UK-Based Veridue Secures €3.4 Million to Accelerate Renewable Energy and Data Centre Investment

By Nazish Shah • Tue Sep 08 2026

London-based Veridue, an AI-native due diligence and M&A platform focused on renewable energy and data centre infrastructure, has raised €3.44 million ($4 million) in a pre-Seed funding round to accelerate the rollout of its platform.

The funding round was led by Episode 1 Ventures, with participation from HTGF and Pi Labs, alongside notable industry leaders including Aurora Energy Research co-founder Cameron Hepburn and former Quantum Black CEO Jeremy Palmer.

The latest investment comes as demand for renewable energy infrastructure and data centres continues to grow across Europe and the US, driven by data centre expansion, electrification and increasing focus on energy security. While capital appetite remains strong, the sector continues to face challenges around lengthy and complex investment, financing and due diligence processes.

According to Veridue, the infrastructure buildout is increasingly being constrained by slow, expensive and manual workflows that make it difficult for investors and project stakeholders to evaluate opportunities at the speed required by the market.

“The infrastructure Europe needs, renewables, data centres, grid capacity, represents one of the most critical buildouts of our generation. Capital is ready. Projects are in the pipeline. What’s been missing is the ability to move deals at the pace the moment demands. Veridue is fixing exactly that,” said Timo Bertsch, Investment Manager at HTGF.

Founded in 2024 by former McKinsey energy investment advisor Daniel Csonth and former SCOR data science lead Xander van den Eelaart, Veridue was created to address the complex workflows involved in energy infrastructure transactions.

The company highlights several factors making clean energy dealmaking increasingly complex. Longer grid connection queues, planning risks and extended lead times are making ready-to-build and operating assets more attractive than starting projects from scratch. At the same time, hybrid assets such as Solar PV combined with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), co-located storage, merchant exposure and stacked revenue models are introducing additional layers of complexity into transactions.

Veridue aims to address these challenges through an AI-native platform designed specifically for energy infrastructure. The company says its platform provides institutional-grade due diligence and helps deal teams identify key risks, opportunities and insights through a single solution.

For investors, independent power producers (IPPs), lenders and insurers, Veridue offers AI-driven deal pipeline management, priority deal recommendations based on bespoke investment criteria and due diligence capabilities, including project maturity analysis. The company says these processes can be completed within hours rather than weeks.

The platform combines AI models with a proprietary agent layer and human oversight from in-house energy transaction specialists. Veridue also enables users to request familiar transaction outputs, including due diligence reports and information request lists (IRLs), through email.

For developers and sellers, the company provides a free institutional-grade data room designed to automatically organise documents into folders and file names, alongside an investment readiness report, vendor due diligence (VDD) and teaser.

Speaking about the company’s approach, Daniel Csonth, CEO and Founder of Veridue, said:

“We built Veridue as the solution we wished we had when we were the ones carrying the risk on a decision. It is not simply a chatbot pointed at a data room. It is AI trained on a proprietary dataset of real deals and their diligence outcomes, running on our own purpose-built agent layer to ensure results are deterministic with 100% traceable accuracy.”

Csonth added that the company combines AI technology with proprietary systems and human expertise to maintain the level of rigour required for energy infrastructure transactions.

“We always combine the best of the latest AI models, our proprietary tech and human expertise. We have top energy industry experts in-house who validate the AI outputs and apply the judgement that comes from having spent decades across every side of transactions. Deal teams get the scale and speed of AI without compromising the rigour they are accountable for,” said Csonth.

Rather than relying on multiple point solutions, spreadsheets, PDFs, emails and separate AI tools, Veridue aims to bring the wider transaction workflow into a single AI-native platform. Its offering covers areas including origination, deal screening, virtual data rooms, Q&A, due diligence and investment committee (IC) memos.

With the newly raised capital, Veridue plans to accelerate the rollout of its platform as demand grows for faster and more technology-driven approaches to renewable energy and data centre investment and project financing.

The company’s focus reflects a broader shift across the infrastructure investment landscape, where the ability to rapidly assess opportunities, identify risks and move transactions forward is becoming increasingly important as demand for energy and digital infrastructure continues to rise.