| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.03.2026 | From scientific excellence to global startups: the Swiss tech ecosystem | Switzerland’s tech ecosystem in 2025 showed strong resilience and continued specialisation in deep technology, life sciences, climate innovation, and industrial AI. Startups across the country attracted €3.3 billion in funding through hundr... |
| 21.02.2026 | Energy Vault Raises $135.5 Million Financing And Reports First Positive Adjusted EBITDA | Energy Vault, a sustainable grid-scale energy storage and AI power infrastructure company, announced it has closed a financing transaction generating $135.5 million in proceeds, net of initial purchaser commissions. The company also preview... |
| 12.01.2026 | Switzerland's Biotech Surge: Windward Bio Secures Funding, Forges Global Drug Deal Amidst Venturelab's Record Year | Swiss innovation is surging. Venturelab, a key accelerator, empowered over 6,700 entrepreneurs in 2025. It propelled Swiss startups to raise billions in funding. Biotech leader Windward Bio exemplified this success. The company secured a si... |
| 23.12.2025 | Venturelab 2025: Powering Over 6,700 Entrepreneurs | 23.12.2025 13:40, Rita Longobardi
2025 was a record-breaking year for Venturelab, delivering 544 days of training, workshops, and international programs to 6,700 entrepreneurs and driving Swiss startups to raise billions. From Venture Kick ... |
| 04.12.2025 | Energy Vault deployed first energy storage installation in Switzerland |
Energy Vault announced its formal entry into the Swiss market with the launch of FlexGrid, a product designed for commercial and industrial customers based on a new configuration of its B-VAULT battery energy storage system (BESS) platform... |
| 09.10.2025 | Energy Vault raises USD 300 m to build and operate energy storage assets |
The completion of this transaction with OIC represents a validation of Energy Vault's IPP (Independent Power Producer) strategy to build, own and operate energy storage assets, accelerating the deployment of +1.5GW in attractive priority m... |
| 01.10.2025 | Energy Vault Secures $50 Million to Accelerate Global Energy Storage Expansion | Energy Vault, a cleantech leader in grid-scale energy storage, has secured $50 million in debenture financing. This funding fuels its "Own & Operate" strategy. The company will establish Asset Vault, a subsidiary managing prop... |
| 30.09.2025 | Additional $50 million to fuel Energy Vault’s growth |
Energy Vault, the cleantech company that develops, deploys and operates utility-scale energy storage, has built a comprehensive suit of offerings including proprietary battery, gravity, and green hydrogen energy storage technologies suppor... |
| 29.09.2025 | Energy Vault: $50 Million Secured For Grid-Scale Storage Solutions | Energy Vault Holdings, a leader in developing sustainable grid-scale energy storage solutions, has recently announced a significant step to bolster its financial position and support its ambitious growth plans. The company has entered into ... |
| 08.09.2025 | August 2025's top 10 European tech deals you need to know about | In August, European tech companies secured €3.2 billion across 189 deals, reflecting a 66 per cent drop in investment volume and 47 per cent fewer deals compared to July 2025.
Despite this month-on-month slowdown, the market showed far grea... |
| 08.08.2025 | Energy Vault Powers Up: A Strategic Shift Towards Grid Ownership | Energy Vault, a leader in grid-scale energy storage, pivots its core strategy. The company now embraces an "Own & Operate" model. This significant shift empowers Energy Vault to build, manage, and control its own energy storag... |
| 08.08.2025 | European tech investments jump 18% in July, Energy Vault secures €258M, and Ukraine's plan for national LLM | This week we tracked more than 40 tech funding deals worth over €848 million, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
This week we also released our monthly report for July, which covers key... |
| 08.08.2025 | Energy Vault secures $300 million to establish its energy storage subsidiary |
The investment will support Energy Vault’s IPP strategy to build, own and operate energy storage assets, accelerating the deployment of 1.5GW in attractive priority markets. Leveraging its significant operational expertise in efficiently d... |
| 30.07.2025 | Energy Vault: $18 Million Project Financing Raised For Texas Battery Storage System | Energy Vault Holdings, a leader in grid-scale energy storage, has closed $18 million in project financing for its Cross Trails Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). This funding supports the company’s “Own & Operate” strategy as outline... |
| 06.06.2025 | A New Dawn for Power: Calistoga's Clean Energy Revolution | In the heart of Napa Valley, a transformation is brewing. Calistoga, a town known for its hot springs and picturesque vineyards, is stepping into the future. Gone are the days of diesel generators rumbling through the streets. A new era of ... |
| 04.06.2025 | Napa Valley town that once rode out emergencies with diesel gets a clean-power backup | A tank that holds liquid hydrogen, left, which is converted to gas to run the fuel cells, sits at at Energy Vault, a company that is creating an emergency power system that relies on hydrogen and battery storage, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, i... |
| 08.04.2025 | Energy Vault's Calistoga Resiliency Center: A Beacon of Sustainable Power | In a world increasingly threatened by climate change, Energy Vault stands as a lighthouse, guiding communities toward sustainable energy solutions. The company recently secured $28 million in project financing from Eagle Point Credit Manage... |
| 08.04.2025 | Energy Vault: $28 Million In Project Financing Raised From Eagle Point | Eagle Point Credit Management announced that it has provided $28 million in project financing to Energy Vault, a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, to support the development of its Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC)... |
| 02.04.2025 | Energy Vault closes $28 million in project financing for Calistoga Resiliency Center |
Currently under site commissioning, the Calistoga Resiliency Center, which Energy Vault developed to serve a tolling contract with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), is a state-of-the-art hybrid microgrid energy storage facilit... |
| 12.03.2025 | Cleantech's Crossroads: Navigating Investment Droughts and Opportunities | The cleantech sector stands at a pivotal juncture. Investment is down, but the potential for growth remains vibrant. The landscape is shifting, and those with capital are finding fertile ground amidst the drought.
Recent reports indicate a ... |
| 11.03.2025 | Cleantech Investor: A Hard Time For Fundraising, But A Good One For Dealmaking | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Cleantech investors have largely hit pause on new deals in the past few months. But for those who are writing checks, terms are increasingly favorable.
That’s the take from Peter Davidson, CEO of Ali... |
| 07.03.2025 | Energy Vault secures 14-year agreement in Australia |
Energy Vault Holdings, Inc., a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, in partnership with Enervest, a leading Australian project developer, announced Stoney Creek Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) has been awarded a... |
| 16.12.2024 | Cemex Ventures: Interview With Mateo Zimmermann Gonzalez About The Construction-Focused Investment Firm | Cemex Ventures is a firm that believes in the power of technology and entrepreneurship to disrupt the construction industry. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cemex Ventures investment manager Mateo Zimmermann Gonzalez to learn more about the construct... |
| 01.11.2024 | Swiss ingenuity shines on TIME's Best Inventions 2024 list |
TIME has included five Swiss innovations on its latest list of 200 best inventions. Notably, four of these originate from young companies. They are active in a diverse range of sectors, including medtech, cleantech and sport, reflecting th... |
| 23.10.2024 | Energy Vault, Enervest to Develop $350M Project
ED Attaches Properties Worth Rs.56.86 Crore in Krrish Realtech Fraud Case
Centre approves 50 National Highway projects for Manipur
NHAI plans 4-lane roa... | POWER & RENEWABLE ENERGY Energy Vault, Enervest to Develop $350M Project
23 Oct 2024 2 Min Read CW Team
Energy Vault and Enervest are partnering to develop a large-scale energy storage project in Australia valued at $350 million. This p... |
| 24.09.2024 | REPT BATTERO's U.S. Subsidiary Officially Opens, A Further Step of Globalization | IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 9, 2024 ( L.T.), REPT BATTERO opened its North American(NA) subsidiary in Irvine, California. Following the opening of the European subsidiary in 2023, this initiative marks the ra... |
| 22.05.2023 | REPT BATTERO Inks Supply Agreement with Energy Vault to Deliver 10 GWh of Batteries Enabling Global BESS deployments | SHANGHAI, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- REPT BATTERO Energy Co., Ltd. ("REPT BATTERO" or "the company"), a leading new energy solution provider backed by China's stainless steel and nickel giant Tsingshan Group, has signe... |
| 08.09.2022 | Energy Vault, Wellhead Electric and W Power Announce Agreement for 275 MWh Energy Storage Project in Southern California | Energy Vault, Wellhead Electric and W Power to deploy 68.8 MW (275.2 MWh) battery energy storage system at W Power Energy Reliability Center in Stanton, California. The Stanton ESS will be one of the largest energy storage systems in southe... |
| 23.08.2022 | New deals for growth stage startups | |
| 26.05.2022 | Energy Vault Expands in APAC with the Appointment of Lucas Sadler as Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Asia & Pacific | Based in Australia, Sadler brings 30+ years of sales leadership experience across renewable energy, power generation and energy storage
Sadler, most recently Fluence Energy’s Vice President of Sales for Australia, to lead sales, business de... |
| 04.05.2022 | Startups accelerate the energy transition on earth and space | |
| 27.04.2022 | Energy Vault and NTPC, India’s Largest Power Utility, Sign MOU for Gravity-Based Energy Storage Technology | MOU governs the formalization of a long-term strategic partnership for the deployment of Energy Vault’s EVx™ gravity-based energy storage technology and software solutions to support NTPC’s clean energy transition
LUGANO, Switzerland & ... |
| 21.03.2022 | Seasoned Board Members for Swiss Startups | |
| 24.02.2022 | Energy Vault Announces Appointments to Its Board of Directors and Formation of New Strategic Advisory Board | Existing strategic investor representatives from leading global energy and industrial companies to advance Energy Vault’s mission of accelerating global decarbonization through deployments of its scalable, economical, and environmentally su... |
| 17.02.2022 | These Tech Startups Are Leading the Charge Towards Deep Decarbonization | Deep decarbonization refers to the types of changes in energy systems that will be required to meet carbon emission reduction and related climate policy goals. There is a global need for a realistic blueprint to reduce carbon emissions. Whe... |
| 15.02.2022 | Energy Vault starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange | |
| 14.02.2022 | Energy Vault Holdings, Inc. Begins Trading on the New York Stock Exchange | The company begins trading under ticker symbols NRGV and NRGV WS today, February 14, 2022
Trading follows the successful completion of the business combination with Novus Capital Corporation II
Transaction raises approximately $235 million ... |
| 09.02.2022 | Clean energy leads global tech investments, McKinsey says | Image: SciLine, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) More about Innovation
Gartner identifies 25 emerging technologies in its 2022 hype cycle
The metaverse faces more than 8 potential cyberthreats
Zero-carbon, equitabl... |
| 01.02.2022 | Energy Vault, Atlas Renewable and China Tianying Announce $100 Million Transaction With Further Upsized Pipe, Licensing and Royalty Agreement, and Initial 100MWh Project to Drive Decarbonization in Ch... | First gravity-based storage agreement between a U.S. and Chinese company to support China’s stated goals of Carbon Peak by 2030 and Carbon Neutrality by 2060
$50 million new investment subscription at $10 per share upsizes previously announ... |
| 01.02.2022 |
Energy Vault In $100M Investment Deal With Chinese Investors
| Westlake Village-based gravity energy storage technology developer Energy Vault announced this morning that it is in a $100M transaction with two companies, Atlas Renewable and China Tianying, which involves a $50M investment subscription a... |
| 13.01.2022 | Live at Intersolar: The gravity of solving climate change | Live at Intersolar: The gravity of solving climate change
By Chris Crowell January 13, 2022 View Profile
Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America are actually happening this week in Long Beach, Calif. – yes, the first indus... |
| 06.01.2022 | Energy Vault’s SPAC obtains a further $50 million | |
| 27.12.2021 | Energy Vault inks partnership with mining giant BHP | |
| 09.11.2021 | Key takeaways from the SOSV Climate Tech Summit | Benjamin Joffe Contributor
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| 28.10.2021 | US-client to bring Energy Vault $500 million revenues | |
| 04.10.2021 | ClimateTech Updates For September 2021 | Flying over the earth's surface, 3D rendering. Elements Of This Video Furnished By Nasa.getty |
| 11.09.2021 | Startup Saturday: Greening the freight shipping chain for solar | This week on Startup Saturday we have three companies making potentially disruptive innovations in solar and energy storage.PVpallet rethinks solar shipping
PVpallet, which recently netted a $1 million investment from Iowa-based ISA Venture... |
| 10.09.2021 | Energy Vault to go public via SPAC | Lugano-based Energy Vault is developing energy storage systems using gravity to store and release renewable energy on-demand, underpinned by advanced material science and proprietary software technologies.Founded in 2018, the company has a ... |
| 09.09.2021 | More SPAC Action: Tech Company Using Gravity to Store Energy Inks $1.6 Billion Deal | Energy Vault, a startup that uses gravity and composite blocks heavier than a school bus to store renewable energy, plans to go public in a $1.6 billion merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
The combined entity — consist... |
| 09.09.2021 | Energy Vault, the Technology Company Using Gravity-based, Grid-Scale Energy Storage to Accelerate Global Decarbonization, to List on the NYSE Through Merger with Novus Capital Corporation II | Novus Capital Corporation II (NYSE: NXU, NXU.U, NXU WS) (“Novus”) and Energy Vault, an energy storage solutions company, jointly announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination; upon closing, the combi... |
| 26.08.2021 | SoftBank-backed gravity-based energy storage startup Energy Vault raises €85M | Switzerland and US-based Energy Vault offers a utility-scale, gravity-based storage solution for renewable energy. The company aims to help power companies store energy for use to make up for the wind and solar intermittency.
In a recent de... |
| 25.08.2021 | Energy Vault Raises $100M in Series C Funding | Energy Vault, a Westlake Village, CA-based creator of gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage solutions with its proprietary technology, raised $100m in Series C funding.
The round was led by existing investor Prime Movers Lab, with partic... |
| 25.08.2021 | Energy Vault raises another $100 million | |
| 25.08.2021 | Watch: Gravity-based renewable energy storage tower for grid-scale operations | Energy Vault, maker of the EVx gravitational energy storage tower, has secured $100 million in series C funding. The investment was led by Prime Movers Lab, with additional participation from SoftBank, Saudi Aramco, Helena, and Idealab X.
T... |
| 25.08.2021 | Energy Vault Announces $100 Million Series C Funding | New Financing from Round Led by Prime Movers Lab Will Support Deployment of EVx™ Platform to Fulfill Strong Pipeline of Customer Demand
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. & LUGANO, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 25, 2021–
Energy Vault (the “C... |
| 25.08.2021 |
Energy Vault Scores $100M For Gravity-Based Energy Storage
| Westlake Village-based Energy Vault, which is developing gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage systems, has raised $100M in its Series C funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Prime Movers Lab, and also... |
| 22.07.2021 | Energy Vault obtains $20 million and strategic partnership with US-based company | Energy Vault offers renewable energy storage products combining an innovative crane design that lifts specially designed, massive composite blocks with a proprietary, cloud-based software platform that orchestrates the storage and discharge... |
| 20.07.2021 | Can giant gravity batteries also solve the planet’s waste problem? | It looks like an apartment building-sized game of Jenga with crane arms hoisting and lowering 35-tonne blocks up and down in a hypnotic sequence, storing and releasing energy as the weights move up and down.
The bizarre-looking system is a ... |
| 20.07.2021 | Helena Announces Strategic Partnership With Energy Vault | Helena Also Invests $20 Million to Further Expand the Circular Economic Value Proposition of the Company’s Energy Storage Platform and its Breakthrough Remediation Technologies
LOS ANGELES & LUGANO, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 20, ... |
| 20.07.2021 | Helena Announces Strategic Partnership With Energy Vault | All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
Helena Also Invests $20 Million to Further Expand the Circular Economic Value Proposition of the Company’s Energy Storage Platform and its Breakthrough Remediation... |
| 13.07.2021 | Innovative Construction, 12 innovations for the future | By Gonzalo Galindo, Head of CEMEX Ventures
With 30 years of experience in the built sector, Gonzalo leads CEMEX Ventures in the search of innovative business models for CEMEX and the construction industry, helping propel innovation, sustai... |
| 03.06.2021 | Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures Invests in Energy Vault | |
| 02.06.2021 | Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures Invests in Energy Vault | Companies Will Also Focus on Deployment of Energy Vault’s Transformative, New EVx Energy Storage Technology Within Aramco
LUGANO, Switzerland & DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 2, 2021–
Energy Vault, the creator of renewable e... |
| 02.06.2021 | Energy Vault Receives Investment from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures | Energy Vault, a Lugano, Switzerland-based maker of renewable energy storage products, received an investment from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the strategic technology venturing program of global integrated energy and chemicals comp... |
| 02.06.2021 | Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures Invests in Energy Vault | Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.
Companies Will Also Focus on Deployment of Energy Vault’s Transformative, New EVx Energy Storage Technology Within Aramco
LUGANO, Switzerland & DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabi... |
| 03.03.2021 | The push for a Greener Economy | If you are a regular reader then you surely must have come across the term Green Economy being used repeatedly over the past few years. Only two years ago did we get to witness the remarkable speech of climate change activist Greta Thunberg... |
| 24.02.2021 | Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million | As energy grids transition away from fossil fuels and toward the use of zero emission sources of power from primarily renewable energy sources, they’re going to need an ability to store and then use the massive amounts of energy that’s only... |
| 30.11.2020 | Update: Form Energy’s stealthy ‘aqueous air battery’ with 150-hour duration lands $76 million funding round | Form Energy revealed the investors in its recent $76 million funding round.
The stealthy company’s Series C was led by Coatue Management. Funding in the startup now totals more than $125 million from investors including NGP Energy Technolog... |
| 16.11.2020 | Form Energy’s stealthy ‘aqueous air battery’ with 150-hour duration gets another $70 million | Mateo Jaramillo, CEO and co-founder of Form Energy, revealed that the stealthy company closed a Series C funding of more than $70 million, as per Reuters. Funding in the startup now totals more than $120 million. The CEO did not disclose th... |
| 13.11.2020 | CSP startup Heliogen scores $39 million in DOE funding for supercritical CO2 project | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is betting big on supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as the key to making concentrated solar power (CSP) not only cost competitive, but a major driver for decarbonizing high-temperature manufacturing pro... |
| 27.08.2020 | Long-duration energy storage makes progress but regulation lags technology | If you were building an electrical grid from scratch (with no regard to regulations or finance), then long-duration energy storage would be a requisite. It just makes sense — store energy when it’s cheap and/or abundant, and discharge when ... |
| 23.06.2020 | Bill Gates leads $10M investment in Quidnet’s long-duration geomechanical pumped storage | Quidnet Energy, a startup developing a long-duration energy storage technology, just closed on a $10 million series B financing round. Additionally, the firm announced a contract with the New York State Energy Development Authority (NYSERDA... |
| 19.06.2020 | Three Swiss companies among WEF’s Technology Pioneers | The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers of 2020 are 100 of the most promising early to growth-stage companies that are shaping industries from agriculture to healthcare, while also working on sustainability issues and much more. This y... |
| 19.06.2020 | Three Swiss companies among WEF’s Technology Pioneers | |
| 08.05.2020 | Form Energy claims its aqueous air battery provides 150-hour duration storage | Form Energy, a secretive, long-duration energy storage startup funded by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and other investors is unstealthing — sort of.
The company has revealed that its fundamental energy storage technology is an “... |
| 16.03.2020 | Demand Power gets $71 million for battery storage, solar and energy services | Humans are going to continue to need cheap renewable power and energy storage, regardless of the species taking some sick-time off.
Demand Power, a behind-the-meter energy storage and services company, just closed a $71 million raise of equ... |
| 10.03.2020 | ESA: More records set for US energy storage installs in Q4, massive growth forecasted | According to the U.S. Energy Storage Association (ESA) and Wood Mackenzie, Q4 2019 marks the largest-ever quarter for storage deployments across all U.S. market segments.
It was a record quarter for power capacity with the U.S. deploying 18... |
| 01.03.2020 | Energy storage projects reach ‘investment-grade’ with esVolta’s $140 million debt facility | esVolta, a developer of utility-scale battery energy storage projects, recently closed a $140 million senior secured credit facility to finance a 136 MW/480 MWh portfolio of eight storage projects in California.
It’s this type of institutio... |
| 15.08.2019 | Energy Vault Closes $110M Series B Funding | Energy Vault, a Lugano, Switzerland-based creator of renewable energy storage products, completed a $110m Series B funding round.
The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund). day. As part of the investment, Andreas Hansson, Part... |
| 15.08.2019 | Softbank invests $110 million in a Swiss cleantech startup | |
| - | Switzerland’s Energy Vault to raise $338 million via SPAC merger at $1.1 billion valuation | Gravity-based renewable energy storage provider Energy Vault is expected to raise up to $388 million in cash proceeds in a SPAC merger with Novus Capital Corporation II. Once completed, the combined company will have an implied pro-forma va... |
