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Investment Insights: Gridcare – Unlocking Grid Capacity for the AI Era

Investment Insights: GridCARE 1. The Big Picture By 2030, data centers could account for up to 60% of total U.S. electricity load growth — more than EVs, industrial electrification, and every other sector combined1. Pow… read more

FEV Closes €235 Million Fund to Accelerate the Independent Energy Future

Berlin, November – Future Energy Ventures (FEV), a global active venture capital advisor for digital and asset-light energy technologies focused on accelerating the global energy transition,    has announced the closing… read more

Investment Insights: Chloris Geospatial

Investment Insights: Chloris Geospatial Unlocking Trust and Scale in Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Investment Insights into Chloris Geospatial   The Big Picture Forests cover one-third of the planet and play a vi… read more

Investment Insights: Station A

Investment Insights: Station A Decarbonizing Commercial and Industrial Real Estate   1. The Big Picture What is usually referred to as the built environment, i.e. the human-made surroundings that provide the settin… read more

Investment Insights: Jua.ai

Jua: Rebuilding Weather from the Ground Up An all-in-one weather forecasting platform – and a replica of our entire planet   1. The Big Picture Weather forecasting might seem mundane—should I bring an umbrella?—but… read more

Employee Spotlight: Başak Günver

At Future Energy Ventures, our team is the heart of everything we do to decarbonize society. We are thrilled to introduce Başak Günver, our newest addition to the team. Başak brings a wealth of diverse ideas and experie… read more

Launch of the “Think & Do Tank Initiative” by BVES, FEV & PT1

The venture capital investors PT1 and Future Energy Ventures are joining forces with the German Energy Storage Systems Association BVES for a ‘Think & Do Tank on Battery Energy Storage Systems’. The initiative kicke… read more

Investment Insights: reev

Crossing the chasm Transportation contributes to over 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with a significant portion coming from passenger cars. Electric vehicles (EVs) offer a solution to reduce these emissions. EV… read more

Under the Radar: Climate Impact and Investment Opportunity in the Built Environment

By Anna Trendewicz and Net Zero Insights 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 … read more

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 … read more

Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Energy Report and market map

By Future Energy Ventures, SET Ventures and Plug and Play In a collaborative report, Future Energy Ventures, SET Ventures and Plug and Play explore the innovative solutions startups offer to decarbonize the Commercial a… read more

Becoming DEI-driven: 3 steps for creating organizational impact

By Fanny Rohr, People Innovation Business Partner Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is fundamental to creating a vibrant, safe, and respectful work environment. Lately, however, related „buzzwords“ have become incr… read more

Digital PV value chain for residential, C&I and utility

By Future Energy Ventures and Berlin Digital Group Together with our friends from BDG, we are bundling our sector knowledge around smart energy technologies and will publish a series of deep dives to show where incumben… read more

Residential Solar is Driving the Electrification Trend

A deep dive into the venture investment trends of the residential solar space. By Jan Palasinski and Net Zero Insights Over the years, residential solar energy has witnessed an astonishing surge in venture investments, … read more

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, innovativ… read more

Navigating the Future of Public EV Charging with Hubject’s CEO Christian Hahn

By Maciej Lehmann, Investment Analyst at FEV, and Moritz Jungmann, Investment Partner at FEV The rise of electric vehicle adoption in recent years represents a profound shift in how societies perceive mobility and energ… read more

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… read more

Why entrepreneurs need to build ESG into their business model to secure early-stage funding

By Veronique Hördemann, CFO Future Energy Ventures ESG has been under the microscope in the past 12 months with pressure from some Republican politicians in the US who have called for investment managers to pull their c… read more

Amid the economic uncertainty, climate investing is bucking the downward trend

By Moritz Jungmann, Investment Partner Future Energy Ventures 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… read more

Awakening the Giant: decarbonizing the Heating Sector in Europe and Beyond

By Anna Trendewicz The heating sector is a giant market with huge climate impact potential Nearly half of  Europe’s energy demand (c.a. 11,000TWh)[1] is used for heating. Given that fossil fuels are still supplyin… read more

Flexibility: the key to accelerating energy transition

Written by Anna Trendewicz   Why is flexibility the key to unlock a renewable energy system? The energy system is in the midst of an epochal transformation, the like of which has not been seen before. But the energ… read more

COP27: The Overlooked Global South – driving innovation & impact where it’s needed most

By Boaz Kantor 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 suppo… read more

The Future of ESG & Climate Impact

Conversations from Future Energy Ventures’ latest Investor Event At our recent exclusive Investor Event, held on 14th September, we invited a select group of investors to Düsseldorf for conversations around the future o… read more

Future Energy Ventures promotes Moritz Jungmann and Ohad Mamann to Partners

Future Energy Ventures is pleased to announce the elevation of Moritz Jungmann and Ohad Mamann as Partners. Moritz has been with Future Energy Ventures since inception in 2019, having previously been part of innogy Inno… read more

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 wha… read more

Meet SkenarioLabs, the platform predicting the future of sustainable real estate

SkenarioLabs 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 respon… read more

Meet Hubject, the EV intercharge network to bridge all borders

  Hubject seeks to transform the electric mobility market. As conveners of the largest eRoaming network for borderless eMobility, Hubject’s intercharge network gives electric vehicle (EV) drivers access to over 400… read more

Energy Crisis: an opening for disruptive technologies

      Even before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on Russia, Bank of America analysts were predicting that European businesses would see their electricity costs rise by a… read more

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 infrastruct… read more

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 d… read more