Rene Savelsberg
Partner and co-founder @ SET Ventures
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rene Savelsberg is a seed investor at SET Ventures in Amsterdam focused on Energy and Software. Rene Savelsberg is based out of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland and is the Co-Founder and Partner of SET Ventures. Rene previously worked at Philips Consumer Electronics, Amsterdam as a VP, New Business Development. Rene Savelsberg attended the Eindhoven University of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Rene Savelsberg invests in
Stages Rene Savelsberg invests in
Countries Rene Savelsberg invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 4 (44%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (22%)
- SaaS 1 (11%)
- Delivery 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (22%)
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (11%)
Country
- The Netherlands 3 (33%)
- Spain 1 (11%)
- Poland 1 (11%)
- United States 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Tibo Energy
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Tibo Energy aims to revolutionize energy consumption, generation, and distribution. | $7M / Seed / Jun 27, 2025 | |
ETPA
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ETPA is a trade platform for short-term electricity trades, with a focus on the trade participant’s capacity. They provide participants with the means to trade for themselves or through a third party on an accessible platform. Their products and services are intraday, day ahead, week, and weekend contracts. | $5.9M / Nov 11, 2024 | |
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Tibo Energy
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Tibo Energy aims to revolutionize energy consumption, generation, and distribution. | $3.3M / Seed / Jan 10, 2024 | |
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ETPA
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ETPA is a trade platform for short-term electricity trades, with a focus on the trade participant’s capacity. They provide participants with the means to trade for themselves or through a third party on an accessible platform. Their products and services are intraday, day ahead, week, and weekend contracts. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 12, 2022 | |
Flexidao
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Flexidao´s software platform uses blockchain technology to certify and trace electricity from production to consumption, to enable credible and verifiable claims on its carbon footprint, every hour of the day. This enables customers to understand the origin and carbon footprint of the energy they consume across their operations and take action toprocure cleaner electricity and drive decarbonisation of their operations, making 24/7 carbon-free energy a reality. | $6.2M / Series A / Jul 06, 2022 | |
Trunkrs
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Trunkrs is offers same-day delivery to webshops, is investing in the electrification of the distribution and distribution centers. | $15.9M / Series B / Jun 09, 2022 | |
Elmodis
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We improve energy and operating efficiency of electric-powered industrial machines by offering an end-to-end hardware/ software solution that enables manufacturers and end-users to remotely monitor performance of their machines in real time.Elmodis was founded by an experienced team of engineers that had worked for more than 15 years forEuropean industrial customers in the areas of machine monitoring and diagnostics, predictive maintenance andenergy efficiency. During the course of that work the team developed a novel way of machine monitoring based only on measuring current and voltage from electric engines powering those machines. | $4.9M / Apr 09, 2017 | |
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Elmodis
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We improve energy and operating efficiency of electric-powered industrial machines by offering an end-to-end hardware/ software solution that enables manufacturers and end-users to remotely monitor performance of their machines in real time.Elmodis was founded by an experienced team of engineers that had worked for more than 15 years forEuropean industrial customers in the areas of machine monitoring and diagnostics, predictive maintenance andenergy efficiency. During the course of that work the team developed a novel way of machine monitoring based only on measuring current and voltage from electric engines powering those machines. | $4.9M / Seed / Apr 09, 2017 | |
Sefaira
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Sefaira is the leader in software for high-performance building design. Following years of innovation in the application of cloud computing for building design, Sefaira was the first company to introduce real-time design performance analysis to the benefit of architects, engineers and other building designers. With Sefaira, users can analyze andcompare multiple design strategies within a fraction of the time and cost previously required. This includes defining, quantifying, and optimizing the energy, daylighting, water, carbon and financial benefits of relevant design strategies.Sefaira's Real-Time Analysis plugins provide constant feedback on both energy & daylighting metrics as architects work. This frees users to test unlimited design options without worrying about the time or cost of analysis.Sefaira’s Web Apps for architecture and systems are built for comparative and parametric analysis. Cloud computing enables multiple parallel runs with no reduction in speed -- letting you explore options quickly and home in on the best solutions.Sefaira Architecture makes it easy to understand how a design is performing, and helps users connect the dots between geometry, energy use, daylight performance and potential improvements.Sefaira Systems produces high-quality HVAC sizing and energy results directly from architectural Revit and SketchUp models, enabling users to rapidly compare design options and respond to architectural changes.Sefaira’s awards include 2014 Architizer A+ Award, 2014 Architosh AIA Best of Show Award and being included in the 2014 Global Cleantech 100. Sefaira also won Gold at the 2013 Ecosummit award in Berlin as well as the “Green Building Innovation of the Year” award at London’s Ecobuild 2011. It was included in the Red Herring Top 100 Europe list in 2013 and Going Green Global Top 200 private companies in 2012. Sefaira has offices in London and New York. | $10.8M / Series A / Apr 10, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About SET Ventures
Venture capital firm focused on digital technologies for a carbon-free energy system
SET Ventures Contacts
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Julia Padberg
Partner
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Rene Savelsberg
Partner and co-founder
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Wouter Jonk
Managing Partner and co-founder
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Hayden Young
Head of Marketing
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FAQ
What does Rene Savelsberg invest in?
Rene Savelsberg invests primarily in Energy, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Rene Savelsberg last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rene Savelsberg closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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