Energize Ventures is proud to lead the oversubscribed $26M Series B investment in TWAICE, the leading software platform for battery analytics. Existing investors Creandum, Cherry Ventures, Speedinvest and UVC also participated in the round. Energize principal Tyler Lancaster joins TWAICE co-founders Stephan Rohr and Michael Baumann on TWAICE’s board, and associate Mark Tomasovic joins as a …
There are many frameworks to approach the transition towards a more sustainable future. One theme that we have been using increasingly often here at Energize is the concept of a “Circular Economy”. Eileen Waris is leading the charge on a few deep dives in this area and I suspect we will be quite active investing …
I officially turn 1 year older today and am the ripe old age of 36. Hopefully some birthday cake tonight. I am a sucker for birthday cake. A lot of people I know plan year-specific goals or “resets” – and they are incredibly successful in year-over-year advancements. I don’t plan that way. I prefer bigger, …
CB Insights is a top research organization for the private markets. They do a great job creating market maps and recognizing the emerging technology leaders within a theme. Last week CB insights released their Top 100 AI-enabled companies. For a few reasons, this is an exciting list: “AI” as a buzzword peaked in 2016 and …
Over the past decade, a common question t Fortune 500 CTOs and CIOs were seeking to answer was “what’s your cloud strategy?” It is still only the 3rd or 4th inning in that cloud transition. And the scale of the cloud technology market, as evidenced by trackers like the Bessemer Cloud Index, is apparent. So …
We all know venture-backed startups need to raise capital. A lesser known fact is that venture firms identify and raise capital from “Limited Partners” in their own fundraising process. When Energize’s LPs were performing due diligence on us recently, one of our portfolio executives gave excellent feedback: “I hope the Energize LP base can scale …
I was speaking with one of Energize’s Limited Partners this week. For the VC newbies, LPs are the groups (endowments, family offices, corporates) that actually give our Fund our capital. Here at Energize we have a number of very experienced family office investors as part of our LP base. I consider myself fortunate that I …
The materials industries are stubbornly analog. As seen below, the analog industries like: agriculture, mining & materials, buildings, rail & road logistics, oil & gas, chemicals, utilities and automotive are all early in their digitization adoption. The overlap between the physical world and the digital world is lagging more capital-light verticals. But I love this …
This week, Barclays released a future of the energy economy presentation and there was a big section on hydrogen. And WOW, there is big growth expected for hydrogen. Based on the below chart you can see that the growth is expected in heating and industrial use cases (including steel) and long haul transport / mobility …
Our team has been going into the office 1-2 days per week for the past few months. We stagger and follow all necessary safety protocols. A few of our team members have the antibodies… either through the vaccine or early COVID exposure. Last week we also went to a team dinner in the west loop, …