Synergi, a Finnish tech company accelerating the transition toward sustainable energy sources with smart and flexible software for consumers and utilities, announced the completion of its €2 million seed funding round. Greencode Ventures led the round, while Vaens joined as a new follower. Existing investors Lifeline Ventures, APX (the first-cheque investor of Porsche & Axel Springer), and Wave Ventures also participated in the round.
The EU has set targets to decarbonize its energy system through electrification and renewables adoption. Electrification will lead to a 60% increase in electricity demand by 2030, which existing grids will need help integrating. However, adopting renewable energy sources will make electricity demand increasingly unpredictable. Fortunately, customer-owned home-energy assets have opened a new possibility: household flexibility. In the form of VPPs (virtual power plants) that aggregate loads of home energy assets, consumers can be nudged and rewarded to change consumption habits and relieve the grid during peak times.
Aware of this need, Synergi launched its platform in 2023 to encourage households and utilities to participate in the green transition using their home energy assets flexibly, such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, and solar panels. To assist households in optimizing energy use during cheaper and greener periods, the company released the “Synergi app.” The app has helped thousands of European users save 50% on EV charging and 20% on heating costs annually.
“We want to help consumers and utilities benefit from providing flexibility to the grid. Previously, this was not possible. Soon, utilities can generate revenue from flexibility markets by aggregating the loads of customer-owned energy assets on the Synergi platform and providing their customers with the Synergi app as a turnkey solution,” said Antti Hämmäinen, CEO & Co-founder at Synergi.
“Energy flexibility is an untapped opportunity. Synergi´s business model has the potential to bring European consumers, utilities, and grid operators together to benefit all by balancing the grid and creating resilience for the whole system,” added Ines Bergmann-Nolting, Managing Partner at Greencode Ventures.
With the funding, Synergi will make new hires in engineering, sales, and marketing and expand into flexibility markets in Nordic and central European countries.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/10/helsinki-based-synergi-raises-e2-million-to-plug-european-homes-and-utilities-into-flexibility-markets/
