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Nova Volt

Climate · Seed · Berlin

Grid-scale battery analytics for renewable energy operators.

We help renewable operators predict battery degradation and dispatch. 40+ sites live across Germany and Spain.

✓4 utility-scale operators live in DE/PL
✓Payback under 8 months per site
✓LOIs worth $310k ARR in the Nordics

The team

4 on the team
JF
Jonas Feld
CEO — ex-Siemens Energy
11 yrs grid engineering
MSc EE, TU München
2nd startup — 1st exited to Enpal
AR
Anke Roth
CTO — ex-50Hertz
9 yrs SCADA & telemetry
PhD Control Systems, TU Berlin
MK
Milan Kovač
COO — cofounder, ex-Enpal ops
8 yrs energy operations
MSc Energy Systems, TU Wien
SL
Sara Lindgren
Founding engineer — embedded
6 yrs battery firmware
BEng, Chalmers

Who’s already in

All 6 investors — prior rounds & this round's commitments
PB
Pale Blue Ventures
Returning

Climate pre-seed fund — led the pre-seed, returning this round

KH
Klaus Hofmann
Off-platform

Angel — ex-COO, 50Hertz. Grid-operator intros.

VS
Voltfront Syndicate
On Aligned

€150k pooled, committed via the platform

GL
Greta Lund
On Aligned

Angel — energy markets trader, Copenhagen

HA
Helios Angels
Off-platform

€60k pooled — five climate operators

BG
Baltic Grid Ventures
On Aligned

$100k committed this round

Round history

Pre-seed
Mar 2025
SAFE, $4M cap — Pale Blue led
$400k
Seed
Open now
SAFE, $9M cap · 40% committed
$1.5M

Competition & moat

Fleet dashboards
Visualize the fleet — no cell-level scoring or dispatch calls
OEM analytics suites
Locked to the vendor’s own hardware
In-house spreadsheets
The real incumbent at most operators
Why they win

Inverter-level telemetry contracts with four operators give a 14-month data head start — the degradation models improve with every site added.

Customer proof

NordGrid EnergiePolGrid Storage2 operators under NDA

“Nova Volt paid for itself in seven months — we caught a failing rack before it took the whole string down.”

Asset director, German utility operator · reference call available after match

What their investors say

“Jonas and Anke are the rare grid-native team — they shipped in weeks what our portfolio waited quarters for.”

Pale Blue Ventures — pre-seed lead

“Cleanest telemetry data room I have seen at seed.”

Klaus Hofmann, angel

The round
$1.5MSeed
Committed40%
Minimum check$50k
InstrumentSAFE, $9M cap
Target closeOct 2026

Chat opens only if interest is mutual.

Traction
$42k
mrr
✓ Verified
40+ sites
users
✓ Verified
+18% MoM
growth
✓ Verified
MRR — last 6 months
Data room
Pitch deck — one-pagerAfter match
Financial modelAfter match
Cap tableAfter match
What's verified
MRR & growthVerified
Users & operatorsVerified
Round termsSelf-reported
Financial modelAfter match