Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Founded in 2024 and based in Berlin, dsb offers certified energy consulting where consultants collect building data to create a digital twin and an individual renovation roadmap (iSFP). The company reviews and handles subsidy applications through KfW and BAFA and coordinates implementation of measures such as solar panels, heat pumps, window replacement, and insulation via a network of vetted trades businesses. dsb says its process reduces the homeowner's time requirement by approximately 80%. Since founding it has tripled in size and now serves over 10,000 private customers and works with around 300 local skilled trades businesses. The company forecasts revenue exceeding €15 million for 2026. Planned product and go-to-market moves include launching a proprietary electricity tariff and expanding into the B2B market.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2022

Delphia operates a mobile-investment platform that combines algorithmic stock-picking and crypto features. The app offers two investing methods: a free stock-picks product and a long/short blended product open to accredited investors. Delphia’s core differentiator is a “share-to-earn” data token model that rewards users for contributing commerce, device, search and social media data. That model will function as a DAO with votes tied to an ERC-20 token and will begin rewarding users starting this summer, with rewards payable as cash or tokens. Fees paid by wealthier, accredited investors help fund the rewards program for data-providing users. The company plans to launch its native rewards token, expand the ways users can contribute data, and grow its team. Delphia is an investment adviser that converts personal data into a renewable source of investable capital. It uses machine learning combined with social science to analyze collective data shared by its members and inform stock market investment decisions, adapting election-forecasting methods to markets. Members can connect personal data sources (social media, location, shopping) and answer daily questions; those contributions become a proprietary data source intended to give Delphia an investment edge. The company will begin converting personal data into investment capital once its waitlist reaches 100,000 signups and plans to redistribute management fees to create a data dividend without selling data to advertisers. Delphia has raised $14M in funding to date from named investors. The firm is headquartered in Toronto and was built by a team of academics, data scientists, and engineers led by co-founder and CEO Andrew Peek and Chief Scientist Dr. Clifton van der Linden.