German Encosa raises €25M In Seed Funding For Battery Storage Solutions

Funding round was led by Realyze Ventures with participation from Verve Ventures, Bayern Kapital, Blum Ventures, and Kopa Ventures. All existing pre-Seed investors also participated, including First Momentum Ventures, Redstone, Heliad, UTUM Funding for Innovators, and WEPA Ventures.

In addition encosa has secured a scalable debt facility to support future growth. Founded in June 2024 by Jonathan Becker and Sascha Koberstaedt, encosa provides an end-to-end solution for businesses looking to deploy battery storage systems.

Its services cover planning, financing, installation, and operation, enabling companies to lower electricity costs while generating additional revenue through energy trading and arbitrage.

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The company focuses on Germany's Mittelstand, where rising energy costs continue to put pressure on margins, particularly for energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, food processing, plastics, paper, glass, metals, engineering, and logistics.

While battery storage can significantly reduce energy costs and create new revenue opportunities implementing these systems often involves complex technical, regulatory and financial processes. Businesses must typically navigate financing, grid connections, permits fire safety requirements and technical planning before a project can move forward.

encosa aims to remove these barriers by managing the entire process on behalf of customers, allowing them to benefit from battery storage without adding operational complexity.

The company says customers can begin seeing savings immediately, with typical payback periods ranging from 18 months to five years, depending on energy consumption patterns and market conditions.

At the core of encosa's offering is a proprietary software platform that combines "behind-the-meter" energy optimisation with "front-of-the-meter" energy trading and arbitrage, helping customers maximise the value generated by each battery system. Businesses can choose to purchase, lease, or rent storage systems, with encosa also providing financing support where needed.

The new funding will be used to expand the company's operations across Germany and further develop its technology platform. Over time, encosa plans to connect batteries across multiple customer sites into a virtual power plant (VPP), enabling aggregated energy trading and creating additional revenue opportunities for customers.

With more than 100,000 potential commercial and industrial customers in Germany, many operating across multiple locations, encosa sees significant room for growth as demand for energy cost reduction and flexibility continues to increase.

Sebastian Becker, co-founder and COO, encosa, said, “Storage projects are consistently underestimated they’re complex infrastructure, and the job isn’t done when the system goes live. encosa delivers savings from day one and carries the operational risk for the long haul.”

“Battery storage is taking the German Mittelstand by storm. The question is no longer ‘if’, but ‘how quickly’. encosa makes it easy for every business: reduce energy costs, with no hassle, no risk and no investment of your own,” said Sascha Koberstaedt, founder and CEO, encosa.