Eindhoven-based Integer Technologies, a startup specialised in sustainable energy installation solutions, announced on Monday, March 25, that it has secured pre-seed investment from Graduate Entrepreneur Fund.
The funding comes six months after Integer Technologies won the Gerard & Anton 2023 awards in September last year.
Birth of Integer Technologies
Heat pumps, solar panels, and thermal energy storage are decades-old ideas that could enable a transition to sustainable living.
Nonetheless, the cost of these technologies and added complexity have prevented their widespread adoption unless governments heavily subsidised them, such is the case with solar panels and net-metering.
In 2016, Antoine Post founded Team CASA, a TU/e student team, to create a future where technology and innovation would be easily accessible, even for social housing.
In 2021, Team CASA, in partnership with social housing corporation Woonbedrijf and construction company Hurks, constructed the CASA 1.0, a pilot installation for a 3-unit apartment building.
This project allowed the team to test and validate the core technologies and working principles of their systems.
In 2022, three alumni of Team CASA established Integer Technologies, to further develop the energy concepts used in the CASA 1.0 project and bring the resulting product to the market.
Integer Technologies: Making energy installation sustainable
Founded by Antoine Post and Pau Brossa Rodriguez, Integer Technologies has developed a hardware and software platform to support installers in building and monitoring sustainable energy installations.
The platform makes the installations faster, more cost-effective, and simpler to implement.
The company’s platform is tailored for combined heating, cooling, ventilation, and electrical installations in residential and office buildings.
The Dutch company aims to establish a fully independent system to optimise, monitor, and maintain all energy installations through Model Predictive Control.
Integer platform streamlines smart software development for energy installations. Instead of the 3-week process of manual development and adjustment, the platform automates setup and parameterisation based on the installer’s high-level inputs.
Graduate Entrepreneur Fund: Stimulating entrepreneurial ecosystem in Rotterdam and Delft
Graduate Entrepreneur Fund is an initiative of a group of influential and merited alumni of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, and the Delft University of Technology.
The initiative was announced on April 8, 2021.
The fund is led by the Fund Management Team of Auke van den Hout, Angela Pellaupessy, Ludolf Stavenga, and Nienke Roef, who work with a student team from Delft and Rotterdam. Besides funding, the alumni offer coaching and access to an extensive network.
The Graduate Entrepreneur Fund focuses on investments in companies that develop technologies that the universities of Delft and Rotterdam are known for, including medtech, logistics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Fund’s investment requirement is that at least one of the founders must have studied or worked at the Delft University of Technology, the Erasmus MC, or the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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