Neuchâtel-based CleanTech startup LightSeeds has obtained €162k (CHF 150k) from Enterprise Kick to speed up the commercialisation of its devoted vertical photo voltaic system, with a robust concentrate on enterprise improvement – enabling LightSeeds to maneuver from early market traction to scalable business deployment.
Working within the fast-growing world photo voltaic market, the corporate focuses on unlocking the potential of vertical infrastructure by turning unused surfaces alongside roads, railways, and business and industrial buildings into scalable power property at aggressive value.
“Enterprise Kick has been a key help for LightSeeds. Past the funding, the method helped refine the enterprise mannequin, validate the goal market, and speed up the transfer from expertise to business deployment,” says CEO Laure-Emmanuelle Perret.
Inside the funding exercise in 2025-26, LightSeeds sits inside a wider stream of funding into photo voltaic and adjoining clean-energy companies.
Comparable examples embrace Solarock in Paris, which raised €7 million to develop its residential and SME photo voltaic providing via a franchise community; enshift in Zug, Switzerland, which secured €18.5 million to scale built-in energy-transition options and stands out because the clearest same-country comparator; GRYD Energy, which raised €1.1 million to develop its subscription-based photo voltaic and battery mannequin; feld.energy in Munich, which raised greater than €10 million to scale Agri-PV techniques; Alight in Stockholm, which secured €46 million to finance a photo voltaic park in Finland; and TerraSpark in Luxembourg, which raised over €5 million for space-based photo voltaic functions.
Taken collectively, these rounds quantity to over €87 million, exhibiting that capital has continued to maneuver throughout a number of elements of the photo voltaic market, from infrastructure and utility-scale tasks to Agri-PV and various supply fashions.
In opposition to that backdrop, LightSeeds’ funding is modest in measurement however in step with an early-stage commercialisation spherical aimed toward shifting a specialist photo voltaic expertise from preliminary traction in direction of broader deployment.
Based in 2024 by Laure-Emmanuelle Perret and Pierrick Duvoisin, who carry over 30 years of mixed expertise in photovoltaics, industrial design, and public-private innovation, the CleanTech startup has assembled consultants in expertise, industrialisation, and enterprise improvement to scale its answer internationally.
In keeping with the corporate, typical photo voltaic panels depend on heavy, fragile glass modules which are susceptible to breakage and dear to put in. These limitations limit their use, notably on vertical surfaces corresponding to roads, railways, and industrial constructing partitions.
In consequence, massive areas stay unused for photo voltaic power era, whereas set up and upkeep prices proceed to restrict broader adoption.
LightSeeds appears to be like to handle this problem by growing ultra-light, unbreakable photovoltaic techniques designed for vertical deployment. Its built-in answer combines glass-free modules with a modular mounting and anchoring system, enabling quick set up with minimal tooling.
By decreasing weight, complexity, and breakage danger, the expertise reportedly lowers complete set up prices and carbon footprint whereas opening new functions for photo voltaic power in city environments.
The startup targets the worldwide vertical photo voltaic market, with a possible exceeding €433 billion (CHF 400 billion) throughout infrastructure, industrial, and business functions. Its twin technique serves B2B purchasers, together with industrial buildings, warehouses, agricultural operators, and installers, and B2G tasks, corresponding to highways, railways, and concrete infrastructure, with ongoing tasks and a rising pipeline in Switzerland and early European markets.
