SET Ventures
SET Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that invests in European energy and renewable sector companies across early to growth stages. It backs digital technology-enabled solutions aimed at carbon-free energy systems, including energy generation, distribution and storage, energy efficiency, and smart energy applications in buildings, industry, mobility, and infrastructure. The firm targets investments in technology-enabled clean energy and sustainability initiatives, often with a focus on smart grid, energy storage, and EV/green building applications, and seeks to support portfolio companies with strategic guidance, including board participation. Typical check sizes range from approximately €0.5 million to €6 million per company over the life of participation. SET Ventures concentrates on Europe and prioritizes companies that combine software and hardware components to create scalable energy solutions.
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Past deals in Renewables
Frequenz
Venture Round in 2024
Frequenz develops technologies to optimize renewable energy production and procurement using AI, IoT, and battery storage. The company offers an autonomous EDGE platform for deploying, optimizing, and operating microgrid infrastructures and enabling decentralized finance markets. It provides energy solutions such as flat rate energy, power storage energy, direct marketing energy, and fleet energy. By automating the renewable production value chain, Frequenz aims to help partners reduce electricity costs and improve revenue and profitability.
ETPA
Venture Round in 2024
ETPA operates a trading platform specifically designed for short-term electricity trades, emphasizing participants' capacity. The company provides a user-friendly platform that allows trade participants to execute trades independently or via third parties. ETPA's offerings include intraday, day-ahead, weekly, and weekend contracts, enabling participants to optimize their energy portfolios and leverage flexibility in production processes. Committed to supporting a more sustainable energy future, ETPA ensures transparency and independence within the short-term electricity market, facilitating liquidity and efficiency for its users.
Fuchs & Eule
Venture Round in 2024
Fuchs & Eule specializes in renewable energy consulting services, focusing on enhancing energy efficiency in buildings to reduce Germany's CO2 emissions. The company offers tailored renovation plans, cost estimates, and funding support.
instagrid
Series C in 2024
Instagrid GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in the manufacturing of portable battery storage systems designed to create mobile power infrastructures for various sectors, including construction, event technology, landscaping, and public services. The company's innovative products feature a unique architecture of stacked micro-level inverters, which allows them to be smaller, lighter, and more powerful than traditional battery systems. Instagrid's portable power solutions provide reliable access to clean, affordable, and silent electricity, effectively replacing environmentally harmful petrol and diesel generators. By enabling users to operate efficiently at temporary locations, Instagrid plays a crucial role in meeting the energy demands of industries with challenging power requirements.
Tibo Energy
Seed Round in 2024
Tibo Energy develops advanced software that optimizes renewable energy usage and improves grid balance. Its algorithms enable energy professionals to manage microgrids and energy hubs efficiently, reducing carbon footprint while enhancing financial returns.
Green Eagle Solutions
Series A in 2023
Green Eagle Solutions provides SCADA software solutions for renewable energy assets, developing platforms to monitor and analyze performance and to operate turbines automatically. Its offerings include CompactSCADA, Solar PV Plant SCADA, and Wind Farm SCADA, plus an Automatic WTG Reset Tool and a Data Gateway that collects, interprets, normalizes, and delivers data from various OEM sites to monitoring and control platforms. The Renewable Assets Monitoring Platform (RAMP) supports plant and components monitoring, events and data logging, alarms, data analysis, CMMS, remote control, and reporting. Founded in 2012 and based in Madrid, Spain, the company delivers a unified, multi-technology system across wind, solar, and substations to improve asset availability and extend asset life.
HYDROGRID
Series A in 2023
Founded in Vienna, Austria in 2016, HYDROGRID develops software for optimal hydro power control and dispatch. Its SaaS platform enables power plant owners to increase revenues by aligning production with power markets while reducing daily operational workload.
Sensorfact
Venture Round in 2023
Sensorfact offers an intelligent energy management system for industrial and SME operations. It uses low-cost, non-intrusive wireless sensors to measure real-time energy consumption, monitor energy flows, and track savings. The platform provides reporting, analysis, and full integration of data to enable actions that reduce energy use, cut energy bills, and lower carbon emissions. It is designed as a practical sustainability advisor, translating efficiency goals into clear, actionable steps without relying on complex equipment or software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, Sensorfact focuses on making energy management straightforward for manufacturing and related sectors.
vilisto
Series A in 2023
vilisto develops self-learning heating control systems and thermostats for offices and other large facilities. The core product combines thermostats with presence detection and room climate sensors, digital heating management software, and a centralized web portal for property portfolio control. The self-learning algorithms automatically adjust temperatures to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions while maintaining occupant comfort, enabling automated demand-based heating. The system is suitable for offices, schools, public facilities and heritage sites, and aims to simplify energy savings for building operators. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
ESFORIN
Series B in 2023
ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
Frequenz
Venture Round in 2022
Frequenz develops technologies to optimize renewable energy production and procurement using AI, IoT, and battery storage. The company offers an autonomous EDGE platform for deploying, optimizing, and operating microgrid infrastructures and enabling decentralized finance markets. It provides energy solutions such as flat rate energy, power storage energy, direct marketing energy, and fleet energy. By automating the renewable production value chain, Frequenz aims to help partners reduce electricity costs and improve revenue and profitability.
ETPA
Venture Round in 2022
ETPA operates a trading platform specifically designed for short-term electricity trades, emphasizing participants' capacity. The company provides a user-friendly platform that allows trade participants to execute trades independently or via third parties. ETPA's offerings include intraday, day-ahead, weekly, and weekend contracts, enabling participants to optimize their energy portfolios and leverage flexibility in production processes. Committed to supporting a more sustainable energy future, ETPA ensures transparency and independence within the short-term electricity market, facilitating liquidity and efficiency for its users.
Flexidao
Series A in 2022
Flexidao develops software that uses blockchain technology to trace and certify electricity from production to consumption. This enables businesses to understand the carbon footprint of their energy usage, facilitating the procurement of cleaner electricity and driving operational decarbonization.
HYDROGRID
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in Vienna, Austria in 2016, HYDROGRID develops software for optimal hydro power control and dispatch. Its SaaS platform enables power plant owners to increase revenues by aligning production with power markets while reducing daily operational workload.
instagrid
Series B in 2022
Instagrid GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in the manufacturing of portable battery storage systems designed to create mobile power infrastructures for various sectors, including construction, event technology, landscaping, and public services. The company's innovative products feature a unique architecture of stacked micro-level inverters, which allows them to be smaller, lighter, and more powerful than traditional battery systems. Instagrid's portable power solutions provide reliable access to clean, affordable, and silent electricity, effectively replacing environmentally harmful petrol and diesel generators. By enabling users to operate efficiently at temporary locations, Instagrid plays a crucial role in meeting the energy demands of industries with challenging power requirements.
Sensorfact
Venture Round in 2022
Sensorfact offers an intelligent energy management system for industrial and SME operations. It uses low-cost, non-intrusive wireless sensors to measure real-time energy consumption, monitor energy flows, and track savings. The platform provides reporting, analysis, and full integration of data to enable actions that reduce energy use, cut energy bills, and lower carbon emissions. It is designed as a practical sustainability advisor, translating efficiency goals into clear, actionable steps without relying on complex equipment or software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, Sensorfact focuses on making energy management straightforward for manufacturing and related sectors.
Green Eagle Solutions
Series A in 2021
Green Eagle Solutions provides SCADA software solutions for renewable energy assets, developing platforms to monitor and analyze performance and to operate turbines automatically. Its offerings include CompactSCADA, Solar PV Plant SCADA, and Wind Farm SCADA, plus an Automatic WTG Reset Tool and a Data Gateway that collects, interprets, normalizes, and delivers data from various OEM sites to monitoring and control platforms. The Renewable Assets Monitoring Platform (RAMP) supports plant and components monitoring, events and data logging, alarms, data analysis, CMMS, remote control, and reporting. Founded in 2012 and based in Madrid, Spain, the company delivers a unified, multi-technology system across wind, solar, and substations to improve asset availability and extend asset life.
ESFORIN
Series A in 2021
ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
MicoShade
Series H in 2020
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
instagrid
Series A in 2020
Instagrid GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in the manufacturing of portable battery storage systems designed to create mobile power infrastructures for various sectors, including construction, event technology, landscaping, and public services. The company's innovative products feature a unique architecture of stacked micro-level inverters, which allows them to be smaller, lighter, and more powerful than traditional battery systems. Instagrid's portable power solutions provide reliable access to clean, affordable, and silent electricity, effectively replacing environmentally harmful petrol and diesel generators. By enabling users to operate efficiently at temporary locations, Instagrid plays a crucial role in meeting the energy demands of industries with challenging power requirements.
General Fusion
Series E in 2019
General Fusion Inc., established in 2002 and headquartered in Burnaby, Canada, specializes in developing commercial Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF), a hybrid fusion method combining magnetic confinement and inertial confinement principles. The company focuses on creating utility-scale fusion power using its patent-pending MTF concept, which has the potential to provide clean, safe, and economical energy. General Fusion develops key subsystems such as plasma injectors, acoustic drivers, and liquid metal vortex compression tests to advance its MTF technology. Backed by a global syndicate of investors, industry leaders, and technology pioneers, General Fusion aims to demonstrate and commercialize its innovative fusion power plants by the end of the decade.
Flexidao
Seed Round in 2019
Flexidao develops software that uses blockchain technology to trace and certify electricity from production to consumption. This enables businesses to understand the carbon footprint of their energy usage, facilitating the procurement of cleaner electricity and driving operational decarbonization.
MicoShade
Series G in 2019
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
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.
depsys
Series B in 2019
DEPsys is a Swiss technology company based in Puidoux, located on the shores of Lake Geneva in the Lavaux region, known for its vineyard terraces. The company specializes in developing modular systems for power grids, focusing on integrating renewable energy sources like photovoltaic systems and wind turbines into traditional low-voltage electricity networks. Its network optimization platform is designed to measure, monitor, and control the low-voltage grid, allowing energy providers to adapt to the challenges posed by decentralized production and increased energy loads. By offering innovative solutions, DEPsys aims to support the evolution of energy systems in response to the growing demand for sustainable energy practices.
GreenFlux
Series B in 2018
GreenFlux is a company that provides an eMobility platform aimed at optimizing the management of electric vehicle (EV) charging networks. With a decade of experience in the international EV market, GreenFlux supports energy companies, network operators, and automotive stakeholders by facilitating remote management of charging stations, processing transactions, and adjusting charging processes in accordance with local electricity grid capacity and energy generation. The company's software streamlines billing operations and revenue management, monitors real-time charging behavior, and enhances grid capacity through a cloud-based system. Operating in over 21 countries across five continents, GreenFlux has established an ecosystem with more than 28,000 connected charge points, contributing to the acceleration of EV adoption.
MicoShade
Series F in 2018
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
Limejump
Series A in 2017
Limejump, established in 2012 and headquartered in London, specializes in operating a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform that optimizes energy market participation for customers with electricity-generating or consuming assets in the UK. The company's platform integrates cloud-based software, smart devices, and analytical tools to connect assets, send signals, and analyze performance. Limejump offers services such as access to the Balancing Mechanism, Power Purchase Agreements, and frequency response products. By leveraging big data analytics and insights, the company empowers businesses and generators to create new revenue streams and contribute to a greener energy future. Limejump connects customers to National Grid's demand response programs, compensating them for shifting or reducing energy usage to maintain grid balance. As of 2019, Limejump operates as a subsidiary of Shell Petroleum.
GreenCom Networks
Series B in 2017
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.
MicoShade
Series E in 2017
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
Elmodis
Funding Round in 2017
Elmodis enhances energy efficiency and operating performance of electrically-powered industrial machinery. It offers an integrated hardware-software solution for real-time remote monitoring, enabling manufacturers and users to track machine performance. Founded by seasoned engineers with over 15 years in machine monitoring and diagnostics, Elmodis innovates using current and voltage measurements from electric engines.
Sonnen
Series D in 2016
Sonnen is a developer of solar-based energy storage systems that provides clean and affordable energy solutions for residential homes, agricultural farms, and commercial enterprises. Established in 2011, the company launched the Sonnenbatterie, one of the first intelligent lithium storage systems in the German and Austrian markets. Sonnen's products not only focus on energy storage but also include features such as active energy management, smart metering, and integration with virtual power plants. These systems allow users to optimize energy use, save money by utilizing energy generated from solar photovoltaic systems or the grid, and manage their home automation platforms effectively.
MicoShade
Venture Round in 2016
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
General Fusion
Venture Round in 2015
General Fusion Inc., established in 2002 and headquartered in Burnaby, Canada, specializes in developing commercial Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF), a hybrid fusion method combining magnetic confinement and inertial confinement principles. The company focuses on creating utility-scale fusion power using its patent-pending MTF concept, which has the potential to provide clean, safe, and economical energy. General Fusion develops key subsystems such as plasma injectors, acoustic drivers, and liquid metal vortex compression tests to advance its MTF technology. Backed by a global syndicate of investors, industry leaders, and technology pioneers, General Fusion aims to demonstrate and commercialize its innovative fusion power plants by the end of the decade.
Sonnen
Series B in 2014
Sonnen is a developer of solar-based energy storage systems that provides clean and affordable energy solutions for residential homes, agricultural farms, and commercial enterprises. Established in 2011, the company launched the Sonnenbatterie, one of the first intelligent lithium storage systems in the German and Austrian markets. Sonnen's products not only focus on energy storage but also include features such as active energy management, smart metering, and integration with virtual power plants. These systems allow users to optimize energy use, save money by utilizing energy generated from solar photovoltaic systems or the grid, and manage their home automation platforms effectively.
MicoShade
Series D in 2014
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
MicoShade
Series C in 2012
MicroShade is a Danish cleantech company founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Danish Technological Institute. At MicroShade they have developed a passive membrane that, when put in between a 2- or 3-layer glass, provides optimal solar shading. At the same time it ensures the best possible view out and pleasant daylight conditions. Together, these parameters raise the quality of the indoor climate significantly.
NGenTec
Venture Round in 2010
NGenTec is a spinout company from the University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering, founded in 2009 by Dr. Markus Mueller and Dr. Alasdair McDonald. The company specializes in the manufacture of direct drive permanent magnet generators, primarily targeting the renewable energy sector, particularly wind energy generation. NGenTec's generators offer a compact and lightweight design that reduces manufacturing, assembly, installation, and transportation costs while enhancing energy yield. Through its innovative technology, the company aims to establish itself as a leading supplier in the growing renewable energy market.
PhotoSolar
Venture Round in 2010
PhotoSolar A/S specializes in developing and marketing advanced, transparent solar shading and photovoltaic solutions. Our mission is to create a good working environment and reduce energy consumption in modern buildings with large glass facades, using aesthetic and maintenance-free solar shading. PhotoSolar is a technology and knowledge-based company working in partnership with a number of knowledge centres, including the Danish Technological Institute. The company was founded in 2003.
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