Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Renewable energy startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026
| Investor | Renewable Energy Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Gabor Cselle | 3 |
| Christian Bach | 3 |
| Andy Booke | 3 |
| David Balensiefen | 3 |
| Philipp Kloeckner | 3 |
| Christoph Ostermann | 2 |
| David Tomás | 2 |
| Julius Göllner | 2 |
| Naruhisa Nakagawa | 2 |
| Bo Wase | 2 |
| Lucas von Fürstenberg | 2 |
| Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
| Lukasz Gadowski | 2 |
| Juergen Mayerhofer | 2 |
| François Derbaix | 2 |
| Ruben Ferreiro | 2 |
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 2 |
| Bhavik Bajaj | 2 |
| Neil Norman | 1 |
| Jon Olsson | 1 |
| Chris Heminway | 1 |
| Maximilian Both | 1 |
| MARKUS W. VOIGT | 1 |
| John Ward | 1 |
| Carsten Gropp | 1 |
| Rahul Munjal | 1 |
| Thomas Bein | 1 |
| Martin Goetzeler | 1 |
| Andreas Kohl | 1 |
| Christian Schmalenbach | 1 |
| Jan Rabe | 1 |
| Carlos Oliveira | 1 |
| Tim Bode | 1 |
| Martin Herrmann | 1 |
| Jacob De Geer | 1 |
| Lars Björk | 1 |
| Alexandre Berriche | 1 |
| Dieter Ammer | 1 |
| Florian Bennhold | 1 |
| Christian Vollmann | 1 |
| Martina Merz | 1 |
| John Collison | 1 |
| Jukka Sonninen | 1 |
| Emma Tracey | 1 |
| Philippe Teixeira da Mota | 1 |
| Patrick Andrae | 1 |
| Kerry Ritz | 1 |
| Peter Murphy | 1 |
| Kai Klapdor | 1 |
| Taavet Hinrikus | 1 |
Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator.
Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
- Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
- Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Denmark, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MaxFense — MaxFense is a company that focuses on enhancing the security of the internet through their ethical products. Primary among their offerings is the MaxFense Endpoint Security, which enables clients to check, prevent, detect, and respond to potential information security threats, regardless of whether they originate from inside or outside theorganization. This approach aligns with contemporary security standards that have increasingly recognized the importance of robust endpoint security in the face of diversified threat vectors.
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
- Daytona — Deploy Al code with confidence using Daytona's lightning-fast infrastructure. 90ms environment creation, stateful operations, and enterprise-grade security.
Andy Booke
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
- Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
- Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.
David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability, SaaS
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
- Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.
Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
- Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- Trade Machines FI GmbH — TradeMachines understands how difficult it is to trust in used machinery. They work with trustful industrial auctioneers and renowned machinery traders to ensure you receive the best connection between the two. Industrial auctions are a popular possibility to find great bargains when it comes to used machinery. In these industrial auctionspotential buyers find used equipment of companies who became insolvent or who decided to get rid of a selection of their machines. But industrial auctions are not the only way how to find the right used machines for cheap prices. Machinery traders list their offers on TradeMachines as well. As a result of the extensive offer of used machines, it is much easier and less time consuming to the find right offer.
Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.
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Investment focus
- Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Numbat — Numbat is a clean-tech company from Kempten (Allgäu). The competence lies in the development and production, as well as the operation of High-Power charging solutions with integrated battery storage system. The goal is to establish Europe's densest High-Power charging infrastructure to support e-mobility and its challenges. The battery storagereduces electricity costs and eases the burden on grids, while the integrated fast charging station allows customers/visitors/employees to fully charge their electric vehicles within 15 minutes. Depending on the location, the Numbats can be provided free of charge in a platform model. With its patented climate protection technology and multi-lifecycle approach, the Numbat is the most sustainable solutions on the market.
- ESFORIN SE — ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
- Efficient Energy Technology — Efficient Energy Technology makes renewable energy simple, safe, and dependable for everyone. Efficient Energy Technology develops a small power plant consisting of photovoltaic and storage for complete self-installation.
David Tomas is General Manager Cyberclick, group of companies specializing in online advertising and marketing, based in Barcelona, Madrid and Bogota, and awarded in December 2013 as Third Best Workplaces in Spain.He has over 15 years of experience in the online world. He is an engineer and completed a program of Entrepreneurship at MIT,Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012 he was named one of the 20 most influential entrepreneurs in Spain, under 40 years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 and IESE.From Cyberclick, has developed a range of online advertising campaigns: web advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing, coregistros, etc. The objective of this group of companies is to improve the conversion of client campaigns. Specialize in online lead generation through search marketing actions. Only generate quality leads, create and manage mobile campaigns, inbound and email marketing, optimizing the cost of finding customers through online advertising. And also generate databases through coregistros. Cyberclick currently works for both Spanish and international companies from different sectors: education, NGOs, distance selling, or B2B e-commerce, among others.Likewise, David Tomas is a member of the board of Adigital, Spanish Association of Digital Economy, and the Board of Entrepreneurs Organization and actively participates in Founders Institute and SeedRocket, reference initiative in Spain for entrepreneurs with technology-based projects. In the latter, he has mentored projects like Deporvillage, Habitissimo, Captio and Social & Loyal, among others. He has spoken at various events and teaches marketing and ICEMD EADA.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peimi — Peimi is the definitive tool to automate the calculation of commissions. We integrate with the main CRM and ERP to obtain the data and display it in a safe and friendly environment for sales, HR and finance people to review and approve incentives. We integrate with the main CRMs and ERP on the market (Hubspot, Salesforce, Pipedrive...)
- Mas Leads — Mas Leads Technologies, through its SaaS (Software as a Service), assists B2B firms' Marketing and Sales Departments in obtaining the best real-time data on new potential clients in national and international marketplaces, thereby automating the lead creation process.
- Hoop Carpool — Hoop Carpool is a SaaS Carpooling Platform for Companies, Universities and Citi-halls
Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
- VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
- Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
- Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
- Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.
Bo Wase is chairman of InCommodities.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
Lucas von Fürstenberg serves as head of the Freiherr von Fürstenberg'sche Forstverwaltung forest administration based in Sauerland.
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Investment focus
- Organic, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- autarkize — autarkize scales a market-ready system technology with which a high-quality gas made of methane and hydrogen is extracted decentrally from residues.
- Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
- Embed — The regulated Payments Platform unifying crypto and fiat rails. Fung has launched early beta. Sign up to secure your spot.
Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
- memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
- TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
Juergen Mayerhofer is the CEO and Founder of Enspired and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2018. Previously he worked with Eurelectric as Platform Member.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Ruben Ferreiro is the Founder and CEO of VIKO GROUP. He previously worked at ELOGIA as a CEO. Ruben Ferreiro attended M4c Academy.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Splitfy — Splitfy is the perfect app to collect money from your plans Group.
- Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
- Housfy — Housfy develops a digital platform designed to sell flats and houses between private individuals. The company's digital platform eliminates intermediation in the sale of houses, offering all the necessary tools for sellers and buyers to connect directly online, enabling home buyers and sellers to avoid traditional agencies and save brokeragefees.
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Neil Norman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at MSite. He is a former Management Consultant at Accenture. He attended Sheffield Hallam University
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Investment focus
- Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Heatio — Heatio provides affordable renewable energy to homeowners.
Jon Olsson
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Energy Storage
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
Chris Heminway is the Chairman Of The Board at Time To ACT Limited
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Innovation Management
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GreenSpur Wind — Time To ACT plc supports the global transition to Net Zero through the development and commercialisation of world-beating clean technologies
Maximilian Both is the Founder and Managing Director at Rabot Charge. Maximilian Both attended Tu Vienna.
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Investment focus
- Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
MARKUS W. VOIGT is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Aream company.
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Investment focus
- CRM, iOS, Apps
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
- Phonedeck — Phonedeck integrates mobile and video calling inside Salesforce. It is the first CTI solution for smartphones that makes it possible to remote control and track calls under the ‘real’ mobile number using regular carrier minutes. Phonedeck helps enterprises to manage and optimize business processes. The results are a large costs saving due tomobilizing sales teams and increasing the productivity.Phonedeck is Alcatel-Lucent and ISV Salesforce partner. In 2012 Phonedeck’s founder Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Fitzek was awarded with the Vodafone Innovation Prize. Alcatel-Lucent awarded Phonedeck during its Munich Hackathon in June 2014 as Innovative Leader in IMS. In January 2015 Phonedeck has won Disruptive Innovator 2015 award at Enterprise Mobility Management Forum.Phonedeck´s supporters are business angels, the IBB bank of Berlin and the venture capital fund Atlantic Internet.
Head of Engineering, Pharma Services Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- Invinity Energy Systems Plc — See what makes Invinity the world's leading manufacturer of utility-grade energy storage - safe, economical & proven vanadium flow batteries.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
Rahul Munjal - Chairman & Managing Director @ Hero Future Energies
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Investment focus
- FinTech, InsurTech, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Renew Risk — Renew Risk offers science-driven risk analytics and products to secure renewable energy infrastructure and support the energy transition.
Thomas Bein
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Investment focus
- Battery, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Qkera — We develop drop-in solutions improving battery technologies and advancing future energy storage.
Martin Goetzeler is the CEO of dSPACE.
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Investment focus
- Battery, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Qkera — We develop drop-in solutions improving battery technologies and advancing future energy storage.
Andreas Kohl
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Investment focus
- Battery, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Qkera — We develop drop-in solutions improving battery technologies and advancing future energy storage.
Christian Schmalenbach
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ALVA Energie — Alva delivers turnkey solar systems with integrated energy, heating, and e-mobility for buildings
Jan Rabe - CEO, CFO @ Rabot Energy GmbH
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Investment focus
- Solar, Power Grid, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
- ALVA Energie — Alva delivers turnkey solar systems with integrated energy, heating, and e-mobility for buildings
Carlos Oliveira
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Fibersail — Fibersail redefines the knowledge on wind farms, through a reliable and cost-efficient shape sensor able to monitor each deflection.
Tim Bode
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Investment focus
- CleanTech, Marketplace, Clean Energy
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cycle — Cycle was founded with the mission of building innovative ultrafast laser technology for science and industry that excels through performance and reliability in application.A versatile team, backed with decades of expertise in laser technology and system integration, works closely together with applicants to plan and install solutions foractive environments. Cycle's team offers comprehensive consulting, service and support to realize the best match for your requirements.
- METALSALE — Metalsale builds a digital trading platform that allows non-ferrous metal scrap to be traded easily, lucratively and safely. They are a team with many years of experience in recycling and technology companies and know the problems that need to be solved.
Martin Herrmann
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company
Jacob de Geer is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, the fast-growing mobile payments company that lets anyone take card payments and manage and grow their business. Before starting iZettle, Jacob was the first employee at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler. Here he helped to build one of the largest advertisingnetworks in Europe before leaving to co-found movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Both companies were acquired in 2010. Now, Jacob is fully focused on democratising payments around the world through his latest venture, iZettle.
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Investment focus
- Internet, IaaS, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Holyvolt — Our mission is to provide the world with high-efficiency renewable energy solutions at an affordable cost and with minimal environmental impact.
- MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Lars Björk leads Qlik as CEO and is a member of the company’s board of directors. He oversaw the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2010 on the NASDAQ, which was recognized as one of the year’s top tech IPOs.Lars is recognized as an authority on driving company culture through an accessible management style, with articles appearing inthe New York Times, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, as well as speaking engagements at conferences including the CEO2CEO Leadership Summit. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category and was named Technology CEO of the Year at the 2015 PACT Annual Enterprise Awards. More recently, he was nominated to participate in Startup America, a White House initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship, and the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization that brings together leaders to drive action on global challenges.Before Qlik, Lars held several positions as CFO at companies such as ScandStick and Resurs Finance. He has an MBA from the University of Lund, Sweden and a Degree in Engineering from the Technical College in Helsingborg.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Android, Security
- Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Allone — Increase your workplace safety with Seecure, a digital safety solution. The app lets you activate alarms during emergencies.
- Epishine — Epishine's goal is to be able to provide the world's most scalable, resource efficient, and affordable solar modules. Epishine sells light energy harvesting modules to manufacturers of wireless products. The modules are used to harvest light in any lighting conditions, turning light into usable power.
- Lightdash — Connect your dbt project to Lightdash and allow everyone to answer their own data questions. Built for analysts and the modern data stack.
Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
- Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
Dieter Ammer is the CEO and chairman of the management board of Nordzucker GmbH, Brauerei Beck & Co., and Tchibo Holding AG.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
- Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Eternal Power — Eternal Power is a globally integrated mass production of green hydrogen and derivatives such as sustainable fuels.
Florian Bennhold
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Investment focus
- Solar, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- avoltra — Avoltra aims to position itself as an "intelligent energy purchasing solution" by leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights to optimize energy procurement.
- Rulemapping Group — Rulemapping Group is a rule-based AI platform that enables a level of end-to-end automation for rule-based processes. Automated decision-making solutions for digital legislation, administrative operations, legal procedures, and regulatory compliance.
- Atmen — Atmen, formerly known as Point Twelve, automates hydrogen and e-fuels certification, saving you up to 90% time in the process.
Martina Merz
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Investment focus
- B2B, Software, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- avoltra — Avoltra aims to position itself as an "intelligent energy purchasing solution" by leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights to optimize energy procurement.
- Atmen — Atmen, formerly known as Point Twelve, automates hydrogen and e-fuels certification, saving you up to 90% time in the process.
John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Rivan Industries — Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants.
Aito’s Chairman of the Board. Jukka has worked over 20 years in different management positions within the IT- industry. He has been the founding member and CEO of SAP Finland and now sits at the boards of several companies such as Solteq. He has also supported the Finnish software company Basware and Endero in their international growth andlisting on the stock exchange. Now, he primarily works as the CEO and board member of Fifth Element Oy.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Forestry, Software
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- CollectiveCrunch — CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. We collect and analyze a wide range of information, including climate, geo and process data, to bring best-in-class forest inventories and accurate carbon storage calculations to our customers. The largest forest owners the Nordics and Baltics are already using using our solution, LindaForest.With Linda Forest, our customers gain actionable insights, leading to improved forest management, informed forest investments and up-to-date carbon storage analytics. Overall, Linda Forest can reduce forest planning costs while increasing accuracy. We are currently focused on the Nordic and Baltic countries but are soon adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets. Moreover, we are working with insurance companies to apply our expert analytics to new opportunities such as prediction of forest risk.
Emma Tracey is a co-founder of Honeypot.
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- Software, Human Resources, Computer
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States
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- Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
- MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
- Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Patrick is the CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, an independent vacation rental metasearch engine .Previously, he was a Director of Business Development in Home24. He also worked for German Embassy in Dublin, Hogan Lovells and Rocket Internet. Patrick has a law background and holds PhD in Business Law from University of Muenster.
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- FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States, The Netherlands
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- Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- YGO.AI — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
- YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!
Kerry Ritz works with early-stage business in the following areas: CEO support (everything to do with running the business); international growth and expansion; market or investor positioning; setting up and running a Board; building a team, interactions with investors (pre and post fundraising); sales, business development and marketing. Mostrecently he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the ABN-AMRO/Techstars Future of Finance Programme in Amsterdam. He is an international advisor to SeedStars and is a mentor with Techstars, MassChallenge, and WAYRA. He is also on the investment committee as an Expert Judge on the EU EIC Accelerator which provides grant and equity to deep-tech, high growth SME’s. Previously, he was an evaluator with EIT-Health for both Innovation and Accelerator and was a member of the Investment Committee for the COVID-19 emergency grant programme in 2020; judge at EIT-Mobility; advisor and evaluator to the Director General, Research & Innovation Foundation, Government of Cyprus; evaluator at Africa for Heroes; and judge at MassChallenge in Switzerland and Israel.He currently sits on several Boards as an independent Director and is an advisor to several early-stage and high growth companies. He is also an active angel investor with investments in the UK, EU, and US. Kerry has a broad range of international experience with both start-ups and corporates. He was Managing Director of MassChallenge UK. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing Officer of FTSE 250 Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, where he was responsible for marketing, sales, customer service, fulfilment, marketing technology, product management, and customer insight including their migration to a digital business. He has also been CEO of Palringo and VP Business Development for EVRYTHNG, both innovative early-stage VC-backed start-ups. Kerry has a track record of bringing innovative and disruptive businesses to market: he was the President of Vonage UK and was one of the Founding Directors and one of the first 20 employees of “3”, the first 3g mobile operator in Europe. Although Kerry is originally Canadian, he has been in Europe for more than 30 years and has lived in the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
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- Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
- Mesg.ai — Mesg.ai automates your research and copywriting process, so your sales team can send personalised outreach emails in one click
- SEaB Energy — SEaB Energy designs, develops and manufactures micro anaerobic digestion systems which create biogas, water and fertiliser. The patented units can be combined with Combined Heat & Power units, Biogas Fuel Cell or Biogas boiler to use the gas. The fertiliser is available in liquid or solid bagged format.The company is headquartered inLondon. SEaB Energy has developed and patented Muckbuster® and Flexibuster™ as compact easy to install turnkey Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems in shipping containers. The systems are modular, easily configured and scalable to address food waste and other bio wastes directly at the sites of smaller waste producers who typically generate between 200 and 1000 tonnes of waste per year.Whether you are a farmer, a food processor, a retailer or you are in the catering and accommodation markets, Muckbuster® and Flexibuster™ can reduce your operational costs, enhance your sustainability and generate an attractive return on your investment.
Peter Murphy joined American Capital in January 2013. Peter was President and CEO of Astrodyne Corporation, a power solutions company, from 2005 to 2013. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Parlex Corporation (PRLX:NASD) and President of Teledyne Electro-Mechanisms. Peter was Chairman of the IPC, the world’s largest electronicsstandards organization, from 2002 to 2005. Peter retired as a Captain in the United States Naval Reserves.Peter Murphy received his BS in Finance from Mt. St. Mary’s University. He was designated an aviator by the USN Aviation Command and is a graduate of the Stanford University Engineering Executive Program.
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- Battery, Automotive, Wind Energy
- Seed
- Ireland, United Kingdom
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- Gazelle Wind Power — UNLOCKING THE MASSIVE DEEP-WATER WIND MARKET: Introducing Gazelle's hybrid attenuated mooring platform, an evolutionary step-change in the design of floating platforms.
- Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms
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- Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
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- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
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