Continued strong interest for investment initiative

The Swedish Energy Agency's Investment Accelerator programme, which helps companies improve their investment readiness, remains popular.

It is time for the second round of the Investment Accelerator programme and interest remains high. A total of 40 companies applied to participate in the new programme.

After an extensive selection process, seven companies have been selected. The programme will start with a kick-off for the companies in mid-April. This will be followed by individual work with each company to prepare them for raising international capital.

Mattias Hansson, co-founder of the company Raymond Solar, which was accepted in the first round in autumn 2023, says:

– Our company participated in the first round of the Investment Accelerator programme. We are now in a process with several of the investors we have connected with through the programme. I am very impressed with the arrangement and can highly recommend other Cleantech companies to apply to participate in the Investment Accelerator.

Growth companies in an expansion phase need financing to grow and develop. Improving investment readiness, creating favourable conditions for meeting investors and access to financing is therefore key. The Investment Accelerator supports Swedish companies in their process of approaching international investors.

Companies admitted in 2024

The companies admitted to the programme have solutions ranging from electric scooters to virtual batteries and fossil-free silicon.

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Capture Energy

Capture Energy is an energy storage solutions company dedicated to bringing good energy to your business. We specialise in end-to-end turnkey energy storage solutions, enabling forward-thinking customers to benefit from opportunities in the flexibility market rapidly, safely, and sustainably.

We focus on partnerships with installers and energy companies that focus on the green transition and implement energy solutions integrated with market-leading aggregators that ensure revenue generation. We have integrated our battery energy storage system (BESS) with more than 10 aggregators with our unique Capture Controller technology.

Established in 2023, turnover more than 10 MEUR. Offices in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. We have multiple MW BESS active in flexibility services in the Nordics and soon in Germany.

Capture Energy

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Cirkulär

Cirkulär constructs, owns, and operates large fermentation facilities that refine low-value by-products from the forestry industry into high-value, sustainable raw materials (e.g., proteins, fibers and biopolymers) through filamentous fungi. In this manner, we contribute to the green transition across various industries, e.g. feed, food, functional nutrition, and materials. Currently, we are raising capital to build our first commercial facility at a paper mill, which supplies us with its by-product, to produce thousands of tons of sustainable fungal protein as an ingredient in animal feed.

Cirkulär

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Emulate Energy

Emulate Energy is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company founded in 2020 with the goal of accelerating the transition to 100 percent renewable energy in society. One challenge is to store energy on a large scale, and we have developed software that creates large virtual batteries based on flexible electrical loads such as electric cars and heat pumps.

Our customers are electricity retailers, and besides supporting the transition by stabilizing and optimizing utilization of the electricity system, our solution enables consumers to reduce their electricity costs and monetize on the flexible loads.

We are scaling fast across Europe and US and look for funding to capitalize on a large opportunity.

Emulate Energy

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GREEN 14

GREEN14 is a Stockholm-based company specializing in advanced metallurgy that utilizes hydrogen plasma to re-establish the manufacturing of high-purity silicon in Europe. Currently, the strategic raw material supply chains are long and vulnerable, including those for silicon, which is critical for the green transition. Through the use of hydrogen plasma, GREEN14 enables modular production of polysilicon and silane gas for use in semiconductors, solar panels, and battery anodes. The technology can also be applied to other key metals such as aluminum, cobalt, magnesium, titanium and chromium. This innovative technology and development platform accelerates processes, reduces costs, and cuts emissions by up to 95 percent.

Green 14

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T.Loop

T.Loop is a Swedish data center operator with an innovative circular concept that eliminates 100 percent of CO2 emissions and reduces energy costs by 30 percentfor the company's customers. The company builds climate-smart data centers in existing buildings and uses liquid cooling for the servers in the data center.

100 percent of the residual heat from the data center is used to heat the building the data center is located in, nearby buildings, or is transferred to the district heating network. The data center's reserve capacity is used for grid balancing and reducing peak loads to strengthen the energy network.

With its solution, T.Loop aims to eliminate the climate impact from data centers and transform them into an energy solution in the green digital transition.

T.Loop

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Vidde mobility

Traditional fossil snowmobiles, known for their environmental impact and noise, inspired us to create an electric, sustainable alternative. Vidde is leading the transformation of terrain vehicles from emission-heavy to sustainable, valuing the environment and embracing a noise-free experience.

Primary customers are companies that are using terrain vehicles as part of their daily operations and that have a sustainable ambition, examples are companies within forestry, ski resorts, power companies or winter tourism.

Vidde Mobility

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Standab

Standab develops and offers parking solutions for more efficient integration of micromobility in cities, focusing on sustainable, scalable, and user-friendly charging infrastructure for e-scooters and e-bikes. Standab's goal is to bridge the gap between cities and micromobility-operators with service-funded parking solutions, which significantly reduce costly battery-swaps and provide both cities and operators access to designated parking for more efficient integration into the urban environment.

Standab's technology, designed for smooth integration and installation, offers cities and a clear majority of Europe's micromobility-operators modular, versatile, and future-proof charging stations, optimally designed to also meet the needs of the private market in the future.

Standab

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