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The world is increasingly growing aware of the detrimental effects of fossil fuel and actively seeking an alternative. “The European energy system is undergoing rapid changes to set the EU economy on a low-carbon and resource-efficient path. Renewable energy is instrumental to this transformation. EU efforts to double the share of renewable energy in its consumption have paid off, having reduced significantly the amount of fossil fuels used and their associated greenhouse gas emissions,” according to the EEA.
In this reference, a number of European startups are also playing their part in helping the EU achieve a sustainable future; especially in the Netherlands.
With that, we have listed below eight energy companies that are hiring at the moment. It’s also a chance for you to play a role in saving the planet. Certain details of these startups such as founders’ names, founded year, and the total funding amount raised have been sourced from Dealroom.
EVBox
Founder/s: Bram van de Leur, Huub Rothengatter, Kristof Vereenooghe (current CEO)
Founded year: 2010
Total funding: Approx €350M
EVBox provides smart and scalable charging infrastructure and charging management software to electric vehicles around the world. The company offers a portfolio of both hardware and enterprise software solutions and claims to have built the industry’s largest installed base of EV charging solutions, with more than 190,000 charge ports across 70 countries.
The startup is currently hiring and the open positions have been mentioned here.
Lightyear
Founder/s: Arjo van der Ham, Koen van Ham, Lex Hoefsloot, Martijn Lammers, Qurein Biewenga
Founded year: 2016
Total funding: €45.3M
Lightyear is on a mission to make clean mobility available to everyone, everywhere. The company develops electric cars with an energy-efficient design and integrated solar cells. This allows motorists, depending on the climate, to drive up to 20,000 Kms/year on the power of the sun.
Currently, the company employs more than 120 employees. The team is made up out of a mix of young talent and experience from the automotive industry, including former employees of Tesla, Audi, and Ferrari.
The company is currently hiring for full-time and internships. Click here to find out if your profile fits the company’s requirements.
Parx Materials
Founder/s: Michael van der Jagt, Michele Fiori
Founded year: 2012
Total funding: €1M
Parx Materials (formerly Parx Plastics) is involved in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of biocompatible plastics and antibacterial polymers. It claims that its technology does not feature synthetic chemicals, biocides, heavy metals, or nanoparticles, is fully biocompatible, non-toxic, does not diffuse out of the material, and can be used with any type of plastic. Also claims to remove about 99% of bacteria and microorganisms pilling up on the surface within 24 hours.
The company is currently looking to hire business development managers and other profiles. Find out here.
Hello Energy
Founder/s: Benno Schwarz, Kees van Alphen
Founded year: 2016
Total funding: €1M
Hello Energy is a SaaS (software as a service) company that focuses on the international B2B real estate market. Large real estate companies and real estate investors use Hello Energy to meet their sustainability ambitions and obligations. The company collects and visualises energy and sustainability data in a fun, insightful way and activates tenants and users of buildings to actively participate in the energy transition.
The company’s clients include large, often international, innovative, and sustainable real estate players such as Prologis, NSI, citizenM hotels, Bouwinvest, and Avignon Capital. Besides, Hello Energy is already being used in more than 1,000 buildings in more than 10 countries, including the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, France, and Germany.
The company is looking for engaged talent in sales, data, tech, and support. Click here and find out about the company and apply for a position.
Physee
Founder/s: Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Willem Kesteloo
Founded year: 2014
Total funding: €8.2M
Physee was founded by two applied physicists, who, during their graduation, found a way to generate electricity with transparent glass. According to the founders, they use creative, physical angles when looking at the buildings to see how they can optimise, using smart and sustainable innovations.
The primary technology developed by Physee, called SmartSkin, makes buildings up to 30% more energy-efficient, and at the same time, significantly more comfortable for its users. Notably, the company has developed three products – the SmartSkin facade, the PAR+ coating, and the POWER+ coating.
The company is currently hiring for full time, part-time as well as internships. If you are looking to work with them, click here to find out about their open positions.
Sensorfact
Founder/s: Massimo Coduti, Pieter Broekema, Sjoerd Sloterdijk
Founded year: 2016
Total funding: About €1.3M
Sensorfact offers an Intelligent Energy Management System (IEMS) to help Industrial companies reduce their energy consumption. It offers wireless, non-invasive energy sensors that are easy to install and the company’s web-based analytics platform gives real-time insights into energy usage on a machine-level.
The company’s smart algorithms detect energy anomalies and other energy-saving opportunities that are presented in a tailor-made report. It claims that on average its users save between 5-10% on their energy bill.
The company is looking for new talents to contribute to their team no matter what your background is. Click here to find out about the openings.
Kitepower
Founder/s: Johannes Peschel, Roland Schmehl
Founded year: 2016
Total funding: About €5.1M
Kitepower is a startup in airborne wind energy, developing innovative and cost-effective alternatives to existing wind turbines by using kites to generate electricity. Its patented technology uses 90% less material while being twice as efficient than existing technology.
Unlike conventional wind turbines, the Kitepower system does not require resource-intensive towers or heavy foundations and is thus easy to transport and deploy. The system is able to harness stronger and more persistent winds at higher altitudes, allowing for capacity factors greater than 0.5, and in return cost-effective electricity generation, this opens up new geographical markets for the generation of wind energy.
The 100kW system currently in development is suited to replace diesel generator sets in remote locations to save costs and mitigate dependency on diesel supply. Kitepower was founded as a result of the work done by TU Delft’s (Delft University of Technology) pioneering kite power research group of the former astronaut Wubbo Ockels.
The company is looking to hire talents to develop the technology for a clean energy future. Click here to apply.
Energyworx
Founder/s: Edwin Poot
Founded year: 2012
Total funding: About €3M
Energyworx is a software company that designs and develops software solutions. The company offers a SaaS-based platform for energy data management and intelligence cloud service. They help uncover the hidden value of data by correlating and analysing the data with a diversity of other data sources. This helps its users to balance and optimise the grid, and reduce losses during transmission and distribution.
The company enables organisations to make business decisions with real-time data insights. They fuel best of breed products and services in the energy industry. The platform offers other services such as meter data management, social energy app, energy balancing for smart grids, and data hub.
The company is currently looking to hire a lead customer engineer, customer support engineer, and backend developer python. Besides, Energyworx can even create a new role for you if you are confident in contributing to the organisation. Click here to apply.
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