# SET Ventures

> SET Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing Energy and Renewable Energy. See 71 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 71
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last fund: Sep 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/setventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/set_ventures
- Website: http://www.setventures.com/

SET Ventures is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Venture capital firm focused on digital technologies for a carbon-free energy system

## Contacts

5 contacts available for SET Ventures. Shizune tracks 4 team members at SET Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/set-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.9M–$12M |
| Series B | $8.1M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 18 | 25% |
| Renewable Energy | 11 | 15% |
| Software | 9 | 13% |
| Energy Efficiency | 8 | 11% |
| Internet of Things | 5 | 7% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 15% |
| Series B | 10 | 14% |
| Seed | 9 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 10% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 11 | 15% |
| The Netherlands | 8 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| France | 2 | 3% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julia Padberg | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-padberg |
| Rene Savelsberg | Partner and co-founder | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rene-savelsberg |
| Wouter Jonk | Managing Partner and co-founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wouter-jonk |
| Hayden Young | Head of Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hayden-young |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fuchs & Eule | VALYRIA is an expert in buying and selling apartment buildings. | $11.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| GALVANY | GALVANY is a climate-tech company focused on end-to-end heat pump and energy-management solutions for homes and buildings. | $11.5M | Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Decade Energy | Decade Energy is a logistics electrification and smart energy solution provider | $25.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Metergrid | Metergrid is an energy technology company that provides software and services to plan and execute tenant electricity projects using locally generated solar power for multi-party properties. It offers tools that support economic analysis, technical setup, billing, and digital management of decentralized energy systems for property owners and energyservice providers. The company’s platform integrates project planning, metering technology, and administrative software to help stakeholders manage energy flows and customer contracts. Metergrid also works with partner networks to coordinate installation and operational support for photovoltaic systems. Its offerings aim to simplify the deployment and ongoing administration of tenant electricity models for real estate stakeholders. | $12M | Series A | Jan 29, 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 |  |
| Tibo Energy | Tibo Energy aims to revolutionize energy consumption, generation, and distribution. | $7M | Seed | Jun 27, 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 |  |
| Optics11 | Optics11 is a fast-growing high-tech company that aims to enable the biomaterials research and tissue engineering field with opto-mechanical measurement systems. Originating from the VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, prof. Davide Iannuzzi founded the company in 2011 together with Hans Brouwer. Building on the fiber-top sensingtechnology, they laid the foundation for a range of technological solutions, which are now finding their way into successful products. | $19M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Frequenz | Frequenz manages renewable energy production and procurement through AI, IoT, and battery storage technologies. They develop the open and collaborative EDGE platform for decentralized finance markets. Their EDGE platform provides solutions for the deployment, optimization, and operation of microgrid infrastructures. Their solutions such as flatrate energy, power storage energy, direct marketing energy, and fleet energy. | $10.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| ETPA | 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 |  |

10 of 71 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Munich Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/munich-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [blueworld.group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blueworld-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Braemar Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/braemar-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CNB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/constantia-industries) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FORWARD.one](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-one) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SET Ventures invest in?

SET Ventures invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Software startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SET Ventures's check size?

SET Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.9M–$12M at Series A and $8.1M–$28M 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 SET Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact SET Ventures?

Public channels for SET Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at SET Ventures?

The team at SET Ventures includes Julia Padberg (Partner), Rene Savelsberg (Partner and co-founder) and Wouter Jonk (Managing Partner and co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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