# RWE

> RWE is a VC fund in Essen backing Clean Energy and Renewable Energy. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Germany
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwe-/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rwe_ag
- Website: https://www.group.rwe/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwegroup/

RWE is a VC fund in Essen focused on Clean Energy and Renewable 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clean Energy | 5 | 38% |
| Renewable Energy | 5 | 38% |
| Energy | 4 | 31% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 46% |
| United States | 4 | 31% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Catherine Wainwright | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-wainwright-b230 |
| Javier Moret | Head of Global LNG | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javier-moret |
| Matthias Hartung | CEO and President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthias-hartung |
| Paul Maley | Head of LNG Supply & Origination | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-maley |
| Uwe Tigges | Member of Executive Board | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uwe-tigges |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Proxima Fusion | 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 | Amprion is a transmission system operator. |  |  | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Amprion | Amprion is a transmission system operator. | $879.8M |  | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| BitOoda | BitOoda is an agency-only brokerage firm specifically for digital assets. |  | Series A | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| BigchainDB | 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 |  |
| Carbon Trust | 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 |  | Jul 11, 2016 |  |
| Greenergetic | 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. |  |  | Jun 17, 2016 |  |
| Stem | 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 | 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 |  |
| Vitronet Group | Vitronet Group, an Essen, Germany-based maker of glass fiber infrastructure products. vitronet specializes in the expansion of broadband networks and offers a full range of services from project management consultancy to maintenance and servicing. The company currently has 130 employees maintaining and services over 10,000km of glass fiber cablesincluding for companies in the RWE Deutschland Group. |  |  | Jul 11, 2011 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecapital-entrepreneurial-partners-ag) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [redalpine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redalpine-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Apollo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-global-management-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BASF Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basf-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bosch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bosch) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does RWE invest in?

RWE invests primarily in Clean Energy, Renewable Energy and Energy startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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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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