• Elewit is the new brand of the technological platform of the Red Eléctrica Group, a company that was born in 2019 to promote the energy transition and the development of telecommunications.
• Its first venture-client programme has promoted the development of four Spanish startups specialising in the fields of blockchain, augmented and extended reality and artificial vision, which have launched six pilot projects in the fields of substation maintenance, line engineering, electricity demand-side management and occupational health and safety.

Elewit, the new brand

On International Women in Engineering Day, companies, investors and the whole word is aware that this profession should not have any gender bias. Therefore, Red Eléctrica keeps moving forward towards equality and diversity and continues to promote mechanisms to drive the presence of women at the organisation, among them female engineers, and their promotion to managing positions and positions of responsibility.

Zeleros Hyperloop has completed a financing round worth more than €7 million. The company starts a new and important phase in the development of its unique version of hyperloop, the “fifth mode of transport”, the best alternative for the future to connect efficiently and sustainably long-distance routes for passenger and cargo transportation. Connections like Paris – Berlin could be reduced to less than an hour.

The Positive Energy+ platform estimates an initial investment of 4.19 million euros for the final 12 start-ups selected from the urgent call launched on 7 April. The initiative, which received 396 proposals in just thirteen days, closed successfully on 19 April and during the virtual Positive Energy+ Demo Day some of the finalists were announced.

CounterCraft, a European cybersecurity software company, today announced it has secured $5 million in additional funding. The financing round was led by Adara Ventures, joined by new investors eCAPITAL and Elewit, with participation from existing investors including Evolution Equity Partners, ORZA, and Wayra (Telefonica’s Open Innovation Hub).

This week the innovation ecosystem is looking south. Granada is holding Alhambra Venture, the forum for innovation, investment and entrepreneurship promoted by IDEAL. Elewit will also be taking part in this important event, and we will do so in coordination with Elena de Benavides, our Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lead who will present our strategy for open innovation and the main milestones in this field.