Enshift automates path from large buildings to net zero

The cleantech start-up enshift supports the transformation of large commercial properties to local and renewable energies with its digital all-in-one solution. It aims to automate and simplify the entire process. Well-known investors believe in the platform.

The young Baar-based cleantech company enshift offers owners of large commercial properties a complete digital solution for the path to net zero. According to a media release, it is designed to automate and simplify the entire transformation process towards local and renewable energies.

Its toolset reportedly includes everything needed for design, contracting, financing, implementation and performance optimisation. It spans the life cycle of all currently available renewable energy technologies.

“We have set our 2050 net-zero targets, but the path to get there is completely unclear for the construction and real estate sector,” founder and CEO Pierre Bi is quoted as saying. “We believe our solution can accelerate the transformation and increase energy retrofits in Europe by a factor of 3.” As a sign of its “strong will” to make a positive contribution to change, enshift offers free property and potential analyses to commercial building owners in Switzerland.

Bi had already launched Aeris Cleantech. The company, which focuses on air purification, was acquired by iRobot, a North American specialist in cleaning robots, in November 2021.

In the first stage of a seed financing round, Bis new company enshift raised 3.5 million Swiss francs. International investors such as Israel’s Sarona Ventures, Vevey VD-based OneCreation and, via Berlin-based Global Founders Capital, the founder of start-up accelerator Rocket Internet, Oliver Samwer, participated. Meanwhile, 20 engineers and developers reportedly work at enshift, while the first green energy projects are already entering the implementation phase.