Energy Start-up Map
In the renewable energy sector, numerous new products and business models are currently emerging – many of them developed by start-ups.
As part of our Start-up of the Month series, which the German platform of pv magazine publishes together with Vireo Ventures, we asked companies to complete a questionnaire about their fields of activity. Based on this information, we classified the start-ups in this overview. Each company was asked to select up to three primary and up to five secondary fields of activity.
Clicking on a company name opens the detailed view for that company. There, you will find further fields of activity, the technology areas covered, contact details, and the start-ups’ answers to the following questions:
Download the Energy Start-up Map as a graphical overview here.
As part of our Start-up of the Month series, which the German platform of pv magazine publishes together with Vireo Ventures, we asked companies to complete a questionnaire about their fields of activity. Based on this information, we classified the start-ups in this overview. Each company was asked to select up to three primary and up to five secondary fields of activity.
Clicking on a company name opens the detailed view for that company. There, you will find further fields of activity, the technology areas covered, contact details, and the start-ups’ answers to the following questions:
- What does your company do?
- Who are your target customers, and what problem do you solve for them?
- What differentiates your solution from existing solutions on the market?
- What is your business model, and how do you generate revenue?
Download the Energy Start-up Map as a graphical overview here.
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| Name | URL | Twitter Pitch | Year of founding | Investors | Stage | What does your company do? | Who are your targe customers, and what problem do you solve for them? | What differentiates your solution from existing solutions on the market? | What is your business model and.how do you generate revenue? | Hardware | Project development & financing | Engineering & planning | Energy management & optimization | Trading & aggregation | Asset management & performance | Analytics & diagnostics | Software/platforms | Market analysis & consulting | Other | Hardware | Project development & financing | Engineering & planning | Energy management & optimization | Trading & aggregation | Asset management & performance | Analytics & diagnostics | Software/platforms | Market analysis & consulting | Other | Residential | Small C&I | Medium & large C&I | Utility scale | Other | Battery (BESS) | Solar (PV) | EV / Charging | Heat / HVAC | Grid / Infrastructure | Industrial Loads | Other | |
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AccuVice GmbH | https://www.accuvice.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/accuvice-gmbh | AccuVice develops battery diagnostics software for BESS with patented voltage-controlled algorithms enabling highly accurate SOC and SOH estimation in cloud and embedded BMS. | 2025 | Successfully bootstrapped without investors | Seed | AccuVice develops software and algorithms for monitoring and diagnosing BESS. Our novel voltage-controlled methodology enables more accurate SOC and SOH estimation with low computational requirements. We offer both cloud-based battery diagnostics and embedded diagnostics that run directly on battery management systems (BMS), enabling real-time monitoring, aging analysis, and fault detection. | Our target customers are BESS operators and energy traders. We solve the problem of inaccurate SOC and SOH estimates provided by conventional OEM battery management systems. By using more accurate battery state estimation, operators can better determine the actual available energy content of their systems, optimize energy trading strategies, reduce operational uncertainty, and improve system utilization and lifetime monitoring. | Our solution is based on voltage-controlled battery models that have proven to deliver higher SOC and SOH accuracy with significantly lower computational effort than existing methods. The approach enables diagnostics down to single-cell level. Unlike competitors such as Accure, Twaice, or Volytica, our algorithms can also run directly embedded in the BMS of BESS manufacturers, eliminating the need for large external cloud analytics platforms while still providing highly accurate battery state information. | We generate revenue through two business models. For our cloud-based diagnostics platform, we operate a SaaS model with recurring subscription fees. For our embedded solution, we license our battery algorithms directly to BESS manufacturers for integration into their BMS, typically on a per-BMS or per-system basis. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Air Battery | www.airbattery.pt | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoawazu/ | We are developing an innovative and sustainable electrical energy storage system that uses compressed air to generate electricity. | 2021 | Portugal Ventures, Viriatus Fund | Seed | We building a compressed air energy storage system. When electricity is abundant, our compressor stores energy as compressed air. When demand rises, the air is released through our purpose-built turbogenerator, producing electricity from the pressure and speed of the airflow. Unlike batteries, our system uses no rare materials. | Our target customers include off-grid communities and regions with unreliable electricity grids, where our system provides stable, independent power. We also address needs for organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières, eliminating dependence on fuel-supplied generators. Defense forces benefit from our low thermal signature, making it suitable for powering communications and drone operations undetected by infrared systems. Additionally, remote fuel stations can use our system to support EV charging infrastructure where grid capacity is insufficient. | Unlike lithium-ion batteries, our system uses no rare or critical materials, reducing supply chain risks and environmental impact. It presents no fire or explosion hazard, making it significantly safer for deployment in sensitive or remote environments. The modular design allows flexible scaling to meet different energy demands, and at end of life, all components are fully recyclable — making it a safer, greener, and more adaptable alternative to conventional energy storage. | We could generate revenue through three streams. Equipment is sold and installed via established distribution partners — such as solar PV and generator dealers — leveraging existing customer relationships and infrastructure. We also offer an Energy-as-a-Service model, where customers pay for energy output rather than upfront hardware costs, creating recurring revenue. Additionally, we could license our technology to manufacturers and system integrators, enabling scalable global adoption without requiring direct operational presence. | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anori Tech | https://anoritech.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/anina-tietjens/ | Anori Tech delivers custom Battery Management Systems in days, not months. With a software-defined BMS battery manufacturers reach the market faster and cheaper. | 2025 | None | Early stage | Anori Tech delivers custom Battery Management Systems to battery manufacturers and system integrators within days instead of months. Our software-defined BMS platform uses a single standardized hardware base configured entirely via software to match each customer's cell chemistry, voltage, and application. Customers provide their parameters; Anori configures and delivers a ready-to-integrate, pre-certified BMS solution, eliminating the need for in-house BMS development. | Battery manufacturers and system integrators developing battery-powered products in the low volt sector. Their core problem: adapting to new cell chemistries or voltage requirements means costly, time-consuming BMS redevelopment, often taking months. Many resort to sub-optimal off-the-shelf solutions or expensive custom development. Anori Tech solves this with a configurable BMS platform that supports multiple chemistries and voltages out of the box, reducing adaptation from months to weeks. | Competitors either offer rigid off-the-shelf BMS (cheap but inflexible), fully custom development (flexible but slow and expensive), or platform approaches limited to one chemistry or voltage range. Anori combines four features: (1) standardized hardware, (2) software-defined configurability across chemistries and voltages, (3) pre-certified modules, (4) and a structured self-service configuration process. Anori's cell-chemistry-agnostic algorithm only requires a new parameter set when switching chemistries, no code rewrite needed. | Anori Tech generates revenue through a combination of one-time and recurring payments. Customers pay a one-time fee for the prototype and certification process, followed by a second payment upon delivery of the final BMS hardware. On top of that, recurring revenue comes from firmware updates and support over the full lifespan of the deployed battery system. | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
arra | https://www.arra.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-serbu/ | M&A platform for renewables. We reduce acquisition times by up to 90%. | 2025 | Climate Club, One Planet Capital | Early stage | arra is a marketplace with fully-verified asset data and due-diligence platform purpose built for renewables. We provide the platform and tools to conduct an acquisition from start to finish. | Buyers and sellers of renewable energy infrastructure (BESS, Solar, Wind). This can be IPPs, Developers, Asset Managers, and more. | We are the first platform to offer an end-to-end solution as well as assets with verified data. | Subscription fees and Success Fees. | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
BATTERY INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER (BITECH) | www.bitechgroup.be | https://www.linkedin.com/company/battery-innovation-and-technology-center-bitech/ | Belgian-made, liquid-cooled LFP battery storage for C&I and critical infrastructure — safer, longer-lasting, and 30–60% cheaper than European integrators. | 2023 | One private investor with €1.5M committed to the current seed round (MOU signed). Otherwise founder-funded, with EU and national grant support | Seed | BITECH is an integrated battery and ESS technology company developing innovative battery lithium-ion energy storage systems for stationary applications. We focus on safety, lifetime extension, and scalable manufacturing to enable competitive energy storage in Europe. Our system-level approach strengthens the European battery value chain while reducing lifecycle cost and CO₂ impact. | We sell to commercial and industrial sites, logistics hubs, factories, commercial buildings, and to critical infrastructure operators such as hospitals, data centers, and transport hubs. These customers need behind-the-meter storage for peak shaving and energy cost reduction, but increasingly must source from EU suppliers for compliance and security reasons. They struggle to find affordable, safe, EU-made systems at the 200–500 kWh scale: large integrators are too expensive, and Chinese suppliers lack local service and EU traceability. | Our liquid cooling holds cells within a 3°C temperature gradient, versus 5–8°C for typical air-cooled competitors. This gives 8,000–10,000 cycles (competitors: 4,000–6,000) and a −30°C to +60°C operating range. We sell a complete, installed system — battery, BMS, EMS, inverter — at competitive price, roughly 30–60% below European integrators. Unlike Chinese suppliers, we are Belgian-made with local service and will meet EU Battery Passport traceability rules. We target the 200–500 kWh C&I segment that large integrators find uneconomic. | We have two revenue lines. Distribution: under a signed MoU with CNTE, we are becoming its Benelux distributor for C&I and utility-scale BESS, earning margin on system sales — an early route to revenue and utility-scale projects while our own product certifies. Own product: B2B sales of our installed BESS. We then add recurring revenue via Storage-as-a-Service and energy-optimization agreements. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
BelowZero | https://www.belowzero.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennthomson/ | – | Self-funded | Early stage | BelowZero is an energy optimisation platform that helps households significantly cut their electricity bills by identifying the best available tariff and intelligently managing their low carbon tech. Using half-hourly smart meter data combined with tariff pricing, weather forecasts, and carbon signals, BelowZero generates automated daily schedules that tell each asset exactly when to charge, discharge, import from the grid, or export. The impact is typically getting household energy bills to below zero. | While the product works for all energy consumers, we are currently focused on the domestic market. Our primary target customers are community energy organisations, social housing providers & installers deploying low carbon tech to households at scale. They invest significant capital in hardware but have no rigorous way to model the financial return or optimise ongoing operations. BelowZero provides the modelling capability to build a credible investment case & the optimisation layer to ensure assets perform to their full potential. | Most existing solutions either optimise a single device in isolation or focus purely on self-consumption, without considering the full picture of tariffs, solar generation, battery state, and grid signals together. BelowZero takes a whole-system view, optimising across all low carbon assets simultaneously using live market data. We also uniquely combine upfront financial modelling with ongoing operational optimisation, giving scheme operators both the investment case and the performance layer in one proposition. No competitor currently offers both. | BelowZero generates revenue in two ways. First, an upfront modelling fee for scheme design and financial analysis, giving operators a data-driven investment case before committing capital. Second, an ongoing subscription fee per asset under management for the daily optimisation service. Pricing is structured to suit B2B2C partners: a fixed setup cost plus a per-household fee. Future revenue streams include white-labelling the modelling capability to installers and participating in grid flexibility markets as managed portfolios grow. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
Birdtical GmbH | www.birdtical.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/birdtical-gmbh/?viewAsMember=true | Birdtical develops manufacturer-independent energy management systems for battery storage, PV and e-mobility projects from commercial to utility scale. | 2024 | none | Bootstrapped | Birdtical develops energy management systems (EMS) for commercial, industrial and utility-scale energy projects. The company combines EMS hardware, software and cloud services to connect batteries, solar systems, charging infrastructure and grid interfaces into one controllable platform. Birdtical supports customers from engineering and commissioning to monitoring, optimization and future energy trading applications. The systems are manufacturer-independent and designed for scalable energy infrastructure projects. | Birdtical works with distributors such as BayWa r.e., IBC SOLAR and Krannich, OEM partners, and system integrators in the commercial and industrial energy market. Customers face rising energy costs, grid constraints and increasing technical complexity when combining PV, battery storage and charging infrastructure. Birdtical helps them integrate and optimize energy systems, reduce peak loads, improve self-consumption and prepare projects for future flexibility and energy trading applications. | Birdtical combines local EMS control, IoT connectivity, monitoring and energy optimization in one integrated platform. The solution is manufacturer-independent, modular and scalable from small commercial systems to utility-scale projects. Unlike many EMS providers focused on a single use case, Birdtical supports complex multi-use applications including battery storage, e-mobility, microgrids and future services for BESS pooling to flexibility traders. | Birdtical generates revenue through EMS hard- and software sales, commissioning services and subscriptions services such as cloud-based monitoring, optimization services. Additional recurring revenue comes from cloud-based monitoring, optimization services and future energy BESS pooling services. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
Birdview Energy | www.birdviewenergy.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/company/106777035/admin/dashboard/ | With a mission to maximize grid utilization, we support investors with bankable business case focused on co-located BESS. | 2025 | none | Bootstrapped | we have 5 product offerings: (colocated) BESS sizing and revenue forecasting, long term price curve generation, grid flow modelling, market data, BESS benchmarking at specific locations | Investors in BESS, like for instance solar asset owners. Due to all constraints (grid, regulation, colocation, etc ) for them it's complex to assess the size and get the right revenue forecast. | we have a platform to assess the BESS case in minutes versus the old styl of inflexible consultancy approach that we see with traditional parties | We sell accounts | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bnewable | www.bnewable.com / www.bnewable.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/bnewable/about// | Bnewable makes industrial electrification work by investing in, operating, and optimizing battery storage for energy-intensive companies across Europe. That’s Battery-as-a-Service. | 2022 | RGREEN INVEST, Wallonie Entreprendre, Dovesco Fund Investments | Growth stage | Bnewable is an independent energy company that owns, operates, and optimizes battery storage assets for industrial companies across Belgium and Germany. Founded in 2022 by former Eneco Belgium CEO Christophe Degrez and former EVBox CEO Kristof Vereenooghe, Bnewable helps customers reduce energy costs and manage market volatility through its Battery-as-a-Service model. Its proprietary software platform, Voltana, optimizes energy use, market trading, and grid services in real time. | Energy-intensive industrial and logistics companies with high electricity consumption, onsite renewable generation, or growing electrification needs. These companies face high energy costs, volatile power markets, and increasing pressure to decarbonize operations, but often lack the time, expertise, or appetite to invest in and manage complex energy infrastructure themselves. | Bnewable combines financing, ownership, operation, optimization, and energy trading in one solution. Unlike traditional battery providers, we invest in the assets ourselves and take on technical, operational, regulatory, and market risks. Our proprietary software platform, Voltana, optimizes energy consumption, market participation, and grid services in real time, helping companies reduce energy costs without building internal energy expertise. | Our Battery-as-a-Service model is similar to a revenue-sharing model. We invest in, own, and operate the battery storage system at the customer’s site. Customers pay a fee when using the battery to reduce energy costs, for example through peak shaving or storing solar energy. When the battery is not needed on-site, we use it in energy markets and share part of the revenues with the customer. We earn revenues from customer fees and energy market participation. A win-win situation. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
BuildingEnerlytics GmbH | https://buildingenerlytics.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/buildingenerlytics | We turn scattered building energy data into prioritized, financially grounded decarbonization decisions — continuous monitoring + AI simulation in one platform. | 2023 | Superangels (Angel-backed) | Seed | BuildingEnerlytics is an AI-powered energy intelligence platform for building portfolios. It continuously collects and validates energy data across all carriers (electricity, gas, heat, water), then simulates retrofit scenarios using 9 measure types with CRREM pathway modeling and heat cost analysis — turning scattered metering data into prioritized, investment-ready decarbonization decisions. | Our primary customers are real estate portfolio owners, asset managers, and Messdienstleister in Germany. They have energy data in 5 different systems and outdated energy certificates — but no reliable way to answer: which building do I retrofit first, with which measure, and will it pay off? We close that decision gap with one integrated platform. | No competitor combines continuous operational monitoring with AI-driven retrofit simulation in one platform. Data platforms (Metry, Metiundo) collect data but don't simulate. Simulation tools (Optiml, Metabuild) plan but lack live operational data. We are building toward M&V — verifying actual post-retrofit savings against projections — which requires both layers. No single-layer competitor can follow. | SaaS subscription based on portfolio size (m² or building count), sold direct to real estate owners and via white-label API licensing to Messdienstleister and utilities who embed our simulation layer into their own platforms. Partner-led distribution is the primary GTM motion, with direct enterprise sales running in parallel. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
CAPE Lifecycle Solutions | look for pre-seed backing | https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-dupre-s/ | Stop waiting for the performance to drop. Get predictive maintenance software for BESS that includes the human operations. Extend your batteries life. Harvest the Financial Benefit | 0 | 0 | Early stage | CAPE is predictive maintenance software for Battery Energy Storage Systems which incorporates the human factor. The platform works on three layers: first, an IoT Inspection, Sensor, and Security foundation that captures physical and operational asset data timely and across sites; second, open-source normalized ingestion and storage schemas enabling cross-OEM interoperability across the full stack; and third, an Integrated Early Anomaly Detection engine that identifies failure patterns before they escalate into costly outages and downtime. | Our customers are Battery Energy Storage System Operation & Maintenance managers. Current monitoring software focuses almost exclusively on cells and modules, but 80% of failures faulty switches, wiring faults, installation errors, and even cable theft. O&M managers have no tools to catch these issues early or assign clear responsibility for repairs. CAPE gives them a digital inspection and anomaly detection layer that focused on physical aspects of maintenance. | Existing BESS monitoring tools including players like ACCURE and TWAICE focus on cell and module analytics. Some add thermal cameras or gas detectors. None systematically capture installation quality, connection integrity, or physical access events like cable theft. CAPE is the first solution to combine IoT sensor data with structured physical inspection records, giving O&M teams a more complete picture of what happens at the asset. | We start with six pilot sites at €6k each (€36k year-one revenue), running the system locally in parallel. No changes to existing infrastructure. From year two, customers can add cloud hosting (€4k), O&M Intelligence reports (€3k/year), and Anomaly Management Support (€10k/year), building toward a €17k annual contract per site. A future revenue layer is a State of Health certificate for battery packs, sold to asset buyers and insurance institutions. | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carina Power | https://carinapower.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-lambrichts/ | Carina Power natively integrates battery degradation into optimal bidding and dispatch, helping BESS owners maximize lifetime value. | 2025 | n/a, self-funded | Early stage | Carina Power develops software for large scale battery storage. It decides when a battery should charge, discharge, or reserve capacity for grid services by pricing battery ageing inside each bid and dispatch decision. The software compares expected market revenue with the loss of battery life caused by that action. This lets operators avoid low value cycles, bid more accurately across markets, and manage profitability together with battery health. In short, we maximize life time value of the asset. | Our customers are large BESS owners and C&I site owners with PV and batteries behind the meter. We help them decide when the battery should trade, support grid services, reduce site costs, or increase self-consumption. The core problem is that these decisions create value but also degrade the battery. Carina Power makes that tradeoff explicit in the optimisation. | Existing solutions usually fall into one of two groups: trading software that protects batteries with simple cycle or warranty limits, and analytics software that measures ageing after operation. Carina Power combines trading and ageing in the same real-time decision engine. Before each bid or dispatch action, it prices expected battery degradation in euros, using an asset-specific physics-based model calibrated with operating data. A trade is taken only when the revenue justifies the expected loss of battery life. | Carina Power operates battery systems for asset owners and generates revenue from a share of the trading profit. We optimize the battery across markets such as arbitrage and grid services, while accounting for battery ageing in each decision. The asset owner keeps the majority of the profit, and Carina Power is paid based on the value created by the operation. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cenvion AG | www.cenvion.com | www.linkedin.com/in/christianilgner | Tech-enabled operations management for modern infrastructure assets, optimizing performance, transparency and scalability. | 2025 | Private | Early stage | We support operations management for energy and infrastructure assets through a tech-enabled interface for reporting, coordination and performance tracking. | Our customers are owners of battery energy storage systems (BESS). We help them scale portfolios and increase asset value by acting as the operator and managing performance, maintenance, reporting and contractor coordination through a centralized digital platform. | We are highly specialized in BESS operations and already manage seven operational assets. Some of the assets in our portfolio were among the earliest BESS investments in continental Europe, dating back to 2019, giving us access to a large operational data set. We are also building our own internal platform to automate operational and reporting processes as portfolios scale. | We generate revenue through recurring management and operating fees paid by BESS asset owners. Fees are typically linked to the size and complexity of the portfolio and cover operational management, reporting, contractor coordination and performance oversight. As portfolios grow, our internal platform helps us manage additional assets with limited increases in operating costs. | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CHiVOLT | www.chivolt.de (soon) | chivolt (soon) | N/A | 2025 | N/A | Bootstrapped | We develop very compact, software-defined DC/DC converters for VIPV and stationary energy applications | A) Solar integrators: Provide low-cost, low-profile HVDC power electronics (multi-MPPT) B) Battery storage: DC-microgrid capable distributed DC-DC for second-life batteries | Software defines the product using an efficient, cost-optimized converter base. Highly compact and automotive qualified. | Early claim: Hybrid product + services (designing planar-magnetics based flat power electronics) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIOC Energy | https://www.cioc-energy.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/105307605/admin/page-posts/published/ | CIOC Energy combines CIOC controller, EMS, VPP and O&M into one platform — connecting C&I BESS and PV assets to Day-Ahead, Imbalance and aFRR markets in real time. | Founded in 2023 | n | Growth stage | CIOC Energy is a Belgium-based energy technology company. We combine AI-powered on-site EMS, real-time electricity trading, and full asset lifecycle O&M into one vertically integrated platform, serving both B2B and B2C clients across Belgium while expanding into additional European markets. | Asset Owners、B2B & B2C Project Developers、EPC Contractors and Installers We combine AI-powered site-level EMS, real-time electricity trading and full asset lifecycle O&M into one vertically integrated platform — serving B2B and B2C clients across Belgium and expanding into additional European markets. | CIOC Energy is the platform that truly bridges behind-the-meter asset control and front-of-meter market revenue — a fully integrated renewable energy management and trading platform. | CIOC Fee = EMS Nominate Package + Imbalance Revenue X% Share | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
cleverwatt GmbH | https://www.cleverwatt.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/company/cleverwatt-energy/ | The all-in-one energy management platform for C&I: individual savings analysis, multi-use EMS, energy procurement & consulting. Winner of the pv magazine Spotlight Award 2026. | 2024 | None | Seed | cleverwatt provides energy management for industrial and commercial customers in Germany. The platform covers four areas: load-curve analysis to quantify savings before any hardware investment (clever.Report), real-time control of batteries, PV, EV chargers, heat pumps and industrial loads through a multi-use EMS (clever.EMS), electricity procurement on spot, term and PPA markets (clever.Beschaffung), and regulatory and funding support (clever.Beratung). | Mid-sized industrial and commercial customers in Germany with >0.5 GWh annual electricity consumption: plastics, metalworking, food production, logistics. These companies typically own flexible energy assets (battery storage, PV, EV chargers, compressors, refrigeration, electric process heat) but do not use them for active load shifting. Existing EMS products optimize for one use case at a time. cleverwatt unlocks all flex potential simultaneously and integrates procurement and regulatory support that otherwise requires multiple vendors. | cleverwatt quantifies savings potential from the customer's real load curve before any hardware investment (clever.Report). Most competitors sell hardware first and report savings retroactively. The EMS uses mathematical optimization across all flex assets simultaneously rather than rule-based logic for single use cases. Pricing can be structured as shared savings, so cleverwatt only earns when the customer saves. pv magazine recognized this approach with the Spotlight Award 2026. | Revenue comes from four streams. clever.EMS as recurring SaaS, priced per site with a savings-oriented component. clever.Report as one-time and monthly fees for load-curve analysis and feasibility studies. clever.Beschaffung as fees for procurement strategy and structured electricity tendering. clever.Beratung as project fees for electrification concepts and regulatory work (ISO 50001, §19 StromNEV, Industriestrompreis). | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
CMBLU Energy AG | www.cmblu.com/ | www.linkedin.com/company/cmblu-energy-ag | SolidFlow: Safe and scalable long-duration energy storage infrastructure for a world that never stops | 2014 | STRABAG, Samsung Ventures | Growth stage | CMBlu develops SolidFlow batteries for long-duration energy storage applications. The company focuses on scalable stationary storage systems that help stabilize grids, integrate renewable energy, and provide reliable clean power for industrial sites and critical infrastructure. The technology combines flow battery architecture with solid organic storage materials to deliver safe, flexible, and scalable energy storage without relying on critical raw materials. | CMBlu works with utilities, renewable energy developers, industrial companies, and data center operators that require reliable long-duration energy storage. These customers face increasing challenges from renewable intermittency, grid constraints, curtailment, rising energy costs, and reliability requirements. CMBlu’s SolidFlow batteries are designed to provide storage capacity for applications requiring multi-hour to long-duration discharge, helping customers secure stable clean energy supply and improve system resilience. | CMBlu’s SolidFlow battery technology is designed for long-duration stationary energy storage and it combines key advantages of redox flow batteries — safety, scalability & long cycle life — without its limitations: low energy density. A stackable architecture enables compact system footprints. Using solid active materials, the technology avoids lithium, nickel, cobalt, and other critical raw materials. The batteries are non-flammable, recyclable, and designed for safe deployment close to critical infrastructure such as industrial sites and data centers. | CMBlu develops and supplies long-duration battery systems for utility-scale and commercial applications. Revenue is generated through commercial battery system sales, service agreements, battery operation and in the future license fees. The company works with strategic partners to develop scalable storage projects for renewable integration, grid reliability, industrial decarbonization, and critical infrastructure applications. | x | x | x | Data Centers | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connectika GmbH | www.connectika.eu | https://www.linkedin.com/company/connectika-gmbh/?viewAsMember=true | Connectika is a comprehensive technology and service provider for energy management solutions. Its focus is on industrial and large-scale projects, emobility and BESS projects. | 2024 | Founders | Bootstrapped | Connectika develops and integrates energy management systems (EMS) for commercial, industrial and utility-scale energy projects. The company combines EMS hardware, software, IoT platforms and prefabricated connection solutions for battery storage, PV systems and charging infrastructure. Connectika supports customers from technical planning and simulation through commissioning, remote operation and long-term system support, including integration of energy trading and flexibility optimization services. | Our customers are EPCs, battery storage developers, industrial companies, logistics operators, charging infrastructure providers and energy investors. Many of them face increasing electricity costs, grid limitations and growing system complexity. We help them integrate and operate battery storage, PV and charging infrastructure in one controllable system to reduce peak loads, optimize energy consumption, improve grid integration and unlock additional revenue from energy markets. | Connectika combines EMS software, industrial hardware integration and operational services in one offering. Unlike many software-only providers, we also deliver prefabricated connection and power units that simplify deployment and commissioning of complex energy systems. The platform is manufacturer-independent and integrates batteries, inverters, meters, charging systems and trading interfaces from different vendors. This allows customers to use flexible system architectures instead of being locked into a single ecosystem. | Connectika generates revenue through sales of EMS hardware and software, engineering and commissioning services, recurring support subscriptions, and optimization services for battery storage systems. The company combines project-based revenue with recurring software and service income from operating connected energy assets. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Biogas and combined heat and power plant | ||||||||||||||||||
Delta Charge GmbH | https://www.deltacharge.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/deltacharge | We electrify commercial sites & truck fleets end-to-end. One partner, one guaranteed energy price, zero complexity. Financing, building & operating. All from a single source. | 2024 | Vireo Ventures, Rethink Ventures, Delta Capacity, Angel Investors | Seed | We are a German-Swedish company developing charging and battery storage solutions to electrify commercial sites and truck fleets. Our team has delivered some of the largest battery projects in Europe. For our customers, we plan, finance, build and optimise the energy and charging infrastructure on-site. | Our customers share a high energy demand and the challenge of electrifying their sites and fleets: breweries, manufacturers, waste management and construction companies, logistics operators and freight carriers. We turn the complexity of electrification – volatile energy costs, grid constraints and unpredictable investment – into a simple, bankable solution with guaranteed costs and long-term planning certainty. | We offer a true end-to-end solution: one partner who plans, finances, builds and operates energy infrastructure long-term. Every solution is tailored to a site's specific conditions and daily operational needs. For electric truck fleets, we cut through the complexity of the entire energy system and reduce it to a single, guaranteed price per kilowatt-hour. | For most customers, we own and operate the battery storage and charging infrastructure on-site, the customer pays a single, long-term guaranteed price per charge, with no upfront investment. Others prefer to own the infrastructure themselves; in that case, we plan, build and operate. In both models, we always handle the ongoing optimisation of the energy system to maximise efficiency and reduce costs. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
dvlp.energy GmbH | https://www.dvlp.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-oldenburg/ | dvlp.energy is a geo-platform providing >2000 data layers to analyze the site potential for bess, wind, pv, data centers – trusted by >250 project developers in Germany and Italy. | 2023 | None (organic) | Growth stage | dvlp.energy develops and operates a web-based geo-information-system used by developers of energy infrastructure projects to identify and analysze sites. For this we provide >2000 geodata-layers including all aspects around administration, electricity grid, environment, spatial planning, soil for the German and Italian market. In addition, the software allows creating automatic site reports, owner data acquisition and management, 3D visualization of battery parks, noise modelling and the matchmaking with lokal developers to pursue joint grid connections. | Project developers (including integrated utilities and IPPS), planning offices, land architects. With dvlp.energy they save time and resources in identifying planning risks, automate their early stage project development process and increase their success probability. | We provide the most comprehensive database, as well as multiple innovative functions (noise modelling, direct integration to cadastral offices for ownership information requests, grid matchmaking between project developers). | Software as a Service (sell software subscriptions). In additiona, we offer multiple paid in-app services (cadastral owner requests, grid matchmaking). | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind, Data Centers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eclipse | https://eclipse-flow.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oswald-d-hespel-406743185/ | Eclipse is an infra-tech company developing, installing and operating BESS. Eclipse has all aggregator/optimizer certifications to provide integrated offtake solutions. | 2023 | BNP Paribas | Growth stage | Eclipse develops, installs and operates BESS. Eclipse optimizes BESS through its own proprietary trading platform and provides offtake solutions. | Owners of BESS. We maximize their revenues through multi-stacking optimisation. | Eclipse is a unique one-stop shop in the flexibility market, providing cutting-edge optimization solutions through multi-stacking. Eclipse has developed its own proprietary trading platform. | Eclipse generates revenues to its clients through multistacking (Ancillary Services and wholesale markets) and receives à % of the generated revenues. | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Einklang Energy | https://einklang.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/company/einklang-energy | Einklang cuts energy costs for German SMEs: financed battery storage + AI load management + matching energy tariff. Up to 40% lower bills with no CAPEX. | 2025 | Vireo Ventures (lead), SI Ventures, Saxovent, Angel Invest, DNA Ventures plus angel investors | Seed | Einklang finances and installs battery storage systems at mid-sized industrial and commercial companies and combines them with AI-based control software and a matching energy tariff. The software decides when the battery charges and discharges, shifting electricity purchasing to hours when spot-market prices are low and reducing expensive load peaks. Customers can get a dynamic, structured or fixed electricity tariff depending on their needs. Together, this lowers their electricity costs while making prices more predictable. | Mid-sized industrial and commercial businesses (German Mittelstand), with significant electricity use. Their problem: power is a large, volatile cost and they have little control over when they buy it or over peak-load charges. We give them a battery plus control software and a dynamic tariff, so they buy electricity when it is cheap and cut peak loads, making energy costs lower and more predictable. | We combine four things in one package instead of selling them separately: the battery hardware, software-based load management, and financing solution and a matching electricity tariff. It is built specifically for the Mittelstand and needs no solar. The battery is financed and optimised so the customer carries little upfront cost, and the system pays for itself through cheaper purchasing and lower peak charges. | Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS): customers don't buy hardware, software, and electricity separately — we provide them as one bundled service. Instead of a large upfront investment, they pay a recurring service fee. We generate revenue from this ongoing service relationship spanning the battery, the management software, and energy supply. | x | x | Energy Providing | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
Electric Blue | https://www.electricblue.io/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/electric-blue-trading-01/ | AI-native trader and optimiser for renewable and battery assets. Combining algorithmic execution with deep energy market expertise. | 2018 | private ownership | Growth stage | We help owners of solar farms, wind farms and battery storage systems earn more from electricity markets. We decide when and where to sell power, optimise battery charging and discharging, manage market risks and structure power purchase agreements (PPAs). We combine AI-driven trading technology with hands-on energy market expertise. | Our customers are owners and developers of solar, wind and battery projects. We manage market access, trading and PPAs, and have particular expertise in more complex project setups such as hybrid systems, on-site consumption and battery storage. We work with clients from early-stage project development through operations, helping assess battery sizing, revenue opportunities and commercial viability. | Unlike many providers that focus on standard market access services, we work across the full project lifecycle. We support project design, revenue modelling and battery sizing before construction, and later manage trading and optimisation during operations. This allows us to tailor strategies to each asset’s technical and commercial setup rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach. | Our business started with proprietary algorithmic trading in electricity markets. Today, we also generate revenue by managing and optimising renewable energy and battery assets for clients. Depending on the service, fees may be fixed, volume-based or linked to performance. We also provide advisory services, including battery sizing, revenue assessments and market studies. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
encentive GmbH | https://www.encentive.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/encentive/ | AI energy management for industry: flexOn optimizes and controls flexible assets to cut energy costs, reduce CO₂ emissions and use power when it is green and low-cost. | 2020 | General Catalyst, Summiteer, SI Ventures, Vireo Ventures, HelloWorld, Stefan Müller, Bernhard Niesner | Growth stage | encentive develops flexOn, an AI-based energy management platform for industrial companies. The software analyzes energy data, identifies flexibility in assets such as refrigeration, heating processes, batteries and production lines, creates optimized schedules and can automatically control these assets so electricity is used when it is cheaper and greener. | Our target customers are medium-sized and large industrial companies with high electricity consumption. They face volatile power prices, rising energy costs and pressure to reduce emissions. encentive helps them use flexibility in existing assets to lower energy costs and CO₂ emissions without disrupting core operations. | flexOn is not only an analytics or monitoring tool. It connects directly to industrial assets and controls them automatically based on energy prices, renewable availability and operational constraints. The platform can use flexibility from different assets, such as batteries, cooling, heating and production processes, and coordinate them locally and with energy markets. | encentive provides flexOn as a software platform for industrial customers and partners. Revenue is generated through commercial customer and partner contracts for deploying and operating the platform, including integration, optimization and ongoing automated control of flexible energy assets. | x | x | x | x | Flexibilisation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energieglück Gruppe | www.energieglueck.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/energieglueck/ | AI-native energy tech from Germany. Three pillars: BESS, process automation for utilities, software (Energieglück+ Asset Mgmt and EG Cortex PMO). | 2025 | Bootstrapped (Family Office) | Growth stage | We build a sustainable energy future — through AI-driven process automation, intelligent software, and battery storage. Our AI automates high-volume processes like customer service — proven with energy utilities, but applicable to anyone running mass processes at scale. Energieglück also develops, builds, and operates utility-scale BESS in Germany — 2 GW+ in active development. Our software: Energieglück+ for AI-powered asset management with Digital Twin and predictive analytics and EG Cortex for AI-project management. | 1. Everyone who owns land or grid capacity and wants to use it for battery storage but lacks the expertise – we handle development, finance, EPC and trading. Tailored individually, scalable by site. 2. Asset owners, EPCs, and PV/BESS developers needing AI software for project management, asset management, predictive maintenance, and optimization instead of Excel. 3. Companies with high-volume processes – our AI scales these and frees up time for what matters, addressing skilled-labor shortage and demographic change. | – AI-first DNA — we build with AI agents, not despite them. Faster iteration, leaner team, more output. – Agile and fast — from idea to deployment in days, not quarters. No legacy stack slowing us down. – Large pipeline — 2GW+ BESS in development, including one of Germany's largest grid-scale projects – Real paying customers on Energieglück+ — not pilots, not LOIs. Active SaaS revenue from day one. – AI process automation — we automate mass processes end-to-end, proven internally before we sell it. | 1. Project development fees – we develop utility-scale BESS projects and sell them to investors at or after RTB (ready-to-build). 2. Operations & trading – for projects we hold ourselves, we generate ongoing revenue. 3. Software subscriptions – Energieglück+ and EG Cortex are sold as SaaS. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
EnviroTrust | www.envirotrust.eu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-idesman-8a622465/?skipRedirect=true | An AI-driven platform leveraging climate intelligence to eliminate operational risk for energy infrastructure and unlock 100% capacity. | 2025 | ESA BIC | Early stage | We provide an AI platform that calculates the specific financial impact of climate change, weather and environment on infrastructure like wind parks or grids. We use digital twins, damage functions and satellite data to help energy producers and banks make better investment and operational decisions. | We target renewable energy producers, utilities, grid operators, banks, and insurers. They struggle to quantify the actual financial impact of climate change on specific assets and most importantly, connected assets in portfolios, making it difficult to secure financing or make operational decisions. | We differentiate ourselves by quantifying the asset-level financial impact of climate change, rather than just identifying environmental risks. Further, we use own developed damage functions library and AI for assets and interconnected portfolios analysis. | We use a b2b subscription model targeting renewable energy producers / grid operators, asset owners and financial institutions. We generate revenue through monthly fees based on three tiers and api access: Basic 800 Eur/month, Advanced 3500 Eur/month, Pro 8000 Eur/month, API Access 200-1300 Eur/month. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind | |||||||||||||||||||
EORA Energy | eora-energy.ch | – | We transform the cost of energy into a local asset through decentralized renewable energy communities. More PV profitability, cost reduction and energy independence. | 2024 | Just one side investor is aligned, waiting for a lead investor. | Early stage | EORA builds three integrated products that create decentralized renewable energy communities. EORA River is the operating system managing energy forecasting and optimization. EORA Lake handles smart battery storage and management. EORA Wallet provides the community marketplace for local energy trading. Together, they enable prosumers, consumers, and energy providers to trade surplus solar and renewable energy locally, automate billing through blockchain, and reduce dependence on centralized grid infrastructure. | Our customers are both B2C and B2B: Producers, Prosumers, Consumers in need for faster return on their renewable asset and seeking lower energy costs. DSOs and Municipality instead are looking for grid stability and energy independence. Battery payback currently takes fifteen years, discouraging private renewable investment. We solve this by creating local energy markets where you can achieve battery ROI in less than eight years and consumers reduce costs by six percent annually. | First, a multi-dimensional ML forecasting model for energy prediction and optimization unique in the market. Second, decentralized governance—communities control their own energy and policies without external intermediaries. Third, hybrid infrastructure combining software, smart metering hardware, and blockchain tokenization in one ecosystem. Fourth, active deployment traction: we operate two live municipal pilots in 2026 with confirmed DSO partnerships, supported by Innosuisse, with measurable KPIs validated in real communities rather than theory. | We operate a hybrid B2B2C revenue model. Users pay monthly SaaS subscriptions (EORA River: 20 CHF/month, EORA Wallet: 10 CHF/month) plus we retain ten percent commission on local energy trades. In addition to that, we retain also a GPM on smart meters and battery systems sold through our channels at from ten to thirty percent margin. We want to generate a bottom-up energy transition where the private and public sector both participate in creating energy communities. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Municipalities | x | x | x | Energy communities | ||||||||||||||||||
Fast Sense | https://fast-sense.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsuter/ | Real-time sensing. Zero complexity. Maximum safety. | 2022 | Israel Innovation Authority (€1.5M), private VC funding (€1M) | Seed | Fast Sense is building a compact gas sensing chip that measures gases like hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and VOCs in real time. The chip uses nano-material layers to improve sensitivity while keeping power consumption low. Its small size allows it to be embedded into industrial systems such as hydrogen infrastructure, batteries, and power equipment. The system combines sensing hardware with connected software tools to help detect leaks earlier, monitor safety risks, and improve operational efficiency. | Infrastructure safety. Modern hydrogen, battery, and industrial energy systems rely on slow, centralized gas monitoring using bulky, costly instruments. As hydrogen adoption and battery demand surge, operators face growing safety and compliance risks without scalable, real-time tools to continuously monitor gas structure. | Fast Sense combines nano-semiconductor multi-gas sensing, ultra-low power, and ATEX certification in a compact, affordable and highly durable platform. The technology enables faster leak detection, predictive safety monitoring, and optimization of industrial processes, positioning Fast Sense as a next-generation alternative to bulky, expensive gas chromatography systems and limited single-gas detectors. | Fast Sense uses a hybrid business model that combines hardware sales with recurring software and service revenue. The company sells compact gas sensing chips and analyzer systems, designed for integration into industrial infrastructure and battery management platforms through OEM and Tier-1 partnerships. Hardware revenue is supported by recurring income from maintenance, calibration, predictive diagnostics, cloud analytics, remote firmware updates, and safety monitoring services offered through subscription-based contracts. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
FIDgate | fidgate.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingjuanmr/ | FIDgate automates techno-economic optimisation for hybrid renewable projects, replacing weeks of manual analysis with 1,000+ auditable scenarios in minutes. Built for the FID moment | 2024 | EXIST grant (German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) — active funding period June 2026 – May 2027, AI Nation program (2024) , and Founder, Juan Manuel Roldan. | Early stage | FIDgate is an automated techno-economic optimisation platform for utility-scale hybrid renewable projects. It combines physics-based and mathematical optimisation with AI modelling to co-optimise asset sizing, dispatch, and financial structure across solar, wind, and BESS simultaneously. The engine evaluates thousands of design combinations – grid constraints, market revenues, degradation, financial assumptions – producing auditable outputs aligned with IRR, LCOE, and bankability requirements. | Our customers are mid-sized IPPs and renewable developers in the EU managing hybrid pipelines of 50–500 MW. They currently evaluate fewer than 10 configurations manually, using siloed tools, Excel models, and consultants costing €50,000–150,000 per engagement over 4–8 weeks. This limits them to local rather than global optimisation, creating an ~8% lifetime value gap between simulated and actual revenue. FIDgate compresses this to minutes. | Most tools address one part of the problem : yield modelling, battery dispatch, or financial analysis : and teams reconcile outputs manually. FIDgate runs all three together: one model evaluates thousands of project configurations across solar, wind, and BESS, optimising for IRR, LCOE, and grid constraints simultaneously. Validated on over €1B of real assets, it delivers 5–12% higher NPV and 15–30% higher IRR than conventional approaches. No comparable external platform does this in a single automated workflow at utility scale. | FIDgate transitions from project-based optimisation engagements toward recurring SaaS subscriptions, priced well below enterprise consulting costs of €50,000–150,000 per engagement, enabling portfolio-scale repeatable usage. Early traction: 4 signed LOIs, validation on over €1B of assets across multiple markets, 200+ identified customers across developers, IPPs, utilities, and EPCs. Break-even projected through subscription revenue growth. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
fleXality GmbH | www.flexality.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/flexality | Our software fEnOMS™ orchestrates industrial energy systems behind the meter to reduce costs by unlocking operational flexibility. | 2022 | The Real Asset Company GmbH, reon Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, Buhlmann Rohr-Fittings-Stahlhandel GmbH + Co. KG, LLC UG, Marc Eckes and additional private ClimateTech investors. Our financing strategy combines strategic business angels and public funding to support sustainable long-term growth. | Growth stage | fleXality helps industrial sites coordinate how and when energy is used. Our software connects systems such as batteries, solar panels, cooling and heating systems to reduce energy costs and improve flexibility. Instead of operating each system separately, we optimize the entire site as one connected energy system. | Industrial companies with high electricity demand are our main customers, especially logistics, food production and manufacturing sites with assets such as PV, batteries, refrigeration, heating or charging infrastructure. We also work with utilities, direct marketers, battery storage providers and engineering companies. As energy markets become more volatile and regulations continue to change, many industrial sites struggle to coordinate increasingly complex energy systems efficiently. | Most energy management systems focus on monitoring or optimizing single assets such as batteries or PV systems. fEnOMS™ coordinates entire industrial energy systems instead. Our software combines operational constraints, energy prices, weather data and multiple energy assets in one control logic. This enables industrial sites to operate more flexibly and cost-efficiently while making better use of existing infrastructure. | We generate revenue through software subscriptions, implementation projects and energy optimization services. Customers typically start with an analysis of their energy system and flexibility potential. Because every industrial site has different assets, processes and constraints, projects are usually highly individualized. After implementation, customers pay recurring fees for using the fEnOMS™ platform and related optimization functions | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
Flexbid GmbH | flexbid.de | linkedin.com/company/flexbid | Institutional-grade optimization and execution for flexible energy assets | 2025 | Several Angels | Seed | Locking in spreads long-term with futures and OTC products, continious re-optimization up to intraday high-frequency trading to secure bankability and profitable business cases for flexible asset owners | Flexible asset developers, operators, owners, including grid-scale FTM BESS, co-location, power-to-heat and complex industrial BTM setups | Actually solving the long-termn hedging probleam instead of making balance sheet backed promises and actually mastering the HFT spot market instead of participating in easy ancillary markets, which eventually will become irrelevant (see e.g. development in UK) | Profit share above benchmark or revenue share | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
FlowGen | www.flowgen.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowgen-technology/?viewAsMember=true | FlowGen is a Swiss provider of mobile turnkey renewable energy systems that integrate wind, solar, and battery storage in containerized microgrids. | 2015 | Family Offices and individuals | Growth stage | FlowGen is a Swiss provider of compact, lightweight wind turbines and mobile turnkey renewable energy systems integrating wind, solar, and battery storage into containerized microgrids. Our technology is engineered to deliver clean and reliable power for industrial clients and remote locations, making it an ideal solution for production and manufacturing facilities. The solutions are designed for dual-use applications and have already been deployed at airports, seaports, and military sites. | FlowGen targets industrial companies, infrastructure operators, municipalities, and remote-site operators seeking reliable, decentralized renewable energy solutions. Our customers include manufacturing facilities, ports, airports, utilities, telecom operators, and critical infrastructure providers. We solve the challenge of unstable grids, rising energy costs, and energy security by delivering hybrid microgrid systems. | FlowGen differentiates itself through intelligent hybrid microgrids that combine wind, solar, battery storage, and an advanced Energy Management System to optimize energy generation and consumption in real time. Our lightweight compact wind turbines, built with advanced composite materials, can be installed on mobile containerized systems or existing infrastructure such as buildings, ports, and industrial sites. This enables flexible, rapidly deployable renewable energy solutions for industrial, off-grid, and critical infrastructure applications. | FlowGen operates a hybrid business model combining direct equipment sales and recurring service-based revenues. We generate CAPEX revenues through the sale of wind turbines, hybrid microgrids, and turnkey renewable energy systems. In addition, we offer OPEX-based leasing and energy service models, enabling customers to deploy renewable energy infrastructure with lower upfront investment. Recurring revenues are further supported through maintenance, monitoring, software, and energy management services. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind/Solar/BESS/EMS turnkey ready microgrids | |||||||||||||||||||
Forsyt Energy | https://forsytenergy.com/#valuationpro | https://www.linkedin.com/in/julio-quintela/ | Forsyt Energy helps developers to integrate BESS by identifying the right battery configuration and quantify revenues. We bring clarity in volatility to speed up electrification. | 2025 | None, bootstrapped | Bootstrapped | Forsyt Energy helps developers to integrate BESS by identifying the right battery configuration and quantify revenues. We do advanced modeling of the BESS trading strategy to help our clients to integrate the most suitable one to their solar asset. | Developpers, IPP and utilities. We model the BESS revenues on all the market thanks to our In-house Python model to help them size the battery and integrate broadly storage in their strategy. | We provide a Valuation SaaS which is asset-specific, you can 50 parameters to simulate your own BESS asset. It also integrate curtailment scenario and allow developpers to integrate Grid constraint. | We sell POC at 3 000e with a sizing study to bring concrete resultats to one of our client asset. Then we use a subscription model, with pricing increasing with seats and country covered. We offer three subscription tiers from 12KEur to 29KEur per year. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
Furo (formerly Lumera Energy) | www.furoenergy.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/furo-energy/ | Furo is the operating system for commercial battery storage to plan, operate and trade energy flexibility. | 2025 | N/A | Seed | Furo builds software for the full lifecycle of commercial and industrial battery storage systems: 1) Plan: Project planning and business case modeling 2) Operate: Real-time multi-use optimization, including a virtual battery feature that aggregates distributed assets 3) Flex: Flexibility monetization through energy markets, and the foundation for a future virtual power plant | 1) Storage manufacturers, project developers, installers who need planning tools and a software for real-time operations for the batteries they sell and deploy 3) Utilities who want to extend their electricity tariffs through battery optimization and flexibility trading 4) Industrial companies that operate batteries and want to monetize them in energy markets. | Most software in this space handles either planning or operation or trading — not both, and rarely flexibility trading. Furo covers all three in one integrated platform, built specifically for the C&I segment (100 kW – 10 MW) | Furo is a B2B SaaS business. We charge a recurring license fee for the Plan module on project/user base, and a per-system annual fee for Operate and Flex. Pricing scales with sites and modules used. We sell directly to energy service companies, installers, and industrial operators, and through channel partners like Enpal, sonnen, BayWa, and badenova who deploy batteries to end customers. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal100 GmbH | https://goal100.studio | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bahne/ | goal100.studio is a Web-GIS platform for renewable energy project development in Germany. Maps, parcel management, landowner CRM and team collaboration in one workflow. | 2026 | Bahne Carstensen, Jakob Ortmann, David Wortmann, ProjectTogether gGmbH | Early stage | goal100.studio is a Web-GIS platform for renewable energy project development in Germany. It combines 50+ geospatial data layers, including cadastral parcels, grid infrastructure, protected areas, and regional plans, with parcel management, a landowner CRM, and real-time team collaboration. BESS Developers, municipalities, and energy cooperatives use it to identify suitable sites, track securing status, research landowners, and manage projects end-to-end – from first map analysis to signed lease. All in a single browser-based tool. | Primary customers are renewable energy project developers (BESS, PV, WIND) in Germany. They currently piece together site analysis, parcel data, landowner research, and project tracking across disconnected tools: GIS software, Excel, and manual cadastral queries. goal100.studio replaces this fragmented workflow with one platform: identify parcels on the map, check securing status, order or research landowner contacts via AI, and manage the project with the team – no GIS expertise or five-figure software budget required. | Competitors like dvlp, Nefino, and Glint Solar require lenghty sales calls and demos to get started. goal100.studio is the only platform in this space with a permanent free tier and full self-service onboarding. A product-led growth model in a segment dominated by enterprise sales. It integrates parcel management, landowner CRM with AI-assisted contact research, and team collaboration in one workflow, covering the full site-acquisition process rather than just the map layer. | SaaS subscription with four tiers: Free (€0), Starter (€299/month), Professional (€699/month), and Enterprise (custom). Annual billing available with discount. Revenue comes primarily from Starter and Professional subscriptions by project developers. The free tier drives product-led growth and conversion. Enterprise contracts target larger development firms and institutional players. Additional revenue potential through landowner data ordering directly within the platform and other pay per use features. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Municipalities / Energy Cooperatives | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
Green Energy Tools | https://green-energy-tools.de | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennartwittstock/ | Green Energy Tools simulates every combo of battery size, PV, energy tariff & EMS strategy on real load profiles. We help C&I solar & battery installers to consult and sell. | 2026 | Bootstrapped | Seed | Green-Energy-Tools is a software for planners and installers of commercial & industrial battery storage in the DACH region. It imports a customer's 15-minute load profile and simulates hundreds of combinations of battery models, PV systems, electricity tariffs, grid fees, and EMS strategies (peak shaving, dynamic tariffs, PV self-consumption, atypical grid use). Users compare scenarios by payback, IRR, and NPV, then export a customer report. | Our customers are mainly solar and commercial battery installers. But amongst our customers are also battery manufacturers and distributor as well as energy consultants. Their clients want to see a clear and detailed business-case before buying a C&I battery. The tools that they currently use (Excel, self-built scripts, free tools from manufacturers, pv-planning-tools) can not quickly or correctly model the different possibilities that modern batteries and EMS offer and that they want to show to their clients. | Their clients want a clear, detailed business case before investing in a C&I battery. The tools installers currently use (Excel, self-built scripts, free manufacturer tools, PV planning software like PV*SOL) can't quickly or correctly model the full range of use cases modern batteries and EMS offer. These include peak shaving, dynamic tariffs, atypical grid use, and PV self-consumption, as single applications or combined in multi-use setups. This is exactly what installers want to show to close the deal. | We generate revenue as a classic saas. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gridcog | https://www.gridcog.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridcog | Gridcog is the techno-economic modelling platform for intelligent energy decisions – model complex multi-asset projects across 40+ markets with bankable outputs. | 2020 | AlbionVC | Seed | Gridcog is a techno-economic modelling platform for energy transition projects. Users model complex multi-asset, multi-site projects – batteries, solar, EVs, heat, industrial loads – across 40+ markets worldwide. The platform handles full physical and commercial complexity: PPAs, network tariffs, ancillary services, CAPEX/OPEX, co-location constraints – all co-optimised, with bankable outputs including NPV, IRR, ROI and payback periods. | Our customers are energy developers, IPPs, consultants and energy majors who need to evaluate complex decentralised energy projects. Existing tools are either too simplified, inflexible or require custom-built models. Gridcog gives technical and commercial teams a platform to model full project complexity rigorously – without building from scratch – producing bankable outputs that give lenders and investment committees confidence to back a project. | Unlike spreadsheet models or single-asset tools, Gridcog handles multi-asset, multi-market projects in one platform. It reflects real-world operational complexity – flexible connection agreements, degradation schedules, uncertainty modelling – rather than relying on perfect foresight assumptions. Every dispatch decision is traceable and every assumption visible, making outputs credible for project finance. | Gridcog operates on an annual SaaS subscription model, with pricing based on usage and team size. Revenue is recurring and scales as customers model more projects or expand into new markets. There is no consulting or services component – the platform is designed to be self-serve for technical and commercial users. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
Gridle | Elisa Industriq | elisaindustriq.com/gridle | https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridle-elisa-industriq/ | Gridle optimizes battery energy storage assets across electricity balancing and wholesale markets, turning operational complexity into predictable performance and maximized returns. | 2023 | Elisa Group | Growth stage | Gridle operates and optimizes battery energy storage systems. We connect batteries to electricity markets and control how they charge, discharge, and bid into those markets. This helps asset owners maximize returns from battery investments, access multiple revenue streams, and handle complex market rules without building their own trading or optimization capabilities. | Gridle’s customers are asset owners with battery energy storage, including utilities, independent power producers, telecom operators, and industrial companies. Gridle also serves households with home battery optimization. These customers struggle to operate batteries efficiently in complex electricity markets and to capture the available value. Gridle solves this by optimizing how batteries are used and connected to markets, so they can improve performance and benefits without building their own trading, optimization, and energy expertise. | Gridle optimizes a wide range of batteries, from grid-scale to industrial, telecom, and residential use. It was developed within Elisa, Finland’s largest telecom operator, to manage thousands of distributed batteries, which is the most complex form of optimization. Today, the same approach is applied across all segments, with an emphasis on grid-scale. Gridle optimizes batteries in electricity markets using its experience operating mission-critical infrastructure, so customers do not need to build their own trading or operational capabilities. | Gridle generates revenue mainly by taking a share of the value created by optimizing battery assets in electricity markets. We operate and trade the assets on behalf of customers and take an agreed percentage of the total benefit generated. | x | x | x | x | x | x | Telecom batteries | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
GridVolt | https://www.gridvolt.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridvolt/ | AI-powered, hardware-agnostic software for commercial battery trading and whole-site energy optimisation. Solar, HVAC, storage — coordinated with predictive intelligence. | 2026 | RVR Energy Technology, raising pre-seed later 2026 | Early stage | AI-powered, hardware-agnostic software for commercial battery trading and whole-site energy optimisation. Solar, HVAC, storage — coordinated with predictive intelligence. | GridVolt targets commercial and industrial buildings with high energy costs — typically sites with battery storage, solar PV, or both. Hotels, farms, manufacturing sites, and businesses spending above €30k per year on energy. The problem: these sites invest in energy assets but run them on basic schedules, leaving value untapped. GridVolt's software makes those assets work harder — trading energy at the right times and coordinating batteries, solar, and HVAC to cut costs. We reach customers primarily through solar installers/EPCs as channel partners. | Our platform is the only one combining commercial battery dispatch and wholesale trading with HVAC, solar and load optimisation against live market prices in a unified system. Competitors either optimise a single asset (batteries or HVAC, not both) or are blind to real-time energy market signals. GridVolt is also hardware-agnostic and doesn't lock customers into a single ecosystem. | GridVolt generates revenue through two primary streams. A SaaS subscription for access to our AI-powered energy management platform — covering battery (& other asset) optimisation, load forecasting, and asset coordination. Secondly, a performance-based commission on flexibility trading revenue, where we dispatch commercial batteries into wholesale and balancing markets on behalf of customers. Sales of our hardware controller devices provide a small third revenue stream. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Halide Energy | halide.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-wong-cp/ | Halide Energy is a manufacturer of copper flow batteries solving long-duration energy storage and flexibility challenges | 2025 | BSV Ventures, LAB7 (Aramco) | Early stage | Halide Energy is a Finnish-based developer and manufacturer of copper flow batteries (CFB) designed to meet C&I and utility scale energy storage and flexibility needs. Based on in-house patented research, the CFB is made up of two main components, firstly an arrangement of battery cells and stacks in modular containers; and secondly the aqueous copper-based electrolytes in external industrial chemical storage tanks, connected to the power containers, providing a cost-effective, modular, and market-ready solution. | The CFB technology is designed 4 to 12 hours BESS for heavy energy users (C&I) or renewable power producers. C&I sector faces challenges of electrification hindered by grid congestion queues, and the need for increased flexibility behind-the-meter. CFBs can be used as a tool for cost minimisation via peak shaving or minimising peak congestion charges. On the renewable power producers, the market economics strongly favour hybrid arrangements of batteries connected to the generation assets to maximise revenue on the grid capacity markets. | Compared to traditional lithium BESS, CFBs do not face fire risks due to its aqueous electrolyte, and the chemistry allows for much longer lifespan as the battery capacity degradation can be reversed, reducing the need for augmentation or costly over-sizing hence reducing project lifetime costs. As for other flow batteries (Vanadium, Iron), CFBs provide higher round-trip efficiencies than IFBs while double the energy density and over 2x less costly than VFBs. This allows our technology to be competitive in the M/LDES side of the energy storage market. | We are a B2B hardware manufacturer directly to the end-users or via EPCs dependent on the customer and market segment. We begin with pilot projects <2 MW with a pipeline customer, who has a much larger funnel of pipeline assets e.g., 10-30 MW projects to be deployed after successful pilots. Project-based revenue from selling our manufactured BESS (stacks, electrolyte, BMS), and then we work together with EMS aggregators or EPCs for the final integration into the client side. There are some annual fees based on maintenance and servicing contracts. | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hive Power | www.hivepower.tech | https://www.linkedin.com/company/hive-power/ | FLEXO splits one battery into three virtual segments: FCR, spot arbitrage, self-consumption, all running at once. No hardware swap. Works with any BMS. More VPP revenue, same asset. | 2017 | Axpo, Techstars, Swiss Technology Fund, TiVentures, Feel Venture, Creadd, Magility | Growth stage | Managing a battery fleet means leaving money on the table if each asset can only do one job at a time. Hive Power's platform, FLEXO, solves this by splitting each battery into virtual segments that earn from frequency regulation, spot market trading, and self-consumption simultaneously. It then pools those assets into a single virtual power plant portfolio, giving operators both per-asset revenue stacking and fleet-level optimisation in one place. Used by distributors, OEMs, and project developers across Europe | Our customers are battery distributors, BESS OEMs, project developers, and fleets. The problem they share: most battery management software manages one asset for one market at a time. That means your average battery asset dedicated to self-consumption is earning a fraction of what it could. FLEXO fixes this by stacking revenue streams per asset and aggregating them into a VPP, without adding hardware or changing the physical installation. | Most BESS optimisation platforms are single-asset, single-market. FLEXO does two things competitors don't: it partitions each battery into independently controlled virtual segments earning from FCR, intraday arbitrage, and self-consumption at the same time, then aggregates a fleet of those assets into a single VPP portfolio. No other platform combines both levels of optimisation in one place. It's also hardware-agnostic, supporting MODBUS, MQTT, and OCPP across a wide range of devices. | FLEXO is a B2B SaaS platform catering to battery distributors, OEMs, and project developers who manage BESS fleets for C&I, fast-charging, and residential clients. We charge a platform fee, and we also take a share of the optimisation revenue we generate for those clients. That revenue-sharing model means our incentives are directly tied to asset performance: when our software earns more for their batteries, we earn more too. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
InnoCharge GmbH | www.innocharge.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/innocharge/ | InnoCharge unlocks grid- and market-driven flexibility from distributed energy assets through intelligent orchestration and optimization. | 2023 (building on applied energy research projects at KIT since 2019) | Bootstrapped / privately funded | Seed | InnoCharge develops software for the orchestration of distributed energy assets such as EV chargers, battery storage systems and heat pumps. The platform transforms behind-the-meter flexibility into virtual power plants by connecting distributed assets to grid and energy market opportunities. | Our customers are energy suppliers and energy platforms. Many want to offer dynamic tariffs and flexibility products but lack the software infrastructure to orchestrate decentralized energy assets at scale. InnoCharge enables them to launch and scale these services efficiently by optimizing flexibility across their asset portfolios. | InnoCharge focuses on connecting behind-the-meter flexibility with grid and energy market opportunities instead of operating as a standalone EMS. The platform acts as the infrastructure layer for energy suppliers and energy platforms rather than the customer-side control layer. It is hardware-agnostic, designed for large-scale orchestration and built for integration into utility and energy platform environments. | InnoCharge operates a SaaS business model. Revenue is generated through recurring software licensing fees, platform usage fees and integration services for energy suppliers and platform providers. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
Junison Labs | https://www.junison.ai/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasplenge/ | Junison Labs turns large battery storage into flexible, secure, and market-ready energy assets across hardware brands, project types, and revenue streams. | 2024 | Bootstrapped | Bootstrapped | Junison Labs develops energy management software for large battery storage systems. Our platform connects to different battery and inverter brands, controls the storage system in real time, and empowers operators use batteries across multiple applications such as grid services, market trading, peak shaving, and backup power. We focus on making large storage assets easier to integrate, operate, and optimize. | Our main customers are OEMs, EPCs, and independent power producers developing or operating large battery storage projects. OEMs use our software to make their battery systems more flexible and market-ready. EPCs use it to integrate storage projects across different hardware setups. IPPs use it to operate batteries across multiple revenue streams, including grid services, energy trading, peak shaving, and backup power. | Our EMS MAESTRO differentiates itself by combining profitability, flexibility, security, and future readiness in one energy management system. It works across different batteries, inverters, brands, and project sizes. It helps operators increase profitability by using one battery across multiple markets and use cases. Built in Germany with data sovereignty and security in mind, it is also prepared for grid-forming, synthetic inertia, and future regulatory requirements. | Junison Labs generates revenue by licensing its MAESTRO energy management software to companies developing or operating large battery storage projects. Customers pay an upfront setup or license fee and ongoing fees for software use, maintenance, and support. Depending on the project, we offer both license-based and subscription-based models to fit different customer and project structures. | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LB.systems GmbH | LB.systems | linkedin.com/company/lbsystems | 20+ GWh of good batteries destroyed in German recycling last year – LB.systems has the tech to save them. First industrial scale testing and sorting for “waste” traction batteries. | 2019 | 0 | Growth stage | LB.systems buys traction batteries that are declared waste to rescue them from premature recycling. About 60% of “scrap” is as good as new. We built the first industrial-scale testing and sorting technology for waste traction batteries and developed a universal BMS. Using in-house hardware, electronics, and software (BMS/EMS), we rebuild rescued packs into state of the art stationary storage systems with an extremely low CO₂ footprint while reusing most components. | We offer cheap and ecological disposal: we test traction batteries, reuse the good ones, and send defective ones to recycling partners. We provide this disposal service to any site accumulating traction batteries declared as waste. For products built from rescued batteries, our customers are PV installers in the residential sector – we deliver especially easy-to-install products. End customers we offer the most sustainable option to increase self-consumption of their own generated energy, reducing energy costs. | We are a battery manufacturer that builds from scrap instead of new materials – the first company in Germany with a legal process to do this. Unlike recyclers who shred or melt traction batteries declared as waste, we test and sort them first, discovering that ~60% are as good as new. We reuse these good batteries using our industrial-scale testing/sorting technology, our universal BMS, and in-house hardware/software, achieving a much lower CO₂ footprint and reusing many components beyond just the battery cells. | We pay for traction batteries declared as waste – our tagline: ""Your Batteries Aren't Dead. We'll Pay You to Prove It."" We test them, reuse the good ones, and send defective ones to recycling partners. We sell stationary storage systems built from rescued batteries to PV installers in the residential sector and to commercial customers in the industrial sector. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lesolco GmbH | www.lesolco.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/lesolco | Unlocking the massive renewable energy potential of apartment buildings. We will find the right solutions for every building and create ready2tender projects. In less than a week. | 2022 | Bootstrapped & Business Angels; Seed Financing Round currently ongoing | Seed | We are the gate opener for energy transition of apartment buildings by connecting digital data, planning, and execution. Following a 360° onsite inspection, we create a ""digital building file"" comprising 150+ data points and 3D models. We evaluate structural suitability and deliver a cloud-accessible concept, tailor made for each building. Owners receive a comprehensive financial recommendation, while contractors get a ready-to-implement installation concept, making complex multi-tenant solar projects immediately viable and actionable within days. | With our solution, we serve a two-sided market: on one side are apartment building owners who are eager to invest, and on the other, construction companies who are willing to install. By offering investment solutions for property owners and “ready2build” projects for construction companies, we shorten the decision-making, planning, and implementation processes from what typically takes one or two years to just a few weeks, thereby eliminating a significant investment bottleneck in the real estate market. | We develop tailor-made, transparent PV energy concepts and investment opportunities rather than relying on standard solutions. We deliver faster and at higher quality than any other player. Our extreme speed and precision stem from two focus fields: First, our combined competences in PV, building technology, energy supply, metering, regulation, and finance. Second, we actively transform this deep expertise into a digital planning environment, combining precise data with automated, AI-supported simulation and planning processes for seamless execution. | We operate a highly scalable B2B funnel, generating multiple revenue streams from all sides of the market. We earn fees from property owners for our ""digital building file"" and comprehensive planning concepts. We also generate revenue from trades and contractors through project assignments and technical handovers. Furthermore, we secure diverse income streams by acting as a service provider or cooperation partner for large market players, monetizing the entire value chain from technical pre-checks to holistic project coordination. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Apartment Building Owners, Property Management Companies | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
MARKLYTICS | https://www.marklytics.co.uk | https://www.linkedin.com/in/subramanianvijay/ | Powering the future of sustainable batteries through Digital Battery Passports, traceability, carbon intelligence and circularity. | 2021 | 1 | Seed | We support BESS, EV and battery manufacturers in meeting EU Battery Regulation and ESPR requirements by improving battery traceability, sustainability data and Digital Battery Passport readiness. | Our target customers are battery manufacturers, BESS providers, EV manufacturers, second-life battery operators, recyclers, assurance providers, and organisations responsible for battery compliance. We help them collect, manage, verify, and share the data required for Digital Battery Passports under the EU Battery Regulation and ESPR. This includes battery traceability, carbon footprint, recycled content, due diligence, lifecycle tracking, and end-of-life information across the battery value chain. | Our platform combines Digital Battery Passports, chain-of-custody traceability, digital genealogy, and lifecycle data management in a single system. Every transaction, transformation, transfer, and verification is time-stamped and linked to responsible parties. We preserve traceability across split, merge, repair, repurposing, and recycling events. This enables manufacturers, second-life operators, recyclers, and assurance providers to verify provenance, carbon footprint, recycled content, and compliance data while integrating with existing ERP systems. | Per EV passport is £3 – £4/yr based on the new EV batteries placed in the market with monitoring fee of £1.5 charged on already placed fleet | x | x | x | x | x | x | EV,BESS of all sector including car,truck,scooter,lcv etc., | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
minimum energy GmbH | https://www.minimum.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/minimum-energy/ | SaaS for C&I sales and planning: minimum energy sizes battery storage in the context of PV, electric heat and EV charging — delivering a defensible business case in minutes. | 2024 | Bootstrapped | Growth stage | We build a SaaS platform for designing commercial and industrial energy systems. Users upload a site's load profile, tariff and goals; the software sizes PV, batteries, heat pumps, thermal storage, EV charging and CHP and optimizes their 15-minute dispatch over a year using mixed-integer linear optimization. German grid fees, levies, taxes and market prices are modelled out of the box. Output is a shareable web link and an exportable deck with technical concept, cashflows, payback and CO₂ impact — ready to put in front of a customer. | Our customers are sales and planning teams at EPCs (Goldbeck, B&W, Energypartners, 1punkt5), utilities (E.ON, RheinEnergie), storage providers (Tesvolt, STABL, SEINE), and consultancies serving C&I sites. Their problem: every site is unique — load profile, tariff, assets, regulation all differ — so a defensible offer takes days of work or an external modeller. minimum energy turns that into a guided workflow: assemble the site, run the optimization, hand over a business case in one meeting. | PV-and-battery sizing is solved. The real gap: heat and mobility shape battery sizing but sit in separate tools, and combining them has required an energy modeller. Our templated system builder closes both: fully coupled optimization across PV, batteries, heat pumps, thermal storage, EV charging and CHP, usable by sales and planning teams. With 15-minute dispatch and global cost optimum, customers win more projects at higher ROI. | SaaS subscription tiered by project number; monthly or annual contracts. One-off onboarding covers configuration and training. As customers scale their C&I pipeline they move up tiers — revenue grows with deployed projects, not seats. International rollout has begun with Austria. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
Mogli | getmogli.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariuschamanara/ | Mogli unifies data and leverages AI to empower those that are driving the energy transition to perform at their best | 2026 | Carbon 13 + 2 Grants | Early stage | At Mogli, we help renewable energy project developers to better navigate through the complexities of their operational processes and speed up their project timelines. We offer an AI-native project management platform that automatically connects with the existing tool landscape of project developers. Based on the extracted and unified data, projects are automatically structured and streamlined and repetitive time-consuming tasks such as document generation and analysis can be fully automated. | Our early customer profile are solar, wind and battery project developers (C&I and large-scale). Operational overhead in renewable energy infrastructure projects is the biggest operational barrier to achieving our energy transition targets. Fragmented non-linear processes, multiple stakeholders, and a fragmented system landscape create massive operational overhead that slows down project timelines. At Mogli, we connect data silos and apply context-aware AI to streamline processes across siloed systems and speed up project timelines. | Our solution is fully AI-native which makes a huge difference compared to classic project management tools. Projects don´t need to be manually created and moved within a system but are automatically generated and streamlined based on contextualized extracted company data. We leverage the recent leap in AI to develop a context layer for energy projects and solve a problem that has existed for a long time. | We offer our platform as a classic B2B SaaS solution with a fixed platform fee and a project-dependent growth component. In the early stages of Mogli, our focus is on processing as many projects as possible rather than maximizing revenue. Thereby, our context layer continuously improves which makes our solution more valuable for everyone. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
MONBAT ENERGY Holding GmbH | https://www.monbat.com/product_category/monbat-energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/monbat-energy | Wir liefern schlüsselfertige Batteriespeicher für Industrie & Gewerbe – von Planung bis Betrieb. Minimaler Aufwand, maximale Kontrolle über Stromkosten, Lastspitzen und PV-Nutzung. | 2025 | Monbat Gruppe | Growth stage | Schlüsselfertige Batteriespeicher: Entwicklung, Vertrieb, Installation und Inbetriebnahme inkl. integriertem Energiemanagement | Unsere Zielkunden sind Gewerbe- und Industrieunternehmen. Wir helfen ihnen, Kosten bei der Strombeschaffung und den Netzentgelten zu senken sowie Stromflüsse und Leistungsspitzen effizient zu optimieren. | Unsere Kunden erhalten ein rundum-sorglos Paket: Wir liefern schlüsselfertige Batteriespeicher für Industrie & Gewerbe – von Planung bis Betrieb. Minimaler Aufwand, maximale Kontrolle über Stromkosten, Lastspitzen und PV-Nutzung. | Verkauf schlüsselfertiger Batteriespeichersysteme mit integriertem Energiemanagement sowie wiederkehrende Erlöse durch Monitoring und Wartung im laufenden Betrieb. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nexxtlab SA | www.nexxtlab.com | Nexxtlab | Energymanagement whitelabel for Installers and Utilities to manage HVAC, Charging, Battery, cooling and PV in residential and C&I. | 2018 | Friends of Nexxtlab BV | Growth stage | Energiemanagement whitelabel für residential und C&I | Installers and Utilities. Offer Multi Brand EMS as a whitelabel to optimize their Customer sides. | Integrated Servicemarket that allows our customers to Choose Which services they want to Use to Change the behaviour of our EMS as well as what their customers have to pay to activate those Services. | One time Hardware Sales, recurring revenue through monthly Services | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
Novion Energy Solutions AB | https://www.novion.se/energy-solutions/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/novion-energy-solutions | Helps companies control and monitor their energy resources, both for trading, maintenance, and local optimization. | 2025 | Hiberion Group AB | Seed | Helps companies control and monitor their energy resources, both for trading, maintenance, and local optimization. | Companies that own energy resources, such as energy companies, industrial companies, and charging site owners. We help them control and monitor their resources to lower their energy tariff cost, increase revenue, and protect the equipment. | We deliver local control with our own hardware for higher security and reliability. We don't take a cut of the customers revenue but instead have a flat fee according to the value we provide at the site. We allow the customer to chose which trading platform to use, so our energy company customers can trade with resources without worrying about local integration and aggregation. | We get revenue from hardware sales and recurring income from every installation. We always bundle hardware with software services to get a combination of up-front payment and recurring. With hardware in place, we can develop more services and offer them to our customers in return for a higher recurring fee. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Octave.energy | https://octave.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/company/octave-energy | Belgian cleantech company developing BESS and EMS solutions for commercial & industrial sites, combining battery storage with intelligent energy optimization. | 2020 | mostly SPDG | Growth stage | Octave.energy develops battery energy storage systems (BESS) and energy management software for commercial and industrial customers. We provide integrated battery, EMS and control solutions that help businesses store renewable energy, reduce peak consumption and participate in energy and flexibility markets. | We work with commercial and industrial energy users, installers and energy asset owners. They face rising energy costs, grid congestion and increasing complexity in energy markets. Octave helps them improve energy flexibility and maximize the value of batteries, solar installations and charging infrastructure through intelligent control and storage solutions. | Octave combines its own BESS solutions with an in-house developed EMS and battery monitoring platform. This integrated approach enables intelligent control, market optimization and in-depth battery performance monitoring on cell level. We focus on scalable, industrial-grade solutions tailored to commercial and industrial applications. | Octave generates revenue through the sale of battery energy storage systems, recurring EMS and monitoring services, and optimization-related revenue models. Customers use our integrated hardware and software solutions to improve energy efficiency, reduce electricity costs and unlock additional value through energy market participation. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
onu.energy | https://www.onu.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/timfahrenkamp/ | onu.energy is the Energy Operating System for industrial SMEs — combining procurement, demand response & compliance in one platform | 2023 | Angel Investoren | Growth stage | onu.energy is building an Energy Operating System for industrial SMEs in Germany. We combine electricity procurement, intraday trading, demand response, battery optimization, and energy monitoring (ISO 50001) into a single managed platform, replacing the fragmented mix of providers most industrial companies currently rely on. Think of us as an outsourced energy department for manufacturers and logistics companies. | Industrial mid-sized companies in Germany with 2–220 GWh/year energy consumption (sweet spot: 5–20 GWh), typically 50–500 employees. Common sectors: plastics, food/refrigeration, metal processing, logistics. Problem we solve: These companies face rising energy costs, fragmented suppliers (3–6 different contacts), compliance pressure (ISO 50001, EnEfG), and a lack of internal energy expertise (only 0.3–1 FTE dedicated to energy). We consolidate everything into one managed solution. | Most energy service providers specialize in one area, either procurement, flexibility, or monitoring. Onu.energy is one of the few platforms combining all of these into a fully integrated solution. This means customers benefit not just from optimized procurement, but also from battery dispatch, demand response, and regulatory compliance — all managed together. The integrated approach creates compounding savings that siloed solutions simply can't deliver. | onu.energy charges service fees based on a share of the value generated for each customer, across modules like procurement optimization, intraday trading, demand response, battery dispatch, and energy monitoring. For a typical industrial customer consuming around 10 GWh per year, this translates to roughly €30,000 in annual revenue. The modular structure means customers can start with one service and expand over time, with onu's revenue growing alongside customer adoption. | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Orkestra | https://orkestra.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/company/orkestraenergy/ | Orkestra is Energy Intelligence Infrastructure: the financial operating system for commercial distributed energy. Feasibility, performance and opportunity in one platform. | 2021 | Tidal Ventures (lead), Rampersand, Impact Ventures, Luxem, Ghost VC, and angel investors including Phil Blythe (GreenSync founder), Danin Kahn (Todae Solar founder), Oliver Hartley (Epho founder), Andrew Rogers (Builtwith founder), and Paul Grana (HelioScope founder). | Growth stage | Orkestra is Energy Intelligence Infrastructure: the financial operating system for commercial distributed energy. Plan delivers financial-grade feasibility modelling for solar, battery, EV charging and tariff optimisation, turning analysis into customer-ready proposals. Operate verifies portfolio performance with live device integrations and a compounding data layer. Insights flow back into Plan, driving continuous improvement. C&I energy companies use Orkestra to design, deliver and monetise distributed energy assets. | We sell to ESCOs, PPA companies and asset financiers, and battery OEMs — the companies that build, finance, own or operate commercial distributed energy assets. The C&I energy decision used to be a one-off capital choice. It is becoming a continuous optimisation problem across tariffs, network constraints, storage cycling and grid services, with capital providers demanding evidence that assets perform as promised. Spreadsheets cannot keep up. Orkestra is the intelligence layer that does. | Competitors cover planning (Furo, formerly Lumera; Gridcog; Minimum Energy) or performance tracking (Metris Energy). Orkestra is the only platform that unifies both, with deterministic financial modelling underneath and AI-native automation on top. The same project flows from feasibility in Plan into live performance verification in Operate, and the data from both feeds continuous opportunity identification across customer portfolios. That integration is the product: a financial operating system, not a feature set. | SaaS subscription, annual contracts, land-and-expand from Plan into Operate. Plan is sold per-seat for feasibility modelling of commercial solar, battery, EV charging, tariff optimisation and financing projects. Operate is sold on a per-asset basis, adding foundational data maintenance, live device integrations and billing as a recurring data and performance service. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Tariff optimisation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Otter Energy Trading GmbH | https://otter-energy-trading.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/otter-energy-trading/ | Otter Energy Trading builds the modern trading infrastructure for the energy transition – Energy Trading as a Service for all B2B players. 🦦 | 2024 | Bryck, Andreas Schell, Jürgen Kosch, Michael Motschmann, others… | Seed | We sell energy for commercial PV plants via onsite & offsite PPAs or direct marketing. We supply companies with a dynamic tarif. We control batteries for buyers, sellers & stand-alone to increase the trading profits for their owners. We enable other energy players to trade on the market without a license via API. | Owners of commercial PV plants: We are a one stop shop for selling energy. We make all selling options easily available, also control their storage and take care of bureaucracy, trading and billing. We even cover their rest energy need with a flexible tarif so they don't need to have several providers for selling, buying, storage,… Other energy companies: They need an own trading license and trading set up. With us they just need an API to trade day ahaed and intraday themselves. | We are building the best trading infrastructure in the market. We can offer buying and selling locally interregional or on the market – all trading options from one provider. We also serve smaller PV plants and storages. We have our own utility license, own trading and billing system with which we can cover almost any use case at the customer side. | Transaction fee for the energy trading and a profit share for the storage trading. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Market access for EMS providers | ||||||||||||||||||||
p&e power&energy GmbH | https://p-and-e.com/ | https://de.linkedin.com/company/p-e-power-energy-gmbh | N/A | 2018 | 100% bootstrapped by founders / shareholders | Bootstrapped | p&e power&energy redefines battery systems via a unified, scalable platform. We replace separate BMS and central inverters with a patented, software-defined Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) architecture. Integrating power conversion at the cell layer creates a modular framework for diverse applications. As an technology provider, we license this platform to BESS manufacturers and integrators to bypass proprietary R&D, cutting system costs by 20%, reducing conversion losses by 90%, and extending battery lifespan by 50%. | We solve the ultimate industry risk for battery systems manufacturers and integrators in utility, C&I, charging, mobility, and maritime: wasting multi-million euro budgets and years of time-to-market on proprietary power electronics. We maximize their ROI by providing ready-to-license IP. Operationally, we eliminate ""stranded energy"" where cell imbalances block 11% of capacity (risking €110k/week) and resolve supply chain bottlenecks by allowing mixed battery chemistries within a single system. | Conventional systems rely on rigid string topologies where the weakest cell limits performance. We flip that logic entirely through absolute cell-level granularity. Our software-defined architecture generates AC or DC power directly from the cell cascade, eliminating central inverters and heavy transformers. Furthermore, real-time digital cell-bypassing isolates faulty cells during active operation. This guarantees true zero-downtime maintenance and maximum asset availability, which legacy centralized topologies cannot replicate. | We operate as a neutral, pure-play IP provider, using a technology licensing model identical to ARM in semiconductors. Producing no hardware makes us a strategic partner, not a competitor. Revenue is generated via upfront engineering and integration fees for tailoring our platform to specific client applications, followed by recurring, volume-based royalty payments calculated per manufactured kilowatt (kW) or kilowatt-hour (kWh) of storage capacity deployed by our licensees. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
PortfolioEnergy | www.portfolioenergy.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorn-baayen-ph-d-44058347/ | SaaS for stochastic multi-market value stacking. Day-ahead & intraday for BESS, hydro, renewables & retail. Built on LF Energy open-source RTC-Tools. | 2025 | LIOF | Early stage | We provide optimisation software for energy portfolios – BESS, hydro, renewables and retail. Our solution enables multi-market value stacking with day-ahead and intraday trading capabilities. Built on the open-source LF Energy RTC-Tools platform, which we architected in 2015 for hydro, our software is interrogatable – users can understand and verify optimisation decisions. We serve as a software component for companies seeking to enhance or build in-house trading capability. Primary markets: Europe and Australian NEM. | Target customers are energy companies, asset owners and traders operating diversified portfolios who seek to enhance or build in-house trading capability. We solve the complexity of optimising assets across day-ahead and intraday markets for energy and ancillary services. Many companies wastefully self-build what RTC-Tools already provides. We deliver transparent, interrogatable optimisation that maximises revenue through options modelling and stochastic value stacking, while avoiding redundant R&D. Primary markets: Europe and Australian NEM. | Built on Linux Foundation Energy's open-source RTC-Tools platform, we eliminate wasteful industry self-builds duplicating existing capabilities. Our open foundation ensures transparency – no proprietary black boxes. We layer proprietary stochastic multi-market value stacking, generating 5-15% additional revenue. Unlike geography-locked competitors, we deploy globally via RTC-Tools' established footprint across Europe, Australia, and North America. Linux Foundation stewardship guarantees long-term sustainability; we contribute back to the community. | SaaS licensing model. | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PowerHive | powerhive.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/in/florianarndt | Execution-only energy trading platform enabling market access for indepent aggregators | 2024 | Business Angels | Seed | PowerHive provides businesses with direct access to wholesale energy markets. We act as a licensed supplier and Balance Responsible Party (BRP), handling all market-side execution, day-ahead and intraday trading, imbalance settlement, nominations, and portfolio management. Customers or their chosen optimizer set the strategy; we execute it transparently. We also offer BRP-as-a-Service for energy suppliers who want to operate under their own brand without building market infrastructure themselves. | Our customers are commercial and industrial businesses with flexible energy assets, i.e. solar, batteries, EV charging, and energy suppliers who need a licensed BRP. Traditional suppliers bundle margin into fixed contracts and don't pass through real market prices. We solve the transparency and flexibility problem: customers get direct wholesale pricing and can monetize their assets through any optimizer they choose, without being locked into a single closed system. | We are execution-only. We take no trading positions and earn no margin on the energy price itself. Every customer's portfolio is treated individually, with daily settlement at actual market prices plus a fixed service fee. We work with any optimizer or EMS the customer chooses, rather than requiring a proprietary stack. Most suppliers either hide margin in the price or require their own optimization layer. We do neither. | We charge a fixed fee for market access and BRP services, either per MWh or as a monthly service fee depending on the product. Energy costs are passed through at actual market prices with no markup. Revenue is therefore predictable and volume-driven, not dependent on price spreads or trading outcomes. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Powernaut | https://www.powernaut.io/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-akayesi/ | Powernaut is the flexibility workspace where solar and battery operators turn assets into revenue. | 2024 | Revent, Seedcamp, Pitchdrive, Syndicate One | Seed | Powernaut builds the Flexibility Workspace, an end-to-end SaaS platform for energy retailers and Independent Power Producers (IPPs). We connect distributed energy assets including solar panels, batteries, EVs, and heat pumps into virtual power plants, enabling automated optimisation and trading across intraday, day-ahead, imbalance, and congestion markets. Energy retailers regain portfolio control and cut imbalance costs. IPPs access unified monitoring, steering, and market trading in one workspace. | Powernaut targets energy retailers and Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Energy retailers face rising imbalance penalties annually as distributed assets grow unmanaged behind the meter. IPPs struggle with fragmented operations: monitoring, trading, ERP, and settlement run in separate systems with no real-time portfolio visibility. Powernaut solves both by delivering a unified Flexibility Workspace to connect, optimise, and trade decentralised assets as a single virtual power plant. Flexibility demand across Europe will grow fivefold by 2030. | Powernaut is the only end-to-end flexibility platform covering asset connectivity, VPP aggregation, trading automation, and settlement in one workspace. Competitors such as GridX, Podero, and EMSYS offer single-point solutions or extract a share of trading revenues. Our hardware-agnostic architecture integrates 60+ OEM and EMS brands with no vendor lock-in. Multi-layer AI optimisation simultaneously balances household economics and agentic portfolio management, market participation. Clients retain full trading upside with no revenue sharing. | Powernaut runs on a B2B SaaS model. Energy retailers and IPPs pay recurring fees based on managed asset volume, portfolio size, or user count. Modular add-ons include AI optimisation, trading automation, and white-label HEMS. One-off implementation and pilot fees apply at onboarding. Clients retain full trading upside; Powernaut charges no revenue share. Annual contract values grow as portfolios scale, enabling a land-and-expand motion. | x | x | Billing & CRM | x | x | x | IPPs, Energy retailers | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
Predaiot | https://chams-eddine.github.io/predaiot-web-3D/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chams-eddine-madi-74b407379 | PREDAIOT develops AI-driven economic decision intelligence for renewable and industrial energy systems, optimizing operational timing, storage, and energy profitability. | 2025 | None | Early stage | PREDAIOT develops software that analyzes operational energy data to identify hidden economic inefficiencies in renewable and industrial energy systems. We focus on operational timing, battery dispatch behavior, storage utilization, and energy decision logic. Our platform uses simulation-based analysis to help operators improve profitability, operational flexibility, and resource efficiency beyond traditional technical monitoring. | Our target customers include renewable energy operators, industrial facilities, hybrid energy projects, and utility-scale infrastructure operators in the GCC. Many energy assets perform well technically but still lose economic value through inefficient operational decisions, battery timing, curtailment handling, or storage utilization. PREDAIOT helps operators identify and reduce these hidden economic losses using operational and economic analytics. | Most existing solutions focus on technical monitoring, predictive maintenance, or energy visualization. PREDAIOT focuses specifically on the economic decision layer of energy operations. We combine operational analytics, simulation models, and economic optimization to identify value leakage that traditional monitoring systems typically do not detect, especially in renewable and battery-integrated energy systems. | Our business model combines paid diagnostics, pilot projects, enterprise subscriptions, and performance-based optimization services. We initially provide technical and economic operational analysis using historical data, followed by ongoing optimization support and software-based decision intelligence services for industrial and renewable energy operators. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
PRIME BATTERIES TECHNOLOGY SRL | https://primebatteries.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/prime-batteries/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/prime-batteries/ | 2016 | Prime Batteries Energy Holding / EIT InnoEnergy / Top Material Co. / T2Y Capitale | Later stage | Prime Batteries Technology is the EU's largest cell-to-system BESS manufacturer and a Bloomberg NEF Energy Storage Tier 1 supplier, producing Li-ion cells , assembling them into battery packs, and delivering complete energy storage solutions at 2.3 GWh of annual production capacity. Cell chemistry and system configuration adapt to each use case across industrial, utility-scale, automotive, and mobility market | Prime serves producers of EV's, Humanoid robots, drones and other mobility applications, utilities, renewable energy developers, industrial operators, EPC contractors, and mobility manufacturers. Grid instability, renewable energy intermittency, peak demand costs, and decarbonization pressure are the operating reality across all these markets. | Prime's differentiation starts at the cell level. The company produces its own Li-ion cells, controls the chemistry for each application, and builds proprietary Battery and Energy Management Systems around them. 80% of product value is generated in-house, ensuring quality control, supply chain security, and full European traceability from active material to commissioned system. | Prime generates revenue through Battery sales on all verticals: SEAL (Sea, Ev's, Air, Land applications), Energy Storage and Industrial applications. The vertically integrated model covers cells, packs, BMS, EMS, and full system commissioning, capturing value at every stage of the production and delivery chain. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | SEAL (Sea, Ev's, Air, Land ) + Industrial applications | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Protocollo G-Gam | https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianni-gorga-41811024b | https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianni-gorga-41811024b | G-Gam Is an Agnostic Energy Shield that physically decouples critical loads from grid transients, preventing hardware wear in milliseconds and protecting industrial Capex. | 2026 | Bootstrapped | Bootstrapped | We develop the G-Gam protocol , an Agnostic Energy Shield that physically decouples critical loads from the grid at the PCC. By absorbing destructive high-frequency transients in milliseconds , we prevent hardware fatigue and protect infrastructure Capex. | Target: SMEs(C&I), Investment Funds, Bess Developer a. Problem:Hardware like Bess and industrial loads degrade prematurely due to high-frequency grid transients(Electrical water hammers). We solve this physical Capex drain by acting as an Agnostic Energy Shield at the PCC, decoupling the load and physically absorbing destructive transients in milliseconds before they hit the hardware. | Unlike competitors relyng on software and predictive maintenance , G-GAM provides structural, physical prevention. Our Agnostic Shield absorbs destructive grid transients in milliseconds, protecting and OEM hardware from physical wear. | Our B2B model targets SMEs and infrastructure developers. We generate revenue throught success fees, sharing the financial savings derived from prevented hardware replacements and protected Capex After deploying the G-Gam Architecture. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Qurrent | https://www.qurrent.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/company/qurrent-technologies/ | The intelligent layer for batteries and co-located energy assets. End-to-end multi-market by default. Bringing BRPs and IPPs into the modern grid. | 2022 | Verbund x, Arkwright x, Axsol | Growth stage | Qurrent is an independent optimization platform for BESS, built specifically for co-located sites such as with solar, wind, charging stations, industries and commercial buildings. Our software handles real-time dispatch, forecasting aggregation and algorithmic trading across the full ancillary services stack alongside day-ahead and intraday, combined with behind-the-meter services. We forecast capacity and prices, then steer assets continuously to capture value as it appears. Active across Nordic markets today, with expansion underway. | BESS owners and developers; utilities, IPPs, real estate companies, industrial asset owners and their BRP partners. The core problem: BRPs legacy systems cannot handle the breadth of use-cases customers expect for their site, and asset owners want to capture the full value from their asset. Qurrent solves this with combining behind-the-meter and front-of the-meter optimization, integrating into the asset and the BRP trading system, without locking customers into any single counterparty. | Four things. First, an end-to-end platform; connectivity, steering, forecasting, aggregation, trading, settlement, simplifying the stack for BRPs. Second, full independence: we work with all BRPs, battery manufacturers and asset types, no commercial lock-in. Third, simultaneous multi-market optimization across ancillary, day-ahead, intraday and behind-the-meter services. Fourth, deep expertise in hybrid sites where solar, wind, storage and consumption share a grid connection, steering all assets on site, not just BESS, to maximize total value. | Customers pay a combination of a recurring software fee and a performance-based share of the value we generate. This aligns our incentives directly with the asset owner: we earn when the asset earns. The model scales across markets and asset sizes, and works equally for standalone BESS and co-located hybrid sites combining storage with solar or wind. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind | |||||||||||||||||||||
RBIT Financial Inc | https://www.rbitfinancial.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/addison-houston-0361931a1/ | RBIT pays homeowners cash back when they go solar — then earns a cut of the new sales revenue we generate for our partners. Private incentives. Real returns. | 2025 | House of Czetty, LLC ($50k check) | Seed | RBIT is a solar incentive company that puts cash back in homeowners' hands after they go solar. We partner with solar sales organizations to fund real reimbursements — 15 to 22% of total system cost — making clean energy more financially rewarding for everyday families. We're building the first private reimbursement program in residential solar, designed to outlast any government subsidy. | Our primary customers are homeowners going solar. The problem: solar is expensive and there's no financial reward for the homeowner after they install. Most solar incentive programs are government-dependent — ITC credits, state rebates, utility programs, and such like the federal incentive- is now defunct. We solve that with a cash reimbursement — 15% of system cost at installation, or 22% after 36 months. | Most solar incentive programs are government-dependent — ITC credits, state rebates, utility programs. We're fully private-market. Revenue comes from tiered exclusivity fees paid by solar supply chain partners — distributors, sales organizations, installers, and inverter manufacturers — in exchange for guaranteed deal flow within a defined territory. Fees are tiered by partner type and deal volume. A portion of that fee funds the deferred homeowner cashback reward. No lead auctions or no government subsidy dependency. | We fund homeowner cash reimbursements upfront, which drives new solar installations for our partner sales organizations. Those partners pay us a share of the revenue our incentivized customers generate for them. We also collect a $15 homeowner application fee ontop of each application submitted. In addition, we sell boostBundl — a branded referral kit for solar sales organizations — which generated $130K+ in Q1/Q2 2026 from roughly 1,300 units sold (so far). | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebaba | https://rebaba.se/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/rebaba/posts/?feedView=all | We turn retired EV batteries into stationary storage that competes on price with new Chinese systems with no green premium. | 2023 | European angels and VCs | Seed | Rebaba builds modular battery energy storage systems from upcycled electric vehicle batteries. We take EV battery packs at the end of their vehicle life, where 80–90% of energy capacity typically remains, and repurpose them into stationary storage for commercial and industrial sites. Our systems enable peak shaving, load shifting, solar self-consumption, and grid flexibility participation, all at price parity with new systems from conventional manufacturers. | Our primary customers are industries, EV charging operators and commercial property owners across Northern and Western Europe. They face three compounding problems: high peak power charges that erode margins, grid capacity constraints that delay electrification, and solar overproduction eroding investments into renewable energy. Rebaba's systems act as local energy buffers, reducing peak demand, enabling more chargers within existing grid connections, and cutting energy costs through smart charging and discharging. | Most second-life BESS players source from a single battery OEM and price at a premium. Rebaba's proprietary control platform supports over 40 EV battery types, making us battery-agnostic and resilient to supply constraints. Our swappable battery architecture extends system lifetime beyond 30 years. The result: circular European storage at price parity with high-volume Chinese alternatives with no green premium required. | We sell turnkey storage systems as a one-time hardware purchase, priced per kWh in line with market norms. On top of this, customers can subscribe to energy optimisation software, remote monitoring, ancillary market access, and our Endless Battery lifetime extension service. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
REDCAP | https://redcap.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/enriqueserranodorado/ | Metal – free hybrid supercapacitor; 100% EU supply chain | 2018 | Confidential | Growth stage | We have developed the chemistry, manufactured our cells, and integrated the batterry modules. We are a REAL battery company. Built on a fully European value chain, REDCAP aims to strengthen Western’s strategic autonomy in sectors that rely on robust power stability—such as grid management, security and defense, and data-center infrastructure. Today, REDCAP is operating a pouch cell pilot factory and supplying the first full power modules for commercial validation. In parallel we are launching the first industrial factory | Smoothing the peaks in electricity consumption: reduce the fluctuation, peak shaving, intermittency problems for grid stabillity, datacenters and critical defence applications | There are some (very few) Western companies that make hybrid supercapacitors, but only REDCAP does not use critical metals or minerals, using inexpensive and ubiquitous organic active materials.Other hybrid supercapacitos use use lithium or niobium, we do not use critical materials or metals. We demostrate 100% full EU supply chain. | We manufacture our cells and sell them | Cells + battery modules | x | x | Defense; datacenters | x | Defense; datacenters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
reLi Energy | relienergy.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/relienergy/ | Making Every Battery Cycle Count | 2022 | – | Early stage | reLi Energy helps energy storage operators boost profits and extend battery life by combining advanced analytics with real-time cost-based optimization, enabling smarter, data-driven operational decisions. | Our target customers are utility companies, asset managers, and independent power producers. These operators lose up to 60% of their potential profits because of bad battery data and unexpected downtime. Current industry tools focus only on short-term market gains, which ruins batteries early. We fix this by providing accurate health metrics and long-term operational strategies. | We combine battery analytics and long-term optimization in one software. Competitors like Accure and Twaice track battery health but do not give operational steps. Other tools, like Entrix and Suena, trade on the market for quick cash but wear out batteries early. Our software calculates the exact financial cost of battery wear for every cycle to protect the asset. | We use a Software-as-a-Service model to generate revenue through tiered subscriptions. Our standard pricing includes a fixed platform fee combined with a variable charge based on battery capacity. Customers also pay a one-time onboarding fee. We make extra money by licensing our software to other platforms and offering consulting services. | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revolt Energy | revoltgrid.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/revoltgrid/ | Revolt helps developers and investors identify the best grid connection opportunities for BESS and renewables through grid intelligence, congestion analysis and revenue impact. | 2026 | Private investment | Early stage | Revolt develops grid analysis tools to help developers and investors evaluate grid connection opportunities for BESS, renewable energy and data centre projects. We provide early-stage risk assessments before significant capital is deployed. Using public grid and market data, we assess congestion exposure, curtailment risk, regional network constraints and their impact on project revenue to help identify which projects deserve further development and investment. | BESS & renewables project developers and investors. Companies often spend millions on project development or acquisitions, only to find out post FID/ acquisition that grid constraints such as curtailment or FCAs block a significant part of their revenue. Using GridScore, Revolt helps them quantify grid risk early and prioritise projects that allow to capture the highest market value. | No other tool provides decision-grade grid analyses for early-stage developers and investors. Achieving this level of decision-grade insight typically requires teams working across multiple complex tools and datasets for months, or spending €1–2 million on due diligence processes that often overlook technical grid constraints. Revolt provides the key metrics investors need to assess projects early, including quantified grid risk and potential revenue blocked, through practical reports and site scoring that help prioritise project development. | We sell grid analytics per project but postly per pipeline, with an annual fee of EUR 22k for a pipeline up to 20 projects (subscription based, ARR). Besides that we sell GridScore as a standard report (top 50 most attractive sites in TSO grid) in Germany (semi-passive income stream) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind, data centers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scale Energy GmbH | www.scale-energy.eco | https://www.linkedin.com/in/elias-aruna/ | Scale Energy builds Europe's largest decentralized battery storage network — we install, finance, and operate BESS at industrial sites using their existing grid connections. | 2024 | Climentum Capital, Vireo Ventures, Antler, P3A, various Angels including ex-Enpal CDO and senior figures from Finance and Energy | Seed | Scale Energy installs, finances, and operates battery energy storage at industrial sites across Germany and Austria. Instead of building greenfield utility-scale projects, we use customers' existing, often underutilized grid connections to implement flexibility. We handle the full value chain — technical pre-qualification, grid access, regulatory approvals, installation, operation, and maintenance — at zero upfront cost to the host. | Energy-intensive industrials with 100 MWh –100 GWh annual consumption on medium or high voltage — paper mills, automotive suppliers, metals, chemicals, food. Their problem: rising grid fees, exposure to volatile power prices, and no capital or in-house expertise to build storage themselves. Their current supplier is usually a utility without storage offering. We deploy a fully-financed BESS on-site and help to create up to 50% energy savings. References include Cordenka group, several municipalities we build storage for and a 20 MWh system. | Scale Energy provides a fully integrated solution: engineering, SPV financing, EPC, operation, trading. Additionally, in combination with our grid-scale lease model, industrials can generate value without investing on their own. | We generate value for our customers by implementing flexibility and saving cost. For implementing the hardware base to reduce the cost base, we charge a implementation fee on the hardware cost, as well as recurring fees for operating the asset. On the grid scale side, we earn a development fee paid by the financing infrastructure investors. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
SolarMatrix GmbH | app.solarmatrix.eu | www.linkedin.com/in/dirkvollmann/ | The first economically viable solar & battery solution for multi-family homes. A complete solution, with own router/ems, metering, inverters incl. firmware, portal for partners | yesterday | bootstrapped | Bootstrapped | Make sure that property owners have an easy, positive business case on local electricity. Since >>25% of single family homes but only 1% of suitable multi family homes are equipped with local, cheap, renewable, resilient energy. | All large multi-apartment home owners (6-20 flats per main door). Esp. those who currently invest in buidlings/ESG etc, esp. public owned, ""Genossenschaften"", only 5-10 institutional investors | we're the only ones to do ""Hybrider Wohnstrom"". Combine the best of the regulation free microinverter world (VDE norm privilege enhanced this year) with the efficiency of a central solar and battery system. cut all German red tape complexity, metering, energy laws, building laws, tenant protection laws. Our systems only produces energy per unit when needed, no complexity from selling it … | Mostly a hardware vendor. For pilot clients, we also took the EPC/installer role. Good add.service-based recurring revenues by operating fee for frontend & APIs. E.g. 20 users per house * xx EUR …. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Urban residential, the segment everyone neglected policy & hardware-wise | x | x | dynamic (microsecond) meter, ops (incl. router/ems) & charge controlling & DC-AC-conversion | |||||||||||||||||||||
Soldera | https://www.soldera.org | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonallack | One platform integrated with every renewable registry. Global EAC coverage + automations for market-based compliance against all major renewable standards. | 2024 | Lifeline Ventures, Lemonade Stand, Skaala | Growth stage | Unifies every renewable energy registry into a single platform. Enables global Energy Attribute Certificate sourcing. Solves Scope 2 compliance with AI (GHG-P, CSRD, SBTi). | Corporations with a high energy footprint across multiple jurisdictions that they would like to make renewable for compliance purposes. | The only platform with global coverage and full-registry-behaviour renewable energy registry integrations. | We charge by the MWh for procurement and cancellation. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Anybody with renewable energy production or consumption eligible for GO issuance or cancellation. | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Solship | www.solship.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamad-shokr/?skipRedirect=true | Solship Build AI agents that autonomously trade energy from commercial batteries, doubling revenue for asset owners | 2025 | Liquid Factory – Fabrizio Capobianco | Early stage | Solship builds an AI energy trader for behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems. Our ML agent autonomously dispatches commercial and industrial batteries across electricity markets — deciding when to charge, discharge, and which market to participate in — without human traders. | Our customers are commercial and industrial businesses that own or host battery storage (0.1–10 MW) — warehouses, auto dealerships, banks, exhibition centers. These batteries can generate revenue by trading energy, but the markets are complex, fast-moving, and require 24/7 decision-making. Most owners either leave money on the table because it is not worth it to assign expensive human traders to their battery. Solship replaces the trader with an AI agent that maximizes revenue. | Solship targets the underserved C&I segment (0.1–10 MW) with deep reinforcement learning that adapts to market conditions in real time and creates in autonomy a specific trading strategy for each asset | We take a performance-based revenue share on the trading profits our AI generates from each battery. The asset owner pays nothing upfront — we only earn when they earn. | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sphere Energy | sphere-energy.eu | https://www.linkedin.com/company/sphere-energy/ | Sphere Energy builds an AI Operating System for physical product engineering — replacing outdated software toolchains with a physics-informed infrastructure layer. | 2017 | DEKRA Series A investor, Family office, Angel investors | Growth stage | Sphere Energy builds an AI Operating System for engineering companies manufacturing physical products like batteries and energy equipment. The AI OS installs beneath engineering workflows to ingest raw data, host physics-informed models, and deploy specialized agent workflows. This allows engineers to generate reliable, actionable safety-relevant decisions, such as state-of-health (SOH) battery diagnostics and electrochemical model (ECM) parametrisation. | Target customers are European battery, automotive, and energy system manufacturers with 200 to 5,000 engineers. These companies face severe toolchain pain from disconnected, legacy simulation and testing software. Sphere resolves their lack of internal AI delivery capability by replacing obsolete development workflows with a structured infrastructure layer capable of turning messy, raw engineering data into reliable model outputs. | Sphere builds foundation models constrained by physical laws like electrochemistry and thermodynamics, preventing hallucinations in safety-critical energy contexts. It deploys directly within the client's secure perimeter to satisfy strict European data sovereignty regulations. Finally, its commercial model actively displaces expensive legacy software, frequently creating a negative net cost in year one. | Data Management (service based fees), AI implementation (service based fees), AI license (product licensing) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
SPiNE GmbH | https://spine.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-melz/ | Connect, monitor, optimize. SPiNE is the open platform for utilities and installers to orchestrate every distributed energy device, and monetize the flexibility unlocked. | 2024 | Bayern Kapital, Vebund Ventures, BayBG, Energie 360, scrape Ventures, superangels | Seed | SPiNE develops software for utilities, energy suppliers, and installers to connect and manage distributed energy devices such as heat pumps, EV chargers, batteries, solar systems, and smart meters. The company also provides a hardware device that hosts the SPiNE platform locally on site. The platform enables monitoring, control, and optimization of decentralized energy assets and electricity demand. Utilities and installers use SPiNE to integrate renewable energy technologies and coordinate flexible loads. | SPiNE's customers are utilities, energy suppliers, and installers managing distributed energy devices like heat pumps, EV chargers, batteries, and PV systems. The problem: these devices come from many manufacturers, each with different protocols and interfaces, which makes integration, monitoring, and control expensive and slow. SPiNE provides one software platform — combined with an on-site hardware gateway — that connects all of them and enables coordinated operation. | Existing solutions are typically built either for end consumers (HEMS apps) or for one specific device category. SPiNE is built for the professional side — utilities, suppliers, and installers — and covers heat pumps, EV chargers, batteries, PV, and smart meters in one platform. Customers don't need to stitch together multiple vendor APIs or run separate systems per device type. The combination of local hardware and central software also makes SPiNE deployable in both connected and edge-only environments. | SPiNE sells to utilities, energy suppliers, and installers. Revenue comes from three sources: (1) recurring software subscriptions, priced per connected device or site; (2) sale of the on-site hardware gateway; (3) integration and onboarding services for larger customers. The recurring software fees are the core of the model and grow with each customer's deployed device base. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Device installers | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
SRS Deutschland GmbH | https://srs-energie.de/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/120883935/ | SRS plant, baut und finanziert Speicher- und Photovoltaikanlagen für Gewerbe & Industrie per Solar Contracting ohne Eigeninvestition. | 2022 | Oechslin Energy | Growth stage | SRS Deutschland GmbH plans, builds, and finances solar photovoltaic systems and battery energy storage systems (BESS) for commercial and industrial customers in Germany. The company focuses on solar contracting, meaning customers receive a working installation without upfront investment. SRS handles everything from planning and installation to long-term maintenance. The company is part of a Swiss-German group with over 20 years of experience and more than 550 renewable energy projects completed internationally. | Companies with unused roof and parking areas and a high energy consumption. | Flexible, intelligent solution for energy supply at lower costs and without any CAPEX. | Generate revenue through energy sales. Scalable to many sites and adopted to the German-specific regulation. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
StoreNow Energy UG | www.storenowenergy.eu | https://www.linkedin.com/company/storenow-energy-platform | StoreNow Energy helps developers turn BESS and hybrid renewable projects into lender-ready financing cases with technical modelling and bankability analysis. | 2025 | Bootstrapped | Bootstrapped | StoreNow Energy provides a platform that helps developers assess the financial readiness of stand-alone BESS and hybrid renewable projects. It combines asset-specific technical modelling, market and revenue analysis, grid constraints, risk assessment and lender-ready documentation so project teams can better understand whether a storage project is suitable for financing. | Our target customers are renewable project developers, IPPs and utilities developing stand-alone BESS, PV+BESS and Wind+BESS projects. Many projects look attractive in a base-case model but struggle to secure debt financing because technical risks, revenue quality, downside scenarios and documentation are not structured in a lender-ready way. StoreNow helps close that gap. | StoreNow connects technical-commercial project modelling with financing-readiness assessment. Instead of only calculating revenue scenarios or IRR, the platform evaluates technical design, market exposure, regulatory constraints, downside resilience and lender-relevant risk factors. The logic has been developed with input from financing institutions, so developers can prepare projects closer to lender expectations | StoreNow uses a hybrid revenue model. Customers pay a recurring platform subscription for project analysis, scenario modelling and bankability reporting. For selected projects, StoreNow may also receive a success-based fee linked to financing outcomes, calculated as a pre-agreed percentage of the debt volume supported through the platform. | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Streamergy GmbH | www.streamergy.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamergy/ | We unify BESS control, grid integration and trader connectivity in one solution, combining real-time analytics and modular architecture for flexible, maintainable operations. | 2021 | Zimmermann PV-Steel Group, G-Sun | Growth stage | We plan grid & trader integration of BESS projects, deliver the on-site hardware for system control (PPC), do the commissioning and acceptance tests. For O&M we deliver a cloud-based backend for troubleshooting and clean/simple monitoring. For grid integration we coordinate customer, grid operator and certifier and do the project management for the certification and acceptance process. | EPC and investors/owners of BESS and PV+BESS projects. Delivering the grid-compliant controller, reducing complexity, deliver deep insights into the battery data for O&M/Troubleshooting and push high resolution data to expert systems for battery analytics. | Minimize the engineering part of the controller by having a protocol converter module for trader/grid operator. Data acquisition accurate to seconds and cell level. 3D visualization of the BESS project. Excellent partner network to scale projects and deliver a sustainable solution. Monitoring and analytics of the controller behaviour for optimizing the revenues | Engineering & project management services, selling tailored and scalable controllers and dataloggers. SaaS Cloud solution for recurring revenues. | x | Grid integration services | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
suena energy | https://www.suena.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/suena-energy | suena energy is the first fully algorithm-driven and AI-based provider for the trading of battery storage systems and renewable energies. | 2021 | Eneco Ventures, 4impact capital, Innoenergy, J.O.S.S., Santander, Energie 360° | Growth stage | suena energy offers a fully automated optimization solution that makes complex trading decisions across multiple markets in real time – entirely data-driven and risk-optimized. The AI-powered Autopilot enables optimal economic participation in various energy markets by operating automatically across day-ahead, intraday and balancing markets. It considers the technical parameters of each asset and uses a digital twin to incorporate degradation costs into its trading strategy. This ensures maximized revenues and extended battery lifetime. | suena energy helps its customers to maximize the value of battery and renewable assets by solving key challenges: fragmented market access, underutilized flexibility, and the complexity of energy commercialization. Through fully automated multi-market trading, suena energy enables fast market entry, higher asset revenues, and reduced operational complexity — without the need to build in-house trading capabilities. Targest customer segments are utilities, municipal energy providers, and independent power producers (IPPs). | suena energy is the only fully algorithmic and AI-based provider for the optimization and trading of grid-connected batteries and renewable energy. This means that suena energy is able to optimize across all asset classes (e.g. Co-Location– and Stand-Alone-BESS, PV and wind) and revenue streams to maximize portfolio-wide value, flexibility, and risk-adjusted returns for customers. | suena energy's business model involves monetizing flexibility assets through AI-based trading, optimization and direct marketing. Customers are offered a comprehensive service: from market access and day-to-day trading to support with asset setup, commercial structure and financing considerations. Revenue is generated through management fees, revenue shares, and direct marketing services. | x | x | x | Independent Power Producers | x | Renewables | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SUNCATCHER Engineering GmbH | www.suncatcher.de | https://www.linkedin.com/in/c%C3%BCneyt-g%C3%BClcan/ | EPC for utility-scale battery storage and solar projects | 2018 | Privately held by founders via SUNCATCHER Holding GmbH | Growth stage | SUNCATCHER develops, engineers, and builds large-scale solar power plants and battery energy storage systems (BESS). The company supports utilities, energy traders, and industrial customers in generating and storing renewable energy for periods of high demand or low solar production. SUNCATCHER manages the entire project lifecycle, including site development, engineering, permitting, grid connection, procurement, and construction. Its projects strengthen grid stability and support the expansion of sustainable energy infrastructure. | SUNCATCHER serves utilities, energy traders, infrastructure investors and industrial energy users facing rising electricity costs, grid instability, renewable energy curtailment, and limited financing access. The company develops, finances, and builds utility-scale solar and battery storage systems that enable renewable power generation, energy storage, grid stabilization, reduced price volatility, and improved long-term energy security and sustainability. | SUNCATCHER combines project development, financing, engineering, procurement, construction, and battery storage integration in one platform. Unlike many competitors that focus only on development or EPC services, SUNCATCHER delivers fully integrated utility-scale PV and BESS projects from concept to operation. The company also specializes in co-located solar and storage systems that improve grid stability, energy flexibility, and project economics, helping customers deploy renewable infrastructure faster and with lower execution risk. | SUNCATCHER generates revenue through developing, engineering and building utility scale solar and battery storage (BESS) projects. The company earns income from EPC contracts, development fees for structuring projects and margins from selling ready-to-build or operational energy assets to investers and utilities. In some cases, it may also co-invest in projects and earn long-term returns from energy generation and storage operations. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sunwoda Electronic Co. Ltd. | en.sunwoda.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunwoda-electronic-co-ltd | SUNWODA develops the lithium cells' technologu since 1997, committed to providing society with greener, faster and more efficient integrated new energy storage solutions. | 1997 | Shenzhen Stock Exchange | Later stage | Lithium Cells and Battery manufacturer since 1997 | BESS integrators, EV car makers | Sunwoda is one od the most experienced lithium Cells manufacturers, famous for its safety-first approach | Vertically integrated cell and battery manufacturer, from cell to solution | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synen | Synen.net | www.linkedin.com/in/liangyue-pan-5b549163 | Sync.Insights.Empower. From the heartbeat of your power plant to the pulse of the market. Meet the Nexus that turns complex data into strategic insight and automated profits. | 2025 | Pre-seed stage but in confidential discussion for $2m commitment from China and Singapore | Early stage | Synen is an AI-native optimisation and trading platform for battery storage (BESS) and renewable energy infrastructure. | Synen’s target customers are battery storage and renewable energy project owners, developers, utilities, and infrastructure investors. These customers face increasingly volatile power markets and struggle to maximise battery revenues while managing operational complexity and degradation risk. Synen solves this by using AI-driven optimisation software to automate trading, forecasting, and battery dispatch decisions in real time, helping storage assets operate more efficiently and generate higher long-term returns. | Unlike the legacy optimisers that are designed for static trading, Synen is architected around continuous machine-learning-driven optimisation. Developed by the data scientists from Bloomberg and NASA, our platform is like a human nervous system, continuously recalibrating decisions based on both external conditions and the internal condition of the assets themselves. This is the key to maximise the revenue while minimising the costs. | The main revenue comes from optimisation fee paid by asset owners, ranging from 8%-12% (including the upside from tolling and floor arrangement). Synen also vertically covers the whole value chain of BESS. We have our own investment team, providing exclusive advisory services to our strategic partners who are BESS manufacturers seeking to acquire BESS assets without a dedicated local investment team. All the acquired assets will be optimised by Synen following financial close. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
The Mobility House Energy GmbH | https://mobilityhouse-energy.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mobility-house-energy/ | The Mobility House Energy: A decade of battery flexibility maximization. We boost BESS returns through expert multi-market trading and BESS optimization. | 2009 (TMH), 2025 (TMH Energy) | Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, Mercedes-Benz, European Investment Bank, Mercuria, Mitsui & Co., Salzburg AG, Singapore Power Group, Electrohold Trade | Later stage | Providing best-in class multi-market optimization and trading technology for stationary assets and vehicles | Target customers are asset owners (investors, project developers and others) who need an optimizer | 10 years of experience, in-house FCR/aFRR prequalification without third party e.g. Entelios, performance guarantee (new) | Trading as a Service / Route to market provider; different revenue models from fully merchant to tolling (with third party credit support) | x | x | x | x | x | Electric Vehicle OEMs | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
TRICERA energy GmbH | https://tricera.energy | https://www.linkedin.com/company/tricera-energy-gmbh/ | Design, construction, and operation of large-scale battery storage systems (>5 MWh), now totaling over 500 MWh: That’s TRICERA energy. | 2021 | Shareholder | Later stage | TRICERA offers battery storage systems in various designs for a wide range of applications. From medium-sized and scalable commercial and industrial storage systems to flexible large-scale storage systems with an energy capacity of 5 MWh or more, we cover a broad market spectrum. Five areas of expertise are particularly important in our company: engineering and consulting, project development, system integration, maintenance, and technical operation. On request, we act as a full-service provider. | Companies, project developers, and investors who are actively involved in the energy transition and wish to benefit from it. We provide the technology that enables customers to, for example, participate in energy trading or provide grid services. | Friendly, motivated, and innovative work environment; Filling a niche: High technical expertise and flexibility to integrate all possible battery modules from mobile applications (growth market!) in order to get the most out of the resources and energy used; Good service with advice and extensive technical knowledge à No off-the-shelf solutions.; Great local employer; European added value.; Circular approach, 2nd-life batteries, resource-saving; Use in stationary storage until recycling processes are affordable and technically mature in the future. | Transforming technical expertise in a highly complex product into turnkey large-scale battery storage systems. This involves a deliberately broad scope of value creation, ranging from project development through EPC to operation and maintenance. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
TTTech Zyne GmbH | https://www.zyne.energy/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/zyne-energy/ | TTTECH ZYNE connects industrial energy assets with markets – enabling real-time data, flexibility orchestration & optimization for C&I customers, utilities and market participants | 2025 | Joint Venture of TTTech and Verbund | Seed | TTTECH ZYNE builds an energy and flexibility management platform for industrial and commercial customers. It connects decentralized assets — batteries, PV, EV chargers — with energy suppliers and markets, enabling real-time monitoring, control and flexibility aggregation. Utilities and marketers gain access to behind-the-meter flexibility; site operators reduce energy costs and participate in energy markets. | TTTECH ZYNE serves industrial businesses, battery storage operators, EPCs, energy suppliers, and OEMs. Each faces the same core problem: decentralized energy assets operate in silos, leaving cost reduction potential and market revenues untapped. ZYNE connects and optimizes these assets in real-time — reducing energy costs for site operators, enabling flexibility marketing for suppliers and providing a scalable integration layer for EPCs and OEMs. | Traditional EMS tools focus on monitoring and efficiency. TTTECH ZYNE goes further: we orchestrate flexible assets — batteries, PV, EV chargers — and connect them directly with energy suppliers and markets in real-time. Asset control, flexibility aggregation and market participation happen in one platform, fully automated and vendor-independent. Optimization runs in sync with the energy supplier, ensuring correct procurement quantities at the right time — something no standalone site EMS delivers. | TTTECH ZYNE enables commercial & industrial customers and battery operators to unlock the economic value of their on-site flexibility — through demand cost reduction, procurement optimization and, together with our trading partners, energy market participation (spot markets, ancillary services). We generate revenue by participating in the savings and market proceeds we create for our customers. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
TWAICE | www.twaice.com | https://www.linkedin.com/company/twaice/ | Most BESS operators are managing more assets, fighting warranty battles, and flying blind on true performance. TWAICE is the independent analytics platform built to change that. | 2018 | Energize Ventures, Coatue, Creandum, Cherry Ventures | Growth stage | Most BESS operators are flying blind. Their EMS tells them the system is running, their OEM tells them SoC is at 95% — but the actual usable energy might be 80%, and nobody catches it until revenue is already lost. And as portfolios grow across multiple OEMs and geographies, that problem compounds. TWAICE gives operators a single independent view of what their batteries are actually doing: true performance, early warning on failures, and the data they need to hold suppliers accountable. | TWAICE serves IPPs, utilities, and asset managers operating utility-scale BESS. We solve three core problems: operators are leaving performance on the table due to inaccurate OEM data and hidden imbalances; teams cannot scale operations as portfolios grow without standardized, automated workflows; and without independent forensic data, warranty claims go unenforced and insurers and lenders price risk conservatively. TWAICE addresses all three, drawing on experience across 120+ BESS projects and close to 20 GWh under contract globally. | TWAICE differentiates on five dimensions: it is purpose-built for BESS rather than adapted from solar or wind tools, fully independent from any OEM, integrator, or service provider, covers the entire data pipeline from acquisition and storage through analytics, operates across any battery chemistry, OEM, BMS, or EMS, and integrates into existing operator workflows via open APIs. The result is predictive analytics and prioritized operational recommendations that no EMS, APM, or homegrown solution can replicate. | TWAICE operates on an annual SaaS subscription model, priced per asset or GWh under management. The core offering is the BESS Analytics Suite, covering performance monitoring, predictive diagnostics, automated reporting, and workflow integration. Revenue grows naturally as customer portfolios scale: operators typically start on one or two assets, prove value, and expand TWAICE across their fleet. | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
utilize GmbH | www.utilize.energy | www.linkedin.com/company/utilize-energy-gmbh | utilize helps SMEs to reduce energy costs and allow additional revenue by giving access to the flexibilty market. We orchestrate the layer between BESS assets and the energy market | 2025 | privately funded – looking for Seed Funding | Seed | utilize offers access to the flexibility market by aggregating fragmented assets and offering them to energy traders. We cover the entire value chain for the customers: from hardware selection, smart integration, optimisation, 24/7 monitoring and trading the customer assets at the Day Ahead/Intraday Continuous market. We own the customer interface, but work with partners on the first two steps and the last: only the orchestration layer (flex VPP) is completely in utilize development and ownership. | The primary customers are SME/industrial sites with so far unused grid access and the need for modernising their energy infrastructure. They are under severe pressure as their energy costs are rising and volatile. By adding smart trading storage they can leverage untapped revenue potential. In addition we work with installation partners, who offer our solution (trading via our flex VPP) to their customers and enhance their own product offering by state of the art trading opportunities. The latter act as both multipliers and customers. | The customers do not need to change any of their contracts with energy suppliers or need to buy specific proprietary hardware. The core added value of our solution is trading and its revenues: a so far unavailable source of additional revenue so far not available for smaller C&I storage assets (125 kW to 2 MW). However we also have direct contacts to HW suppliers and can source directly. | By offering the whole value chain we generate revenue with hardware sales (in total if utilize supplies hardware as we have direct delivery via producers; i30% of margin, if we work with installation companies/partners). The core revenue comes from our platform business, where we ask for a yearly access fee and also keep a share of the asset's monthly profit. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Vocai | https://www.vocai.tech/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiyaniv/ | Helping You Shape a Safer, Smarter Battery Future | 2001 | Grove Ventures, Net Gear Ventures, Meron Capital, Elements VC | Seed | Vocai is enabling safer, smarter, higher performing batteries for Data Centers energy storage, BESS, EVs and robotics, using Physical AI platform. Our extremely sensitive and highly selective gas-sensing technology detects ultra-low gas emissions and accurately monitors battery degradations which enable enhanced performance, as well as provides the earliest indication of battery failures. Vocai's deeptech extends battery lifetime and increases energy capacity, enabling the deployment of safer, more efficient energy storage solutions. | Vocai serves data center energy storage, utility-scale, C&I, and home BESS OEMs, energy developers, EV electrification providers, & robotics companies requiring safe, high-performance energy storage. Built on a Physical AI architecture, Vocai combines patented in-pack molecular gas sensing with real-time ML algorithms, with SaaS analytics to detect battery failures before thermal events, reduce fire risk, extend battery lifetime & warranty, optimize battery augmentation cycles, and maximize system performance (higher IRR & ROI). | Detect battery failures before any other solution, hours before first vent and before visible signs of failure. Vocai’s patented chip-scale nanowire gas sensing technology combines ppb-level sensitivity with zero cross-sensitivity, enabling unprecedented visibility into true battery condition. Combined with Vocai’s battery failure and degradation ML algorithms, the platform delivers highly accurate battery analytics by adding a unique chemistry-level gas data layer, creating a strong technology moat for safety, performance, and lifetime optimization. | 1. We sell the Edge Devices for Battery modules/packs manufacturers. This is the intelligent device that is assembled inside the energy module/pack. 2. Then we sell the SaaS platform service to Energy Developers, Solution integrators, C&I operators, data center operators. The service is priced at annual fee per KWh/year. The SaaS platform draws on the unique gas data layer obtained through our differentiate & patented edge devices within the modules/packs in the field. Our revenue model is an ARR model, combined with an IIoT device sales that enabled it. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Data Center energy storage solutions (incl. BESS, UPS), Robotics energy solutions | x | x | battery/energy storage for robotics (incl. humanoids) | |||||||||||||||||||
Voltpark | voltpark.de | https://www.linkedin.com/company/voltpark/ | Digital B2B marketplace for buying and selling utility-scale BESS and PV projects and project rights (1 MW+) in Germany – built for professional players. | 2025 | Founders / Bootstrapped | Early stage | Voltpark is a digital B2B platform that compresses the time from the initial marketing decision to NBO from months to days for utility-scale renewables transactions in Germany. We cover BESS and PV projects as well as project rights from 1 MW upwards. The platform combines AI-enabled project analysis and listings, matching between developers and institutional investors, an integrated data room, revenue simulation and signing workflows. | Our primary customers are small and mid-sized developers of utility-scale battery storage and solar projects from 1 MW upwards. Selling projects or project rights today means 3 to 12 months to closing, high broker fees or significant deal work alongside their core business, and opaque investor outreach. Voltpark digitises this process end-to-end. On the buy-side, we serve institutional investors — family offices, utilities, IPPs, infrastructure funds and municipal utilities — looking for structured, transparent small- and mid-market dealflow. | First, Voltpark is a fully digital transaction platform, covering AI-powered project analysis & listing, matchmaking, data room and therefore structurally faster and more cost-efficient than classical M&A advisors. Second, the founding team combines Finance and M&A, data and software development, and technical expertise in the energy industry. Third, our business model is non-conflicted: we do not buy project rights ourselves and focus exclusively on the most efficient transaction process possible. | 1-2% Success fee in case of a successful sale of a project | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Voltvera GmbH | www.voltvera.de | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-eckert/ | Planning, installation & operation of intelligent battery storage systems for industrial clients to reduce peak loads, optimize PV self-consumption, electricity purchasing & trading | 2024 | HKM | Seed | Voltvera plans, installs and operates BESS for industrial and commercial companies in Germany. We analyze electricity consumption and purchasing conditions to design storage solutions for peakshaving, increase consumption of self generated pv electricity, optimize electricity purchasing and electricity trading. We support the full process from feasibility assessment to operational optimization and focus on medium sized companies in electricity intensive industries. | Our customers are industrial and commercial companies with high electricity consumption. Typical industries include chemicals, metal work, casting or paper. Most of them face rising energy costs and volatile electricity prices. We help them reduce their electricity bills and increase autarky and sustainability. | Voltvera combines battery system deployment with continuous operational optimization based on real consumption data and electricity market conditions. Instead of only installing hardware, we focus on how storage assets perform economically over time. Our approach integrates technical planning, regulatory considerations, and energy market optimization into one service, which helps customers operate storage systems more effectively without building in-house expertise. | Voltvera generates revenue through battery storage project development, system integration, and ongoing optimization services. Depending on the project structure and customer preferences, customers either purchase the system directly or use financing and shared-savings models. We earn recurring revenue from monitoring, operational management, and energy optimization services that improve the financial performance over time. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Wattzo | https://wattzo.org/#solutions | https://www.linkedin.com/in/amal-nammouchi/ | Wattzo helps businesses optimize energy usage with intelligent automation, real-time insights, and scalable efficiency solutions that reduce cost and waste. | 2025 | Soft Funding (SEB, FHUS, KAU Holdings) | Early stage | Wattzo provides software that helps businesses monitor, analyze, and optimize energy usage across buildings and equipment. The platform collects real-time operational data, identifies inefficiencies, and supports automated energy management decisions. It is designed for commercial and industrial customers that need better visibility into energy performance, operating costs, and asset efficiency across one or multiple sites. | Wattzo targets commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and multi-site businesses that struggle to monitor and control energy consumption across operations. We help them identify waste, track usage in real time, and automate energy optimization decisions so they can reduce operating costs, improve efficiency, and manage sustainability targets with clearer data and fewer manual processes. | Most energy management tools focus mainly on monitoring and reporting. Wattzo combines real-time tracking with automation, allowing businesses to act on energy data instead of only viewing it. The platform is designed to work across multiple sites and different equipment types without requiring complex integrations or dedicated energy management teams to operate it daily. | Wattzo operates as a subscription-based software platform. Customers pay recurring fees based on the number of sites, connected devices, or level of monitoring and automation they need. Additional revenue can come from setup, integration, and custom analytics services for larger commercial or industrial customers. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
Zonhub | https://zonhub.com/ | http://linkedin.com/company/zonhub/ | Projectfinance for cleantech projects via crowdfunding | 2014 | ING Bank, Obton, Stichting Doen, iFund | Growth stage | Project- and development finance for professional developers of renewable energy projects and energy storage projects via crowdfunding, bank finance and financial lease. | Projectdevelopers that want project finance suited for their projects with long maturity, healthy rates and | Flexible and fast with a deep knowledge of the market | Two business models: Success fee when successfully financed, and annual service fees for the administration of the bond, bondholders and the payments to them. | x | x | x | x | x | x | Wind |