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EnBW New Ventures GmbH

Corporate VC

Karlsruhe · Series A–Growth · 18 people tracked

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Investment thesis

ENV invests in European startups that digitally enable and accelerate the energy and mobility transition, backing software and market-infrastructure solutions that support three major asset roll-outs: renewables, batteries, and the electrification of transport. It also targets enterprise software helping large corporates such as EnBW become more digital and efficient (data/AI, cybersecurity, cloud, AR, quantum), and flexibility solutions covering behind-the-meter optimization and flexibility monetization. Operating as a single-LP evergreen fund with a €100 million setup, ENV acts as lead or co-investor, takes board seats, and can reinvest profits and follow on into later rounds.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Series A–Growth
Check
$1.1M – $10.8M
HQ
Karlsruhe, DE
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2016
Last 12 months
1 investment
AUM
$108M
Tracked investments
34
IPOs
1

Team · 18 people

from the firm's website & curated & public directories
Anke Gratz· Investment Managerin

Investment Manager at EnBW New Ventures.

Markus Scharrer· Engagement Principalin
Pascal Beckers-Jaleta· Investment Principalin
Holger Wagner· Investment Directorin

Contact person for the ENV portfolio company Intigriti.

Jeanette Giesel· Communications & Community Analystin
Mara Schwind· Communications & Community Managerin
Marc Umber· Head of Investmentsin

Contact person for several ENV portfolio companies including HOLO-LIGHT, Easelink and enspired.

Marcel Breithaupt· Finance Associatein
Pascal Beckersin

Contact person for the ENV portfolio company Sunhat.

What they invest in

from 21 of 34 portfolio companies

Energy ×11SaaS ×10Cleantech ×9AI & Machine Learning ×7Enterprise Software ×7Climate Tech ×5Deep Tech ×4Mobility & Transportation ×4

HQs:Germany×9Austria×2Denmark×2Belgium×1France×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 13 portfolio companies
77%
solo founders
10 of 13 mapped founding teams
25%
repeat founders
of 16 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×102 founders×14+ founders×2

Where their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with education data

Universität der Künste Berlin ×2Universität Innsbruck ×2University of Düsseldorf ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with field-of-study data

Business & Management ×5Computer Science ×3Economics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 16 founders with career history

OSRAM ×2

Investments · 34 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 12023 · 22022 · 22019 · 16 dated

Gevernovagevernova.comin𝕏NYSE: GEV

GE Vernova generates, transfers, and stores electricity through gas turbines, wind turbines, and grid modernization technologies.

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Scott Strazik(Chief Executive Officer and President)inKen Parks(Chief Financial Officer)inVic Abate(Chief Executive Officer, Wind)inSteven Baert(Chief People Officer)inEric Gray(Chief Executive Officer, Power)inPablo Koziner(Chief Commercial and Operations Officer)in

Co-investorsBlackRock

THEVAtheva.com✓ verified

THEVA manufactures high-temperature superconductor wire and related components for industrial, power transmission, and renewable energy applications.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechEnergyNew MaterialsGermany, DE

Co-investorsBayern KapitalNovo HoldingsTarget Partners

3YOURMIND3yourmind.comin

3YOURMIND provides on-demand and additive manufacturing workflow software that lets companies build digital inventories of qualified parts, analyze printability and cost, and distribute production jobs to approved suppliers.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareSaaSBerlin, DE

Aleksander Ciszek(Co-founder)inStephan Kühr(Co-founder)Philip Korn(Chief Financial Officer)inJos Burger(Executive Chairman)inWilliam Cuervo(Vice President, North America)inAnna Laura Casciaro(Vice President of People & Culture)in

Co-investorsAM VenturescoparionLBBW Venture Capital GmbHStartXUVC PartnersAramco Ventures+2 more

Cleverciticleverciti.comin𝕏

Cleverciti provides AI-based parking intelligence systems that detect available parking spaces in real time and offer drivers turn-by-turn guidance, using occupancy and payment data.

AI & Machine LearningIoTMobility & TransportationPropTechMunich, DE

Thomas Hohenackerin

Co-investorsThe Westly GroupKfW

Cozerocozero.ioin𝕏

Cozero provides an enterprise software platform that integrates carbon emissions accounting, reduction planning, and regulatory reporting in a single system.

CleantechClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsVireo Ventures

Cyclecycle.ecoin𝕏

Cycle.eco builds emission-free local transportation solutions for urban areas, focusing on decarbonizing city transport and replacing polluting vehicles and congestion.

Circular EconomyClimate TechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationBerlin, DE

Luis Orsini-Rosenberg(Founder)in

Co-investorsFounder CollectiveHeartfelt CapitalLocalGlobeS20TechstarsVisionaries Club+2 more

Deepomaticdeepomatic.com

AI platform automating quality control and reporting of field services through video footage analysis.

Augustin Marty(Co-founder of Deepomatic; SVP AI Solutions at IQGeo)in

Co-investorsOrbia Ventures50 PartnersAlvenAlven CapitalHi InovSwisscom Ventures

Easelinkeaselink.cominJan 2022

Easelink develops an automated charging solution for electric vehicles that uses parking time to charge through Matrix Charging®, an integrated charging connection in parking spaces.

CleantechEnergyHardwareIoTMobility & Transportation

Hermann StockingerinGregor EckhardinJürgen Antonitschin

Co-investorsHermann Hauser InvestmentSET VenturesVERBUND X VenturesKOMPAS VC

Elephant Companyelephantcompany.coinMay 2026

Elephant is a platform that streamlines the creation of training content for organizations, enabling subject matter experts to develop multilingual learning materials efficiently without specialized instructional design background.

EdTechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS

Melchior Schramm(Founder)in

Co-investorsTechFounders

Enbwenbw.comin

EnBW is an energy provider offering electricity, gas, heating, and EV charging tariffs to consumers, along with green electricity, e-mobility, solar, and storage products.

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Georg Nikolaus Stamatelopoulosin

enspiredenspired-trading.comin

enspired is an energy technology company that operates an AI-powered optimization platform for trading battery energy storage systems (BESS), helping battery asset owners maximize revenues and integrate renewable flexibility into the grid.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy

Jürgen Mayerhofer(Founder)

Co-investors360 CapitalBerliner Volksbank VenturesEmerald Technology Ventures AgFuture Energy VenturesPUSH VenturesRedstone+4 more

ETF Partnersetfpartners.capital

VC fund (founded 2006) supporting entrepreneurs with investment capital and experience.

Co-investorsKfW CapitalTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)British Patient CapitalEuropean Investment Fund

Flexechargeflexecharge.comin

FlexeCharge develops software for EV charging energy and load management, helping Charge Point Operators and solution providers address grid constraints, reduce energy costs, and create new revenue streams.

CleantechEnergyMobility & TransportationSaaSFrederiksberg, DK

Max Brandt(CEO)in

Co-investorsEneco VenturesGreencode VenturesVireo Ventures

gridscalegridscale.ioin𝕏Mar 2019

gridscale provides hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud services that enable mid-market enterprises to run private and public cloud workloads without vendor lock-in.

Climate TechCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareFrankfurt, DE

TorstenHenrik Hasenkamp(Founding Member (Gründungsmitglied))inCarsten DittmanninMarc Dittmannin

Co-investorsEnjoyventure ManagementEndeit Capital

Holo-lighthololight.comin

Hololight provides a centralized platform for hosting, managing, and streaming AR and VR applications to enterprise headsets from cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSaaSInnsbruck, AT

Florian HaspingerinAlexander WerlbergerinSusanne HaspingerinLuis BollingerinIsabella Dopplerin

BoardAndreas König

Co-investorsBayern KapitalCipio PartnersFuture Energy Ventures

Intigritiintigriti.comin𝕏Apr 2022

Intigriti operates a bug bounty platform that connects security researchers with organizations to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.

CybersecuritySaaSBelgium, BE

Stijn Jans(Founder)in

Co-investorsETF PartnersOctopus Ventures

Lumenazalumenaza.dein

Lumenaza provides a SaaS platform for energy utilities, suppliers, and new market entrants to manage direct marketing, billing, customer relationships, and grid operations in the German energy market.

EnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBerlin, DE

Bernhard Böhmer(Founder)inDr. Christian Chudoba(CEO)

Co-investorsFirst Imagine!Future Energy VenturesIBB Ventures

Ovhcloudovhcloud.comin𝕏

OVHcloud provides cloud computing infrastructure and hosting solutions including public cloud, dedicated servers, and hybrid approaches for various workloads such as website hosting, e-commerce, and big data applications.

Circular EconomyCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRoubaix, FR

Co-investorsTowerBrook

Spoorspoor.aiin

Spoor is a biodiversity technology company that uses AI-powered computer vision to monitor bird activity around wind farms, helping developers and operators manage environmental risks during permitting, construction, and operations.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy

Co-investorsAntlerSET VenturesSuperorganism

Subrasubra.dkin

Subra develops scalable superconductor solutions aimed at improving energy transmission and infrastructure.

CleantechDeep TechEnergy

Co-investorsNovo Holdings

Validaitorvalidaitor.comin

Validaitor provides an AI trust and risk management platform that tests, identifies, and mitigates risks in both traditional machine learning and generative AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Yunus Bulut(Founder)in

vialyticsvialytics.dein𝕏Jan 2023

vialytics offers an AI platform and web system that lets municipalities capture road condition and road inventory data by driving, with a camera taking geotagged images every few meters that an algorithm classifies into damage categories.

AI & Machine LearningGovTechSaaSWürzburg, DE

Patrick Glaser(CEO)in

Co-investorsActon CapitalScania Growth CapitalStatkraft Ventures

Vireo Venturesvireo.vcin

Vireo Ventures is a seed and pre-seed venture capital firm that invests in European technology startups in the energy and mobility sectors, focusing on digital solutions for energy system transformation and sector coupling.

Co-investorsSaxoventVERBUND X Ventures

volytica diagnosticsvolytica.comin𝕏Sep 2023

Volytica provides battery diagnostics and monitoring software that enables companies to optimize safety, performance, and longevity of energy storage systems.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergyIoTSaaS

Claudius Jehle(Battery Diagnostics, System Modelling, Founding & Management)inSebastian Stoll(Scalable Cloud Platform & Data Pipeline Development)inLutz Morawietz(Battery Testing & Experiments, Algorithm Development and R&D)inChristin Lustik(Marketing & Sales for Renewable Energy)in

Co-investorsFraunhofer Tech Transfer FundSHIFT Invest

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Auxxo Female CatalystAuxxo Female Catalyst FundbabelforceDZ4GreenbirdreplexSunhatVireo ElectrificationVivacityVolytica

Exits · 1

1 IPOs

GevernovaNYSE: GEV

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has EnBW New Ventures GmbH made?
EnBW New Ventures GmbH has 34 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does EnBW New Ventures GmbH invest at?
EnBW New Ventures GmbH invests at the Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
What is EnBW New Ventures GmbH's typical check size?
EnBW New Ventures GmbH typically writes checks of $1.1M – $10.8M.
What sectors does EnBW New Ventures GmbH focus on?
EnBW New Ventures GmbH focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Energy, Enterprise Software, Mobility & Transportation, New Materials, Quantum Computing, SaaS.
Where is EnBW New Ventures GmbH located?
EnBW New Ventures GmbH is headquartered in Karlsruhe, DE.
Does EnBW New Ventures GmbH lead rounds?
Yes, EnBW New Ventures GmbH leads investment rounds.
Who does EnBW New Ventures GmbH co-invest with?
EnBW New Ventures GmbH most often shares deals with Future Energy Ventures, Bayern Kapital, SET Ventures, among 41 tracked co-investors.

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