What we do
We look for founders and start-up teams who are experts at what they do, with diverse experience and backgrounds. We support teams with strong execution skills.
We invest in European startups that make infrastructure digital and sustainable. With our €100 million evergreen setup we act as lead- or co-investor.
- Investment stage: Series A+
- Ticket size: €1 to 10 million
- Geography: Startups headquartered in Europe
We are a single LP VC investor. Our corporate backer EnBW Group drives the energy and mobility transition by building, owning and operating secure and stable infrastructure, which includes
- renewable generation & trading,
- grid infrastructure,
- and Germany’s largest fast-charging-infrastructure for electric cars.
EnBW does the asset investments and the infrastructure roll-out. We like the vision of an all-electric world and look for scaling business models that digitally enable a faster asset-roll-out driving the sustainable energy & mobility transformation.
Our current investment topics
Our startups
We’re proud to work with amazing founders and their startup teams in scaling their businesses from initial investment until the exit.
Cozero equips enterprises with an end-to-end software solution for carbon management, helping sustainability stakeholders improve carbon accounting and decarbonize in the transportation and logistics and industrial manufacturing sectors.
Contact
Melanie Beyersdorf
E-mail: melanie@env.vc
HOLO-LIGHT's augmented reality software enables engineers to collaboratively create and accurately edit 3D models.
Contact
Marc Umber
E-mail: marc@env.vc
Easelink facilitates the electric charging experience and automates the charging process with its Matrix Charging® technology.
Contact
Marc Umber
E-mail: marc@env.vc
Intigriti has created a global cybersecurity platform that connects corporate customers with over 50.000 ethical hackers.
Contact
Holger Wagner
E-mail: holger@env.vc
enspired automates energy trading for decentralized power generation. This enables both small and big operators to trade their capacities on the intraday-market.
Contact
Marc Umber
E-mail: marc@env.vc
Sunhat offers companies a flexible platform to map the multitude of sustainability requirements, manage associated projects, and fulfill necessary tasks. Sunhat focuses on making the existing data dynamically usable for different needs, establishing the software solution as a crucial tool for users.
Contact
Pascal Beckers
E-mail: pascal@env.vc
3YOURMIND provides software solutions for agile manufacturing, enabling companies to use 3D printing processes in their industrial production and supply chains.
babelforce automates processes in call centers. Through the simple integration of existing systems, customer inquiries can be processed more cost-effectively, more quickly, and in a more targeted manner.
Cleverciti digitizes parking lots. The smart parking end-to-end product provides parking data in real time for parking operators and guides every customer quickly to the free parking space.
CYCLE rents fleets of e-bikes and manages their service for large-scale customers as a full-service-mobility subscription.
Deepomatic automates quality control and reporting of field services by analyzing the technician's footage through an AI-based platform.
Easelink facilitates the electric charging experience and automates the charging process with its Matrix Charging® technology.
enspired automates energy trading for decentralized power generation. This enables both small and big operators to trade their capacities on the intraday-market.
Founded in 2006, ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience.
Greenbird enables companies to capture, consolidate and further process data from a wide range of IT systems faster and more efficiently.
gridscale offers a software platform that provides flexible and secure cloud services and enables any company to market its own cloud services.
HOLO-LIGHT's augmented reality software enables engineers to collaboratively create and accurately edit 3D models.
Intigriti has created a global cybersecurity platform that connects corporate customers with over 50.000 ethical hackers.
Theva produces high-temperature superconductors for the high-performance electricity-based applications of the future.
Artificial intelligence for better roads. vialytics provides digital road data so that communities and municipalities can make the best use of road maintenance budgets.
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Vivacity reduces traffic accidents and emissions in cities. Its sensors collect detailed and anonymous data on transport modes, traffic flows and travel patterns, and analyses this data using to make strategic decisions about optimising the transport network and improving urban infrastructure.
Volytica provides an intelligent cloud-based independent battery analytics platform to analyze the battery condition and simulate the performance behavior in the future without additional hardware. Furthermore, the platform enables the simulation of the application in different operating modes.
Sunhat offers companies a flexible platform to map the multitude of sustainability requirements, manage associated projects, and fulfill necessary tasks. Sunhat focuses on making the existing data dynamically usable for different needs, establishing the software solution as a crucial tool for users.
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Our Team
Purpose
We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.
Vision
We work towards a world of electrification based on renewables, decentralization based on interconnected networks, and digitalization based on indefinite computing power to reconcile sustainability and the needs of 21st century living.
Mission
We support entrepreneurs in their endeavor to build large, sustainable businesses and admire radical execution. We enable fair partnerships between our corporate investor EnBW and our startups to accelerate growth. We help startups to grow sustainably by keeping the balance between speed and long-term value creation. We engage and challenge to improve business models and organizational structure of our startups.
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