Siemens Energy Ventures is the entrepreneurial heart of Siemens Energy. Founded in 2020, our focus is on investing, building and piloting ventures that will transform energy systems and will help fight climate change.
Providing sustainable, reliable and affordable energy for all is how we energize society. Energy is our global lifeblood; powering homes, operating transport systems, run our healthcare systems and enabling industries to function. It sets our quality of life. But right now, to deliver the energy demands of tomorrow and reach our net zero goals on time, our energy systems need to change and become more sustainable today.
We want to partner with start-ups and founders to accompany you on your growth journey, providing necessary support, guidance and network.
Siemens Energy Ventures offers a unique blend of expertise; our own innovation history can be traced back to 1886, along with market access, networks and deep technology know-how. What we’re looking for is founding teams solving big climate and energy challenges with innovative ideas so we can energize society together.
Our approach
We put founding teams at the center of what we do. We believe a good way to co-create is by first giving our own expertise and resources to help solve the climate problem we are all liable for.
There are four key areas where together we can tackle the technical and commercial challenges across the entire energy value chain.
Venture capital
We support energy and climate startups as a strategic growth partner helping them to disrupt new markets and scale.
You could benefit from:
- Access to our R&D expertise and global manufacturing know-how
- Growth opportunities from our network of customers, suppliers or other ventures
- Strategic investment
Venture clienting
We become an early customer of startups to test and adopt a solution defined by a clear business problem.
The mutual benefits include:
- A unique opportunity to gain a corporate customer
- Commercial feedback to build better products and services
- Startup solutions to quickly and effectively solve our business problems
Start-up Partnership Ecosystem
We are building a start-up community with Venture Capitalists, Corporate Venture Capitalists, Accelerators, Incubators. We add value to founders and startup teams so we can build and scale the next energy and climate businesses together.
Benefits include:
- Mutual access to talent and technologies
- The ability to build our innovation capabilities
- Improved access to investment deal flow
Venture building
We build ventures. We identify new markets and build teams that have the potential to create and scale our next high growth business.
We do this by:
- Scaling up ventures for growth or spin-out
- Catalyzing entrepreneurship through intrapreneurial pathways
- Building an innovation community across Siemens Energy
Our investment themes
We’re interested in climate tech start-ups with transformative founding teams, technologies and business models that can help us address future energy demands. Our goal is to create more sustainable, affordable, and reliable ways to generate, transport, store, and convert this energy.