January 2025
Leyton Capital Advisors facilitates debt funding for innovative energy flexibility management solution software Oaktree Power from the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) to finance growth and expansion plans.
OakTree Power is re-inventing electricity markets by matching blue-chip industrial and commercial clients existing electrical assets to a new and growing cross border flexibility marketplace generating recurring revenue streams. Empowering companies to cut energy expenses and reduce carbon emissions to accelerate net-zero goals.
OakTree Power’s Pan-European platform provides a crucial digital infrastructure layer to accelerate the energy transition, each time their clients provide flexibility services they decarbonise the networks around them, systematically lowering network cost, speeding up integration of renewables, and ultimately lowering the wholesale cost of energy while reducing the carbon intensity of energy system, providing a substantial societal benefit for generations to come.
Lead by Stephen Mitchell, Investment Manager for The FSE Group, which manages the £55 million GLIF debt fund on behalf of Funding London, GLIF have provided a bespoke debt funding package to support Oaktree Power’s growth strategy.
Commenting on the deal, Stephen Mitchell from GLIF said: “The team at Oaktree Power have built a market leading platform serving blue chip energy producers, manufacturers and more generally large energy users providing a real value-add. We are excited to support the next stage of this journey and working with the team to further grow the business in the future”.
Chantel Scheepers, CEO at Oaktree Power commented: “It’s an exciting time for the team at Oaktree Power. This funding means we can enter our next phase of growth – expanding to Belgium, France, Germany and Poland – and support even more organisations with our flexibility solutions to help them continue to operate whilst achieving their decarbonation goals.”
Corporate Finance advice was provided by Nicolas Jacquier at Leyton Capital Advisors, who said: “We are very proud to have helped Oaktree Power at this major milestone and to have facilitated the partnership with leading lender FSE Group. I am honoured to have played a role in fostering this alliance and wish the best to Oaktree Power’s team in this new chapter of its development”
If you would like to discuss growth financing in more detail or our wider funding capabilities do get in touch.
About Oaktree Power
Founded in London in 2020 by Guillaume Molhant Proost and Andreas Wiele, Oaktree Power is a leading climate technology company headquartered in London that designs and develops digital infrastructure solutions. Its mission is to accelerate grid decarbonization and support the increasing contribution of renewable energy to the overall power generation mix. By optimising commercial and industrial electricity consumers’ energy consumption and managing their flexibility potential.
OakTree Power reduces their energy bill and carbon footprint at no cost. This actively supports the emergence of the grid of the future while accelerating the transition of OakTree Power’s clients to net zero. For more information: www.oaktreepower.com
About Greater London Investment Fund
GLIF is a £100m initiative to help address the SME finance gap in Greater London, promoting economic growth through enterprise and an inclusive and sustainable economy. £55m of debt funding is available, via loans between £100,000 and £1m, to early-stage and established SMEs looking to scale-up and realise their growth ambitions. GLIF is financed through the European Investment Bank (EIB), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), London Waste & recycling Board (LWARB) and Funding London’s Legacies. For more information: www.thefsegroup.com
About Leyton Capital Advisors
Leyton Capital Advisors is the new advisory practice of the R&D tax claims leading specialist Leyton. We assist high growth firms active in software, environment/energy transition & technologies addressing their strategic challenges focussing on equity & debt fundraising, acquisitions, acquisition financing and disposals transactions. For more information: www.leyton.com
For more information please contact:
- Nicolas Jacquier, njacquier@leyton.com, 07901606076
- Chantel Scheepers, Chantel.Scheepers@oaktreepower.com, 07889269367
- Stephen Mitchell, Stephen.Mitchell@thefsegroup.com, 07917681087
