ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: SCALABLE INNOVATIONS
Championing disruptive thinking, giving nascent ideas the opportunity to grow
Through its external investments, Pella has backed a range of scalable technologies that are looking to accelerate the energy transition.
Energy Investments:
Through ERV and Prosemino, Pella is investing in pioneering clean tech, deep science opportunities, collaborating with some of the top academic institutions:
Energy Revolution Ventures: backing technologies that power tomorrow.
An early-stage venture capital firm focused on foundational technologies for an electrified world.
Focused on transforming electrochemical innovation into market leading energy ventures that will power daily lives and have a meaningful global impact.
ERV, in partnership with Prosemino, delivers an incubator program for early-stage energy tech startups.
Prosemino: built for clean energy innovators and start ups
Prosemino is on a mission to accelerate the energy transition by addressing the critical barriers to moving climate tech from concept to commercial deployment at scale.
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Prosemino builds, finances and scales impactful climate technology ventures that are driving positive change in the world.
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Prosemino is a venute building and investor with proprietary laboratories that enable innovations and transform visionary ideas.
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Working in partnership with Energy Revolution Ventures and in collaboration with founders, leading academic institutions and corporates.
Neura has developed proprietary hardware, software and business applications that make it uniquely positioned to provide technological solutions for the energy sector in South Africa.
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Neura is working with Eskom and South African municipalities to shift electricity demand from the morning and evening peaks to create savings
Energy Technologies:
Pioneering next generation technology
Lithium-ion battery recycling – Li-Cycle (NYSE: LICY) developed a sustainable process for recovery of critical materials from all types of lithium-ion batteries.
Li-Cycle created innovative Spoke & Hub Technologies™ to provide a customer-centric, end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries, while creating a secondary supply of critical battery materials.
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Low cost, safe, and environmentally friendly process
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End of life batteries as a resource not a waste - recovery rate of ≥95% of all materials.
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Acquired by Glencore in 2025
Li-Cycle is a legacy investment - Pella was a founder investor and sold its position post IPO