In 2015 Energy Impact Partners identified a gap in the energy landscape: utilities faced challenges in collaborating and funding the best climate tech ideas across corporate boundaries. Hans Kobler, an experienced energy investor, saw an opportunity to build a coalition of utilities, industrials and entrepreneurs to align incentives and scale breakthrough technologies faster. The founding spark was to create an investment platform that connects ambitious startups with strategic corporate partners to accelerate deployment and adoption of innovations that reduce emissions and improve resilience.
Since then, Energy Impact Partners has grown into a global energy technology investor with a proprietary model designed to drive innovation. It manages more than $4.5 billion in assets under management and works with over 80 corporate partners worldwide. With offices across New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Atlanta, Palm Beach, London, Cologne and Oslo, EIP combines rigorous financial discipline with deep industry relationships to back venture, growth credit and infrastructure opportunities at a scale that helps transform the energy economy for the better.