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Weesp, the Netherlands-based Solarix, a startup that designs and provides modern colored photo voltaic panels for facades, introduced on Friday that it has secured €900K funding from ROM InWest, the regional growth company in North Holland, The Netherlands.
ROM InWest manages two funds – the SME Fund of €60M and the Transition Fund with a goal capital of €100M.
The most recent funding comes from the Transition Fund, which is designed to assist firms whose service or product accelerates the main and essential transitions of our time.
Three undisclosed buyers from the development sector additionally participated within the spherical.
“The settlement between Solarix and ROM InWest was signed on February 8, 2023,” reads the press launch.
The capital will assist Solarix to speed up the manufacturing of colored photo voltaic panels for facades in response to quickly rising demand.
“New local weather rules and quickly rising vitality costs are making it more and more essential that buildings generate their vitality, partly or in entire,” say founder Reinier Bosch of Solarix.
He provides, “Photo voltaic panels normally make the largest contribution, however particularly in high-rise buildings the roof space is commonly too small to put in sufficient photo voltaic panels. Facade panels are the reply.”
“Demand for these is rising quickly, so we’re delighted that our manufacturing and variety of jobs could be considerably expanded due to this funding. It implies that Solarix can proceed to develop from Dutch frontrunner to a outstanding European participant,” says Bosch.
Solarix: Aesthetic-coloured photo voltaic panels for facades
Based in 2018 by Marloes van Heteren and Reinier Bosch, Solarix designs and manufactures aesthetic colored photo voltaic panels for facades.
By producing vitality in facades, Solarix goals to speed up the vitality transition and obtain a minimal discount of 25 per cent in CO2 emissions or utterly energy-neutral buildings.
With its distinctive color expertise, design collections, and related mounting system, Solarix says its photo voltaic panels could be absolutely built-in into sustainable and aesthetic facade options.
The corporate’s group consists of individuals with data of design (from expertise to product and visualisation), structure, challenge administration, physics, photo voltaic expertise, finance, and gross sales.
The Investor
ROM InWest is the regional growth firm for North Holland.
Janet Nieboer, CEO of ROM InWest, says, “ROM InWest is working in the direction of a sturdy North Holland economic system that gives equal alternatives to all and doesn’t hurt our planet and local weather. By investing in ‘inexperienced’, promising firms, we speed up sustainable improvements which might be decisive for the vitality transition. Solarix matches that profile completely.”
