# Ponooc

> Ponooc is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing Energy, Electric Vehicle and Logistics. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ponooc/
- Website: http://ponooc.vc/

Ponooc is a venture capital fund based in the Netherlands with a focus on sustainable energy or mobility related ventures. We are open to both early and later stage venture deals where the invested capital is used to help the entrepreneurs and their team take the next step. We believe in a hands-on approach and work closely together with managementwhere we think we can add value, either through previous experience or our extensive network. Our geographical focus is Europe.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.5M–$12M |
| Series B | $10M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 12% |
| Electric Vehicle | 4 | 12% |
| Logistics | 3 | 9% |
| Transportation | 3 | 9% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 15 | 44% |
| Series A | 5 | 15% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 9% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 12 | 35% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laka | Laka is an InsurTech startup that develops a peer-to-peer bicycle insurance platform to protect bikes. It provides actual coverage by a community of like-minded people who are collectively given a fair price that covers theft, vandalism, damage, and loss as well as provides recovery advice and treatments. | $10.3M | Series B | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| EST-Floattech | EST-Floattech is a fast-growing international supplier of high qualified lithium battery and energy storage solutions. | $4.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Laka | Laka is an InsurTech startup that develops a peer-to-peer bicycle insurance platform to protect bikes. It provides actual coverage by a community of like-minded people who are collectively given a fair price that covers theft, vandalism, damage, and loss as well as provides recovery advice and treatments. |  |  | Oct 23, 2023 |  |
| Laka | Laka is an InsurTech startup that develops a peer-to-peer bicycle insurance platform to protect bikes. It provides actual coverage by a community of like-minded people who are collectively given a fair price that covers theft, vandalism, damage, and loss as well as provides recovery advice and treatments. | $5.6M |  | Oct 23, 2023 |  |
| ChargeX | ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany. | $12.5M | Series B | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| UNIT 1 | UNIT 1 is an innovation company for action sports.They are riders, designers, engineers and business builders driven to create game-changing innovation through experience-based products. Soundshield, their first product, is an action sports helmet with detachable wireless headphones. It redefines music within action sports. | $3.5M | Series A | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Bringly | Bringly is a logtech company that provides a sustainable and Same-Day delivery service for omnichannel retailers and e-commerce. Our sustainable shipping network of bicycle couriers and electric vehicles (EVs) makes it possible to deliver quickly, locally and completely CO2-neutral. We do this within one hour or the same evening. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Vianova | Vianova is a platform for managing connected and shared mobility in the urban public realm. It helps cities better manage their urban space, starting with mobility services. Along with the benefits of new mobility solutions, cities face growing challenges as they integrate fast-developing modes of transportation. Its company's technology helpscities and mobility operators better collaborate and communicate, in order to foster more liveable and breathable streets. | $6.4M | Series A | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| Eco-Movement | Eco-Movement is an independent data provider of charging stations for electric vehicles that is used to find charging station in a good way. |  | Series A | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| Ride check | Ride Check is an online application that offers electric scooters to reach their destination on time to its customers. | $11.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 16, 2022 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Ponooc invest in?

Ponooc invests primarily in Energy, Electric Vehicle and Logistics startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ponooc's check size?

Ponooc typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$12M at Series A and $10M–$22M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ponooc participates in.

### When did Ponooc last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ponooc closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 34 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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