Genesis Partners has one of the strongest track records in the Israeli venture capital industry. Their investment team is comprised of venture professionals with extensive experience in venture capital, technology, operational management, and entrepreneurship. They focus on seed and early stage investments in the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors.  Genesis Partners was founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Dr. Eyal Kishon, who were instrumental in establishing the Israeli venture capital community. Since its inception, Genesis Partners has established itself as one of Israel's leading venture capital funds with strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry.

Genesis Partners

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors who manage portfolios in the U.S., China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. The firm is a trusted partner to some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs, supporting them with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global businesses.

Vertex Ventures

Norwest is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies. Since its inception, it has invested in more than 600 companies and partnered with over 140 active companies across our venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early to late-stage companies across a wide range of sectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. It offers a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses.

Norwest Venture Partners

Opus Capital is providing access to critical resources and giving counsel on strategy, finance and operations.

Opus Capital

Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise. They look to partner with the best of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage. Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company. They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.

Walden International

One of General Electric's largest growth engines, GE Capital Solutions offers lending products, growth capital, revolving lines of credit, equipment leasing, cash flow programs, asset financing and other financial services in more than 35 countries worldwide.  With a broad range of products, global assets in excess of US$230 billion and access to the resources of General Electric, they have the ability to deliver innovative solutions for all of your commercial financing needs.  They are able to offer you reliable, well capitalized and competitively priced financing solutions. And with more than 20 offices across Canada, they can provide you - and every one of their customers - with the personal attention you deserve.

GE Capital

Established in 1988, Orr Partners has evolved into one of the largest growing, privately owned development firms in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  In addition to ownership roles and development for its own account, the firm manages real estate development for corporate, retail, institutional and mixed-use clients.  Orr Partners™ extensive portfolio includes properties that are developed for long-term occupancy and use, and represent a forward-thinking outlook on design, functionality and the economic needs of our communities.

ORR Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Vertex Ventures Israel is one of Israel’s first and most successful venture capital firms, with over $1.4B raised to its funds. We are a generalist fund, investing cross-verticals, from Seed to B. Don't hesitate to reach out, we pride ourselves on being accessible. We've worked with some of the most iconic startups to come out of Israel, including SolarEdge, Waze, CyberArk, Argus, Dynamic Yield, Spot and many others, and we are proud to have a portfolio of over 50 promising companies, including Axonius, Yotpo, Ownbackup and Verbit.  Our experience and diverse backgrounds support our founders in their journey to grow their companies and become industry leaders.

Vertex Ventures Israel

General Electric Company offers infrastructure and financial services worldwide. It operates in various segments, including power and water, oil and gas, energy management, aviation, healthcare, transportation, appliances and lighting, GE capital, and more. Its power and water segment offers gas, steam and aeroderivative turbines, nuclear reactors, generators, combined cycle systems, controls, and related services; wind turbines; and water treatment services and equipment. Its oil and gas segment provides surface and subsea drilling and production systems, equipment for floating production platforms, compressors, turbines, turboexpanders, reactors, industrial power generation, and auxiliary equipment. The company’s energy management segments offers plant automation hardware, software, and embedded computing systems. Its aviation segment offers jet engines; aerospace systems and equipment; and replacement parts and repair and maintenance services. The healthcare segment provides medical imaging, software and information technology (IT), patient monitoring and diagnostics, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, and performance improvement solutions. Its transportation segment offers freight and passenger locomotives, and diesel engines for rail, marine, and stationary power applications; railway signaling and communications systems; underground mining equipment; motorized drive systems; IT solutions; and replacement parts and value added services. The appliances and lighting segment manufactures home appliances; and lighting products for commercial and industrial applications. Its capital segment offers commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. General Electric Company was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.

General Electric

GE Ventures combines capital, technical, and commercial services. They invest in the healthcare and life sciences, energy and mobility, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise productivity applications, digital infrastructure, and frontier technologies sectors.

GE Ventures

JP Asia Capital is a Singapore-based private equity fund manager focusing on investment opportunities in Asia. Through our initial fund, JP Asia Capital Partners, we seek to acquire meaningful equity stakes in high-growth, technology-enabled companies. We believe that building partnerships with strong management teams is key to enhancing and unlocking value. Working closely with the executives of portfolio companies, JP Asia Capital seeks to maximize value and thus deliver strong returns to investors. With our principalsâ€:tm: strong track record in direct investments and building strong business franchises, combined with our extensive network of industrial and financial contacts, JP Asia Capital is able to contribute significantly to the growth of prospective portfolio companies. JP Asia Capital works closely with Tinicum Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm with US$1.2 billion in capital under management. Through our association with Tinicum, we are capable of acquiring significant positions in promising companies.

JP Asia Capital Partners

Jerusalem Global's goal has been to support private Israeli technology initiatives and to generate superior returns to investors. Over the last two decades, the partners of Jerusalem Global Ventures have developed strong ties with the top Israeli entrepreneurs and visionaries enabling JGV to invest in the best of Israel's entrepreneurs and help their portfolio companies build winning management teams.

Jerusalem Global Ventures

NewWorld Capital Group is a private equity firm focused on investments in the environmental opportunities sector.

NewWorld Capital Group LLC

CCM Energy is an investment firm launched in late 2012 to take advantage of investment opportunities created by the transition to the cleaner and more efficient use of resources, particularly energy and water, in buildings. Part of the CCM Group, we have a particular interest in opportunities that leverage CCM Real Estate’s building portfolio and deep industry expertise.  Specifically, we seek companies with a proven solution to green the built environment in areas such as: - Distributed generation: Utilizing building infrastructure to generate power and/or other commodities that can drive topline revenue and reduce costs for building owners - Energy/resource efficiency: Products and services that lower the operating costs of buildings by reducing their consumption of commodities such as power, gas and water - Green construction: Resource-efficient materials, processes and business models to reduce the time and expenses associated with the construction of high-performance buildings  We deploy flexible capital to scale proven technology and enjoy working with entrepreneurs as well as project sponsors to develop investment structures that align incentives while creatively addressing the specific risks associated with a given investment. CCM Energy invests both equity and debt, and we employ hybrid structures to balance risk and reward for all stakeholders.  We pride ourselves on being strategic, value-add investors, bringing to bear our operating and clean energy expertise, and leveraging the collective experience of our real estate colleagues to generate tangible value for our portfolio companies. As a group, we have deep experience in entrepreneurship, clean energy, venture capital and real estate, and we utilize this experience to build value for our portfolio companies by:  - Actively seeking opportunities to deploy portfolio company solutions in properties owned by CCM Real Estate and its partners, providing sites for demonstration projects and helping companies achieve scale - Offering project capital in addition to corporate financing, enabling our portfolio companies to offer no-cost solutions to their customers

CCM Energy

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AutoGrid is a provider of Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) solutions, based in Redwood City, California. The company specializes in data analytics and machine learning technologies for managing distributed energy resources and microgrids, particularly for industrial and commercial customers. AutoGrid's technology focuses on integrating and orchestrating distributed energy resources (DERs) to benefit grid stakeholders. The company's product offerings include the Energy internet and Flex platforms, which are used for planning, implementing, and managing distributed energy projects. In January 2020, AutoGrid announced a fully integrated Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) and Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS).
AutoGrid has undergone significant changes in its ownership structure in recent years. In May 2022, Schneider Electric acquired AutoGrid with the aim of accelerating AI adoption in the power sector and incorporating AutoGrid's capabilities into Schneider's microgrids business. In December 2023, Uplight, a utility software company based in Boulder, Colorado, announced an agreement to acquire AutoGrid from Schneider Electric. This acquisition was designed to combine Uplight's customer engagement capabilities with AutoGrid's DERMS technology in a single unified platform.
Key customers and partnerships
AutoGrid has had a long-standing partnership with Schneider Electric, dating back to 2013 when they collaborated to optimize Schneider's Wiser brand of smart thermostats and home energy management devices. In May 2019, Schneider Electric became a major shareholder in AutoGrid with a 10% stake and launched a co-innovation partnership focused on using AutoGrid's platforms for distributed energy projects. Following the acquisition by Uplight, the combined entity is expected to serve utility clients, energy users, and equipment manufacturers in accelerating their impact on the energy transition.

Ivy is a turn-key service powered by intelligent software providing equitable solar access to residents and predictable returns to owners.

Ampeers Energy supports the real estate industry with intelligent software solutions. They offer companies in the real estate industry software-based services to reduce the CO2 footprint of their real estate. The platform provides an ICT ecosystem that is made up of various applications.

Wevo is a software firm that specializes in EV charging efficiency and management for sites with a high number of EV chargers, such as apartment buildings, office parking lots, and public charging stations.

AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data. The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks. Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.

SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in the DC power optimizer market. The company provides module-level electronics for solar power harvesting and monitoring systems for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic installers. The SolarEdge portfolio of products includes power optimizers and a web portal for module-level optimization and monitoring, as well as PV inverters, specialized to work with power optimizers.  SolarEdge envisions that every solar module will be individually managed by DC-DC module-level electronics, accelerating the pace towards grid parity and making clean energy affordable. Founded in 2006, SolarEdge established the DC power optimizer segment and is leading it with over 70% market share. By Q4 2012, SolarEdge has shipped over 1,600,000 power optimizers to more than 40 countries worldwide. With strategic partnerships across the PV value-chain from module manufacturers to integrators, SolarEdge installations can be found in five continents.

<div> SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEDG) is a leading global provider of smart energy technology. Founded in 2006, the company pioneered the concept of DC optimized inverter systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations. SolarEdge's intelligent inverter solution maximizes power generation while lowering the cost of energy produced by PV systems. In fiscal year 2022, the company reported annual revenue of USD 2.5 billion. SolarEdge's core products include power optimizers, solar inverters, and monitoring systems for PV arrays. Power optimizers are DC-to-DC converters that connect to each solar panel, enabling individual panel monitoring and performance optimization. The company's inverter portfolio includes single-phase and three-phase string inverters for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar installations. SolarEdge also offers energy storage solutions, EV chargers, and smart energy management software. The power optimizer and inverter system allows for flexible designs, increased energy yield, and enhanced safety features compared to traditional string inverters. In recent developments, SolarEdge has been expanding its manufacturing capacity in the US to take advantage of Inflation Reduction Act incentives. The company expects to ship over 30,000 US-made inverters in Q1 2024. SolarEdge is also investing in next-generation technologies, including a new residential battery planned for release in the first half of 2024. While facing some near-term headwinds from high channel inventories, particularly in the US market, SolarEdge remains optimistic about long-term growth driven by increasing solar adoption globally and the shift toward more advanced energy management solutions. </div>

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Companies that develop advanced energy generation technologies for houses (mostly solar).

Companies that develop battery storage solutions for home use.

Companies that develop real-time energy usage and efficiency monitoring solutions and generate energy reports. Includes companies that offer demand management solutions to monetize excess capacity.

Companies that offer water leak detection sensor systems and smart sprinkler systems.

Companies that assist home improvements (related to energy optimization) by bearing the upfront cost and charging users monthly fees based on energy usage.

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