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encosa energy was founded in 2024 with a clear mission: to help commercial and industrial companies reduce their electricity costs while simultaneously advancing the energy transition. The founders recognized that businesses were struggling with rising energy prices and complex regulatory requirements, yet lacked a simple, comprehensive solution. By combining cutting-edge battery storage systems with intelligent software, encosa delivers a one-stop-shop that enables customers to lower energy costs by up to 80% while significantly reducing their carbon footprint. What started as a vision to make energy cost savings accessible has evolved into a full-service provider that handles everything from initial analysis and economic calculations to installation and ongoing operation. The company's innovative approach leverages strategies like peak shaving, dynamic electricity tariffs, and energy trading to maximize savings. Based in Munich, encosa brings together a team of sustainability pioneers, software developers, and business experts who share a commitment to helping companies become more energy-independent and environmentally responsible.

Akselos develops Structural Performance Management (SPM) software for operators of critical energy infrastructure, including offshore oil and gas facilities and refineries. Its platform combines physics-based simulation with AI to provide near real-time structural health monitoring and predictive maintenance, giving engineering and operations teams a single, site-wide view of asset integrity and lifecycle conditions. The core technology is built on patented simulation algorithms developed through 15 years of research at MIT. The SPM platform integrates live operational data with evolving structural limits - covering factors such as fatigue, thermal damage, pressure cycles, and mechanical loads - to model how present operating decisions affect future structural integrity and asset lifespan. The system is described as enterprise-ready and is deployed across customer sites worldwide. The technical stack spans several interconnected domains: Physics-based structural simulation AI-driven predictive structural insight Real-time operational data integration Integrity and lifecycle management Predictive maintenance modelling Akselos targets executives and plant teams who make high-stakes decisions about asset safety and longevity. Its software is positioned to help operators extend asset life and maximise output while managing structural risk across refining and offshore energy operations.

epilot builds the digital infrastructure for the energy transition. The company's 360° platform enables energy suppliers, municipal utilities, grid operators, and solution providers to digitalize their sales, service, and grid processes from initial customer inquiries through ongoing support. More than 170 leading companies in the energy revolution rely on epilot's cloud software to simplify complex operations, scale their businesses, and accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. The platform manages energy solutions, home connections, electricity and gas tariffs centrally while providing customer portals, partner portals, and automated workflows. Founded in 2017 in Cologne, Germany, epilot operates as a multi-tenant vertical SaaS that serves as the underlying ecosystem connecting all market participants in the energy sector. The platform eliminates manual processes, reduces complexity, and creates transparent 360° views of customer data. With GDPR-compliant architecture and modular design that requires no programming knowledge, epilot empowers utilities and grid operators to launch flexible market offerings, control installers, and deliver superior customer experiences. The company's mission is to accelerate the energy transition through technology that makes collaboration between energy market partners efficient, scalable, and customer-centric.

reev is a Munich-based software company that provides a cloud platform for electric vehicle charging and energy management, focused on the semi-public sector. Its platform covers the full operational cycle of charging infrastructure - administration, control, billing, and load optimisation - while integrating with the broader power grid and energy environment. The company serves more than 7,000 customers across Europe. The platform is built around three areas: a core charging and energy management system for organisations running their own infrastructure; integration services and tools for partners embedding charging into existing energy and mobility environments; and tailored solutions for specific business verticals. Customers span companies, the gastronomy sector, parking operators, and the housing industry. reev also operates as a platform partner to a range of industry participants, including charge point operators, electricians, wholesalers, and charging station manufacturers. This positions the company within the broader charging infrastructure supply chain, not only as an end-user software provider but as an integration layer across hardware and operational stakeholders. Technically, the platform combines charging management with energy management concepts, enabling integrated load and energy optimisation. This connects EV charging infrastructure to wider energy use - a relevant capability as organisations manage grid constraints alongside growing charging demand.

WeSort.AI GmbH is a Würzburg-based technology company that develops AI-powered sorting and analysis systems for the recycling industry. Its core technology combines X-ray imaging, camera data, and deep learning to identify materials and specific objects at a granular level - distinguishing between material classes such as paper, plastic, and metal, and detecting complex mixed fractions within waste streams. The company's product portfolio centres on three areas. An AI-based sensor module analyses visual data to precisely classify materials in real time. A broader range of intelligent sorting systems integrates X-ray and camera inputs with AI to determine the composition of waste objects in detail. Its Battery.Sort solution specifically targets the detection and extraction of incorrectly disposed lithium-ion batteries and electrical appliances - a problem that poses a significant fire and machinery damage risk at recycling facilities, while also leaving recoverable critical raw materials unrecovered. WeSort.AI serves major clients across the European recycling industry. Its work is framed around the recovery of critical raw materials - minerals and metals that Europe currently imports in large quantities from overseas - by making those materials accessible through more precise sorting earlier in the recycling process. The company positions itself within the broader shift toward a circular economy.

Green Fusion is a German startup, founded in 2021, that develops an AI-powered cloud-based energy management platform for the housing sector. The platform monitors, analyzes, and optimizes heating systems in real time across entire residential property portfolios, with the goal of reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions while preparing buildings for the transition to renewable energy. The core product connects and orchestrates a range of building energy systems - including gas heating, district heating connections, heat pumps, photovoltaic panels, and battery storage - through sector coupling. Rather than treating each component in isolation, the platform automates and optimizes the full operation of a building's energy infrastructure. Green Fusion's approach is grounded in the observation that most heating systems in Germany run far below their potential, often locked into factory default settings that waste both energy and money. The technical stack spans artificial intelligence, real-time control and optimization, building energy systems, and portfolio-level energy orchestration. Key domains include: AI-driven monitoring and optimization of HVAC and heating controls Integration of PV, battery storage, and district heating via sector coupling Digitalization and automation of boiler rooms and building operations Portfolio-wide energy management for housing companies Green Fusion operates in Germany and targets housing companies and residential property managers as its primary customers. The company is at an early stage, having been founded in 2021, and takes a software-first approach to building energy operations.