# Julia Padberg

> Julia Padberg is a seed investor at SET Ventures (Amsterdam) backing Energy and Solar. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SET Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/set-ventures)
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 86%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-padberg-a31b3525/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Julia67538878
- Website: https://www.setventures.com/

Julia Padberg is a seed investor at SET Ventures in Amsterdam focused on Energy and Solar. Julia is Principal at SET Ventures, which she joined in early 2016. She serves on the supervisory boards of Energyworx, GreenCom, GreenFlux, DEPsys and FlexiDAO.Before joining SET Ventures, Julia worked as a corporate finance advisor at Kempen & Co and Triple Bridge. During that time she advised on M&A transactions, IPOs, investments andfundraising processes in the European energy sector. She was also involved in establishing new energy projects, building business cases, organising and structuring financing and advising on growth strategies.Julia holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental & Resource Economics from UCL (University of London), UK.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 29% |
| Solar | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |
| Commercial | 1 | 14% |
| Industrial | 1 | 14% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 29% |
| Norway | 1 | 14% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Decade Energy | Decade Energy is a logistics electrification and smart energy solution provider | $25.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Spoor | At Spoor, we believe that biodiversity will be the next key metric for monitoring, managing and reporting environmental impacts. Today, the lack of suitable solutions to monitor biodiversity efficiently and remotely is threatening both biodiversity and the progress to environmentally-sustainable infrastructure. How can industries meet themuch-needed goals of a green shift, while also caring for the biodiversity consequences of its urgent efforts? We are first tackling this challenge by developing an AI-powered software for bird monitoring on wind farms, leveraging existing infrastructure, off-the-shelf hardware and computer vision. Our grand ambition is to enable industry and nature to coexist. | $9.4M | Series A | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Enrise | Enrise is a solar developer specialising in self-consumption for commercial and industrial (C&I) real estate. | $9.1M | Seed | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Sensorfact | Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry. The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant. | $28M | Series B | Jul 19, 2023 |  |
| Sensorfact | Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry. The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant. | $14.3M |  | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| Sensorfact | Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry. The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant. | $14.5M | Series B | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| DEPsys | DEPsys is a Swiss technology company establishing thought leadership in the energy market. It provides evolutive solutions enabling traditional low-voltage electricity networks to cope with the new constraints of decentralized production from renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic systems and wind turbines, as well as emerging storagetechnologies.DEPsys is located in Puidoux in the French-speaking part of Switzerland on the Lake Geneva shore, a region called Lavaux, known for its vineyard terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage Center. | $15M | Series B | Feb 12, 2019 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FORWARD.one](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-one) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Korys](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korys) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AFI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afi-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ananda Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ananda-ventures-gmbh-social-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asterion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asterion-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blume Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-equity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SET Ventures

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Venture capital firm focused on digital technologies for a carbon-free energy system

4 contacts available at SET Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julia Padberg | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-padberg |
| Rene Savelsberg | Partner and co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rene-savelsberg |
| Wouter Jonk | Managing Partner and co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wouter-jonk |
| Hayden Young | Head of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hayden-young |

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## FAQ

### What does Julia Padberg invest in?

Julia Padberg invests primarily in Energy, Solar and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Julia Padberg last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julia Padberg closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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