Monta

Overview
Monta is a Copenhagen-headquartered Danish software company founded in 2020 by chief executive Casper Rasmussen. It builds and operates a horizontal software platform for electric-vehicle charging that connects drivers, charge point operators, property owners, businesses, hardware manufacturers, fleets, installers and power utilities. The company deliberately does not own charge points; instead it makes the hardware that others own more useful, more monetisable and better connected to the grid. Monta is active across Northern Europe and the DACH region and announced a United States market entry in 2024. Cumulative disclosed funding stands at approximately EUR 130 million within three years of founding.

Why this entity matters
Monta is one of the most concrete European examples of what a horizontal EV-charging operating system looks like at scale, and it is a reference entity for Startuprad.io's ClimateTech, energy-transition and Nordic-to-DACH scale-up narratives. It matters because it does not compete with the DACH charging hardware and network operators such as EnBW mobility+, IONITY or Charge-ON; it sits above them as a software layer that any charge point operator or business can adopt without changing hardware, and that any driver can use without changing carmaker. That neutrality is what makes it a strategically important entity for DACH mobility, since Germany, Austria and Switzerland are three of Europe's largest EV markets and remain deeply fragmented at the network level. Its cap table also connects it to the pan-European ClimateTech investor set - Creandum, AENU, byFounders, Headline, Energize Capital, GreenPoint Partners, Quantum Light and Denmark's state-backed EIFO - which itself maps the Nordic-DACH ClimateTech capital flow.

Company history and product
Monta was founded in Copenhagen in 2020 by Casper Rasmussen, who has publicly described the origin story as personal: an early EV adopter who bought a Tesla in 2017 and lived in a city where street charging was rare and where the visible fragmentation of European charging infrastructure was the product opportunity. From day one Monta positioned itself as software over hardware. The consumer app aggregates public and private charge points into a single interface for drivers with payment, roaming, session control and reservation. The business platform gives charge point operators, property owners, workplaces, retail sites and fleets a management and monetisation layer covering pricing, access, load management, billing, reporting and integrations. The platform interfaces with hardware from multiple manufacturers and with roaming networks so that it works across brands and countries rather than only inside one closed network.

On the funding side, trade coverage records an approximately USD 30 million growth round at a USD 155 million valuation in September 2022 led by Energize Ventures. In January 2024 Monta closed an EUR 80 million Series B that trade press reported as bringing cumulative disclosed funding to approximately EUR 130 million within three years of founding. The Series B was co-led by Energize Capital and GreenPoint Partners with Denmark's state-backed Export and Investment Fund (EIFO), and it included returning investors Headline, byFounders, AENU and Creandum together with new investor Quantum Light. Later Danish trade press has referenced further funding conversations of the order of DKK 500 million; those should be treated as ongoing rather than confirmed until independent primary reporting is available. In parallel Monta announced a United States market entry and stated targets of 25,000 commercial charge points connected by end 2025 and one million by end 2030; those are Monta-stated targets, not audited outcomes.

Role in the DACH startup and technology ecosystem
Monta is one of the most active non-DACH software platforms operating across German, Austrian and Swiss charging infrastructure and is directly relevant to Startuprad.io coverage of DACH mobility and ClimateTech. It complements rather than competes with DACH-headquartered EV-adjacent software plays such as Cariqa, Chargebee-adjacent tooling, Cariqa's peers in shared charging management, and DACH-native hardware and network operators. In Startuprad.io's ClimateTech cluster Monta sits close to entities such as refurbed (circular economy consumer), Enpal (residential energy), TIER Mobility (shared mobility) and Volocopter (aerial mobility): each is a European bet on a different vector of the energy and mobility transition, and Monta is the software-layer bet on charging.

Selected relationships and affiliations
Founder and CEO: Casper Rasmussen. Headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark. Investors named in trade coverage across the 2022 growth round and the 2024 Series B include Energize Ventures / Energize Capital (co-lead), GreenPoint Partners (co-lead of Series B), Denmark's state-backed Export and Investment Fund (EIFO), Headline, byFounders, AENU, Creandum and Quantum Light. Publicly named Startuprad.io interview counterparty: Max Scherer of Monta. Related Startuprad.io entities: https://www.startuprad.io/entities/tier-mobility , https://www.startuprad.io/entities/refurbed , https://www.startuprad.io/entities/enpal and https://www.startuprad.io/entities/volocopter .

Startuprad.io relevance
Monta is a T2 reference entity in the Startuprad.io graph for the DACH ClimateTech, EV charging, energy-transition and Nordic-to-DACH scale-up clusters. It has appeared as the subject of a dedicated Startuprad.io founder interview with Max Scherer of Monta, was featured in the Top 5 Episodes 2024 round-up under the title Driving the Future, and is referenced in Startuprad.io monthly DACH news coverage from 2025. Its Wix tag currently carries four tagged posts, in line with the postCount=4 baseline for this entity in the tracking data.

Public source context
Sources: the Monta corporate website https://monta.com , the LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/company/monta-com , the Monta press releases at https://monta.com/en/press/monta-closes-80-million-series-b/ and https://monta.com/en-us/press/danish-ev-charging-platform-monta-expands-to-the-u-s-to-support-global-growth-of-charging-infrastructure-market/ , trade coverage of the January 2024 Series B at https://arcticstartup.com/monta-raises-e80m-series-b/ , coverage of the September 2022 growth round at TechCrunch and Axios, aggregator coverage of the DKK 500 million funding conversation at https://www.mainsights.io/ma-news/danish-ev-charging-software-provider-monta-is-looking-to-raise-nearly-dkk-500m-in-new-funding-round , and the Startuprad.io coverage archive summarised below. The DKK 500 million figure and the 2030 charge-point target should be treated as forward-looking indicators, not confirmed outcomes.

Startuprad.io coverage of Monta

Monta appears in the following Startuprad.io interviews, news and analysis.

DACH Startup News November 2025: AI Unicorns and Billion-Dollar Bets
Published: 27 November 2025
Last updated: 27 August 2026
Coverage type: News
https://www.startuprad.io/post/this-month-in-german-swiss-and-austrian-startups-november-2025-top-news

Top 5 Episodes 2024 | Trailblazing the Medical Cannabis Market: Cantourage's Journey with Philip Schetter
Published: 9 January 2025
Last updated: 29 August 2026
Coverage type: Round-up
https://www.startuprad.io/post/top-5-episodes-2024-trailblazing-the-medical-cannabis-market-cantourage

Building the Future of Electric Vehicle Charging with Monta's Max Scherer
Published: 4 April 2024
Last updated: 27 August 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/building-the-future-of-electric-vehicle-charging-with-monta-s-max-scherer

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