Mario Kohle

Overview
Mario Kohle is a German entrepreneur and the founder and chief executive of Enpal, a Berlin-based residential clean-energy company. He co-founded Enpal in 2017 and built it around a subscription model that lets homeowners rent a complete solar package rather than buy it outright. He is best known for leading Enpal to become Germany's first renewable-energy unicorn after a 2021 investment from SoftBank.
Why this entity matters
Kohle is a prominent figure in Germany's climate-technology and startup scene because Enpal demonstrated that a consumer clean-energy company could scale rapidly by removing the upfront cost barrier to home solar. The company's rise from a Berlin startup to a unicorn-scale business made it a reference point for how European founders can combine climate impact with venture-backed growth, and it positioned Kohle as a leading voice on the business of the energy transition.
Career, company, or institutional background
Kohle co-founded Enpal in 2017 together with Jochen Ziervogel and Viktor Wingert. The company built an asset-backed subscription offering that bundles a rooftop solar system, battery storage, a green electricity tariff and smart-home control into a single monthly rental. Under his leadership Enpal grew quickly across Germany and later Italy, and expanded beyond solar into heat pumps, smart metering, a business-to-business platform for installers (Enpal.pro) and a virtual power plant that pools energy from its installed base of residential systems. The company reported reaching around 1.1 billion euros in revenue in 2025 with a workforce of more than 3,000 people.
Role in the startup, technology, investment, or innovation ecosystem
As Enpal's founder and CEO, Kohle has been central to one of the most heavily funded clean-energy ventures in Germany. In October 2021 the company raised around 150 million euros from SoftBank, widely reported as making Enpal Germany's first green unicorn, and it was subsequently valued at around 2.4 billion US dollars in 2023. In April 2025 Enpal raised a further 110 million euros in growth capital to expand its heat-pump, smart-metering, B2B platform and virtual-power-plant activities.
Selected relationships and affiliations
Kohle co-founded Enpal with Jochen Ziervogel and Viktor Wingert, the latter of whom serves as chief financial officer. Enpal's investor base has included SoftBank Vision Fund II, TPG Rise Climate, HV Capital, Princeville Climate Technologies, The Westly Group and Activate Capital, connecting Kohle to a network of major climate and growth investors.
Startuprad.io relevance
Mario Kohle and Enpal align closely with Startuprad.io's editorial focus on the DACH startup ecosystem, climate technology, and German founders who scale venture-backed companies. As the founder of one of Germany's most visible clean-energy unicorns, he is a natural subject for Startuprad.io's coverage of founders and investors in the region.
Public source context
Details of Kohle's role, Enpal's funding history and its reported results are drawn from company announcements and independent reporting. Publicly available profiles include his https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mario-kohle and his https://www.forbes.com/profile/mario-kohle/ , alongside company information published by Enpal.

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