Founded in Berlin in 2023 by Marius Schondelmaier and Jakob von Egidy, Bees & Bears builds financing infrastructure that embeds point-of-sale loans inside installers’ sales workflows for renewable-energy hardware. Installers upload a customer quote, the platform runs real-time credit checks, and an instalment plan can be approved on the spot—eliminating traditional bank paperwork and accelerating project starts. The service targets the 40 % of German households that a 2024 KfW study says cannot afford climate technologies without instalment options, and it positions local craft installers to compete with large digital platforms that already bundle financing. Beyond residential solar, heat pumps and batteries, the company intends to expand into commercial and industrial segments and to enter additional European markets. In January 2024 it secured a €500 million debt financing framework with a listed European bank, earmarked to fund roughly 25,000 installations over two years. The newly raised seed capital will be used to scale the platform, triple headcount and solidify market share as it pursues its mission of enabling one trillion euros in sustainable financing.

Total raised

$587M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Oct 2025