Versiro raises 2.3M EUR in a seed round and I couldn’t be prouder of the team and investors!
This will support our international expansion and give us such a strong foundation to keep building Versiro. Our mission is the same: to enable fleixibility and help integrate renewables in the grid ⚡
Jørgen Kildahl, who lead Statkraft’s European expansion and was a C-level exec both there and at E.ON, becomes Versiro’s chairman. He also has board experience from Ørsted, Alpiq, Scatec, Telenor etc.
Former CEO of E.ON for more than 10 years, Johannes Teyssen, invests in Versiro. He also has board experience from BP, Alpiq, Deutsche Bank etc.
Both Jørgen and Johannes have an immense knowledge, experience, and passion for helping power systems. It’s truly an honor to work with them and have them involved in Versiro!
While still researchers considering spinning out our research to a startup, Markus Löschenbrand and I attended the REACH program for scientists by Nordic Innovation House - Silicon Valley. In this program we met a VC for the first time: Arne Tonning from Alliance VC.
I kept in touch with Arne ever since and he’s always been helpful whenever I’ve reached out. It’s so much fun to complete the circle now with Alliance VC leading our round and Arne joining our board.
Henrik Hatlebrekke and Kjetil Holmefjord from Sondo Capital have also shown a similar helpful spirit. Always at hand to help and support, and I love their philosophy and investment style.
Markus and I have always been rigorous learners. This is why I believe PhDs can become great founders. Some of the startup path we must go ourselves, but for a lot of it we can use great guides.
Some of the guides I admire the most are Enode founders Henrik Langeland and Nikolai Heum and Superside founder Fredrik Thomassen. It’s amazing to have them join the team as angel investors, together with existing angels Dag-Inge Aas and Erik Åsberg.
Building a company requires set of diverse skills. Again we want to learn from the best, and some of these are angels Hans Geelmuyden, Andreas Lundgren, and oddvar fodstad.
At the end of the day, a great company is the sum of its people. We’ve been rigorous in getting great people for the operational team. Investors should be the same, and I can truly say they are great people I really look forward to working with!
A new chapter begins, and I want to thank all who has brought us here. Jorge Lopez Gamarra, Kristian Kalinak, Taro Langner, Nicolò Barboni, Simen Busengdal, Stine Rolstad Brenna, Knut H. H. Johansen, Kristin Jørstad, Vetle Engesbak, Fortress Fund, Lorenzo Ruscelli, Startuplab, Lise Fulland, Gisle Østereng, NTNU Technology Transfer AS, and 6AM.
A special thank you to the power producers who took a chance on researchers with ambitions and dreams at an early stage.
And to all new and old new and old shareholders and stakeholders:
Thank you for your trust and support!
