# Vattenfall

> Vattenfall is a VC fund in Solna backing CleanTech and Clean Energy. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Solna, Sweden
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2020
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vattenfall
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vattenfallgroup
- Website: https://group.vattenfall.com
- Facebook: https://sv-se.facebook.com/vattenfallpressrum

Vattenfall is an energy company produces heat and electricity from six energy sources; wind, hydro, biomass, nuclear, coal, and gas.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Vattenfall. Shizune tracks 20 team members at Vattenfall. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/vattenfall-ab?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.8M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CleanTech | 3 | 38% |
| Clean Energy | 3 | 38% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 38% |
| Solar | 2 | 25% |
| Energy | 2 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 38% |
| Sweden | 1 | 13% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Westenburg | Head of Trade Control | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-westenburg |
| Amira El-Bidawi | Business Developer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amira-el-bidawi |
| Ankur Sobti | Infrastructure Solutions Designer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankur-sobti |
| David Barret | VP of Business Development & Strategic Partnering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-barret |
| Erik Nordgren | Business Area Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-nordgren |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solytic | Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics. | $3.8M | Series A | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Northvolt | Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan. | $11.9M |  | Jan 04, 2019 |  |
| tink | They founded tink because they want to get everyone excited about Connected Home products. They focus on products that are easy to install, attractively priced and offer real added value for the customer. Example 1: In the past, an alarm system cost several thousand euros, today there is a smart security system at tink starting at 150 euros.Example 2: Thanks to smart solutions, your heating automatically shuts off when you open a window or leave home. So you can save up to 30% heating costs.So far, a comparison and advisory platform lacking navigation through the jungle of new products and applications was missing. With tink they have created exactly this platform. tink is your cross-brand contact for your Connected Home and helps you to make your home smart. | $12.5M | Series B | Oct 30, 2018 |  |
| Solytic | Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 06, 2017 |  |
| tink | They founded tink because they want to get everyone excited about Connected Home products. They focus on products that are easy to install, attractively priced and offer real added value for the customer. Example 1: In the past, an alarm system cost several thousand euros, today there is a smart security system at tink starting at 150 euros.Example 2: Thanks to smart solutions, your heating automatically shuts off when you open a window or leave home. So you can save up to 30% heating costs.So far, a comparison and advisory platform lacking navigation through the jungle of new products and applications was missing. With tink they have created exactly this platform. tink is your cross-brand contact for your Connected Home and helps you to make your home smart. | $5M | Series A | Jun 14, 2017 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Romo Wind | Romo Wind is a technology-led product and service company. Their focus is on extracting the full value of wind turbines. The key technology underpinning our offering is the unique and patented iSpin technology based on the spinner anemometer technology invented by DTU Wind Energy in Denmark. Their goal is to make the iSpin technology a standardtechnology for the wind industry. Romo Wind is an independent company even though they are backed by industry heavyweight investors such as Vattenfall and ABB. The Swiss venture fund b-to-v and a Swiss family office complete the shareholder base together with the founders. Romo Wind is headquartered in Switzerland and has operations in Denmark, Germany and Spain. | $5.3M |  | Apr 26, 2013 |  |
| SulfurCell | SulfurCell is a German developer and manufacturer of thin-film, electricity-generating solar modules. Sulfurcell's thin-film modules have demonstrated some of the highest energy conversion efficiencies for thin-film PV. Sulfurcell's product also offers scalability — a crucial component for high-volume supply — bringing the solar industryone step closer to mainstream applications. |  |  | Jan 25, 2007 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SevenVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevenventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ørsted](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dong-energy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EnBW](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enbw) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EWE AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ewe-ag) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EWE AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ewe-ag-0c92) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Vattenfall invest in?

Vattenfall invests primarily in CleanTech, Clean Energy and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vattenfall's check size?

Vattenfall typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vattenfall participates in.

### How do I contact Vattenfall?

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### Who are the partners at Vattenfall?

The team at Vattenfall includes Alexander Westenburg (Head of Trade Control), Amira El-Bidawi (Business Developer) and Ankur Sobti (Infrastructure Solutions Designer), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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