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Next growth phase: Verium invests in Lynus
Tuggen, July 31, 2024 – A group of investors led by Verium AG, a multi-family office, has acquired a significant minority stake in Lynus AG through a capital increase to unlock its vast growth potential. Lynus – a technology company providing advanced renewable energy solutions for residential and commercial properties – is pursuing ambitious growth plans and with it, reducing CO2 emissions and energy costs. The co-founders, Paul Hauser and Kai Ebensperger, alongside existing shareholders and management, will retain the majority and continue to be the driving forces behind the company.
In 2020, Paul Hauser and Kai Ebensperger launched Lynus AG with the aim of making an important contribution to the energy transition in Europe. As innovation leader in the highly dynamic renewable energy market, Lynus leverages its full-stack solution which combines an AI-based energy management software with the latest hardware components. The standardized software can be deployed for residential, commercial, and industrial properties, opening up a vast market potential. Also, Lynus’ solution gives access to the electricity market, e.g. enables to trade electricity seamlessly, using real-time weather data, user behavior and market prices, thereby reducing costs for its customers. The company has a strong edge in larger, complex installations – especially with its landlord-to-tenant electricity model (“Mieterstrommodell”), offering a holistic energy system solution for multi-family houses including automated, periodic billing.
Paul Hauser and Kai Ebensperger, founders of Lynus: “Since our inception in 2020, we were able to constantly refine the business model, improve the technology and build a broad pipeline of opportunities. By partnering with Verium, we can accelerate our growth and we are excited to tackle the next steps with our new partner.”
Innovation leader with significant growth potential
Lynus started as an innovative tech company and quickly established itself as a renowned provider for decentralized, renewable energy solutions. As part of its growth strategy, Lynus will focus on the roll-out in its core markets (DACH region and Italy), as well as expanding to other European countries to capture opportunities on a pan-European scale. At the same time, the company will focus on promoting its landlord-to-tenant electricity solution for multi-family residential buildings, thereby addressing a vast and untapped market potential fueled by favorable policy and regulatory changes. The capital injection of Verium and its extensive know-how in supporting companies to unlock their growth potential, will help Lynus to achieve its strategic goals. Verium strongly believes in the company’s momentum, highly capable team as well as its vital contribution to increasing the adoption of renewables.
"We are impressed by the founders’ technical expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and long-term vision," said George Merk of Verium. "Lynus is ideally positioned to capture the market potential ahead. We are excited about the future and look forward to working with the Lynus team to drive forward our strategy and deliver exceptional results."
About Lynus
Lynus is a Swiss technology company leveraging its full-stack solution which combines an AI-based energy management software with the latest hardware components. The standardized software can be deployed for residential, commercial, and industrial properties. The Lynus solution also gives access to the electricity market, e.g. enables to trade electricity seamlessly, using real-time weather data, user behavior and market prices, thereby reducing costs.
About Verium
Verium is an independent multi-family office in Zurich whose wide range of services is specifically geared towards families with an entrepreneurial mindset and the goal to secure and increase family wealth over the long term. For its clients, Verium also manages direct investments in medium-sized companies in the DACH region. Current investments include Home Instead, Christ & Heiri, Toradex, Tavola, Mobil in Time, DSwiss, Sequotech, Impact Acoustic and Lynus.
Contact
- Verium AG
Stephanie Roller, stephanie.roller@verium.ch
George Merk, george.merk@verium.ch
- Lynus AG
Paul Hauser, CEO, paul.hauser@lynus.io