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EnBW New Ventures
Corporate VC · Germany · Europe
EnBW New Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of EnBW Group, investing as lead or co-investor in European startups. It operates a €100 million evergreen fund and has invested in 24 startups and 4 VC funds.
Invests inEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsenergy transitionrenewablesbatterieselectric mobilitygrid infrastructureenterprise software
Your fit with EnBW New Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsEnBW New Ventures lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Education (19%), Industrial & Manufacturing (19%) and AI & Machine Learning (14%). 70% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Future Energy Ventures, 360 Capital and IBB Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name EnBW New Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not EnBW New Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 13. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 20% |
| Series A | 40% |
| Series B | 40% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 58th | 20% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 12th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 19% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 19% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 14% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 10% | 6% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Future Energy Ventures | 4 |
| 360 Capital | 2 |
| IBB Ventures | 2 |
| Ventic Ventures | 2 |
| AM Ventures | 1 |
| Agoranov | 1 |
| Almaz Capital | 1 |
| Alven | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers13100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Future Energy Ventures
Compare EnBW New Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with EnBW New Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Series B | |
| 13 Oct 2025 | Series B | |
| 23 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Round |
Round details for EnBW New Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in EnBW New Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3YOURMIND offers software for on-demand manufacturing and part identification | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Babelforce creates a contact center platform that adapts to business needs with features like telephony, automation, and AI for workflows. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides a training and knowledge platform for frontline teams using AI | EducationAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Enspired provides a platform for optimizing battery energy storage systems and energy trading | EducationFintech | Oct 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Oct 2025Series B | Funding round | |||
| Sunhat provides a platform to help companies manage sustainability and compliance obligations | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Gridscale provides cloud services, including private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions, as well as managed software and hardware for data centers. | Industrial & ManufacturingIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Hololight streams enterprise XR applications to AR and VR headsets | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Jul 2025Round | Funding round | |
| Lumenaza provides a SaaS platform for energy suppliers and direct marketers to manage their business processes | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-powered bird and bat monitoring services for wind projects. | EducationEducation | Dec 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| The company manufactures superconductors, including 2G HTS wire, for various applications such as motors, generators, and electricity transmission. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI traffic monitoring and smart traffic control sensors | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- env.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 13
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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