Valencia's Linkener Closes €7.5M Round Led by Alantra's Klima Fund to Scale AI Energy Management for Businesses

Linkener also keeps an engineering team focused on turning identified savings into concrete projects. That team has delivered more than 400 solar photovoltaic and battery storage projects across Spain. The company points to the services sector as an area with wide room for growth, where better control of consumption can translate into savings of around 20 percent and more efficient cost management.

The new capital is earmarked for three areas. The first is technology, including proprietary AI models designed for energy management. Linkener intends to apply AI and advanced data analysis to automate the processing of energy information and bills, detect anomalies and identify opportunities for optimisation and savings for its customers.

The second is commercial growth. The third is consolidation. The company says the round opens a stage of consolidation in a highly fragmented market and that it expects to add new products and companies through mergers and acquisitions that complement its existing business and widen the solutions offered to customers, reinforcing its product, technology and commercial capabilities.

José Ignacio Ruiz, chief executive of Linkener, said the round will help accelerate the transformation of a very fragmented sector in which energy management is still anchored in practices from 40 years ago. "We want businesses to have reliable data and technology to understand how much they spend on energy, anticipate their costs and make better decisions," he said.

Iñigo Echániz, a partner at Klima, said Linkener combines proprietary technology, independent energy data and a direct relationship with thousands of customers, which creates a differentiated base for adding new capabilities and solutions. He said the investment is meant to support the team in a new stage of growth, both organic and through acquisitions, with the aim of building a leading technology platform for energy management.

Víctor Vercher, a partner at GoHub Ventures, said the round opens a new stage that places the company at the centre of the sector, with the capacity to scale and consolidate the market.

Klima is the energy transition fund of Alantra, the investment banking and asset management group. Its portfolio already includes Swtch, Echandia, Dexter and Maxwell+Spark, and Spanish media reports describe an industrial partner in the fund in the form of grid operator Enagás.

The deal arrives during a strong year for startup financing in Spain. Investment in Spanish startups passed the €2 billion mark in the first half of 2026 after a 2025 in which volumes fell by 3 percent, according to figures reported in the Spanish business press.

The round totals €7.5 million and was led by Klima, with GoHub Ventures continuing as a shareholder. On the operating side, Linkener reports more than 2,000 customers and 10,000 supply points, which works out to roughly five supply points per customer on average. Klima's Echániz cited the company's proprietary technology and independent energy data as the differentiating base for the investment.

Customers range from individual professionals to large corporations. For them, the platform combines three functions in one place: metering with proprietary telemetry, automated reading and validation of energy bills, and a stream of recommendations on where consumption or contract terms can be improved. Where a saving requires physical work, the company's engineers handle the design and delivery of solar and storage installations.

Linkener's backers and management have said the funding marks the start of a consolidation phase. The company has not named specific acquisition targets or disclosed a valuation for the round. Its management has described the market as one where energy management practices have changed little in four decades, and says the combination of better data, automation and consolidation is how it intends to change that.