# WEPA Ventures

> WEPA Ventures is a VC fund in Llangynwyd backing Sustainability, Software and Energy. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Llangynwyd, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wepahygiene/about/
- Website: https://www.wepa.eu/en/wepa-group/new-business-areas/wepa-ventures/

WEPA Ventures is a VC fund in Llangynwyd focused on Sustainability and Software. WEPA Ventures operates as a Family Venture Capital firm of WEPA Group.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$29M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$3.1M |
| Series A | $11M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sustainability | 5 | 29% |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| Energy | 3 | 18% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 18% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 12% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 35% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 12% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| encosa | encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns. | $29.1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Elephant | Elephant in an AI-powered platform for frontline and blue-collar workers. It specializes in training and communication tools for decentralized, frontline workforces in sectors like manufacturing and logistics. Its core AI Coursebuilder converts technical documentation into gamified, mobile-friendly microlearning modules. | $5.9M | Seed | May 11, 2026 |  |
| One.Five | A biotech platform to scale applied material science. | $16.3M | Series A | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Sunhat | Sunhat is an automation tool that combines software engineering and sustainability expertise to help supply chain businesses meet their sustainability goals. It automates the processing of sustainability questionnaires and ESG ratings for suppliers. | $10.9M | Series A | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Tibo Energy | Tibo Energy aims to revolutionize energy consumption, generation, and distribution. | $7M | Seed | Jun 27, 2025 |  |
| beSirius | We support small businesses on their decarbonization journey with expertise and financing. Reach Net Zero. For real. | $3.4M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| EPYR | EPYR is an energy technology company focused on advancing large-scale industrial decarbonization and sovereignty.EPYR Combine innovation and practicality to simplify electrification through innovative thermal energy storage solutions, empowering industries to seamlessly transition to renewable energy for a sustainable future. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| eyva.ai | Time matters. Discover in seconds.Employees spend 3 hours every day only searching for answers. The result? 50% of their searches end up in failure. A total of 2 months a year wasted pointlessly. The worst part? Nonsense, that has no context or relevant information to their entered topic. It's a waste of time, it's a waste of money,it's a waste of nerves - and it turns faster into frustration than one can even spell the word. Can you feel it? Perfect.The omnipotent, the future, the creator of the biggest Product Knowledge Graph of our time, able to connect every important data point from public data like social media or the world wide web. Meaning? Your search request goes wider, deeper, on higher levels. In short: it's efficient, it's successful and turns your products into growth. datazeit reimagines the discovery and helps you to get rid of the 'keyword-hit enter-wait for result-repeat until found or give up' search kind of way you and millions of people lived for so long.Stop looking, start finding. | $2.8M | Seed | Dec 13, 2024 |  |
| encosa | encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| WASE | WASE provides a decentralized sanitation system with the goal of accelerating the global adoption of circular waste treatment. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London. | $7.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 27, 2024 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does WEPA Ventures invest in?

WEPA Ventures invests primarily in Sustainability, Software and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

WEPA Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$29M at Seed, $1.3M–$3.1M at Pre-Seed and $11M–$16M 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 WEPA Ventures participates in.

### When did WEPA Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for WEPA Ventures closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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