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Porsche invests in German startup aiming to be a one-stop shop for carbon neutral homes



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Porsche’s venture arm has taken a minority stake in 1Komma5, a five-month-old German startup aiming to offer households everything needed for a carbon neutral home, including energy storage, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and solar.
The investment, the amount of which was not disclosed, follows a series of deals made by Porsche Ventures in the past two years, including Israel-based sensing technology startup TriEye, online electric micromobility dealership RidePanda and virtual sensing startup Tactile Mobility.
This investment is a bit of a departure from Porsche Ventures’ typical mobility tech play.
“With this investment, we want to underline our ambition in the area of smart city and sustainability,” Patrick Huke, head of Porsche Ventures Europe and Israel told TechCrunch.
The Hamburg, Germany startup was founded by Micha Grueber, who is the CFO, and Philipp Schröder, whose previous stints were at Tesla and energy storage systems company Sonnen.
The company — its name a nod to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement to keep the increase of global temper …

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