Enfuro Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, established in 2013 by Erik Schut and Ruud Rijbroek to support emerging companies in sustainable energy. The founders maintain a lean team, aiming for efficient decision making and close collaboration with entrepreneurs. Enfuro typically takes minority stakes, ensuring original teams retain control while benefiting from active guidance in strategy, marketing, management, network development and financing. The firm focuses on early-stage opportunities, with particular attention to seed and Series A investments across the Benelux and Western Europe, and selectively beyond.
The firm’s investment strategy targets technologies that accelerate the shift to low-carbon energy. Core areas include renewable power generation, energy storage, decarbonization solutions and smart grid services. Enfuro seeks companies with scalable business models and strong management teams. Portfolio firms receive hands-on support at key growth stages, drawing on the founders’ backgrounds in software expansion, organizational leadership and entrepreneur coaching. By reinforcing operational capabilities alongside capital, the firm fosters rapid progress while preserving founders’ vision and decision-making autonomy.
Examples of Enfuro’s cleantech investments include Elestor, which is developing a hydrogen bromine flow battery for large-scale electricity storage to integrate solar and wind power; Triple Solar, producing photovoltaic-thermal panels paired with heat pumps to reduce reliance on fossil fuels; Hardt Hyperloop, pursuing sustainable high-speed transport; and Sympower, a demand response aggregator that balances renewable supply and grid demand. These select companies illustrate Enfuro’s emphasis on innovative storage systems, efficiency solutions and next-generation transport technologies as part of a broader clean energy ecosystem.
