• RYE

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

  RYE offers an energy intelligence solution tailored to multi-site hospitality and retail, combining on-site insights with forecasting models to deliver granular demand visibility and sharper predictions. The platform supports metering, management and maintenance, and provides smart meter provisioning, automated bill validation and dispute support, real-time usage tracking, and automated payments. By aggregating SME energy demand RYE boosts buy-side liquidity for off-market renewable solutions, enabling smarter procurement and more competitive pricing. RYE is already piloting its technology at 30+ UK locations. The company positions itself to address rising energy costs, inadequate metering and opaque billing that threaten multi-site hospitality. Its five-year vision is to become the go-to energy intelligence layer for multi-site businesses across Europe and to expand its product range to better service new and existing users.

• Cariqa

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

  Cariqa offers a full‑stack payments and dynamic pricing platform designed specifically for EV charging, replacing fragmented apps, cards and legacy billing systems with a unified infrastructure layer. Its platform gives operators a single dashboard for real‑time control and delivers one clear price to drivers on every session. It integrates directly with existing systems and supports major charging workflows so operators can streamline without replacing their tech stack. Cariqa positions itself as Europe’s first end‑to‑end payment platform for EV charging networks and emphasizes removing intermediaries to reduce costs and increase transparency. The company is already trusted by major charge point operators including Pfalzwerke, EWE Go, Qwello, Q1 and Mer. Cariqa plans to use its new funding to expand across key European markets, grow its product and engineering teams, and onboard large operators, vehicle manufacturers and fleet providers. Cariqa offers a consumer-facing marketplace that directly connects electric vehicle (EV) drivers with charge point operators (CPOs) to deliver transparent pricing and easier access to charging. The platform launched in September 2024 and already partners with CPOs across Europe, providing access to over 420,000 charging stations in 30 European countries. Key features include optimal charge point discovery, EV routing, and the option to connect the EV for more detailed consumption models and alerts. Cariqa’s product aims to address low CPO utilization—reported as low as 3%—and the margin pressure CPOs face when selling energy through intermediaries. The company plans to use its recent funding to develop the marketplace further and initiate a broader rollout across Europe. CEO Issam Tidjani frames the mission as creating a fairer and more efficient charging market that boosts CPO utilization and delivers transparent prices to drivers.

• Clevergy

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

  Founded in 2022 in Madrid, Clevergy develops a cloud-based energy management platform used by Spanish utilities and their residential customers. The software lets households monitor consumption in real time, optimise solar self-production, and remotely manage devices such as EV chargers, batteries, and heat pumps. For energy suppliers, the system integrates these distributed assets into their operations, preparing them for emerging flexibility markets. Clevergy reports that its growth tripled last year and that the platform is already deployed in hundreds of thousands of homes. With fresh capital, the company plans to scale its offering across Europe and cement a leadership position in the continent’s digital energy transition. The startup has previously attracted attention as one of Spain’s fastest-growing ClimateTech firms and was earlier highlighted among Madrid’s top emerging companies.

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