Helsinki-based sustainable expertise firm Capalo AI right this moment pronounces an €11 million Collection A funding spherical to speed up the rollout of its AI-powered digital energy plant throughout Europe and scale the optimisation and buying and selling of battery power storage programs.
The spherical was led by Heartcore Capital, with participation from Tesi (Finnish Business Funding) and full re-participation from current buyers VentureFriends, PROfounders, Inventure, and Innovestor, in addition to a couple of household workplaces.
This follows 2023’s €500k pre-Seed spherical, as reported by EU-Startups.
“The worldwide clear power transition is transferring ahead at an unstoppable tempo, with solar energy main the best way,” says Henri Taskinen, Co-founder and CEO of Capalo AI. “Nonetheless, the electrical energy system is dealing with rising challenges to put in all the brand new capability and keep resilience. Infrastructure alone can’t remedy this problem, intelligence is important. Intelligently orchestrated battery storage is now important to accelerating the renewable power ramp-up and constructing pathway towards a really sustainable power system.”
Throughout 2025 and early 2026, EU-Startups protection factors to sustained funding exercise throughout European startups engaged on battery storage, digital energy crops and AI-driven power optimisation, offering context for Capalo AI’sSeries A.
In Belgium, Antwerp-based LIFEPOWR raised €5.65 million to develop its digital energy plant expertise. Switzerland has seen two notable rounds: Zug-based enshift secured €18.5 million to scale built-in energy-transition and photo voltaic financing options, whereas Munich-headquartered TWAICE obtained €24 million in EIB financing to broaden predictive battery analytics for power storage programs.
Within the Netherlands, Amsterdam-based Dexter Energy raised €23 million to scale AI-powered forecasting and commerce optimisation for renewables and batteries, whereas power storage developer Return secured a considerably bigger €300 million progress spherical to broaden large-scale battery storage capability.
Taken collectively, these rounds quantity to roughly €371 million flowing into adjoining elements of the European power storage and optimisation ecosystem.
Inside this panorama, Capalo AI’s €11 million Collection A sits on the software- and market-optimisation finish of the spectrum, aligning with a broader investor give attention to applied sciences that enhance grid flexibility, battery utilisation and renewable integration, whereas complementing the a lot bigger capital necessities seen in infrastructure-heavy battery deployment performs.
“We’re working arduous to maximise our scale to turn out to be Europe’s main battery storage and renewable asset optimiser and dealer. With our AI-driven digital energy plant, we are able to ship higher effectivity than grid enlargement alone, exchange expensive grid infrastructure investments, and maximise the worth of battery storage whereas strengthening Europe’s power resilience,” says Henri.
Based in 2022 by Henri Taskinen, Riku Kukkonen, Teemu Lappalainen, and Eerik Jauhiainen. Capalo AI’s goal is to maximise the worth of power storage programs throughout all markets. They mix forecast knowledge with AI fashions to optimise the buying and selling of battery power storage programs.
In 2025, Capalo AI’s complete contracted battery capability exceeded 1 GW, representing greater than a fivefold improve in lower than 12 months. The corporate additionally grew its income fivefold and doubled the staff dimension.
In response to the corporate, the rising share of weather-dependent power sources equivalent to wind and photo voltaic, mixed with rising electrical energy demand from knowledge centres and electrical automobiles, is driving higher grid volatility and better system prices.
Capalo AI connects large-scale batteries and renewable power manufacturing from a number of areas right into a single digital energy plant – optimising and buying and selling power storage throughout electrical energy markets in actual time.
“European industrial competitiveness will depend on steady, low-cost energy, making batteries the final word linchpin of the power transition. Capalo AI is constructing the important digital infrastructure to function and optimise these property at scale. The staff’s means to translate technical depth right into a repeatable monetisation engine positions them as the first coordination layer for the following era of European power markets”, says Paulina Koschitz, Principal at Heartcore Capital.
With the brand new €11 million funding, Capalo AI is accelerating its worldwide enlargement and scaling of optimisation and buying and selling of battery power storage programs, each stand-alone and co-located with wind or photo voltaic farms.
At present energetic in Finland, Sweden, Latvia, and Lithuania, the corporate plans to broaden into a number of further European markets in 2026 and to considerably develop its shopper portfolio.
Capalo AI is working with main infrastructure buyers and unbiased energy producers, together with FRV (Fotowatio Renewable Ventures), RPC (Renewable Energy Capital), Ardian-owned eNordic Evergreen, and Swiss battery power storage system investor MW Storage.
“The demand for battery power storage programs continues to develop alongside the clear transition. Using this development, Capalo has quickly expanded in recent times and achieved a notable place in its present goal markets. The Capalo staff has executed glorious work, and we’re excited to collaborate with the corporate and assist the scaling of its worldwide progress,” provides Jan-Patrick Haikkola, Funding Supervisor at Tesi.
