In 2018 the Energize team was executing one of our textbook deep dives. The goal of our deep dive was to find the new digital solutions that will help manage the then-imminent amplification of decentralized assets. When we came across Sitetracker and CEO, Giuseppe Incitti, we knew we had a match. Giuseppe saw the future …
One of the key themes for Energize over the past 2 years has been the decarbonization movement. As covered in the past, we like to identify megatrends and then search out the capital light / digital solutions that will help deliver the impending scale. We have made investments in companies like Patch (API enabled tools …
There are a number of climate-related conferences underway this week. We have Climate Week in New York City and Re+ in Anaheim. Next week there is also an event in Pittsburgh. The Energize team is beginning to attend and host events at these conferences. This morning two Energize investors, Eileen Waris and Honour Masters, held …
Some hires are so obvious that you immediately can’t imagine scaling without them. When we hired Kevin Stevens to take the lead on our growth platform we immediately unlocked scale as our firm went to a multi-strategy model. Our most recent hire for the Growth platform brings the same contribution expectations. This week we formally …
Back to back funding announcements!! Energize Ventures goal to capitalize and support the best companies within the sustainability software stack continues as we lead the €30M Series A+ round into Monta. Monta is the premier digital backbone for the EV charging industry, enabling a simple and seamless control strategy for site owners, fleet operators, and consumers. We …
Today the Energize team is announcing one of our most recent investments. I like to tell the team how we should “zig” when the market “zags” and some of our upcoming investments announcements (this one included) are the Energize team executing with this mindset. Our carbon market thesis was a few years in the works …
Bloomberg New Energy Finance recently released their 2023 global, mid-year forecasts. One of the most prominent charts is the continued growth of solar deployments. Outside of internet fiber, very few infrastructure type projects have ever grown this fast at this scale. And it’s hard to imagine any slowdown as costs continue to decline and decentralized …
Team Energize recently updated our website to better present our focus areas. In the past we focused the messaging on the problems we believed digital technologies could solve, and we had words like “decentralization” and “risk management” as focus areas. We used those terms because we, as operators and industry experts, tend to approach investments …
Been off here for a while as have been scaling up a lot of exciting items at Energize. The market forces for the energy and sustainability transition are accelerating and the recent IRA 2022 Bill is a major tailwind. More on that soon. In the meantime, one of the most exciting hires in the Energize …
Yesterday a relatively large deal in the industrial software space was announced: Siemens acquired US software company Brightly for $1.6 billion. Siemens is the multinational industrial technology company, and has a stated goal to increase their software product suite through its’ Siemens Smart Infrastructure segment. Why is this a fit? Brightly Software is a leader …