RWE
VC Fund
Essen, Germany
RWE is a VC fund in Essen focused on Energy and Clean Energy. RWE has reliably supplied people and companies with electricity for more than 120 years – night and day. Many of us take electricity for granted. As well as the fact that it comes out of our sockets at any time. And we can, because power generators like RWE make sure that it does – with clean, secure and affordable electricity.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries RWE invests in
Stages RWE invests in
Countries RWE invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.4M–$150M
- Series B
- $17M–$470M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 5 (36%)
- Clean Energy 5 (36%)
- Renewable Energy 5 (36%)
- Information Technology 3 (21%)
- Bitcoin 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (29%)
- Series B 3 (21%)
- Funding Round 3 (21%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (14%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Country
- Germany 6 (43%)
- United States 5 (36%)
- Sweden 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Catherine Wainwright
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Javier Moret
Head of Global LNG
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Head of Global LNG | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Matthias Hartung
CEO and President
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CEO and President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Paul Maley
Head of LNG Supply & Origination
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Head of LNG Supply & Origination | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Uwe Tigges
Member of Executive Board
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Member of Executive Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald AI creates a platform that enables AI data centers to adjust power consumption from electricity grids dynamically. This system orchestrates computing loads across data centers to bolster grid reliability. The technology aims to advance AI innovation while ensuring power affordability and electric system stability. | $150M / Series A / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Proxima Fusion is a fusion energy company developing stellarator-based fusion power plants to deliver safe, carbon-free, and commercially viable electricity. The company focuses on commercializing quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators, a type of magnetic confinement fusion reactor designed to provide continuous and stable plasma operation. ProximaFusion collaborates closely with research institutions, industrial partners, and energy companies across Europe through the Alpha Alliance, a consortium established to scale the manufacturing and engineering capabilities needed for commercial fusion. The company leverages scientific breakthroughs from the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator while developing proprietary engineering, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to industrialize fusion power generation. | $470.1M / Series B / Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Amprion is a transmission system operator. | Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| Amprion is a transmission system operator. | $879.8M / Dec 18, 2024 | ||
| BitOoda is an agency-only brokerage firm specifically for digital assets. | Series A / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| BigchainDB is a blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets. BigchainDB allows for the deployment of large-scale applications in a variety of use cases and industries from intellectual property and identity to supply chain, IoT and artificial intelligence. BigchainDB provides unique solutions for developers,start-ups and enterprises to successfully build their concepts, platforms and applications as big as they can dream. | $3.4M / Series A / Sep 27, 2016 | ||
| Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of a sustainable, low carbon economy by helping businesses, governments and organisations across the globe to reduce carbon emissions and increase resource efficiency. We have a global team of more than 200 sustainability experts, including engineers, financiers and policy specialists, and almost twodecades of experience in the climate change sector. We reinvest surpluses from group commercial activities into our mission. | $8.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 11, 2016 | ||
| Greenergetic - what they stand for is full service for you and your customers, They support you in using the opportunities on the renewable energy market in a simple and efficient manner. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 17, 2016 | ||
| Stem brings and optimizes energy consumption to business through its distributed storage technology.Since 2009, Stem has been analyzing how various types of businesses use electricity and how they are charged for it. The company uses this information to design a solution that protects companies from unnecessarily high electricity costs withoutrequiring any changes to the way they run their businesses. Stem combines big data, predictive analytics, and energy storage to reduce electric costs for businesses and in aggregate, deliver services to the grid. | $15M / Series C / May 25, 2016 | ||
| Bidgely (which means "electricity" in Hindi) is an energetic and innovative startup working on something that has never been done before. They have developed ground-breaking analytics that can itemize home energy usage data to the appliance level without using any plug-level monitors. Now, they are setting out to deliver this technologyto millions of households across the world and help save energy on a large scale. | $16.6M / Series B / Nov 02, 2015 | ||
| See all 14 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does RWE invest in?
RWE invests primarily in Energy, Clean Energy and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is RWE's check size?
RWE typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$150M at Series A and $17M–$470M 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 RWE participates in.
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Who are the partners at RWE?
The team at RWE includes Catherine Wainwright (Chief Operating Officer), Javier Moret (Head of Global LNG) and Matthias Hartung (CEO and President), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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