feld.vitality, a Munich-based agricultural photovoltaics (Agri-PV) startup, has secured greater than €10 million in Seed funding to scale its dual-use photo voltaic and farming methods throughout Germany.
The spherical was led by HV Capital, with backing from Future Power Ventures, AENU, and Angel Make investments.
Dr Adrian Renner Co-founder and CEO, says “Securing this Seed spherical is a decisive step ahead for feld.vitality. Our imaginative and prescient is to show that farming and renewable vitality can complement one another to create lasting worth. By empowering farmers to generate clear electrical energy with out compromising meals manufacturing we enhance agricultural resilience and speed up the shift towards a climate-neutral financial system. This funding will assist us strengthen our group and scale our answer in order that farms in every single place profit from this dual-use method.“
Based in 2024 by Dr Adrian Renner and Lukas Zels, feld.vitality goals to allow farmers to concurrently develop meals and generate clear electrical energy utilizing modular, machine-friendly Agri-PV methods.
The corporate operates throughout the complete deployment chain – from feasibility evaluation to building – and positions its tech as each subsidy-free and economically compelling. Below its lease mannequin, farmers can earn over €100k over 20 years, all whereas reportedly sustaining full agricultural output.
“The Agri-PV sector is at an inflection level, and feld.vitality is exceptionally properly positioned to unlock its huge potential,” famous David Kuczek, Common Companion at HV Capital.
Germany’s vitality transition is making a fertile floor for such innovation. The nation goals to attain 60% renewable vitality in gross last consumption by 2050, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Photo voltaic Power Techniques (ISE) estimates that Agri-PV might unlock as much as 2,900 GW of technical potential throughout the nation.
With land-use pressures mounting and water conservation turning into more and more important, options like feld.vitality’s are uniquely positioned to handle each local weather and financial considerations concurrently.
Working on a mission to make solar-agriculture co-existence the norm, not the area of interest, feld.vitality focuses on areas starting from arable fields and pastures to speciality crops. Its expertise guarantees machine-compatible photo voltaic installations that protect farming workflows whereas delivering decentralised vitality output.
“Agri-PV is quickly trending as a result of it brilliantly addresses the rising land competitors for meals and vitality manufacturing, providing win-win options for farmers by means of diversified earnings and enhanced crop resilience, all whereas driving the inexperienced vitality transition ahead. We imagine that feld.vitality’s distinctive Founders are those who will convey Agri-PV from area of interest to the mainstream,” mentioned Jan Palasinski, Companion at Future Power Ventures.
With this contemporary funding, feld.vitality plans to develop its group, scale operations, and produce its mannequin to extra farms throughout Germany – and doubtlessly past. The startup’s long-term objective is to remodel dual-use farmland right into a climate-resilient, income-generating commonplace for contemporary agriculture.
Philip Specht, Companion at AENU, praised the founders’ imaginative and prescient: “feld.vitality is main the cost within the fast-growing Agri-PV market, reworking agricultural land into hybrid powerhouses that mix vitality technology and farming.”
