round in 2021
Tracks is a Berlin-based startup founded in 2018 that focuses on enhancing the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of the road freight industry. Recognizing that this sector contributes significantly to CO2 emissions and fuel costs, Tracks employs artificial intelligence and big data to improve fleet performance and fuel management. The company provides fleet owners with real-time analytics and actionable insights through a user-friendly dashboard, enabling them to increase fuel efficiency and reduce energy consumption. Its platform also facilitates effective CO2 emissions management, offering automated reporting and performance analysis for individual vehicles. By promoting transparency and sustainability, Tracks aims to support shippers and carriers in minimizing their environmental impact while bolstering competitive advantage within the market.

Placense

Seed Round in 2020
Placense Ltd is a location intelligence company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that specializes in providing real-time consumer location data and behavioral insights related to the physical world. By leveraging a proprietary mathematical algorithm, Placense ensures data privacy while delivering valuable metrics such as customer visits, visit duration, visit frequencies, and customer journey paths, as well as demographic characteristics like gender, age groups, income levels, and modes of transport. The company's services cater to various sectors, including supermarkets, restaurants, malls, outdoor advertising, and real estate markets. Placense's technology transforms app data into actionable insights while maintaining consumer privacy, making it a prominent player in the Proptech ecosystem and a resource for decision-makers seeking to understand consumer behavior in physical spaces.

Buildots

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018, Buildots is a technology company that specializes in transforming construction sites into data-driven digital environments. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes with minimal effort by turning every site walk into valuable process data. The solution offers AI-powered progress tracking, predictive analytics, and real-time reporting to improve project outcomes and operational efficiency.

ME SOLshare

Venture Round in 2020
ME SOLshare Ltd. develops peer-to-peer solar electricity trading platforms, enabling off-grid households and businesses to trade excess power for profit. Its key products include SOLbox, a bi-directional DC electricity meter facilitating trading and grid management, and SOLcontrol, a charge controller for solar home systems. The company collaborates with organizations like Micro Energy International, IDCOL, GSMA, and POWER FOR ALL to expand access to affordable, sustainable energy.

Vicarius

Seed Round in 2020
Vicarius Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that provides solutions to protect applications and software from cyber threats. Founded in 2016 by a team of information security experts, Vicarius develops a platform named vRx, which offers end-to-end vulnerability remediation by consolidating discovery, prioritization, and mitigation into a single interface. The platform employs proprietary binary code analysis to identify vulnerabilities within digital environments, allowing organizations to predict, prioritize, and safeguard their assets against potential software exploitation. Vicarius aims to enhance the security posture of IT and security teams, enabling them to effectively manage risks while alleviating the burden on internal resources. The company operates from its headquarters in Jerusalem, Israel, and New York.

Teraki

Series A in 2019
Founded in Berlin in 2014, Teraki develops software solutions that enable high-volume, real-time data processing for connected car applications. Its platform facilitates predictive maintenance, usage-based insurance (UBI), fleet management, and autonomous driving services by optimizing data compression and latency.

Hololight

Series A in 2019
Hololight is a technology leader in AR/VR. Founded in 2015, our team combines passionate developers and experienced business experts. We create unique, industry-proven AR/VR technology: highly innovative and precisely tailored to scale use cases and business models. Our solutions enable companies to reduce production errors and costs, and get to market faster. We unleash the potential of XR in various industries – automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering and many more – creating competitive advantages in the age of digital transformation.

HypeLabs

Seed Round in 2019
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

ShieldIoT

Seed Round in 2019
ShieldIoT is an Israeli company based in Tel Aviv, founded in 2017, specializing in IoT embedded device-level security solutions. Their flagship product, ShieldIOT, is a technology platform that protects Linux-based devices across IoT networks without requiring changes to the device, application, or network. The platform comprises ShieldCenter, a centralized security management module, and ShieldSupervisor, a device-level agent module. ShieldIoT offers comprehensive security features including application sandboxing, device resource protection, firewall, VPN secured communication, disk encryption, fleet monitoring, and threat prevention. These solutions cater to various industries such as smart homes, healthcare, transportation, retail, and more, enabling manufacturers and operators to secure their devices efficiently without needing extensive development resources or security expertise.

Teralytics

Series D in 2019
Teralytics is a company specializing in mobility analytics, providing deep insights into human mobility needs through the use of big data and advanced machine learning. The company's platform is designed to optimize transportation planning and operations, helping clients address significant mobility challenges. Teralytics aims to transform how journeys are planned and managed, focusing on improving journey times, ensuring accessibility, enhancing operational efficiencies, and minimizing environmental impact. By delivering actionable insights, Teralytics supports the development of sustainable mobility solutions that cater to the needs of individuals and communities both now and in the future.

Libryo

Seed Round in 2019
Libryo is a London-based provider of automated, cloud-based legal compliance software. The platform delivers context- and place-specific regulatory summaries in plain language to help organizations and their employees understand obligations in any situation. It tracks changes to applicable legislation and notifies relevant parties, enabling on-demand answers to legal questions and easier management of site-specific regulatory registers. Libryo serves clients across industries and distributes its solution through partners. Founded in 2015, Libryo aims to reduce legal insourcing costs and improve regulatory awareness by increasing employee knowledge and safety around the law.

eSmart Systems

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2012, eSmart Systems develops AI-driven software solutions for the energy industry. Its cloud-born platform collects and analyzes vast data quantities from sensors in real-time, enabling optimized energy decisions, resource savings, and predictive maintenance. The company offers tailored solutions for utilities and applications for consumers, with a focus on global markets.

T-REX

Series C in 2019
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

Segasec

Series A in 2019
Segasec is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding organizations from various digital threats, including phishing, pharming, business email compromise, and ransomware. The company has developed a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that provides end-to-end digital threat protection. This platform employs intelligent scanning and monitoring capabilities, conducting quadrillions of targeted scans to identify both known and unknown attack patterns. By utilizing advanced technology, Segasec enables businesses to protect themselves from cyber attackers and minimize the risk of exposing sensitive customer information.

Oriient

Seed Round in 2019
Oriient provides an indoor positioning platform that delivers real-time location awareness inside buildings without beacons, Wi‑Fi, or requiring installation in the venue. The system uses smartphones to determine precise positions, enabling navigation and location analytics. It supports applications in smart retail, smart buildings, IoT and augmented reality, and offers traffic and motion analytics. The platform is designed to work across any building and location, allowing integration with existing apps to improve service, operations and customer experiences.

Teraki

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in Berlin in 2014, Teraki develops software solutions that enable high-volume, real-time data processing for connected car applications. Its platform facilitates predictive maintenance, usage-based insurance (UBI), fleet management, and autonomous driving services by optimizing data compression and latency.

FirstPoint Mobile Guard

Seed Round in 2019
FirstPoint is closing the cellular IoT connectivity gap by providing a comprehensive connectivity management platform designed for IoT organizations. They get control of connection and security management for each IoT use case by creating personalized rules and policies for each individual or group of devices. FirstPoint gives focused enterprises access to best-in-class cybersecurity while transferring control of the connected devices.

GreenCom Networks

Series C in 2019
GreenCom Networks AG is an energy IoT company based in Munich, Germany, with a focus on developing innovative solutions for the energy sector since its founding in 2011. The company operates an Energy Information Brokerage Platform that integrates various distributed energy assets, including solar panels, battery storage, electric vehicles, and heat pumps. Its platform offers several services, such as eibp connect for managing and controlling energy assets, eibp boost for visualizing and optimizing energy flows, eibp mesh for connecting customers to energy communities, eibp empower for developing energy tariffs, and eibp cluster for enhancing the capabilities of distributed assets. By providing these tools, GreenCom Networks enables utilities and energy service companies to improve customer engagement and introduce new digital energy services.

Calipsa

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in London in 2016, Calipsa develops an AI-powered video monitoring platform that processes hours of feeds to provide alerts and reports for traffic enforcement, accidents, and public disorder management. Its platform offers features like free health checks, site scheduling, camera management, and ptz/video loss detection, aiming to enhance operator efficiency and reduce installation costs by leveraging existing cameras.

SkenarioLabs

Seed Round in 2019
SkenarioLabs is a real estate analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence to deliver in-depth diagnostics on property portfolios. The company offers a platform designed to assist property owners, portfolio managers, banks, and insurance companies in making informed decisions through objective and transparent risk and value assessments. By using advanced AI technology, SkenarioLabs enables clients to plan maintenance and renovations effectively while evaluating technical risks and their potential impact on real estate value, rental income, and overall investment returns. This approach allows enterprises to optimize the performance of their properties in response to local market conditions.

Akselos

Venture Round in 2018
Akselos is a technology company that develops Integra, a cloud-based engineering simulation platform and digital twin for asset-centric industries. The platform enables engineers to build high-resolution, component-based models of large systems and run parameterized simulations that cover geometric and physical properties, loads, and boundary conditions. It supports hydrodynamic analysis of floating assets and structural assessment of fixed offshore installations, as well as analysis of composites used in wind blades, pressure vessels, pipelines, and rotating machines. Designed for design, virtual prototyping, and real-time monitoring, Integra leverages fast, patented algorithms that can model large-scale assets on portable hardware. The company's vision emphasizes preventative maintenance and reduced unplanned downtime through real-time asset condition and future-state insights, often described as a digital twin with sensors and big data analytics. Akselos was founded in 2011 in Lausanne, with a Cambridge, Massachusetts office and operations in Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia.

Fractal

Seed Round in 2018
Fractal Blockchain GmbH, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, specializes in providing blockchain solutions, particularly in the areas of customer identification and KYC/AML compliance. The company offers a platform that delivers fast and accurate global verifications, achieving a conversion rate significantly higher than the industry standard. Fractal focuses on usability, facilitating compliant onboarding processes that empower emerging global fintechs to build expansive user bases. Additionally, Fractal develops identity and payment solutions tailored for the decentralized web, addressing the evolving needs of digital finance.

Placense

Seed Round in 2018
Placense Ltd is a location intelligence company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that specializes in providing real-time consumer location data and behavioral insights related to the physical world. By leveraging a proprietary mathematical algorithm, Placense ensures data privacy while delivering valuable metrics such as customer visits, visit duration, visit frequencies, and customer journey paths, as well as demographic characteristics like gender, age groups, income levels, and modes of transport. The company's services cater to various sectors, including supermarkets, restaurants, malls, outdoor advertising, and real estate markets. Placense's technology transforms app data into actionable insights while maintaining consumer privacy, making it a prominent player in the Proptech ecosystem and a resource for decision-makers seeking to understand consumer behavior in physical spaces.

Segasec

Seed Round in 2018
Segasec is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding organizations from various digital threats, including phishing, pharming, business email compromise, and ransomware. The company has developed a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that provides end-to-end digital threat protection. This platform employs intelligent scanning and monitoring capabilities, conducting quadrillions of targeted scans to identify both known and unknown attack patterns. By utilizing advanced technology, Segasec enables businesses to protect themselves from cyber attackers and minimize the risk of exposing sensitive customer information.

Patronus.io

Venture Round in 2018
Patronus.io is a German company dedicated to enhancing web security for small and medium-sized businesses through its innovative cloud-based software solution. The platform offers an automated, user-friendly approach to cybersecurity, enabling businesses to effectively protect themselves from potential threats. It identifies specific safety vulnerabilities, continuously monitors websites for security issues, and provides encrypted backups on a secure server to ensure data safety in emergencies. By focusing on affordability and ease of use, Patronus.io aims to create a comprehensive security framework that empowers companies to defend against cyber-attacks efficiently.

Hololight

Seed Round in 2018
Hololight is a technology leader in AR/VR. Founded in 2015, our team combines passionate developers and experienced business experts. We create unique, industry-proven AR/VR technology: highly innovative and precisely tailored to scale use cases and business models. Our solutions enable companies to reduce production errors and costs, and get to market faster. We unleash the potential of XR in various industries – automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering and many more – creating competitive advantages in the age of digital transformation.

Insider Navigation

Venture Round in 2018
Insider Navigation specializes in large-scale Augmented Reality (AR)-based indoor positioning solutions. Their flagship product, "Workforce 4.0", is a process optimization tool designed for various industries such as manufacturing, maintenance, and training. This solution offers real-time status tracking of building and machine infrastructures, reducing downtimes and improving asset availability. Key benefits include rapid deployment, minimal investment costs, user-friendly mobile operation, and seamless integration with other systems like SAP or IBM. The company primarily targets B2B industrial customers in the manufacturing sector, partnering with system integrators for solution implementation.

Qmerit

Venture Round in 2018
Qmerit Inc. is a software company based in Irvine, California, that specializes in simplifying the implementation of renewable energy products for residential and light commercial markets. Founded in 2015, Qmerit operates a Software-as-a-Service platform designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of service workforce management. The platform includes features for workforce onboarding, work activity alignment, real-time tracking, and performance analytics. It leverages a nationwide network of certified electrical contractors to provide high-quality installation and maintenance services for electric vehicle charging stations, battery storage systems, and microgrid solutions. Qmerit also offers an innovative performance measurement system known as the Qmerit Contribution Index (QCI™), which scores contractors based on various performance metrics, creating a framework that encourages excellence and accountability. Additionally, Qmerit has partnered with Avendra to aggregate purchasing power for parts and materials, enabling clients to benefit from significant cost savings in their service operations.

Tracks

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Tracks is a Berlin-based startup founded in 2018 that focuses on enhancing the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of the road freight industry. Recognizing that this sector contributes significantly to CO2 emissions and fuel costs, Tracks employs artificial intelligence and big data to improve fleet performance and fuel management. The company provides fleet owners with real-time analytics and actionable insights through a user-friendly dashboard, enabling them to increase fuel efficiency and reduce energy consumption. Its platform also facilitates effective CO2 emissions management, offering automated reporting and performance analysis for individual vehicles. By promoting transparency and sustainability, Tracks aims to support shippers and carriers in minimizing their environmental impact while bolstering competitive advantage within the market.

gridX

Series A in 2018
gridX develops an energy platform that connects distributed generation, storage, and consumption to optimize energy flows and form a decentralised, vendor-neutral virtual power plant. The platform enables intelligent control of generation assets and household energy flows, with integration of smart home solutions, and serves as a digital provider for decentralized energy. Founded in 2016 and based in Aachen, Germany, gridX aims to make renewable energies accessible and affordable while helping users reduce electricity costs and enable the energy transition. By linking millions of small producers and consumers on its platform, gridX creates transparency, efficiency, and resilience in energy systems while supporting scalable, local energy management.

Visualix

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in Berlin in 2008, Visualix specializes in computer vision technology. Its platform enables businesses to create augmented reality experiences by persistently attaching AR content to any position or object in the world with centimeter precision using commonly used smartphones.

Basking Automation

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in Berlin in 2017, Basking Automation designs and develops building automation systems for coworking spaces. Its platform provides occupancy and energy management solutions to coworking operators, along with occupancy analytics for corporate real estate managers and asset managers.

BeeRides

Seed Round in 2017
BeeRides is a car-sharing service specializing in airport travel. It facilitates the rental of privately-owned, idle cars parked at airports to incoming travelers, offering free parking and guaranteed car washes. This peer-to-peer platform ensures Allianz insurance coverage and professional roadside assistance for renters, while owners can generate income from their unused vehicles. BeeRides also provides a unique express key collection system powered by smart lockers and offers 24/7 multilingual customer service. Its mission is to make travel more affordable and comfortable by reinventing airport car rental practices.

Rydies

Seed Round in 2017
Rydies GmbH is a micro-mobility company based in Hanover, Germany, specializing in bicycle and e-bike rental services. The company operates a comprehensive platform that facilitates bicycle sharing and offers essential services such as parking, charging station information, and bike maintenance. Rydies connects individuals who wish to lend bicycles with those looking to rent them, enhancing urban mobility solutions for short-distance travel. Through its digitalized services, Rydies aims to improve accessibility and efficiency in urban transportation, making it easier for users to find and utilize bicycle and e-bike options in their communities.

Astralink

Seed Round in 2017
Astralink is a developer of an augmented reality software solution tailored for the construction industry, aimed at preventing construction errors in real-time. The company's innovative software employs proprietary computer vision and deep learning algorithms to identify discrepancies between the original blueprints and the current physical state of construction projects. By visualizing blueprints over the actual site using a standard tablet, Astralink enables construction teams to ensure accuracy and efficiency, ultimately reducing costs and project delivery times while enhancing safety. The user-friendly nature of the technology allows teams to operate it without prior training, supporting a streamlined workflow and promoting the principle of "building right the first time."

aiPod

Seed Round in 2017
aiPod Inc., established in 2017 with headquarters in Pasadena, California, and an additional office in London, develops a platform that integrates autonomous vehicles with city data and transport infrastructure. The company aims to enhance urban mobility by offering safe, affordable, and convenient transportation services, complementing existing systems. Its primary goal is to introduce fleets of automated vehicles onto public streets in collaboration with major cities worldwide.

Mojio

Series B in 2017
Founded in 2012, Mojio is a technology company specializing in connected car services. It provides a cloud-connected device that plugs into vehicles to offer insights into driving behavior and vehicle health. Mojio's platform also includes safety features like personalized prompts and geo-location tracking for family and friends. The company serves both individual consumers and businesses, with strategic partnerships with major brands such as Amazon, Bosch, and T-Mobile.

Scantrust

Venture Round in 2017
ScanTrust SA is a company specializing in a cloud-based IoT platform that enhances supply chain visibility and product authentication. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with operations in Shanghai, Singapore, and Bangkok, ScanTrust employs secure unique identifiers to connect products and packaging to the Internet. Its offerings include a printer portal for packaging and label partners to integrate secure codes into existing processes, an online portal for real-time business intelligence and supply chain insights, and secure QR codes that can be verified by smartphones. This technology enables brand owners to protect their products from counterfeiting while providing detailed supply chain control and opportunities for consumer engagement.

Cryptowerk

Seed Round in 2017
Cryptowerk is a technology company based in Silicon Valley that specializes in digital asset digitization and data integrity solutions. The company offers a platform that enables organizations to securely seal and verify their data using blockchain technology, creating a tamper-proof chain of custody for digital assets. By cryptographically bundling multiple transactions and anchoring them to the blockchain, Cryptowerk's solutions allow organizations to easily detect and deter data tampering. Its innovative approach supports digital transformation across various industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, pharmaceuticals, software, and utilities. Founded by experts in cryptography and seasoned professionals in enterprise software, Cryptowerk is dedicated to building a future where trust is inherent in every product, process, and transaction.

Pear.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Pear.ai is a startup focused on revolutionizing energy management through its innovative platform featuring Sam, a virtual energy assistant. Designed to address the impersonal nature of existing energy products and services, Pear.ai aims to help companies of all sizes save money while ensuring comprehensive monitoring of energy consumption trends at both enterprise and site levels. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Sam provides actionable insights that empower clients to control their energy footprint, thus supporting sustainability initiatives. The platform is intended to be more efficient and cost-effective than hiring a full-time employee, adapting its capabilities in line with advancements in AI technology.

WeAre - The Virtual Engineering Base

Seed Round in 2017
WeAre GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in virtual reality conferencing services aimed at enhancing collaboration in engineering, manufacturing, and architecture. The company offers a platform that allows remote teams to conduct meetings, workshops, and collaborative product development using virtual reality technology. This system facilitates the creation and discussion of digital prototypes, such as CAD files, enabling users to interact seamlessly regardless of their physical location. By utilizing virtual reality glasses and controllers, WeAre's platform improves productivity, reduces travel costs, and enables more effective digital collaboration among global teams.

Libryo

Seed Round in 2017
Libryo is a London-based provider of automated, cloud-based legal compliance software. The platform delivers context- and place-specific regulatory summaries in plain language to help organizations and their employees understand obligations in any situation. It tracks changes to applicable legislation and notifies relevant parties, enabling on-demand answers to legal questions and easier management of site-specific regulatory registers. Libryo serves clients across industries and distributes its solution through partners. Founded in 2015, Libryo aims to reduce legal insourcing costs and improve regulatory awareness by increasing employee knowledge and safety around the law.

Agent.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Agent.ai provides artificial intelligence-enhanced customer service software that helps businesses connect in real-time with their customers wherever they are, whenever they’d like and in the communication channels they prefer. Backed by its event-based machine learning and natural language processing engines, Agent.ai enables businesses to deliver data-driven, responsive and personalized support to customers, 24/7/365, while helping agents become more productive.

Doozer

Venture Round in 2017
Doozer is a B2B platform focused on streamlining apartment renovations and modernization for housing and private rental companies. It provides a comprehensive solution for managing renovation projects, offering tools for information, planning, and coordination. The platform enables clients to save time by facilitating immediate online placement of handicraft services, ensuring compliance with quality standards. Through an innovative approach to management and operational processes, Doozer accelerates the handling of orders, reduces vacancies, and optimizes yields. Additionally, it features a cost calculator that allows users to assess renovation expenses for bathrooms and entire apartments, enabling them to obtain quotations from construction experts based on inventory data and to pre-select products efficiently.

Fresh Energy

Seed Round in 2017
Fresh Energy GmbH is an innovative digital electricity provider based in Berlin, Germany, established in 2017. The company specializes in supplying green electricity while emphasizing eco-friendliness and cost-effectiveness. Fresh Energy offers a smart meter and a white-label app that allows customers to monitor their energy usage through real-time visualization. Utilizing complex algorithms, pattern recognition, and machine learning, the application provides detailed insights into power consumption, enabling users to track their daily usage and receive monthly summaries with cost analyses. This data-driven approach ensures that customers maintain control over their energy data, ultimately helping them reduce their energy consumption and costs.

Conjoule

Series A in 2017
Conjoule is a venture capital backed start-up that is building the decentralized energy marketplace of the future where all participants are able to transact electricity and flexibility amongst each other as peers without the need for traditional middlemen. We are building disruptive new digital business models that fundamentally redesign the way that energy market participants interact with each other. Our first product, which is currently in pilot testing, enables residential solar photovoltaic owners to sell their excess electricity to local consumers on our blockchain-enabled platform. The platform will provide market access for grid edge assets to market energy, capacity, and flexibility.

TechSee

Series A in 2017
TechSee is a technology company specializing in visual technology and augmented reality, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founded in 2015 by Eitan Cohen, Amir Yoffe, and Gabby Sarussi, TechSee develops an AI-powered visual customer engagement platform aimed at transforming traditional customer support methods. The platform leverages deep learning, big data, and proprietary computer vision algorithms to provide an interactive visual experience for users. This technology enables call center agents to guide customers through live virtual channels, utilizing augmented reality and annotations to enhance support interactions. By improving customer service efficiency and reducing support costs, TechSee aims to deliver a more effective customer support solution.

XTECH

Seed Round in 2017
XTECH GmbH, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing digital payment processing solutions. The company offers a range of products, including the PITT Wallet and Payment Gateway, which facilitate secure transactions. Additionally, XTECH provides peer-to-peer trading platforms, blockchain services, and crowdfunding models, positioning itself as a key player in the blockchain technology sector.

T-REX

Series B in 2017
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

VeiligeBuurt.nl

Seed Round in 2017
The Veiligebuurt.nl neighborhood prevention app is a mobile app to exchange messages specifically within groups. Our goal is to improve safety by allowing you to communicate quickly and easily within groups based on location data and clear chat structure.

Ucair

Seed Round in 2017
Ucair GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2017, specializing in aerial inspection services for solar energy systems using advanced drone technology. The firm employs a network of drone pilots equipped with thermographic cameras to conduct inspections of photovoltaic plants. After capturing infrared images, the data is analyzed using a combination of automated software and expert human evaluation to identify yield-reducing defects, such as damaged modules and defective strings. Customers receive a detailed report outlining the condition of their solar systems, identified issues, and recommendations for maintenance services, along with their potential financial benefits. Ucair also offers repair services for solar systems, enhancing the overall efficiency and performance of solar energy installations. As of February 2020, the company operates as a subsidiary of innogy Ventures GmbH, further supporting its growth and innovation in the renewable energy sector.

easyOptimize GmbH

Seed Round in 2017
easyOptimize GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Essen, Germany, develops an innovative energy management platform called Shine. This platform is designed to optimize energy production and consumption within households, promoting greater independence from traditional energy suppliers. Through its product ShineSmart, the company helps users monitor daily energy usage, identify energy inefficiencies, and make informed decisions regarding power and heat production, battery storage, and electric mobility solutions. easyOptimize aims to empower individuals to generate and manage their own energy while facilitating local trading of self-produced power among community members. By focusing on customer insights and adaptability, easyOptimize seeks to cultivate interconnected energy communities and lead the way toward a decentralized energy future. The company operates as a subsidiary of GreenCom Networks AG.

MotionWerk

Seed Round in 2017
MotionWerk GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Essen, Germany, specializes in developing blockchain-based software solutions for mobility infrastructure. The company offers innovative products such as Share&Charge, a decentralized protocol that facilitates electric vehicle (EV) charging, transactions, and data sharing among users. Additionally, MotionWerk has created the Open Mobility System, which serves as a decentralized and open digital infrastructure for mobility services. It engages in workshops focused on blockchain disruption and provides consulting services to enhance mobility solutions. The company aims to build a robust B2B network that promotes sustainable and shared mobility through green electricity and digital technology. By leveraging its expertise in blockchain, MotionWerk is committed to expanding the EV charging infrastructure and enabling seamless mobility across various transportation means.

BigchainDB

Series A in 2016
BigchainDB is a developer of a blockchain database software that offers decentralization, immutability, and native asset capabilities. The platform enables the automation of business processes across various industries, including identity management, intellectual property, supply chain logistics, energy, the Internet of Things (IoT), and financial ecosystems. By providing unique solutions tailored for developers, startups, and enterprises, BigchainDB supports the creation and deployment of large-scale applications, allowing users to effectively build their concepts and platforms. The company's focus on facilitating the registration and transfer of assets enhances its value proposition in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Bidgely

Series B in 2015
Bidgely is a technology company that provides disaggregation-powered utility analytics and customer engagement solutions. Its cloud-based HomeBeat platform disaggregates household energy consumption to the appliance level, enabling utilities to understand usage patterns and tailor energy programs. The UtilityAI Platform delivers customer energy insights based on actual energy habits, supporting energy efficiency initiatives and consumer engagement for utilities serving residential customers worldwide. Bidgely uses machine learning to monitor energy data and identify appliance-level usage, helping utilities manage peak demand and reimagine customer engagement. The company serves utilities globally and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an office in Bengaluru, India.

Buildots

Founded in 2018, Buildots is a technology company that specializes in transforming construction sites into data-driven digital environments. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes with minimal effort by turning every site walk into valuable process data. The solution offers AI-powered progress tracking, predictive analytics, and real-time reporting to improve project outcomes and operational efficiency.
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