• Synergi

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

  Synergi is a Finnish tech company building software to connect household energy assets to grid flexibility markets. The company launched its platform in 2023 and released the Synergi app to help households optimize energy use. The app has helped thousands of European users save up to 50% on EV charging and about 20% on heating costs annually. Synergi’s platform aggregates customer-owned assets—EVs, heat pumps, and solar panels—into virtual power plants (VPPs) to nudge and reward flexibility for grid balancing. The product targets utilities and consumers, enabling utilities to monetise flexibility and provide a turnkey app solution to customers. With recent funding, Synergi plans to expand into Nordic and central European flexibility markets and grow engineering, sales, and marketing teams. Synergi builds software that aggregates household energy resources to make electricity consumption smart, controllable and able to participate in demand-response markets. As a starting point users can connect EVs and PHEVs to the platform for smart charging; later in 2023 Synergi plans to add solar production, heat pumps, water boilers and other major household energy resources. The company says its tools will help households shift usage away from peak hours, lower emissions from the grid and provide flexibility to balance supply and demand as more inflexible renewable sources come online. Founded during the summer by Antti Hämmäinen, Harri Iisakka and Petrus Holm, Synergi will use new capital to develop its technology and launch more broadly in Finland and an additional target market in 2023. Financially, Synergi has raised €800k in a pre-seed round led by Lifeline Ventures and APX to support product development and market launch. The startup positions its offering as a response to rising energy prices and grid imbalances in Europe, aiming to turn households into active contributors to the energy system.

• Claims Carbon

  Led · Seed · Nov 2022

  Claims Carbon is a Stockholm-headquartered software company that helps insurers assess the carbon footprint of their value chains. Founded last year, the company has delivered a Claims Carbon software stack that calculates climate impacts across an insurer’s ecosystem to inform net-zero targets, emissions-reduction programmes, and new net-zero insurance products. The product is offered as part of a SaaS roster and the company says it has signed partnerships with insurers in Northern Europe. Claims Carbon currently operates in eight European markets: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Portugal. With a €1.1 million seed raise, the company plans to invest in its product pipeline to bring a stronger offering to its SaaS lineup, hire additional staff, and expand into new product areas and geographies. Its work is positioned alongside evolving industry standards such as the Net Zero Insurance Alliance’s forthcoming global accounting protocol.

• Kamupak

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

  Kamu develops reusable food packaging (KamuBox) and a return logistics model that enables couriers to bring used packaging back from consumers to restaurants. The company is expanding its product family with a reusable pizza box currently being piloted. Kamu closed a funding round of 590k that included previous and new investors. Near-term commercial activities include a pilot with Wolt in Hyvinkää launching at the end of September and expanded restaurant rollouts with long-term partner Picnic. Kotipizza is joining pilots for the new reusable pizza box, and the company plans simultaneous city expansions. Kamu has hired CTO Tan Bui, intends to add two more team members to support growth, and is exploring expansion into Nordic countries early next year.

No current team members are available.