Homaio announces a fundraise of €3.6 million.
RAISE Ventures, Groupe Eren and new strategic business angels join existing investors XAnge and Redstone, who are also increasing their participation.
Having made the European carbon allowance market accessible to private investors, Homaio is expanding. The company will help investors to participate in the opportunities offered by the full range of markets shaping the energy transition. This funding accelerates the development of the platform and the expansion of its offering beyond carbon allowances.
This expansion takes place against a backdrop of global energy system realignment. For Europe, succeeding in the transition is both a strategic and environmental imperative. Its dependence on fossil fuel imports makes this a question of economic sovereignty. The emissions, energy and industrial markets driving this transformation represent billions of euros in capital flows, and significant return opportunities for investors who know how to access them.
"Trillions of dollars will change hands between generations by 2048, flowing toward investors who demand performance and exposure to the defining challenges of the coming decades: energy sovereignty, reindustrialisation, economic resilience. In Europe, we import more than 90% of our oil and gas; decarbonisation is as much an economic sovereignty imperative as it is a climate issue. Homaio is building the platform this new generation of investors needs, with a first product on the carbon allowance market."
Thibaut Schlaeppi, Managing Partner, Raise Ventures
The first platform to make the emissions allowance market accessible
Founded in 2023, Homaio makes the carbon allowance market, previously reserved for institutional funds and regulated companies (industrials, energy producers, and transporters), accessible to retail investors.
European allowances (EUAs) are the backbone of the EU's climate and energy policy, as well as a driver of its industrial sovereignty and competitiveness. Opening this €800 billion market to private investors makes it more liquid and more efficient. Carbon allowance prices have delivered significant performance over the past decade, historically uncorrelated with traditional asset classes.
Since its public launch in September 2024, the platform has attracted thousands of users across more than 30 countries and manages several million euros in assets under management.
"The energy transition is first and foremost a question of capital allocation. Capital flows determine the pace of industrial transformation. Homaio exists to open private investors' access to the markets shaping this transition — markets that offer return opportunities uncorrelated with traditional asset classes."
Valentin Lautier, founder of Homaio
The financial infrastructure to steer capital toward the energy transition
With this new raise, which brings Homaio's total funding to over €5M, the company aims to go well beyond access to European allowances alone.
Homaio is preparing the launch of new financial products linked to international emissions pricing systems, energy markets, the “electrification of everything”, and other markets central to industrial decarbonisation and the fight against climate change.
Homaio is building the technological and financial infrastructure capable of directing private capital at scale toward the financing of major industrial and energy transformations.
"Homaio has built an innovative financial platform for a complex, regulated market and shown it can scale internationally. That’s why we doubled down and why we believe it can become the defining capital markets infrastructure for the energy transition."
Richard Würl, Principal at Redstone
"Homaio is opening private investors' access to strategic markets for the energy transition, previously reserved for institutional players. We are convinced that this democratisation will play a key role in mobilising more capital toward the decarbonisation of the economy."
Cyril Bertrand, CEO & Managing Partner, XAnge
A shift in investor demand
Interest in these products reflects a broader shift in the behaviour of private investors, who are increasingly informed, autonomous, and demanding in the management of their investments. They scrutinise fees, diversify beyond traditional banking products, and seek high-performing assets anchored in the defining strategic challenges of our time.
Homaio offers a simple, intuitive platform to meet these expectations. With this new raise, an entire range of liquid products, uncorrelated with traditional markets and directly tied to long-term economic, climate and geopolitical shifts, is set to launch.
"This is the first product I've come across in a long time that genuinely surprises me. Financially solid, liquid, denominated in euros, and relevant to our collective generational challenges. I can't help wondering why no one thought of it before."
Aurore Gambelin, a Homaio user
About Homaio
Founded in 2023 by Valentin Lautier, Homaio is the only investment platform enabling retail investors to invest in emissions allowance markets.
These markets put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and form the backbone of global climate policy, in China, Europe, Brazil and beyond. More than 40 jurisdictions worldwide have implemented emissions trading systems.
Homaio structures financial securities physically backed by carbon allowances, giving private investors access to this market. Homaio simplifies and secures access to these investments, enabling investors to subscribe in minutes, enter and exit this liquid market freely, and track the environmental and financial performance of their portfolio in real time.
Homaio works with leading financial and institutional partners, including Aether Financial Services (AFS), a security agent, which protects investors against counterparty risk. The European Registry, where allowances are physically held, is administered by the Caisse des Dépôts.
About Raise
RAISE Ventures is the venture capital strategy of Groupe RAISE, through which it manages RAISE Seed for Good — a €45M AUM Tech for Good fund investing from pre-seed to seed in mission-driven founders building solutions to major environmental and societal challenges. RAISE Seed for Good writes tickets of up to €2M in European technology companies with direct or indirect positive social or environmental impact potential.
With €2 billion under management, Groupe RAISE is a European investment group and a pioneer of purpose-driven finance. A mission-driven company with a unique success-sharing model in service of entrepreneurs, RAISE operates across two business lines: investment strategies to support companies and projects at every stage of their development and transformation, and philanthropic innovation. Groupe RAISE is built on a funding mechanism that combines financial returns with generosity — investment teams share 50% of their carried interest to fund the internal endowment fund, RAISE Sherpas, a philanthropic accelerator dedicated to environmental and social impact projects. This model, pioneering in France, creates a virtuous ecosystem bringing together large corporates and institutional shareholders, mid-sized companies, startups and non-profits.
About Redstone
Redstone is a European venture capital firm with €600M under management that leverages proprietary data intelligence to drive sector-specific investment strategies. Through their fintech strategy, they have backed leading European category champions including Qonto, Orus, or Liqid.
About XAnge
XAnge is a B Corp-certified early-stage investment fund with €800M under management and offices in Paris, Berlin and Brussels. The fund backs European founders aiming to transform everyday life through technology, investing between €1 million and €15 million from seed through Series C.
XAnge invests in Deep Tech (Aerospacelab, Ledger), SaaS (Odoo, 360Learning, Skello), AI (Gleamer, Tomorro), energy transition (Greenly, GreenFusion), digital finance (Lydia) and healthcare. XAnge is the venture capital brand of the Siparex group.
About Eren Group
Eren Group was founded in 2011 by Pâris Mouratoglou and David Corchia, following the sale of EDF Energies Nouvelles.
The Group was built to deploy a broad range of solutions enabling a more efficient use of natural resources, through two branches: EREN Renewable Energy, which became Total Eren in 2017 and was sold to TotalEnergies in 2023, and an Industries branch. Through its Industries branch, EREN is active across several sectors of the energy transition, including thermal management of buildings and industrial facilities, low-carbon production (hydrogen, biogas, biomethane, etc.), energy storage, waste-to-energy treatment to capture energy, CO₂ and other valuable by-products, and other related fields.
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