Furo

Furo is a Munich-based software company, founded in 2025, that builds an AI-powered platform for industrial battery storage. Its product covers the full lifecycle of storage projects - planning software, real-time AI optimisation and energy trading - with the stated aim of turning idle battery hardware into working capital for industrial businesses. The optimisation engine forecasts electricity prices and weather up to 48 hours ahead and sequences multiple use cases, including peak shaving, self-consumption optimisation, tariff arbitrage, grid fee reduction and energy trading. The platform operates at more than 6,000 industrial sites across Germany and Europe, with customer energy cost reductions of up to 40 percent.

The technical work spans several demanding domains at once: machine learning, electricity price and weather forecasting, real-time optimisation, energy flexibility and dispatch optimisation, and battery storage lifecycle management. Furo's channel reaches more than 800 installers, project developers, storage manufacturers and utilities. The company concentrates on Germany's renewables-driven price volatility, which its founders regard as the world's most demanding training ground for battery software optimisation.

Furo was founded by three co-founders - Lena Sophia Voß, Leonie Wagner and Simon Wittner - who met as students at the Technical University of Munich and previously worked at companies including Google X, Apple and AI startups in San Francisco. They returned to Germany motivated by Europe's energy crisis and the urgency of industrial battery storage. The company was originally founded in 2025 as Lumera Energy and later renamed Furo.