Tendril Networks, a US smart grid company backed by Germany-based industrial conglomerate Siemens’ corporate venturing unit, has raised $15.3m of a planned $20m round, according to a regulatory filing first seen by news provider BizJournals.
Although the seven investors are undisclosed, Ralf Schnell, chief executive of Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous Germany-based industrial conglomerate, said it had reinvested.
Tendril’s board includes George Coelho, the head of Good Energies, a quasi-corporate venturing unit of the…
