# Johnson Controls

> Johnson Controls is a VC fund in Cork backing Software and Non Profit. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cork, Ireland
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/johnson-controls
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/johnsoncontrol
- Website: http://www.johnsoncontrols.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnsonControls

Johnson Controls is a VC fund in Cork focused on Software and Non Profit. Johnson Controls offers smart buildings that create safe, healthy, and sustainable environments. Johnson Controls operates in building efficiency, automotive experience, and power solutions businesses worldwide. It builds efficiency business designs, produces, markets, and installs integrated heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems; andbuilding management systems, controls, security, and mechanical equipment. It also provides technical services, energy management consulting, and operations of real estate portfolios for the non-residential buildings market. This segment also offers residential air conditioning and heating systems. Its automotive experience business designs and manufactures interior products and systems for passenger cars and light trucks, including vans, pick-up trucks, and sport/crossover utility vehicles. This segment's products and systems include seating systems and components; cockpit systems, such as instrument panels and clusters, information displays, and body controllers; overhead systems, including headliners and electronic convenience features; floor consoles; and door systems. It also produces automotive interior systems for original equipment manufacturers. The company's power solutions business produces lead-acid automotive batteries serving automotive original equipment manufacturers and the general vehicle battery aftermarket. It produces lead-acid batteries, as well as offers absorbent glass mat, nickel-metal-hydride, and lithium-ion battery technologies to power hybrid vehicles.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 35% |
| Non Profit | 4 | 24% |
| Energy Efficiency | 4 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| Energy | 2 | 12% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 4 | 24% |
| Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Series B | 2 | 12% |
| Series C | 2 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 12% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 65% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Norway | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joakim Weidemanis | Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joakim-weidemanis |
| Austin Domenici | vice president and general manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-domenici-4aa8 |
| Buddy Saucier | Vice President, Service and Security & Fire Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buddy-saucier |
| Claude Allain | Vice-President and General Manager Middle-East & Africa | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claude-allain |
| Jerome D. Okarma | Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerome-d-okarma |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Armada | Welcome to the new edge. Armada is the world’s first full-stack edge computing platform, revolutionizing connectivity, compute, and AI solutions where they’re needed most - anywhere on Earth. | $230M | Series B | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Accelsius | Accelsius develops and provides a solution to remove the thermal constraints in computing. Its solutions are based on passive, 2-phase direct-to-chip technology, breaking through the thermal wall and enabling net-zero computing. | $65M | Series B | Jan 12, 2026 |  |
| Enerin | Enerin AS focuses on energy tech, reducing costs with heating and cooling systems for industrial use. | $17.6M | Series A | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| PassiveLogic | PassiveLogic’s mission is to empower people through generative autonomy to solve the world’s largest climate challenges. Buildings are the most complex controlled infrastructure in the world, however, they are often fitted with technologically stagnant and expensive control systems that waste energy and provide sub-optimal occupant comfort. Theconsequence of this inefficiency is that buildings account for more than 40% of the entire world's energy usage. Autonomous buildings are the key to addressing this energy challenge and unlocking the future of cities. PassiveLogic’s autonomous building platform, powered by Quantum - the physics-based digital twin standard for autonomous systems, has proven 30% energy savings compared to conventional control systems. Applying this scalable technology across the entire U.S. building sector alone creates a net savings opportunity of 9.6 Quads per year—the equivalent of taking 1/3 of all U.S. vehicles off the road.PassiveLogic’s team is committed to developing extraordinary products that tackle the most challenging sustainability issues. | $74M | Series C | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Nozomi Networks | Nozomi Networks offers a cybersecurity platform that protects operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and cyber‑physical systems through unified visibility, threat detection, and automated remediation. Nozomi Networks delivers network and endpoint monitoring via sensors such as Guardian (passive OT/IoT network visibility), Arcendpoint agents, and Guardian Air for wireless spectrum insight. It supports data collection in both cloud and on‑prem environments via Vantage and Central Management Console. Advanced analysis tools—Asset Intelligence, Threat Intelligence, Smart Polling, and Vantage IQ—apply AI to classify devices, prioritize vulnerabilities, detect anomalies, and support guided remediation workflows. | $100M | Series E | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee | The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee is to inspire and empower all young people. | $300K | Grant | Sep 29, 2023 |  |
| Greater Milwaukee Urban League | The Urban League emerged from the black migrations, a spontaneous grassroots movement for freedom and opportunity, and is the nation's oldest and biggest community-based organization dedicated to assisting African Americans to reach the economic and social mainstream. | $300K | Grant | Sep 29, 2023 |  |
| Silver Spring Neighborhood Center | Silver Spring Neighborhood Center is a nonprofit organization which helps with healthcare services, welness, and educcation services. | $300K | Grant | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Milwaukee Parks Foundation | Milwaukee Parks Foundation supports Milwaukee County Parks by supplementing operations and improving engagement capacity while nurturing charitable funding and community involvement. | $300K | Grant | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Audette | $1T will be spent annually on energy efficiency upgrades in commercial properties in the next 10 years. Energy managers are struggling to identify cost-effective projects and failing to meet regulatory commitments. Audette unlocks clean investment for large building portfolios by connecting to and analyzing digital utility and building data andproviding the insights needed to uncover millions in potential reductions in operating costs and carbon output. | $9.3M | Seed | Nov 03, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Forward Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-investments-corporate-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Honeywell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/honeywell-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [JCI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jci-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Keysight Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keysight-technologies) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Johnson Controls invest in?

Johnson Controls invests primarily in Software, Non Profit and Energy Efficiency startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Johnson Controls?

The team at Johnson Controls includes Joakim Weidemanis (Chief Executive Officer), Austin Domenici (vice president and general manager) and Buddy Saucier (Vice President, Service and Security & Fire Operations), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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