Alexander Küppers
Investment Director
Alex is a Managing Director at Statkraft Ventures and is serving on the boards of SkySpecs, Open Mineral, Schrott24, tado° and previously Limejump (acquired by Shell) and Enview (acquired by Matterport). He aspires to invest in innovative start-ups driving the worldwide energy transition. Alex turned from a successful intrapreneur into a venture capitalist.
Alex has a strong track-record in the energy sector starting as a power trader and scaled Statkraft´s renewable power-purchase agreement (PPA) business from scratch to market leadership. Further he pioneered Europe´s biggest renewable Virtual Power Plant with more than 10GW of installed capacity. Alex holds a Diploma in Economics from University of Mainz, Warsaw School of Economics and Norwegian School of Economics Bergen.