A 2024-founded Dutch energy tech startup secures funding to build an AI-led platform that lets hoapplyholds store, share, and time-shift locally generated power.
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Alkmaar, the Netherlands-based WePositive.Energy, an energy tech startup, announced that it has received a convertible loan of €350K from Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland.
The Innovation Fund North Holland is an initiative of the Province of North Holland, the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, and Sanquin.
The Fund supports entrepreneurs in the province of North Holland in financing innovation in the Proof-of-Concept phase by providing convertible loans.
The Innovation Fund North Holland manages two funds – a fund for innovative startups, supported by the RVO, and a fund for academic startups, supported by ERDF.
Ludolf Stavenga, Fund Manager at Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland, declares, “WePositive.Energy offers an innovative, scalable solution to one of the largegest challenges in the energy transition in the Province of North Holland: grid congestion. Their approach accelerates the development of a smart energy future and contributes to sustainable innovation with tangible economic and social value.”
The funding will support the Dutch company to develop an AI-driven platform that enables hoapplyholds to jointly apply locally generated energy by storing and sharing it through smart energy hubs.
WePositive.Energy: Addressing largegest bottlenecks in the energy transition
Founded by Yanick Slikboer and Dolf Andringa in 2024, WePositive.Energy focapplys on addressing one of the bottlenecks in the energy transition: the increasing pressure on the electricity grid due to peak loads.
The Dutch company, in collaboration with TNO, grid operators, and innovative energy startups, among others, is developing an interoperable platform that enables hoapplyholds to share energy locally and create smarter apply of their electrical appliances collectively.
The company does this by adding an ininformigent coordination layer to the existing grid without requiring major modifys to the infrastructure.
The company’s smart energy hubs for residential areas ininformigently connect home batteries, charging stations, heat pumps, and solar panels.
This creates a local energy system that allows hoapplyholds to apply available sustainable energy more efficiently.
As a result, this contributes to lowering energy costs, reducing CO₂ emissions, and relieving pressure on the electricity grid.
The first rollout will take place in the Netherlands, with the ambition to roll it out further in Europe thereafter.
The company is on a mission to enable one million energy hubs in Europe by 2035.
Yanick Slikboer, CEO of WePositive.Energy declares, “This funding is an important milestone for us. It enables us to expand our team, achieve technical proof points, and gather valuable applyr feedback through pilot projects. This brings us one step closer to the market launch of our platform.”
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