Our First Investment: WLF Energy Emerges from Stealth

There is a moment in every deep tech company's life when the quiet work (the assembling, the testing, the early customer conversations nobody sees) has to meet the open market. For WLF Energy, that moment came at the Battery Show Europe in Stuttgart in June 2026.

We backed WLF Energy at day zero, before the company had a name. The thesis was straightforward to state and hard to execute: Europe's clean energy is too expensive, too fragmented, and too slow to deploy, and the reason is not a lack of good technology. It is that nobody in Europe has built the full stack: generation, storage, management, intelligence, and trading, as one integrated platform.

That is what WLF Energy set out to build. Not a battery company. Not a software company. A platform that owns the value chain from generation to grid, with the conviction that vertical integration is what finally makes sub-10ct/kWh clean energy possible for households and businesses across the continent.

What stood out to us from the beginning was how much was already running before the public launch. Commercial battery and energy operations across the United Kingdom, Germany, the Nordics, Türkiye, and the United States. A proprietary battery management system, strengthened through the acquisition of Cellovate GmbH and the BMS business of  energy management system platform via VersaPowr. A strategic partnership with Farasis Energy to industrialise next-generation battery technology. A renewable energy pipeline in the Nordics with first grid deliveries targeted for the first quarter of 2027, and a binding letter of intent to supply battery packs to a US electric motorcycle manufacturer.

This is the part of deep tech that is rarely visible and almost never glamorous: the acquisitions, the integration work, the supply agreements signed quietly while a company is still technically in stealth. It is also the part that determines whether a platform like this ever reaches the scale its founders imagine.

The team reflects that focus on execution. Sebastian Wolf leads as Chairman and CEO. Alongside him is a leadership group that includes Christian Fredrik P. Ringvold as CFO and Dr. Andreas Wolf joined as COO, plus colleagues leading operations across Türkiye, the Middle East, Africa, North America and Latin America. A CTO is also joining shortly, coming from a leading battery unicorn. Their backgrounds span Bosch, Volkswagen, PowerCo, Farasis Energy, A123 Systems, McKinsey, and BCG. These are people who have industrialised battery businesses before, on more than one continent.

Energy independence is one of those phrases that gets used until it loses meaning. What it actually requires is unglamorous: owning the technology that manages how a battery ages, owning the software that decides when to charge and when to sell power back to the grid, owning the relationships that get a project connected to the grid on schedule. WLF Energy has spent its quiet period building exactly that.

The platform is live now, and the first grid connections are still ahead. We are looking forward to watching what comes next; and to the months ahead, when, as the team has said, there is more still to announce.