Independent Venture Builder and Innovation Advisory

specialised in the Energy Transition, Sustainability and Emerging Tech.

About us


Independent innovation and venture studio based in Norway. We specialise in leveraging deeptech such as DLT/Blockchain and AI to tackle real world climate & energy challenges and unlock new business opportunities.


Since 2016, Alpha Venturi brings together with a wide range of partners from startups, enterprises, tech ecosystems, research and academia to drive applied research and innovation initiatives, develop solutions and incubate new ventures.


Alpha Venturi was founded and is managed by Wilfried Pimenta de Miranda.


Our focus areas


  • Smart and clean energy transition: Democratising ownership, financing and access to Distributed Energy Resources (Solar PVs, Batteries and others).


  • Circularity, Digital Product Passports and as-a-service models - Applicable to for example to smart energy assets like solar PVs and batteries.


  • Regenerative Finance: Leveraging Web3/Decentralised Finance to fight climate change.

  • Climate neutral and citizen-centric cities: Plan and reward adoption of new solutions to reduce CO2 emission based on verified proof of impact.

    • Decentralised Digital Trust: Enable data storage, sharing and intelligence with web3 based governance, security and e-privacy.


    • Data Economy and the Economy of Things: Monetising data and orchestrating programmable IoT / machine-to-machine payments.


    Some of our advisory and venture projects


            • Engaged by Norges Bank, The Norwegian Central Bank, to run a research oriented experiment to explore the potential of enabling Blockchain-based M2M payments with a future e-Kroner CBDC.


            • Engage by Copenhagen municipality to assess the city wide potential for rooftop solar PV including shortlisting of public buildings based on detailed analytics.
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            • HOLONI is a suite of digital solutions leveraging AI and Blockchain to help cities transition towards 24 / 7 carbon free energy and reduce CO2 emission. HOLONI provides a planning tool for municipality by providing big data model and analytics reports to assess the potential for rooftop solar generation and surplus across the city. HOLONI is also a digital infrastructure enabling prosumers to be automatically rewarded based on their proof of impact / verified contribution to local green energy.
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            • In 2021-2022, Alpha Venturi led the HOLONI consortium with ENERGINET, the Danish Transmission System Operator, as one of the winning finalist of a EU wide competition called AI4city.eu aimed at reducing CO2 emission in cities with the help of AI. HOLONI was prototyped in 2022 in collaboration with Copenhagen municipality.


            • IOTA Foundation, leading green public Blockchain not-for-profit launched in 2017: Global Business Development Director role from inception in 2016 to mid 2021. IOTA cooperates with the EU Commission as a candidate to the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI) and enables a wide ecosystem of decentralised applications across verticals.
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            • Alpha Venturi's CEO leverages his lead experience from the H2020 Cityxchange.eu project exploring local energy markets and IOTA/DLT enablement, and IOTA cooperation with ENGIE, Jaguar LandRover, ENTRA Eiendom in piloting smart green energy tracking and charging..
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            • Launch partner and Steering commitee role in the Blockchain Research Lab at the University in Oslo (UiO). Organisation of the first launch workshop in 2021.
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            • MyData & eHealth Report delivered in 2017 for the Norwegian Centre for ehealth Research and the Norwegian ministry of eHealth a report exploring the potential for Blockchain in the space of eHealth and Personal Data Management.


            • Blockchain & eHealth ecosystem in 2016-2017. Organised events and facilitated a series of open workshops involving the EU commission, Norway HealthTech, Oslo Cancer Cluster and stakeholders in the Blockchain, MyData and Health from both private and public sectors.

    How we work


    • Innovation advisory and solution development - We facilitate the co-creation process and design of deeptech-enabled solutions, drive business model innovation and coordinate the development and evaluation of proof-of-concepts.


        • Business Model Innovation and Venture Incubation - We support corporate and startup ventures leveraging advanced technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and AI with market validation, operating model, go-to-market strategy, business development and the coordination of multi-stakeholder demonstration projects.


        • Management-for-Hire - For the right venture initiative, we can step into Executive Management role: Strategy, Business Development and partnership management.


        Oslo, Norway

        +47 92 20 29 18 
        contact@alpha-venturi.com

        Alpha Venturi AS in partnership with ENERGINET, The Danish System Operator, is part of the AI4Cities program backed Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Stavanger and other municipalities which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.