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Solease has raised funding to support its growth

February 2023 — Solease has successfully raised funding to further scale-up its solar PV and insulation activities. In addition, the funds will be used to expand Solease’s offering to include hybrid heat pumps, EV chargers and home batteries.

Headquartered in Utrecht, Solease is an Energy-as-a-Service platform with a focus on solar leasing in the B2C market in the Netherlands. It was founded in 2011 to enable decentralized clean energy solutions for everyone. Solease does this by developing, designing and financing clean energy solutions on behalf of its customers. This Energy-as-a-Service model allows for immediate customer saving, while generating long-term stable and recurring cash flow for Solease.

Our role in the transaction

Oaklins’ team in the Netherlands acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of Solease.

“Together with our partners we have been working hard on realizing a carbon free future. We are incredibly excited and enormously proud of our fourth successful fundraising round. This puts the company in a strong position to execute on its growth strategy. The additional funds allow us to accelerate our ambitions to make solar PV and other clean energy solutions available to everybody, hassle-free and without up-front investment.”

Pierre Vermeulen

Founder and CEO, Solease

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Tom Snijckers

Partner
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oaklins Netherlands

Adse de Kock

Partner
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oaklins Netherlands

Sander van 't Spijker

Associate Director
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oaklins Netherlands

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