Valencia energy-management start-up Linkener raises €7.5 million in round led by Alantra's Klima fund

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Linkener, an energy technology start-up based in València, has raised €7.5 million. The round was led by Klima Energy Transition Fund, Alantra's energy transition fund, and GoHub Ventures, which first invested in 2019, stays on as a shareholder.

What Linkener sells is, at heart, an explanation of the energy bill. Its Intelligent Energy Management System (SIGE) runs on its own metering and lets companies and organisations track consumption with their own data, digitise and verify invoices, review their supply contracts, and receive alerts along with suggestions for saving money. An engineering team then turns the savings it finds into physical work: more than 400 solar and battery storage installations across Spain so far. The company serves more than 2,000 clients, from self-employed workers to large corporations, covering 10,000 supply points and 1.7 TWh a year, roughly the consumption of a city of 400,000 people. It says that in the services sector, controlling consumption can cut costs by 20%.

The money will go into its technology and in-house artificial intelligence models, meant to automate the handling of energy data and invoices, spot anomalies and find savings for clients. Linkener also plans to grow through acquisitions of products and companies that complement its current business, which both investors frame as consolidating a fragmented market. Chief executive José Ignacio Ruiz said energy management remains "anchored in practices from 40 years ago", in which many businesses still rely on a single monthly bill that he called biased and partial. A start-up whose pitch is that the bill does not tell the whole story now has a round, and presumably a few bills of its own.