Stuttgart – November 05, 2026 -- Bosch Business Innovations, the corporate venture builder of the Bosch Group, has added critical infrastructure resilience as a new investment field. It is part of a plan to channel roughly EUR 200 million into new deep-tech start-ups through the unit by 2030.
The focus is on technologies and founders that support operators of critical infrastructure and integrated systems. These range from individual factories and plants to entire value streams, including supply chains. The aim is to keep operations running during disruptions, adapt to changed conditions and return to normal operation faster.
EU grid investment need of EUR 584 billion drives the thesis
Bosch Business Innovations cites rising volatility in energy supply and industrial value creation. According to the EU Action Plan for Grids, the European Commission puts the investment required to modernize European transmission and distribution grids by 2030 at about EUR 584 billion.
Stricter rules add pressure, including the EU's NIS-2 directive and Germany's KRITIS umbrella act. For production sites that cannot tolerate outages, even brief interruptions or voltage fluctuations can have significant consequences.
Thesis covers three areas from energy grids to flood protection
The thesis centers on start-ups that help companies prepare for, absorb, recover from and adapt to disruptions. It spans three areas:
- Resilient energy systems: AI-based energy and grid management, new grid technologies, geothermal energy, and the intelligent control of grid and storage resources.
- Resilient industrial operations: energy and process resilience, heat and thermal management, resilient buildings and sites, restart of critical plants, and predictive maintenance.
- Resilient infrastructure projects: critical infrastructure resilience, plus water and flood protection.
Bosch contributes plant experience, storage and power electronics
Bosch Business Innovations will not build its own infrastructure. It plans to make existing energy and utility systems future-proof through intelligent technology layers. External founders build independent start-ups with the unit and gain access to the Robert Bosch GmbH's technological, industrial and intangible resources.
These include experience operating energy- and outage-sensitive production sites, and solutions for energy management and electrical power monitoring. Stationary energy storage, power electronics and vehicle-to-grid technologies are also available to new ventures.
CEO Axel Deniz said resilience now means more than minimizing risk. In his view, it means maintaining operations under disruption and restoring normal operation faster. He described the thesis as a strategic building block for the long-term growth of the venture portfolio, aimed at companies facing geopolitical and energy-policy uncertainty.