Participated · Equity · Jul 2024

Enerdigit, founded in 2015 and based in Nantes, develops demand‑flexibility (effacement) solutions that let industrial customers reduce or pause electricity consumption to relieve the grid. The company designs and manufactures a site‑installed hardware boîtier in Nantes and offers a proprietary application that streams real‑time consumption data for supervision and optimization. Enerdigit sells délestage to grid actors and remunerates industrials for consumption reductions, positioning its service as an alternative to adding fossil generation and as a way to integrate intermittent renewables. The company has contracted with more than 300 industrial clients covering roughly 1,000 sites, employs about 20 people, and expects revenue to exceed €20 million in 2024. Enerdigit installed the largest battery in Loire‑Atlantique in February as an in‑house project and is accelerating development of battery storage projects with end‑to‑end control from land prospecting to operation. Founder and president Bénédicte Pléau leads the company’s strategy to scale its offering across small and medium industrial sites.

Led · Equity · Dec 2016

HEMAV is a Barcelona-based company that provides AI-driven agricultural solutions through its SaaS platform, LAYERS. LAYERS processes billions of data points to deliver precision insights, highly accurate yield predictions, advanced irrigation models, and blockchain-backed traceability, and the company says it can reduce input costs by up to 30%. In 2024 HEMAV expanded operations to 24 countries and digitised 9.2 million hectares of farmland. The company recently launched the CROP MASTERS initiative to offer tailored consultancy and training guided by local experts. As part of its corporate changes, HEMAV restructured its shareholder base, buying out 61 small shareholders. HEMAV plans to use the new funding to enhance LAYERS, scale its predictive capabilities in 2025, and expand its global reach to support sustainable agriculture and food-security goals. Hemav is a leading Spanish operator of drone services, focused on precision agriculture, industrial inspection and geomatics. The company was founded in 2012 by aerospace engineers from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and is based in the ESA Barcelona incubator with operations across Spain. Hemav serves major clients including Gas Natural, Telefónica and IBM and has positioned itself as a national reference in drone technology. With a validated domestic business model, the company is pursuing rapid, scalable international expansion. The firm plans to implement an agenda of UAV technological innovation and to build Layers, a digital platform that will deliver Reporting as a Service (RAAS) from aerial data (drone, plane or satellite). Hemav closed a financing round to provide liquidity for these projects and its expansion plans. Hemav provides drone (UAV) services for civil applications, with particular emphasis on agricultural and infrastructure use cases. The company is presented in the article as a reference in the Spanish drone services sector. Hemav was created in Barcelona and is noted as the first company endorsed by the European Space Agency to join the ESA incubator in Spain. Financially, Hemav completed an equity crowdfunding round that raised €450,000 in six days. The funds were contributed by 67 private investors, who acquired 20% of the company's capital; the minimum ticket was €1,000 and the average investment was around €6,000. The crowdfunding campaign was run on Crowdcube España, a subsidiary of Crowdcube Ltd.