Applications for Rockstart Energy 2021 are officially open. If you are an energy startup and you’re ready to fast track the growth of your business, Rockstart Energy team want to meet you! Don’t hesitate to apply if you want to secure a coveted position in the next cohort.
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In the last quarter of 2020, Rockstart launched its 20M+ Energy venture capital fund, backed by Enfuro Ventures, institutional investors, European family offices, informal investors and the government. Through its Energy fund, Rockstart invests in seed-stage startups contributing to the energy transition. Rockstart is now introducing the fund's first investments with nine startups. From smart grid technology to carbon reduction, these founders represent six segments in the energy industry and five different countries.
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Rockstart, one of Europe’s first accelerators and today a global accelerator-VC, launches its second Fund of € 21m to invest in energy startups. The Fund was launched with the Dutch pension fund ABP, and family office De Hoge Dennen Capital as cornerstone investors, together with Enfuro Ventures and other prominent private-wealth and industry investors and is supported by the seed capital scheme from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The Rockstart Energy Fund aims to invest in energy startups in Europe with a primary focus in the Netherlands.
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Applications for Rockstart's 6th Energy Program are now open! The #Energy program is a domain-focused accelerator-VC with follow-on growth funding. Rockstart is looking for #startups at the intersection of IT & Energy that contribute to the #energytransition. Does that sound like your startup? ​Apply today... 
Enfuro Ventures is a proud investor in Rockstart Energy.

Nine startups from five countries, spanning three continents have been selected to start Rockstarts Smart Energy Program.
Talented women and men from across the smart energy field will enter the program to work on their products and energy solutions, ranging from grid management based on machine learning to a mobile grid battery.
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Rockstart announced the startup participants for the 2017 Smart Energy accelerator program! A great selection of teams from across the globe—from Australia to Uganda—that provide services and solutions for a digital, decentralized, and decarbonized energy system.

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10 international startups head to Amsterdam to focus on #theinternetofenergythings
​Rockstart, the Global Startup Machine, announced the 10 startups participating in the 2016 Smart Energy Accelerator. The international group of startups come from 11 countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia and have applications focused on smart buildings, smart cities and smart industry.

Rockstart’s Smart Energy Program Director Freerk Bisschop says, “This year’s batch doubles down on what I call the “Internet of Energy Things” with businesses that are using the cloud and integrating data intelligence, mesh networks, localisation, SaaS and micropayments – all with a smart green impact. Their customers are consumers, utilities and the enterprise and this will be a great opportunity for our partners to get even more involved as teams move to validate their value propositions.”
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