| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.02.2024 | Employee Spotlight: Jacopo Pacitto | At Future Energy Ventures, our team is the heart of everything we do to decarbonize society. We are thrilled to introduce Jacopo Pacitto, our newest addition to the team. Jacopo brings a wealth of diverse ideas and experiences that will und... |
| 06.02.2024 | Under the Radar: Climate Impact and Investment Opportunity in the Built Environment | By
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Accounting for approximately 37% of total global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the built environment stands out as a major contributor, with projections indicating a potential doubling by 2050 if no reduction measures are applied, ... |
| 30.01.2024 | Future Energy Ventures Takes a Leap Towards Sustainable Innovation with €110 Million Fund | Berlin, 30th January 2024 – We are delighted to share with you a momentous achievement in our journey towards a sustainable future here at Future Energy Ventures (FEV). Since 2016 we have been active in the energy-tech ecosystem for E.ON an... |
| 16.01.2024 | Future Energy Ventures promotes Natalie Milde and Maciej Lehmann to Investment Associates | As 2024 kicks off, Future Energy Ventures (FEV) is delighted to announce the well-deserved promotions of Natalie Milde and Maciej Lehmann to Investment Associates, recognizing their valuable contributions to the team. We are also thrilled t... |
| 11.01.2024 | Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Energy Report and market map | By
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In a collaborative report, Future Energy Ventures, SET Ventures and Plug and Play explore the innovative solutions startups offer to decarbonize the Commercial and Industrial (C&I) sector.
Decarbonizing the C&I sector is an... |
| 28.11.2023 | Hololight Secures $12 Million to Fast-Track the Future of XR Streaming | – |
| 24.11.2023 | A Glimpse into the Future: Piclo Max Set to Transform Global Electricity Markets in 2024 | Piclo, the world’s leading flexibility marketplace provider, has today announced its plans to launch a new market access platform, “Piclo Max”, offering sellers and buyers of flexible electricity a one stop shop for all electricity markets ... |
| 15.11.2023 | Becoming DEI-driven: 3 steps for creating organizational impact | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is fundamental to creating a vibrant, safe, and respectful work environment. Lately, however, related „buzzwords“ have become increasingly common, with companies proudly claiming to be „diverse,“ „tole... |
| 02.11.2023 | Digital PV value chain for residential, C&I and utility | By |
| 26.10.2023 | Residential Solar is Driving the Electrification Trend | By |
| 16.10.2023 | Navigating the Future of Public EV Charging with Hubject’s CEO Christian Hahn | By |
| 09.10.2023 | Innovative small businesses need a bigger role at COPs | With COP28 taking place in the United Arab Emirates at the end of the year, FEV’s managing partner and co-founder, Jan Lozek, shines a light on the critical voices missing from the debate – namely the smaller, innovative businesses and entr... |
| 18.09.2023 | Future Engineering Club: The perfect storm for the energy transition | Now that the energy transition has moved from an area of niche interest to the mainstream, fossil fuel regulations are tightening and consumers are having to dig deeper into their pockets amid soaring prices. This casts doubt on the very na... |
| 05.09.2023 | Nuventura secures €25 million in Series A funding, to accelerate global energy transition away from greenhouse gases | - |
| 27.07.2023 | ev.energy secures $33M Series B to expand its reach in North America and Europe | LONDON, UK AND PALO ALTO, CA – |
| 15.06.2023 | The Crucial Technological Paradigm for Climate Catastrophes | Millions of people have already witnessed firsthand the increasing intensity of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wildfires, storms, and floods due to climate change. Climate change is believed to also drive geopolitical disruptions... |
| 12.06.2023 | Employee Spotlight: Vemund Borge | We take pride in all of our team members, from those who have been with us since the beginning of Future Energy Ventures up to our most recent team members. |
| 26.05.2023 | Why entrepreneurs need to build ESG into their business model to secure early-stage funding | [Learn more about: |
| 25.05.2023 | Here comes the sun – why we invested in Sunvigo | Innovative solar energy and storage solutions are amongst the best levers households have to decarbonize their energy supply, gain autonomy and contribute to the energy transition. The residential solar market as such represents both a grea... |
| 22.05.2023 | Amid the economic uncertainty, climate investing is bucking the downward trend | Soaring energy prices, rising interest rates, negative economic headwinds, and fluctuating stock prices have meant that the past year has been a period of re-adjustment for investors. Yet, despite this uncertainty, decarbonization is a mega... |
| 04.05.2023 | Employee Spotlight: Valentina Mugno Pérez | At Future Energy Ventures, we cherish our community, both inside and outside the company. We take pride in the inspiring and impactful work done by our dedicated team members that makes FEV such a special place. |
| 03.05.2023 | Awakening the Giant: decarbonizing the Heating Sector in Europe and Beyond | Nearly half of Europe’s energy demand (c.a. 11,000TWh) |
| 24.04.2023 | Virta Closes €85M Funding to Increase EV Impact and Market Growth in Europe and Asia-Pacific | Finland-based |
| 17.04.2023 | Solar utility Sunvigo raises EUR 20 million | With its smart solar-as-a-service product, Sunvigo maximizes the value of residential solar power systems and democratizes the access to solar power for homeowners. The company is building a pan-European green power community targeting more... |
| 05.04.2023 | Employee Spotlight: Giancarlo Savini | We value the strong community we have both around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. |
| 27.03.2023 | Why We Invested in Piclo | |
| 22.03.2023 | Piclo raises £8.3 million to accelerate decarbonisation of grid internationally | LONDON, [22] March 2023 – Piclo, the world’s leading flexibility services marketplace, has closed its Series B funding round and raised £8.3 million to further strengthen its market leading position in the UK and Europe, as well as grow its... |
| 15.02.2023 | Flexibility: the key to accelerating energy transition | |
| 22.12.2022 | Goodbye to 2022 | As 2022 comes to an end, we wanted to take some time to reflect on a year that has been one of challenges and opportunities, that’s been defining for Future Energy Ventures and that ultimately leaves us here excited and optimistic for the y... |
| 30.11.2022 | Employee Spotlight: Samuel Neufeld | We value the strong sense of community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Our people are what makes Future Energy... |
| 09.11.2022 | COP27: The Overlooked Global South – driving innovation & impact where it’s needed most | To face climate change, we need to put greater trust and investment in technology innovation. Academia, policymakers, society – they are all great partners, but they move at their own pace. With the support of great entrepreneurs and ventur... |
| 25.10.2022 | The Future of ESG & Climate Impact | At our recent exclusive Investor Event, held on 14th September, we invited a select group of investors to Düsseldorf for conversations around the future of decarbonized energy systems, ESG, and investments with climate impact. |
| 19.10.2022 | Future Energy Ventures promotes Moritz Jungmann and Ohad Mamann to Partners | has been with Future Energy Ventures since inception in 2019, having previously been part of innogy Innovation Hub. A seasoned entrepreneur and investor in the fields of cleantech, smart cities and industrial technology solutions, Moritz ho... |
| 29.09.2022 | Employee Spotlight: Anna Trendewicz | We value the strong sense of community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Our people are what makes Future Energy... |
| 05.09.2022 | Meet SkenarioLabs, the platform predicting the future of sustainable real estate | helps predict the future of sustainable real estate by replacing intuition with profitable facts. The company helps property owners, portfolio managers, credit banks and insurance companies make more responsible decisions through their AI-p... |
| 02.09.2022 | Future Energy Ventures hosts Investor Event | Investors will have the opportunity to: |
| 22.08.2022 | eSmart Systems raises EUR 40 million to accelerate virtual infrastructure inspections for power utilities | Norwegian company eSmart Systems was among one of the first in the world to develop an AI based solution, Grid Vision®, for the inspection and maintenance of critical energy infrastructure. With over 20 years of experience, it has become th... |
| 15.08.2022 | E.ON backs Future Energy Ventures on launch of Independent Climate Tech Fund | E.ON’s current venturing team, Future Energy Ventures, has established a new, independent Luxembourg-domiciled venture capital fund, Future Energy Ventures Fund I SCA SICAV-RAIF (the Fund). This launch marks a new chapter for the venturing ... |
| 10.08.2022 | Meet Hubject, the EV intercharge network to bridge all borders | |
| 08.07.2022 | Energy Crisis: an opening for disruptive technologies | |
| 13.06.2022 | Meet Akselos, a pioneer in energy infrastructure innovation | Akselos is a mission-driven company focused on accelerating the energy transition through a once-in-a-generation upgrade to mechanical computer-aided engineering. The platform creates digital twins of energy infrastructures in order to impr... |
| 17.05.2022 | Buildots raises a $60 million Series C round | |
| 09.05.2022 | Akselos to scale digital twin after $16.5m closing round | Lausanne, Switzerland, May 9th, 2022 – |
| 25.04.2022 | Enervee raises $35m in financing to accelerate decarbonization | |
| 25.04.2022 | Employee Spotlight: Natalie Milde | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Hence, we have decided to give them the spotligh... |
| 25.04.2022 | FEV’s Q1 2022 Highlights | - |
| 10.04.2022 | Energy crisis: Why now is the time to be smart about energy efficiency and clean energy | Photo by Narcisa Aciko |
| 07.04.2022 | Skenariolabs raises a € 3 million capital round led by Mediahuis | PropTech is a fast-growing market that seeks to improve all aspects of the real estate lifecycle: all the way from designing and building a property, to investing and financing, as well as managing it. |
| 05.04.2022 | Meet Lemonbeat, the WhatsApp for IoT | The following question has driven – and continues to drive – Lemonbeat to success: What if every machine, no matter whether smart and young or old and dumb, could talk to each other and also to humans? The company has come up with a solutio... |
| 29.03.2022 | Employee Spotlight: Ines Bergmann-Nolting | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Hence, we have decided to give them the spotligh... |
| 25.03.2022 | Welcome Anna Trendewicz! | |
| 24.03.2022 | Meet Doozer, the leading platform for renovations | Berlin-based start-up Doozer digitizes home renovation projects and processes through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. In an industry that has been slow to embrace digital transformation, but is now adapting to evolving market con... |
| 11.03.2022 | Welcoming Maciej Lehmann to Future Energy Ventures | |
| 09.03.2022 | Future Energy Ventures Partners with Global Tech Advocates | Technology start-ups, scale-ups and corporates are all part of the world’s fastest growing industry. We believe that together, they can drive innovation that will speed up the energy transition and bring a net zero carbon future to fruition... |
| 02.03.2022 | Shaping a Greener, Cleaner Planet with Venture Capital | |
| 24.02.2022 | ev.energy extends its Series A to $12.8m with ArcTern Ventures | |
| 10.02.2022 | Let There Be Light | Why We Invested in Prisma Photonics | |
| 09.02.2022 | Prisma Photonics raises $20 Million | |
| 31.01.2022 | FEV’s 2021 Portfolio Highlights | - |
| 28.01.2022 | Welcome Jim Chan! | |
| 27.01.2022 | Meet Enervee, the platform making energy efficiency actionable | Enervee is a clean technology company that combines data science, behavioral science, and digital marketing to drive better energy-related buying decisions across dozens of consumer product categories. Its Commerce platform, featuring Choic... |
| 07.12.2021 | Holo-Light Receives $6m Investment | |
| 02.12.2021 | Capitalising on Demand for Cybersecurity | The pressure to digitize is intense – regardless of industry. From mobile and cloud platforms to emerging technologies such as AI, companies must keep up or fall behind. However, greater digital capabilities also bring a wider surface area ... |
| 01.12.2021 | Meet Holo-Light, the future “Netflix” of the Extended Reality Economy | Since its foundation in 2015, Holo-Light has been at the forefront of the extended reality industry. From its early days experimenting with an early Microsoft HoloLens, Holo-Light now provides a powerful immersive streaming platform for aug... |
| 23.11.2021 | COP26: We’re greater than the sum of our parts | The COP26 summit was a hugely significant event because it brought together most of the world’s nations to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Its purpose is built on... |
| 08.11.2021 | gridX: From investment to exit to E.ON | When we first met gridX in 2017, the company was only about a year old and had very few resources – even so, they had already achieved a remarkable level of technological development. We were deeply impressed by their drive and resourcefuln... |
| 08.11.2021 | Welcome Christian Wanzek! | |
| 03.11.2021 | Manufacturers unite to accelerate progress towards net zero | |
| 01.11.2021 | FEV’s Q3 Portfolio Update | |
| 21.10.2021 | Employee Spotlight: Ohad Mamann | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. |
| 11.10.2021 | Employee Spotlight: Jan Palasinski | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. For our latest employee spotlight, we spoke with... |
| 30.09.2021 | Energy Innovation Days 2021 | Energy Innovation Days 2021 |
| 27.09.2021 | Nuventura and E.DIS replace world’s most potent greenhouse gas | Sept, 2021 |
| 24.09.2021 | E.ON acquires majority stake in leading smart grid company gridX | 24.9.2021- Press Release |
| 17.09.2021 | Solshare gets shortlisted for the Earthshot Prize 2021 | Prince William announces 15 Finalists for inaugural year of the £50 million Earthshot Prize |
| 16.09.2021 | Employee Spotlight: Veronique Hördemann | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Hence, we have decided to give them the spotligh... |
| 14.09.2021 | Bidgely secures $26M in financing to accelerate the leading role of utilities in the clean energy future | |
| 09.09.2021 | Enervee Launches Innovative “Eco Financing” Program | |
| 07.09.2021 | Announcing LabelFlow, the open platform for image labeling | |
| 01.09.2021 | Meet Thermondo, a pioneer of the heating transition | Berlin-based Thermondo was founded in 2013 on the belief that the energy transition can only work with a successful heating transition. The company digitizes the processes around the modernization of heating systems – from lead generation, ... |
| 25.08.2021 | Meet Calipsa, transforming the way we prevent crime | In 2016, a team from Cambridge, UCL and Imperial Universities came together in London to create Calipsa. They had seen the burden that false alarms place on the security industry and believed that by applying AI technology, they could make ... |
| 24.08.2021 | Employee Spotlight: Fanny Rohr | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. |
| 11.08.2021 | Basking.io raises investment from Blue Field Capital, Aconterra and Ray Wirta | Berlin, Germany, August 2021 – Basking.io, a workplace occupancy analytics provider, today announced an additional investment from notable PropTech investors — Blue Field Capital, led by Zain Jaffer, Aconterra, and Ray Wirta, a board member... |
| 09.08.2021 | Waycare Technologies, Ltd acquired by Rekor Systems. | Press release – Waycare Technologies, Ltd acquired by Rekor Systems. |
| 29.07.2021 | Meet DABBEL, making commercial buildings green worldwide | In 2018, three engineers came together to create DABBEL – Automation Intelligence GmbH, built on a common desire to cut down the CO2 footprint of buildings – 75% of commercial buildings are still inefficient in terms of their energy consump... |
| 22.07.2021 | Meet Lumenaza, the powerful SaaS platform accelerating new energy adoption | Berlin-based Lumenaza is a software platform that connects producers and consumers of green distributed energy. Having recently raised |
| 20.07.2021 | Employee Spotlight Article – Jan Lozek | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Hence, we have decided to give them the spotligh... |
| 20.07.2021 | Employee Spotlight: Jan Lozek | We value the strong community we have around and within the company – and we are especially proud of the people that make Future Energy Ventures such an inspiring and impactful place to work. Hence, we have decided to give them the spotligh... |
| 16.07.2021 | Welcoming Aaron Israel to Future Energy Ventures | We’re very excited to introduce the newest member of our team, Aaron Israel, who joins our Israel team as an Investment Analyst. Aaron will help source and evaluate investment opportunities in Israel, and work closely with portfolio compani... |
| 13.07.2021 | Welcome Raphael Terium! | We’re very pleased to be welcoming the newest member of our team, Raphael Terium, who joins as Venture Capital Intern in Berlin. Raphael will support the reporting team, helping to increase transparency, improve reporting processes for homo... |
| 29.06.2021 | ev.energy closes $8.8m funding round to accelerate global roll-out of smart charging services | (Press Release) |
| 28.06.2021 | Welcome to the team Karina Wessel! | We’re very pleased to introduce Karina Wessel, who joins our team as Venture Capital Intern in Berlin. She will assist the investment team on operational tasks as well as on screening investments. Karina, who is half Russian and half Norweg... |
| 24.06.2021 | A very warm welcome aboard Natalie Milde! | We’re very pleased to be welcoming the newest member of our team, Natalie Milde, who joins as Venture Capital Intern in Berlin. Natalie will support the investment team, helping to accelerate the mission of Future Energy Ventures and our po... |
| 15.06.2021 | Data-driven insight: a win-win for manufacturing productivity and the environment | |
| 08.06.2021 | HoloBuilder announces acquisition by FARO | HoloBuilder, a German-American start-up specializing in construction management technology for Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) and public safety markets, delivers 360° image capture, registration, and viewing to the fast-... |
| 08.06.2021 | Lumenaza raises EUR 6.5 million to accelerate its European expansion | (Press Release) |
| 21.05.2021 | Welcome onboard Nihal! | We’re very pleased to introduce the newest member of our team, Nihal Gupta, who joins our Communications and Marketing team in Berlin. Nihal will help drive our communications strategy to bring a spotlight onto Future Energy Ventures and ou... |
| 18.05.2021 | Libryo closes £1.35m convertible note round to fund expansion | Founded in 2016, Libryo aims to build the world’s legal database, creating a global marketplace where users can seamlessly obtain legal content and professional services. Its team of developers has built a sophisticated software solution to... |
| 03.05.2021 | E.ON Next partners with ev.energy to launch the ‘Next Drive’ EV tariff | (Press release 29.04.2021) |
| 25.03.2021 | Future Energy Ventures and SET Global join forces to support innovation in the energy transition | We believe digital technologies will form the building blocks of a future where energy systems around the world are more connected, intelligent, efficient, reliable and sustainable. Making this future a reality requires out-of-the-box think... |
