# Crispin Leick

> Crispin Leick is a Series A investor at EnBW New Ventures backing Clean Energy. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EnBW New Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enbw-new-ventures)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crispin-leick-venture-capital/

Crispin Leick is a Series A investor at EnBW New Ventures focused on Clean Energy and Renewable Energy. Crispin is driving & managing his second CVC fund EnBW New Ventures since the beginning of 2016. Focus is on entrepreneurially driven companies that develop new business models and technologies for the converging energy, mobility and urban life markets. From 2008 until 2015, Crispin has built and lead Innogy Venture Capital, from 2008 to 2010as an internal CVC unit within RWE Innogy and after a spin-off from 2011 to 2015 as independent hybrid VC fund with the two investors RWE Innogy and CEE Holding. Crispin has over 20 years of experience in the transformation of the energy markets with a focus on venture capital transactions, portfolio management as well as renewable technologies and project development. Previously, Crispin worked at the wind-turbine manufacturer REpower Systems (today Senvion), the trading house Enron during the liberalization wave in the European energy markets and the natural gas importer Wingas, when the monopoly of Ruhrgas became under threat. Crispin holds a Master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and an MBA from the GSB Chicago.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 25% |
| Renewable Energy | 2 | 25% |
| Energy Management | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Local | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cleverciti | Cleverciti was founded in 2012 by Thomas Hohenacker, a seasoned and respected global entrepreneur, with a vision to simplify and modernize outdoor parking operations with an intelligent, easy-to-deploy solution designed to increase awareness, decrease traffic and environmental impact, and ease overall parking management. Since shipping their firstintegrated sensor system, Cleverciti has solidified its place as the technology leader in smart parking solutions and services. As the only technology provider that combines intelligent parking detection and driver communication into one platform, Cleverciti enables customers to offer data capture and analysis to multiple divisions with an organization including operations, marketing, and customer service.Cleverciti has offices across the globe including European headquarters in Munich, Germany, and North American headquarters in Chicago. Their global sales, professional services and customer support organizations are designed to meet customer needs around the world. With deployments in retail, smart city, healthcare, entertainment, education, transportation and gaming, Cleverciti is defining the future of smart parking with IoT-enabled solutions. | $5.6M | Series A | Oct 14, 2020 |  |
| Cleverciti | Cleverciti was founded in 2012 by Thomas Hohenacker, a seasoned and respected global entrepreneur, with a vision to simplify and modernize outdoor parking operations with an intelligent, easy-to-deploy solution designed to increase awareness, decrease traffic and environmental impact, and ease overall parking management. Since shipping their firstintegrated sensor system, Cleverciti has solidified its place as the technology leader in smart parking solutions and services. As the only technology provider that combines intelligent parking detection and driver communication into one platform, Cleverciti enables customers to offer data capture and analysis to multiple divisions with an organization including operations, marketing, and customer service.Cleverciti has offices across the globe including European headquarters in Munich, Germany, and North American headquarters in Chicago. Their global sales, professional services and customer support organizations are designed to meet customer needs around the world. With deployments in retail, smart city, healthcare, entertainment, education, transportation and gaming, Cleverciti is defining the future of smart parking with IoT-enabled solutions. | $4.2M | Series A | May 08, 2019 |  |
| 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. | $2.7M | Series A | Aug 07, 2018 |  |
| Theva | Theva is the market leader in HTS coatings and has been developing flexible coated conductors for electrical power engineering for more than a decade. Thanks to a proprietary, independent technology access and a broad patent portfolio Theva is taking a leading role in coated conductor technology. Theva also develops processes and coatings in thephysical coating technology, e.g. for fuel cells, photovoltaic, and sensors.The equipment manufacturing unit is based on a team of highly experienced professionals. Theva is designing specialized equipment and components for physical coating and is leading in the quality control of superconductor coatings. Theva‘s instruments are setting standards in HTS quality assurance worldwide. |  | Series C | Jun 22, 2017 |  |
| Cleverciti | Cleverciti was founded in 2012 by Thomas Hohenacker, a seasoned and respected global entrepreneur, with a vision to simplify and modernize outdoor parking operations with an intelligent, easy-to-deploy solution designed to increase awareness, decrease traffic and environmental impact, and ease overall parking management. Since shipping their firstintegrated sensor system, Cleverciti has solidified its place as the technology leader in smart parking solutions and services. As the only technology provider that combines intelligent parking detection and driver communication into one platform, Cleverciti enables customers to offer data capture and analysis to multiple divisions with an organization including operations, marketing, and customer service.Cleverciti has offices across the globe including European headquarters in Munich, Germany, and North American headquarters in Chicago. Their global sales, professional services and customer support organizations are designed to meet customer needs around the world. With deployments in retail, smart city, healthcare, entertainment, education, transportation and gaming, Cleverciti is defining the future of smart parking with IoT-enabled solutions. | $15M |  | May 03, 2017 |  |
| 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. | $1.4M | Seed | Apr 05, 2016 |  |
| Enercast | enercast is a leading technology provider for applied artificial intelligence and the digital transformation of renewable energy.Its self-learning software-as-a-service products deliver accurate power forecasts for wind power and solar plants, thus enabling the integration of renewable energy into power grids and energy markets worldwide. Itsintegration platform for the industrial application of artificial intelligence and big data supports its customers’ decision-making processes, fulfilling enercast’s promise: “Weather insights that put you in control”.Founded in 2011, enercast is headquartered in Kassel, Germany and delivers 100 million forecast data points to 20 countries around the globe, covering 160 GW of installed capacity. enercast GmbH is privately owned and counts innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds among its shareholders. |  |  | Dec 08, 2014 |  |
| Enercast | enercast is a leading technology provider for applied artificial intelligence and the digital transformation of renewable energy.Its self-learning software-as-a-service products deliver accurate power forecasts for wind power and solar plants, thus enabling the integration of renewable energy into power grids and energy markets worldwide. Itsintegration platform for the industrial application of artificial intelligence and big data supports its customers’ decision-making processes, fulfilling enercast’s promise: “Weather insights that put you in control”.Founded in 2011, enercast is headquartered in Kassel, Germany and delivers 100 million forecast data points to 20 countries around the globe, covering 160 GW of installed capacity. enercast GmbH is privately owned and counts innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds among its shareholders. | $2.5M | Series A | Apr 23, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SPDG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spdg) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Westly Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-westly-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BayBG Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baybg) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecapital-entrepreneurial-partners-ag) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EnBW New Ventures

VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Germany

ENV supports entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of the corporate investor EnBW. The startups that we invest in engage and scale with EnBW in its transformation towards becoming a sustainable and digital infrastructureoperator.

5 contacts available at EnBW New Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Holger Wagner | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holger-wagner |
| Jennifer Diedrichs | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-diedrichs |
| Theo Schulte | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theo-schulte |
| Theo Schulte | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theo-schulte-f471 |
| Crispin Leick | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crispin-leick |

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## FAQ

### What does Crispin Leick invest in?

Crispin Leick invests primarily in Clean Energy, Renewable Energy and Energy Management startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Crispin Leick last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Crispin Leick closed in Oct 2020. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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