Our platform unites Europe's biggest industry players, innovative startups, scaleups, tech champions and the venture capital community. Together we accelerate new solutions and make smart, fast decisions for a better world.
Our VERBUND X Accelerator, designed as a multi-corporate collaboration program, establishes connections between you and the perfect use case partner. This collaboration allows the realization of pilot projects and fosters sustainable business growth. On top of that, we facilitate connections between you and the venture capital community in Europe.
Our program provides start-ups and tech champions with a wide range of benefits to help you reach the next level.
Gain access to resources, test labs, expert know-how, markets, and an extensive network.
Benefit from top-management involvement and a structured process for fast implementation.
Get a dedicated budget to develop a proof-of-concept (PoC) with a corporate partner and accelerate your success.
Validate the feasibility of your business and attract a potential investor to join your journey.
Together with our use case and venture capital partners, we identified 5 Use Case search fields and 3 Venture Capital search fields for Batch #6. Each holds great potential to shape the future of energy and infrastructure and deserves our focused attention in the form of open innovation and co-creation. Applications open!
voestalpine and wienerberger are converting their industrial plants from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources, requiring effective energy storage solutions to ensure reliable operations. VERBUND's sustainable energy generation also requires advanced energy storage systems that compensate for fluctuations in the energy supply. In the VXA, the partners seek solutions for managing fluctuating energy demand, including short-term as well as long-term storage and energy conversion applications. They aim to identify technologies beyond traditional lithium-ion batteries, focusing on Power2X and other conversion technologies.
Corporate Partners: voestalpine Stahl GmbH, wienerberger, BIG, VERBUND AG
voestalpine, RHI Magnesita, VERBUND, and Axpo are prioritizing hydrogen in their green energy strategies and are therefore seeking innovative solutions for leakage detection and quality measurement of hydrogen and gases. They aim to enhance safety in hydrogen and gas storage as well as transport through mobile sensor technologies and implement advanced quality and purity measurement systems, ensuring efficient and safe hydrogen and gas network operations.
Corporate Partners: voestalpine Stahl GmbH, RHI Magnesita, VERBUND AG, Axpo
The rising number of energy prosumers requires effective management of distributed energy resources (DERs). Bi-directional electric vehicles play a crucial role in this flexibility management by utilizing their batteries for energy storage and charging optimization. VERBUND seeks solutions to aggregate DERs into virtual power plants (VPPs), dynamically balance supply and demand through advanced data analysis in real-time, and efficiently manage communication, control, and billing with both DERs and market participants.
Corporate Partners: Porsche Holding, MOON, VERBUND Energy4Business GmbH, VERBUND Energy4Customers GmbH
VERBUND aims to enhance data quality in hierarchically structured and relational databases by integrating multiple specialized AI models, referred to as Agents. These Agents autonomously communicate and coordinate their tasks effectively, with each one assuming specific roles and responsibilities. For instance, collaborating AI Agents can be tasked with anomaly detection, code analysis, and solution proposal.
Corporate Partners: VERBUND Energy4Business GmbH
VERBUND aims to improve the precision of satellite imagery for pre-sales PV installation analysis on roofs and other surfaces. They seek innovative solutions for accurate surface analysis, integrated into the sales process to reliably determine PV potential. Potential solutions include consultation and planning tools for virtual sales, accessible to customers via online configurators or used by sales agents, high-resolution satellite imagery platforms covering all regions and AI-based technologies to enhance the quality of existing images, such as those from Google Maps.
Corporate Partners: VERBUND Energy4Customers GmbH, VERBUND Energy4Business GmbH
Greiner Innoventures and Speedinvest seek investment opportunities for AI-based tools to enhance product development, focusing on optimizing CO2 footprints and streamlining workflows for efficiency and quality gains. Specifically, they are interested in a "co-pilot" AI tool to assist throughout the engineering and product development process to improve customer solutions, reaction times, prototyping, and time to market.
VC Partners: Greiner Innoventures, Speedinvest
Elevator Ventures, Uniqa Ventures, Speedinvest, and VERBUND X Ventures seek investments opportunitites in financial technologies that enhance financial services for renewable energy and energy management. They focus on platforms for renewable energy financing, green loans, environmental impact assessment as well as peer-to-peer energy trading or SME-focused solutions for energy planning and financing.
VC Partners: Elevator Ventures, Uniqa Ventures, Speedinvest, VERBUND X Ventures
Elevator Ventures, Uniqa Ventures, Speedinvest, and VERBUND X Ventures seek investment opportunities in fintech innovations that promote sustainability in the financial sector. Key interests include ESG rating integration in SMEs' credit scoring, assessing the reliability and integrity of carbon credits, and platforms for trading green energy certificates. The goal is to enhance transparency, reliability, and support for green initiatives.
VC Partners: Elevator Ventures, Uniqa Ventures, Speedinvest, VERBUND X Ventures
1: Industrial Energy Storage
2: Hydrogen & Gas Sensors
3: Technical Aggregation of Distributed Energy Resources
4: AI Agents
5: Intelligent Analysis Based on Satellite Imagery
1: AI-Driven Product Development
2: Energy Fintech Innovations
3: Green Fintech & Sustainable Banking Technologies
More than 1.000 startups, scaleups, and tech-champions from over 40 countries have applied to be a part of our success story already. We are proud to be the trusted partner for those who want to challenge the status quo and accelerate their solution with us.
In 2023, VERBUND and MAGNA joined forces to pioneer vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications toegether with Ambibox, a German manufactuer of bidirectional charging stations, and the innovative UK startup Electric Miles for charging management software. The collaboration resulted in the successful integration of Ambibox DC chargers into the Electric Miles backend, achieving seamless control and management.
In 2022, VERBUND partnered with SmartHelio, a Swiss clean-tech scaleup, to enhance solar asset management using predictive analytics. SmartHelio's advanced data analytics solution was integrated into VERBUND’s digital infrastructure for two solar power plants. This collaboration led to the successful detection of early fault signatures, potentially avoiding 30% of total losses and underperformance. The predictive analytics software demonstrated great potential for long-term collaboration.
“We are super excited to be part of this program because it was one of the very rare occasions for startups to work together with not only a large corporate but also people that are incredibly motivated within that corporate.”
Benjamin Mörzinger, Founder, nista.io
"The Verbund X Accelerator was an impressive and well-organised accelerator programme that created a clear and interesting opportunity for us as an early stage startup to test our product and whether working with corporates would be a good route forward."
Kristian Yde Agerbo, Lun Energy
