Os fundadores da Furo deixaram o Vale do Silício — e está valendo a pena | TechCrunch
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- The startup, which developed software for industrial battery storage systems, has secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers. And just a year after its founding, Furo has locked in enterprise clients such as German rail company Deutsche Bahn.
- “We’re currently moving faster in Europe than if we’d have stayed in the U.S.,” Furo co-founder Lena Sophia Voß said.
- When they decided to start Furo with the ambition of helping industrial companies reduce their electricity costs, they determined that the problem was more pressing in Europe. Voß said it was especially critical in Germany, where over the last five years the country went from one energy crisis to another.
- Furo could have addressed this market from the U.S. — and briefly did so when it joined Neo’s accelerator program under its former name, Lumera Energy. But Voß said being far from Germany made their work more difficult.
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