Walter Grassl

Managing Partner at Munich Venture Partners

📍 Greater Munich Metropolitan Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2017
VC🌍 Germany
7
Total investments
2
Early stage
0
Mid stage
2
Late stage
20y
Years active

Portfolio

5 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Board Member
May 2017
Most recent news: GreenCom is excited to announce we are now part of Enphase, a leading global energy technology company. We are a leading energy IoT company developing the energy system of the future. With our white-label energy IoT platform, our customers, utilities, OEMs or ESCOs, can integrate millions of distributed assets like solar PV, battery storage, electric vehicles or heat pumps. Furthermore, our platform visualises and optimises energy flows for customers and end customers. We enable white-label end customers services like energy communities, as well as smart green heating, smart charging or home energy management. In order to make functioning smart grids a reality, end customers have to be actively integrated into the energy cycle. Customers, many of them micro-producers, will win extra value from smart applications which allow them to fine-tune their household/company energy efficiency or to manage their individual power generation or storage unit, such as solar panels or electric vehicles. Our software allows utilities to integrate the many micro-producers into their offering, thereby increasing the general efficiency of the network and provision. At the same time, our compelling web portals and mobile apps, displaying personalized and relevant information increase customer retention and enable new business models and ways of customer interaction for utilities and ESCOs. GreenCom Networks is based in Munich, Germany and Sophia-Antipolis, France
late stageUtilities
Board Member
Aug 2015
Relayr is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) powerhouse delivering the most complete solutions for a risk-free digital transformation and supporting our customer on the journey to Equipment as a Service. We enable industrial companies to shift from CAPEX to OPEX-based offerings by providing a combination of unique IIoT technology and solutions with powerful business services such as IoT Financial Services or bespoke transformation de-risking instruments – all from a single source. With relayr, manufacturers, operators, and service companies for industrial equipment are empowered to implement fully interoperable Industrial IoT solutions guaranteed to enable their digital and Equipment as a Service transformation journey, regardless of their starting point. For more information, please visit: relayr.io
Board Member
Dec 2014
Founded in 2008 and based in Germany, asgoodasnew is a European circular economy pioneer for premium consumer electronics products, such as smartphones, tablets, MacBooks & iMacs, cameras & lenses, smartwatches and other valuable gadgets. Working from offices in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder), the company covers the entire value chain of the European re-commerce market. Through its own sourcing, operations, and sales platforms, asgoodasnew has developed a unique vertical business model with extensive technical know-how and direct access to millions of end consumers. To date, asgoodasnew has helped over 1,000,000 customers throughout Europe to impact their ecological footprint by finding a new home for their preloved gadgets or helping them purchase a fully tested, refurbished device.
Board Member
Jun 2012
FAHRENHEIT is a pioneer in adsorption technology. Based in Germany, we design and manufacture the most advanced adsorption cooling devices on the market. We apply innovative research to delivering energy efficient cooling solutions. Our products have made their way into hundreds of installations worldwide across a diverse range of industries and applications. FAHRENHEIT was founded in 2002 as a spin-off from Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE). From the very beginning, research and technological excellence have been the pillars of our company. Our original research coupled with a keen awareness of our customers’ requirements resulted in ground breaking patents in energy solutions. We develop and manufacture innovative and efficient solutions to generate and store cold anywhere cold is needed and waste heat is available. Adsorption chillers by FAHRENHEIT can be used wherever there is residual heat available. Our cooling technology reaches a new dimension of energy efficiency because it does not rely on electrical power for cooling. Our chillers and our adsorption modules are widely used in industrial manufacturing, for air conditioning, in data centers, in solar cooling and in various other applications. They are also ideally suited for combined heat and power plants – turning them into tri-generation units –, and they can save substantial amounts of energy and CO2 emissions in mobile applications such as cars and transport cooling. Our chillers operate on the principle of adsorption. Adsorption occurs when molecules of a liquid (in our case water) adhere to the surface of a solid (in our case zeolite crystals or silica gel). This causes the liquid to evaporate, generating cold. Once the solid material is saturated, heating it will cause it to release the adsorbed liquid, allowing the process to start again.
Board Member
Jan 2007
Proximetry delivers edge device software solutions that manage millions of critical things in the Internet of Things (IoT) and related system applications in Transportation, Manufacturing, Energy, Smart Cities & Utilities. Proximetry’s solutions support these performance-critical, connected devices whether they’re located in the heart of a city or at the far reaches of the Internet fog. Since December 2016 Proximetry is a part of relayr (www.relayr.io)
Experience · 9 entries
All (9)
Investments (7)
Board (7)
2017
Board Member
May 2017
Most recent news: GreenCom is excited to announce we are now part of Enphase, a leading global energy technology company. We are a leading energy IoT company developing the energy system of the future. With our white-label energy IoT platform, our customers, utilities, OEMs or ESCOs, can integrate millions of distributed assets like solar PV, battery storage, electric vehicles or heat pumps. Furthermore, our platform visualises and optimises energy flows for customers and end customers. We enable white-label end customers services like energy communities, as well as smart green heating, smart charging or home energy management. In order to make functioning smart grids a reality, end customers have to be actively integrated into the energy cycle. Customers, many of them micro-producers, will win extra value from smart applications which allow them to fine-tune their household/company energy efficiency or to manage their individual power generation or storage unit, such as solar panels or electric vehicles. Our software allows utilities to integrate the many micro-producers into their offering, thereby increasing the general efficiency of the network and provision. At the same time, our compelling web portals and mobile apps, displaying personalized and relevant information increase customer retention and enable new business models and ways of customer interaction for utilities and ESCOs. GreenCom Networks is based in Munich, Germany and Sophia-Antipolis, France
late stageUtilities
2015
Board Member
Aug 2015
Relayr is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) powerhouse delivering the most complete solutions for a risk-free digital transformation and supporting our customer on the journey to Equipment as a Service. We enable industrial companies to shift from CAPEX to OPEX-based offerings by providing a combination of unique IIoT technology and solutions with powerful business services such as IoT Financial Services or bespoke transformation de-risking instruments – all from a single source. With relayr, manufacturers, operators, and service companies for industrial equipment are empowered to implement fully interoperable Industrial IoT solutions guaranteed to enable their digital and Equipment as a Service transformation journey, regardless of their starting point. For more information, please visit: relayr.io
2014
Board Member
Dec 2014
Founded in 2008 and based in Germany, asgoodasnew is a European circular economy pioneer for premium consumer electronics products, such as smartphones, tablets, MacBooks & iMacs, cameras & lenses, smartwatches and other valuable gadgets. Working from offices in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder), the company covers the entire value chain of the European re-commerce market. Through its own sourcing, operations, and sales platforms, asgoodasnew has developed a unique vertical business model with extensive technical know-how and direct access to millions of end consumers. To date, asgoodasnew has helped over 1,000,000 customers throughout Europe to impact their ecological footprint by finding a new home for their preloved gadgets or helping them purchase a fully tested, refurbished device.
2012
Board Member
Jun 2012
FAHRENHEIT is a pioneer in adsorption technology. Based in Germany, we design and manufacture the most advanced adsorption cooling devices on the market. We apply innovative research to delivering energy efficient cooling solutions. Our products have made their way into hundreds of installations worldwide across a diverse range of industries and applications. FAHRENHEIT was founded in 2002 as a spin-off from Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE). From the very beginning, research and technological excellence have been the pillars of our company. Our original research coupled with a keen awareness of our customers’ requirements resulted in ground breaking patents in energy solutions. We develop and manufacture innovative and efficient solutions to generate and store cold anywhere cold is needed and waste heat is available. Adsorption chillers by FAHRENHEIT can be used wherever there is residual heat available. Our cooling technology reaches a new dimension of energy efficiency because it does not rely on electrical power for cooling. Our chillers and our adsorption modules are widely used in industrial manufacturing, for air conditioning, in data centers, in solar cooling and in various other applications. They are also ideally suited for combined heat and power plants – turning them into tri-generation units –, and they can save substantial amounts of energy and CO2 emissions in mobile applications such as cars and transport cooling. Our chillers operate on the principle of adsorption. Adsorption occurs when molecules of a liquid (in our case water) adhere to the surface of a solid (in our case zeolite crystals or silica gel). This causes the liquid to evaporate, generating cold. Once the solid material is saturated, heating it will cause it to release the adsorbed liquid, allowing the process to start again.
2008
Communology GmbH
Board Member
Sep 2008
Show all 9 entries ↓
Investment activity
2006–2017 · 7 investments
20061200712008120121201412015120171
Recent (last 2 years)Earlier