Quick Facts🗂️
- Company: Jua
- Website: https://jua.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juaai
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Funding Round: Series A (May 2025)
- Lead Investor(s): Ananda Impact, Future Energy
- Other Investors: 468 Capital, Green Generation, Promus, Kadmos, session.vc
- All Investors: 468 Capital, Ananda Impact, Future Energy, Green Generation, Kadmos, Notion Capital, Promus
- Total Funding to Date: €31M
- Founded: 2022
- Sector: Foundational AI, Energy Forecasting, Climate Tech
Company Overview🗞️
Jua is building a foundational AI model to simulate the real world, starting with high-resolution weather and energy forecasts. Its Earth Intelligence Platform enables precise, real-time decision-making for the energy sector, outperforming traditional physics and AI-based forecasting methods. The company’s deep-tech solution is already in use by major energy trading firms like Volue (NO, €70.5M) and is expanding into agriculture, logistics, and climate risk analytics.
Team Size: 11–50 employees
Product: Earth Intelligence Platform, powered by a proprietary large physics model (EPT‑2.0) trained on petabytes of environmental data. Delivers simultaneous forecasts of weather, energy markets, and supply–demand dynamics .
Use Case: A single API/platform for energy traders to automate forecasts, risk assessment, and decision-making, eliminating the need to patch together multiple weather data sources .
Founders: Marvin Gabler (Co-Founder & CEO), took over from Andreas Brenner (Co-Founder & previously CEO) in mid‑2025
Funding Round Details💶
On early June 2025, Jua.ai announced its €10–11M Series A round, co-led by Germany’s Ananda Impact and Future Energy, the VC spun out of E.ON. The round also saw follow-on participation from earlier investors 468 Capital and Promus Ventures.
According to CEO Marvin Gabler, the funds will be used to:
- Expand the engineering team to accelerate development of the EPT-2.0 model
- Strengthen commercial integration with energy trading platforms
- Support international expansion, including pilot programs in agriculture and logistics
- Deepen R&D into climate modeling and environmental risk simulations
Market & Differentiation🌐
The global weather forecasting services market is projected to rapidly grow to $2.8BN by 2028, at a CAGR of 8.2%.
Jua.ai delivers physics-informed forecasts tailored for European energy markets.
It operates in a space increasingly targeted by tech giants like DeepMind (GraphCast, UK), NVIDIA (Earth-2, USA), Microsoft (Aurora, USA), and Tomorrow.io (USA, $259M). Yet, unlike these global players, Jua builds its models from a European base with a direct focus on energy trading applications. One comparable regional reference is Meteomatics (CH, $36M), known for its high-resolution weather APIs, though it remains more data-service oriented than Jua’s full-stack AI model.
Direct AI-native competitors such as Atmo AI (USA, $29M) and Perry Weather (USA, $21M), along with Tomorrow.io, address commercial forecasting needs. However, none combine physics-based modeling, real-time energy market simulation, and vertically integrated infrastructure the way Jua does, positioning it uniquely at the intersection of AI, weather, and the energy transition.
Furthermore, Jua was selected among the Top 15 startups in the Free Electrons 2025 program, advancing to modules in Hong Kong (July) and Ireland (October).
Investor Insight🎙️
Florian Erber, Founding Partner at Ananda Impact, commented:
“Weather prediction has long been a limiting factor in renewable energy adoption. By supporting Jua, we are backing a solution that removes uncertainty from energy markets, strengthens grid stability, and enables a smarter, faster green energy transition.”
🖇️Sources
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