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Trunkrs: faster, greener, friendlier
“The thing about ecommerce is that, even if you live in a small village, the internet offers everything at your fingertips. It’s awesome,” says Jan Wijn, CEO of Trunkrs, a logistics company based in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, that is out to improve the delivery...
General Fusion establishes U.S. headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
General Fusion creating up to 50 U.S. jobs to quicken its pace of fusion commercialization VANCOUVER, Canada (10 November 2021): Today, General Fusion announced its new United States base of operations in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the company advances plans for a...
Optiswiss and Luxexcel announce cooperation for 3D printed smart eyewear
Basel, Switzerland and Eindhoven, The Netherlands – September 8th, 2021 – Optiswiss, the leading Swiss lens manufacturer with distribution throughout Europe, has partnered with Luxexcel to bring commercial 3D printed lenses to market for use in regular eyewear and...
EIF rolls out a €100 million COVID-19 InnovFin support fund for innovative companies with its first investments
EIF announces first investments via a €100 million RE-FIT Facility to provide equity funding for companies impacted by COVID-19 in Europe and Horizon 2020 Participating Countries The first investment under the Recovery Equity Facility for Innovative Technology...
SET Ventures portfolio company Energyworx announces €5.1M investment led by Eneco Ventures
SaaS-based energy data management platform supports utility companies with the energy transition; investment will be used to scale platform and accelerate international growth HOUSTON, UNITED STATES and HOUTEN, THE NETHERLANDS – July 8, 2021 – Energyworx, a market...
Hardware Is Not Enough to Enable the Energy System Transition
Observations from a VC investor focused on the European energy sector By Julia Padberg, Principal, SET Ventures "The biggest challenge of the energy system transition lies in the orchestration, integration, and management of enormous volumes of decentralized and...
General Fusion to build its Fusion Demonstration Plant in the UK, at the UKAEA Culham Campus
New partnership between General Fusion and UKAEA is a landmark collaboration in the development of fusion, a technology for the world's low-carbon future VANCOUVER, Canada and LONDON, United Kingdom (17th June 2021 BST): The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and...
DKV acquires SET Ventures portfolio company GreenFlux
European mobility service provider DKV acquires GreenFlux, the leading European software platform provider for electric vehicle (EV) charging. This represents a further step in DKV’s efforts to support fleet drivers and their organisations as they switch to lower-carbon transport and provides strong synergies with DKV’s existing mobility support applications. This acquisition marks DKV’s further expansion into the fast-growing e-mobility charging market and will provide critical competencies, helping DKV to further scale their overall EV charging offer across Europe.
Interview with Christoph Ostermann, Entrepreneur in Residence
We are excited to welcome Christoph Ostermann to the SET Ventures team as our Entrepreneur in Residence. Through a fireside chat with René Savelsberg, Managing Partner at SET, we would like to further introduce Christoph to you and share his views.