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🌍 AENU & Future Energy Ventures Launch ImpactVC Germany Chapter to Drive Local Impact Investment 🌍 ImpactVC, a global community of over 850 members from 650+ venture capital firms, has launched its Germany Chapter, building on its mission to drive impactful, community-driven venture capital. Led by Natalie Milde from Future Energy Ventures) and our Head of Impact Elena Harumi Stark, this chapter is designed to connect and empower Germany’s impact investors! Key Features: ↗ Community & Collaboration: Regular networking and community-led initiatives. ↗ Resources & Learning: Access to ImpactVC’s playbooks and tailored learning sessions. ↗ Local Support: Supported by a Steering Committee of German Impact VC leaders. Elena Stark: “Impact investing compels us to redefine success by driving both financial and societal returns!" Learn more about our mission to accelerate impact investing in Germany: https://lnkd.in/eZdrgPs6 #ImpactVC #ImpactInvesting #GermanyChapter Michelle Piontek Philip Specht Till Thietje Vanessa Brahmi Melina Sánchez Montañés Robert Stoecker Ferry Heilemann

🌱 Big congratulations to our portfolio company Hometree on a new £50 million mezzanine facility from CPP Investments | Investissements RPC, building on the £250 million raised earlier this year from Barclays Investment Bank. This funding will help accelerate the installation of solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps in 35,000 UK homes, bringing sustainable energy solutions to even more households across the UK. 🏡 🤝 Partnering with top renewable installers, manufacturers, and suppliers like Project Solar, myenergi, and So Energy, Hometree continues to lead the charge in making affordable, renewable energy accessible to homeowners. 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ei5FK-4u Simon Phelan Siobhan Brewster Robert Stoecker 2150 Inven Capital Rahul Parekh Andrew Rendel Legal & General Capital Daniel Edgerley Matthias Dill Energy Impact Partners Elena Harumi Stark Till Thietje Melina Sánchez Montañés #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #AENU

**Apply NOW** 🔈 AENU is looking for visiting analysts! #hiring 🌍 Are you passionate about solving the climate crisis? 💡 Are you mission-driven, a critical thinker and do you possess an insatiable curiosity? 🤝 Do you want to learn about the startup universe, connect with like-minded people and meet experts from various fields? 🚀 Does this sound like you? Kick-start your investment career as a Visiting Analyst at AENU, a ClimateTech VC fund that invests in Seed & Series A companies. Join our amazing team in Berlin for 6 months, starting around January 2025: https://lnkd.in/ddQneGng Melina Sánchez Montañés Philip Specht Robert Stoecker Melusine Bliesener Elena Harumi Stark Till Thietje Dr. Fabian Heilemann Michelle Piontek Vanessa Brahmi

**Apply NOW** 🔈 AENU is looking for visiting analysts! #hiring 🌍 Are you passionate about solving the climate crisis? 💡 Are you mission-driven, a critical thinker and do you possess an insatiable curiosity? 🤝 Do you want to learn about the startup universe, connect with like-minded people and meet experts from various fields? 🚀 Does this sound like you? Kick-start your investment career as a Visiting Analyst at AENU, a ClimateTech VC fund that invests in Seed & Series A companies. Join our amazing team in Berlin for 6 months, starting around January 2025: https://lnkd.in/ddQneGng Melina Sánchez Montañés Philip Specht Robert Stoecker Melusine Bliesener Elena Harumi Stark Till Thietje Dr. Fabian Heilemann Michelle Piontek Vanessa Brahmi

🎙️Listen to the latest episode of Climate Insiders by Yoann Berno, Europe’s top Climate Tech podcast, where our General Partner, Dr. Fabian Heilemann, shares how AENU is redefining venture capital to prioritize climate impact alongside financial returns. 🌍 💡At AENU, we believe that venture capital can — and must — do more than just generate financial returns. That’s why Fabian takes the time and discusses the resilience of climate impact funds, even in the face of political uncertainties, and highlights AENU’s approach to balancing financial returns with societal and environmental impact. Fabian shares: "One of the biggest flaws of capitalism is that externalities like carbon emissions have been left unpriced, contributing to extreme wealth concentration. At AENU, we believe in reversing that trend—addressing global crises through impact-focused investment strategies that can compete head-to-head with traditional VC returns." In this conversation, he also touches on: 🎯 AENU’s unique investment strategy, which blends a 70/30 focus on software and hardware solutions, ensuring we invest where our strengths lie while pushing the boundaries of climate tech. 🤝 The importance of collaboration in venture capital: "While competition is inherent, what I see among impact investors is a shared purpose. We all want to change the world in meaningful ways, and in this emerging field, collaboration often prevails over competition." 🌿 Our progressive fund structures, including experimenting with evergreen models and long-term stakeholder alignment through dilutive share-based carried interest — building a new path forward for the industry. 🎧 Listen now to hear Fabian’s full thoughts on how AENU is redefining success in venture capital, focusing on investments that make a real difference: https://lnkd.in/ezmvWa5W 📺 Or watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/egJDqGfz At AENU, we are committed to reshaping the future of venture capital, with investments that help tackle the climate crisis head-on. 🌍 #ClimateTech #ImpactInvesting #ClimateInsiders #VentureCapital #FutureOfVC Ferry Heilemann Siobhan Brewster Philip Specht Melina Sánchez Montañés Elena Harumi Stark Melusine Bliesener Katharina Beitz Robert Stoecker Till Thietje Vanessa Brahmi

📣 AENU Announcement: Serial entrepreneur & Investor Lawrence Leuschner joins AENU as Venture Partner for entrepreneurial sparring with portfolio companies and driving investments in biodiversity & nature based solutions! 🌎 As a Venture Partner at Berlin-based climate tech fund AENU, Lawrence supports the team around Dr. Fabian Heilemann, Ferry Heilemann, Siobhan Brewster and Philip Specht to accelerate the climate transition and build additional investment expertise in biodiversity & nature based solutions. 📶 Lawrence  contributes his 20+ years of operational entrepreneurial expertise built up as Founder/CEO in sustainability & climate companies with rebuy recommerce GmbH, TIER Mobility and NGOs like his news started project Capacity.eco. His investment experience as one of the most active climate angel investors with Blue Impact serves to further empower the AENU portfolio founders with tailored sparring, coaching and his network. Topics can include i.e. ↗ how to run a fast-scaling organization ↗ building a high-performance culture ↗ efficient internationalization ↗ fundraising strategy, M&A and more. "I am looking forward to share my experience with the AENU portfolio to make the world net zero. As the next step of my journey, from sustainability to climate and now to biodiversity, I am very eager to build nature as the next investment category for AENU. The biodiversity & nature tech space offers a huge opportunity from an environmental impact but also financial return profile. Let’s close the gap in this underserved market! If you are an entrepreneur building something in the areas of biodiversity/nature-based-solutions, energy transition or carbon economy or want to co-invest with us, you can contact me via lawrence@aenu.com." Read more about Lawrence' journey: https://lnkd.in/eUZ7t--W Welcome, Lawrence! Philip Specht Robert Stoecker Melina Sánchez Montañés Till Thietje Elena Harumi Stark Katharina Beitz Melusine Bliesener Siobhan Brewster Michelle Piontek Catrin Schmidt Vanessa Brahmi Anna Rode Martim Perestrelo Manuel Fuchs #venturepartner #lawrenceleuschner #aenu #climatetech #biodiversity

🔋 Funding Announcement: AENU Portfolio Company Voltfang Secures € 8m in Series A! ⚡️ 🎉 Congrats to the entire Voltfang team on this significant milestone and for the full page coverage in today’s Handelsblatt! 📰 Voltfang provides energy storage systems using second-life EV batteries to meet grid-scale and commercial/industrial energy needs. Their technology improves grid stability, helps businesses manage energy more efficiently, and contributing to a circular economy by repurposing used batteries. With support from FORWARD.one, daphni, Interzero, PT1, AENU, Helen Ventures and Max Viessmann, the Voltfang team is now equipped with the resources to broaden its product offerings, including investments in their advanced Energy Management System (EMS) to further enhance the performance of their battery storage systems. 💬 Dr. Fabian Heilemann, Founder & CEO of AENU: “Although the commercial & industrial storage market is currently experiencing difficult times, the demand for grid-scale battery storage is exploding. Voltfang is ideally positioned in both markets and benefits from its unique approach to second-life battery utilization.” 🌍 We’re proud to support Voltfang as they continue to lead the energy transition across commercial, industrial, and grid-scale markets! Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eep7h7kZ David Oudsandji, Roman Alberti Afshin Doostdar Till Thietje, Nadine Schimroszik, Anja Rath Nikolas Samios Theo Bonick Stanislas Lot Paul Bazin Paul Pruijmboom Arjan Göbel Beau-Anne Chilla Elena Harumi Stark Melina Sánchez Montañés Philip Specht #AENU #Voltfang #BatteryStorage #EnergyTransition #MadeInEurope

🌍 OUT NOW: AENU's newest market map and cheat sheet on Energy in Commercial and Industry! At AENU, after countless intense hours of research and collaboration, we’ve just released our latest bundle on Energy in C&I sectors. 🔋 From cutting-edge HVAC systems to flexibility monetization, the team around Melina Sánchez Montañés is spotlighting the innovations driving energy efficiency and sustainability forward. In the face of rising energy costs and tightening regulations, there's never been a more critical time to focus on sustainable energy solutions! Ready to download or curious to check out all of our deep dives? 🔝 Please visit: https://lnkd.in/eycUvfAP Martim Perestrelo #EnergyEfficiency #IndustrialEnergy #AENU #ClimateTech #CISolutions

Just in time for Bits & Pretzels, our team around Philip Specht and Melusine Bliesener has spent the last few weeks creating a Munich Climate Tech Startup Map - and it's quite something. Insights into the current companies from carbon, energy, transportation to food and land use are included … more than 50+ companies for you to check out! If you are interested to connect with Philip next week in Munich, please reach out directly via pm!

🎙️ Dr. Fabian Heilemann bei Philipp Westermeyer im OMR Podcast – Die Geschichte hinter DailyDeal, Forto, Earlybird Venture Capital und ganz aktuell, AENUs erfolgreichem Closing des ersten Funds von €170 Mio 🌱 💶 Eine Reise, die 1999 begann: Von den ersten Schritten in der Waffelbude mit Ferry Heilemann auf dem Dorf, über einen Urlaub mit Richard Branson und die erfolglose Suche nach nachhaltigem Flugbenzin, bis hin zu einem Burnout bei Google durch zu wenig Aufgaben und dem Finden der eigenen Zen-Praxis. Heute das spannendste Kapitel: die Gründung von AENU – zunächst auf dem Reißbrett, dann als aktivster Climate-Tech VC Berlins, der jährlich fast 2.000 Pitches erhält und nun durch forschungsintensiven Impact-as-a-Service und vor allem durch eben diese einzigartige unternehmerische Expertise greifbaren Valu-Add für Climate-Impact-Gründer schafft. Danke für die Einladung! 🙏 Die ganze Episode hier: https://lnkd.in/e8_rrQGW ----- (English Version) 🎙️ Fabian Heilemann with Philipp Westermeyer in the OMR Podcast - The story behind Dailydeal, Forto, earlybird and most recently, AENU's successful closing of the first fund of €170 million 🌱 💶 A journey that began in 1999: From the first steps at the waffle stand with Ferry Heilemann in the village, to a vacation with Richard Branson and the unsuccessful search for sustainable aviation fuel, to a burnout at Google due to too few tasks and finding your own Zen practice. Today the most exciting chapter: the founding of AENU - first on the drawing board, then as Berlin's most active climate-tech VC, which receives almost 2,000 pitches a year and now creates tangible value-add for climate-impact founders through research-intensive impact-as-a-service and, above all, through this unique entrepreneurial expertise. Thank you for the invitation! 🙏 The whole episode here: https://lnkd.in/e8_rrQGW trawa Greenlyte Carbon Technologies Dr. Christian Nagel Dr. Hendrik Brandis Paul Klemm Dr. Andre Retterath Tim Rehder Michael Wax Erik Muttersbach Planet A Ventures World Fund Transition 2150 Dr.-Ing. Michael Ardelt Barzel Segal Lawrence Leuschner lfca.earth - Community | Leaders for Climate Action Verena Pausder Anna Alex