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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.