For Startups, Scaleups & Tech Champions

Let‘s shape the future of energy and infrastructure together. Accelerate your innovative venture with us.

VERBUND X: Strong Partner stand together.

Kickstart your partnership with industry leaders

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.

Reach your next level

Our program provides start-ups and tech champions with a wide range of benefits to help you reach the next level.

Resource Access

Gain access to resources, test labs, expert know-how, markets, and an extensive network.

Fast decision-making

Benefit from top-management involvement and a structured process for fast implementation.


Proof-of-Concept

Get a dedicated budget to develop a proof-of-concept (PoC) with a corporate partner and accelerate your success.

Venture Capital Access

Validate the feasibility of your business and attract a potential investor to join your journey.

Search fields of our Batch #6

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 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, 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  

You are a match?

 

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

Your journey with the VERBUND X Accelerator Batch #6

  • Icon Lupe

    We are screening top solutions on the market that fit our search fields and are excited to learn more about you via a short online application.

    Scouting Phase until August 31st, 2024

    We are screening top solutions on the market that fit our search fields and are excited to learn more about you via a short online application.

  • Icon Formular

    As a selected applicant you will be invited to pitch your solution to us in a remote setting. We choose the most exciting startups / solutions for each search field and match you with the ideal partner.

    Remote Pitches from September 23rd to 27th 2024

    As a selected applicant you will be invited to pitch your solution to us in a remote setting. We choose the most exciting startups / solutions for each search field and match you with the ideal partner.

  • Icon Tacho

    Within the following months it's time to demonstrate that your solution truly makes an impact. Through building prototypes and rapidly iterating, you can swiftly generate value for your corporate partner.

    Acceleration Phase from October until February 2025

    Within the following months it's time to demonstrate that your solution truly makes an impact. Through building prototypes and rapidly iterating, you can swiftly generate value for your corporate partner.

  • Icon Innovation

    Time to shine: present your excellent work and showcase the results to our extensive partner network.

    Demo Day is on February 19th 2025

    Time to shine: present your excellent work and showcase the results to our extensive partner network.

  • After successfully completing the program you discuss further collaboration & scaling of your project with your corporate use-case partner.

    Launch & Cooperation starting a few weeks later

    After successfully completing the program you discuss further collaboration & scaling of your project with your corporate use-case partner.

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Our Partners

Together with our Use Case Partners we define specific search fields, such as industrial energy storage or hydrogen and gas sensors, for which the VERBUND X Accelerator team actively seeks out startups and scaleups. We carefully select companies that align with these topics and proceed to initiate proof-of-concept projects that have the potential to evolve into collaborative partnerships.

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Our Community Partners are involved in key events of the program as guests and can also play an expert and mentoring role for startups, scaleups and other partners. However, they are not involved in the decision-making in the selection and acceleration phases of the program.

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Gain access to venture capital, showcase your capabilities, and validate the impact you can achieve with innovative solutions. Our Venture Capital Partners are involved in the selection process of potential investments for their respective search fields.

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Fill in the shoes of our trailblazers

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.

 
Ladestation von Verbund.

Enabling vehicle-to-grid (V2G) application using hardware and software solutions

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. 

Enhancing VERBUND's solar asset management using predictive analytics

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.

Here is what our start-up alumnis say

Benjamin gnista.io

“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

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