Podero funding news – Vienna-based Podero Raises €5.5M in Oversubscribed Seed Funding

This funding will help it expand its efforts to drive green energy adoption and improve grid stability. Plans include building a European sales and customer success team, ramping up marketing, and improving product development, such as enhancing integrations, optimizing algorithms, and adding features to better manage utility products.

Podero: Giving Utilities a Competitive Edge

As more homes use renewable energy and electric devices, utilities face challenges in managing the changing energy demand from sources like solar, wind, and other distributed energy resources.

New companies like Octopus, Tibber, and Greenly are changing the market, while installers like 1Komma5, Enpal, and Soly focus on providing customers with heat pumps, electric vehicles, and batteries. With new regulations in Germany requiring dynamic tariffs, utilities must adopt flexible solutions to stay competitive and keep customers.

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Podero helps utilities by reducing electricity prices and cutting CO2 emissions. Founded in July 2022 by software engineers Chris Bernkopf and Moritz Schrader, the company’s goal is to lower energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.

It is a software platform that helps utilities lower energy costs for flexible consumer devices, called Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). These include heat pumps, electric vehicles (EVs), chargers, inverters, and home batteries. Podero helps save over 25% on energy costs. These savings allow utilities to trade the combined power from these devices on energy markets, benefiting both utilities and consumers.

Tobias Övall, Manager of Digitalization and Transformation, Retail at E.ON Nordics, a Podero customer for 1.5 years said, Utilities can access Podero through their white-label app or integrate it via API. “We are seeing rapidly increasing volatility in electricity markets and new competitors. Utilities must innovate to offer products that help customers save costs and give them control over their energy usage,”.

About Podero

Podero’s SaaS platform helps utilities connect their consumer devices, electricity markets, and software systems to offer competitive electricity contracts. Their goal is to create a world with plenty of green energy.