Ines Bergmann-Nolting

VC & Innovation Leader | Managing Partner

📍 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany🔄 Updated October 2026💼 7 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020
Angel investor🌍 Germany
7
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12y
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Portfolio

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Board Observer
Jul 2020
WE ALL DREAM of a world that runs seamlessly on sustainable energy. A world where the energy ecosystem is in balance with both nature and society. However, there are challenges to this ideal. Policymakers, stubborn businesses, outdated ways of working, complexity and misinformation all stand in the way of creating a truly sustainable energy system. While energy companies struggle to find new business and build better relationships with customers, other service providers and consumer businesses are reaching capacity and looking to diversify their offering. This is where Kiwigrid comes in, who enable seemingly unconnected markets to work together for mutual benefit by translating technology, digital energy and e-mobility into value creation. Kiwigrid is bringing companies from multiple industries together into an open ecosystem, inspiring its partners to delve into a new way of generating, distributing and supplying energy. What sets Kiwigrid apart from its competitors is that it isn’t just selling an Internet of Things concept. The company is actually selling cross-industry value generation, which is truly the platform for the future of energy and e-mobility. Kiwigrid’s customers use the platform for numerous reasons, depending on where they stand today, what industry they are in and what they want to offer. The platform can help them open up to new markets, diversify their offerings and scale cross-industry business models. To make this possible, Kiwigrid offers its customers cutting-edge technology and services that help increase energy efficiency, optimize the use of renewable energies, pave the way for electric vehicles and stabilize grids. The Dresden-based company was founded in 2011 and currently employs over 140 people. Kiwigrid is a leader for intelligent energy management and works with Solarwatt, Siemens, E.ON, BayWa r.e., enviaM group and Thüga, among others.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
The KUGU platform digitizes building technologies and automizes related business processes. We focus on the heat cost billing and optimization of heating systems.
Investor / Board Observer
Jan 2019
Lumenaza offers a powerful SaaS platform that enables green utilities to start, grow and evolve their business
Investor / Board Observer
Nov 2015
Bidgely is the indispensable innovation partner for UtilityAI. Bidgely’s patented disaggregation technology unlocks opportunities for utilities to optimize shareholder value, personalize customer engagement, and modernize grid operations. With more than 15M homes under contract, Bidgely is the choice of leading utilities, Learn more at bidgely.com.
Investor / Board Observer
May 2015
Enervee is the world's first platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products that change how we buy energy-using products. Enervee is in the business of helping people and the planet. We’re a mission driven company here to help people choose affordable efficient products that reduce energy use, utility bills, and CO2 emissions at scale. Our solutions bring together the best in data science, behavioral science, digital product design, and marketing to make efficiency for all a reality. Our range of products deliver energy efficiency, and build customer awareness and engagement. We do this through high quality interventions in online consumer decision making to drive more energy efficient choices. Our products are built for clients who are utilities, manufacturers, retailers and government departments. We currently partner with a number of forward-thinking utilities and governments in the US and Canada. We're backed by one of the most innovative venture funds, Obvious Ventures, and some of the largest utilities in the US. We are also growing, which means we're on the look out for talented and motivated professionals in the areas of engineering, client management, marketing and sales.
Investor / Board Observer
Oct 2014
We're a team of committed technologists and business people who have first-hand experience with aging parents endeavoring to live their lives independently. Conventional solutions neglect the family dynamic, project stigma, impose daily life changes or miss that we care about each other. It's a mutual concern, our parents also worry and care about us. As a result, we created Leeo Ping, a sensor enabled safety net. We also created one of the key devices that work on Ping, the next generation Smart Alert. Leeo Ping assists our family and friends, including our parents, to live more safely and independently. We'd like to give you the freedom and assurance you want and the peace of mind your friends and family need.
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2023
Managing Partner
May 2023
Venture capital for the most impactful digital-first green transition startups in Europe
2020
Managing Partner
Oct 2020
Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital and collaboration platform that brings together world-class start-ups and corporate partners to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures team advises to invest in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape and make our cities more sustainable. From its operational hubs in Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investment opportunities and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities. Please find our privacy policy here: https://fev.vc/privacy-policy/
Board Observer
Jul 2020
WE ALL DREAM of a world that runs seamlessly on sustainable energy. A world where the energy ecosystem is in balance with both nature and society. However, there are challenges to this ideal. Policymakers, stubborn businesses, outdated ways of working, complexity and misinformation all stand in the way of creating a truly sustainable energy system. While energy companies struggle to find new business and build better relationships with customers, other service providers and consumer businesses are reaching capacity and looking to diversify their offering. This is where Kiwigrid comes in, who enable seemingly unconnected markets to work together for mutual benefit by translating technology, digital energy and e-mobility into value creation. Kiwigrid is bringing companies from multiple industries together into an open ecosystem, inspiring its partners to delve into a new way of generating, distributing and supplying energy. What sets Kiwigrid apart from its competitors is that it isn’t just selling an Internet of Things concept. The company is actually selling cross-industry value generation, which is truly the platform for the future of energy and e-mobility. Kiwigrid’s customers use the platform for numerous reasons, depending on where they stand today, what industry they are in and what they want to offer. The platform can help them open up to new markets, diversify their offerings and scale cross-industry business models. To make this possible, Kiwigrid offers its customers cutting-edge technology and services that help increase energy efficiency, optimize the use of renewable energies, pave the way for electric vehicles and stabilize grids. The Dresden-based company was founded in 2011 and currently employs over 140 people. Kiwigrid is a leader for intelligent energy management and works with Solarwatt, Siemens, E.ON, BayWa r.e., enviaM group and Thüga, among others.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
The KUGU platform digitizes building technologies and automizes related business processes. We focus on the heat cost billing and optimization of heating systems.
2019
Vice President E.ON Scouting & Co-Investments
Oct 2019
The E.ON Group is one of Europes largest operators of energy networks and energy infrastructure and a provider of innovative customer solutions for 50 million customers. Thus, we are decisively driving forward the energy transition in Europe and are committed to sustainability, climate protection, and the future of our planet.
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