# Alexander Starchenko

> Alexander Starchenko is a seed investor at First Imagine! backing Renewable Energy and Solar. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [First Imagine!](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-imagine-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-starchenko-2b4aa82a/

Alexander Starchenko is a seed investor at First Imagine! in London focused on Renewable Energy and Solar. Alexander Starchenko is the Managing Partner at First Imagine! Ventures. Alexander Starchenko attended Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 100% |
| Solar | 2 | 50% |
| Energy | 2 | 50% |
| GreenTech | 2 | 50% |
| Local | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 50% |
| France | 1 | 25% |
| Austria | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pionierkraft | Pionierkraft develops a sustainable solution that increases the proportion of energy consumed on-site. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in München, Bayern. |  | Series A | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| HelioRec | HelioRec is building floating solar power plants for near-shore locations where half of the global population lives. |  | Seed | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| Lumenaza | The idea for the company came about during a visit to a family celebration in a small village in Franconia. Virtually everyone there generates green electricity. But strangely enough, you could not buy the electricity anywhere, and it was often dependent on non-transparent offers. They thought that an approach that has worked well for food foryears should actually work even better for regional electricity.That idea sparked the development of their software, which uses sophisticated algorithms to ensure a secure and balanced supply of green electricity in regional communities. The software has been operational and available on the market since the beginning of 2014. They have already implemented many projects with municipal utilities, project developers, energy cooperatives and new energy players - initially with the approach of introducing regional electricity products.And in 2016, they developed their software into a “utility in a box” solution and can now offer all the services of an energy service provider in a modular and highly automated way. | $7.9M | Series B | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| HELIOVIS AG | HELIOVIS, an engineering and development company, offers an innovative technology to generate clean Solar Heat for Industrial Purposes (SHIP) in a temperature range from 90°C to 550°C. The technology allows cost advantages of -55% (CAPEX) and -20% OPEX compared to modern glass mirror systems. The technology has reached TRL 7 and has beendemonstrated with a full-size industrial application in Spain since 2017. The company is looking for a strong and entrepreneurial partner for scale up and international roll out.The HELIOtube® is an innovative solar collector for Solar Thermal Power (STP). It is an inflatable tube-shaped structure made of three highly durable, industry proven plastic films with a length of 220 m, an aperture of 7.8 m and a thermal power of 0.9 MWpth. It works in the same way as a parabolic trough by concentrating sunlight on a linear thermal receiver.The collector provides clean thermal energy (industrial heat) in a temperature range of 90°C to over 550°C for up to 24 hours per day. With its highly competitive and stable price levels, it is perfectly suited for e.g. emission-free water desalination and many other industrial processes normally powered by fossil fuels and economically unattractive for solar competitors.The technology is protected by an extensive IP portfolio (12 patent families, 65 patents, and 2 trademarks), all in the entire and unrestricted ownership of the company. |  |  |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Future Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EIT InnoEnergy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kic-innoenergy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NEW KRAFTWERK Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-kraftwerk-technology-ag) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About First Imagine!

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

First Imagine! Ventures is an experienced team of investors, founders and managers. Their mission is to partner with passionate visionaries who have big ideas and global ambition, help them build great companies and, in doing so, make a real difference to people's lives. Their particular interest is within companies developing disruptive deepscience- and engineering-based technologies driving the Energy transition: green power and heat generation, hydrogen, energy storage, power electronics, distributed energy resources, connectivity and visibility in the power sector, demand management, AI and data analytics in the power sector, E-mobility

1 contacts available at First Imagine!.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Starchenko | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-starchenko |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexander Starchenko invest in?

Alexander Starchenko invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Solar and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alexander Starchenko last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexander Starchenko closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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