# Shwan Lamei

> Shwan Lamei is co-founder and CEO of Emulate Energy, a Lund- and Boston-based software company that turns everyday household devices - heat pumps, EV chargers, home batteries, solar inverters - into a coordinated 'virtual battery' that utilities can dispatch on flexibility and balancing markets. Trained as an industrial engineer at Lund University, he spent 15 years in industrial B2B sales and corporate development at SWEP and Dover before starting Emulate in 2020 with a childhood friend whose MIT postdoctoral research became the technical seed of the company. In April 2025 Emulate closed a EUR 5M Series A led by Helen Ventures to scale its DER orchestration platform across Scandinavia, the DACH region and the United States.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Emulate Energy
- **Organizations:** Emulate Energy, Dover Corporation (former), SWEP (former), Business Sweden (former), Volvo Car Group (former)
- **Nationality:** Swedish
- **Education:** M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Coursework, Delft University of Technology, Coursework, Technical University of Crete
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Emulate Energy to serve most of Sweden's top energy retailers, Raised EUR 5M Series A in April 2025 led by Helen Ventures, Expanded operations across Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and into the United States

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Thesis work at Volvo Car Group; Market Analyst for Business Sweden
- **2007** — Joins SWEP as Area Sales Manager, focused on Middle Eastern markets
- **2012** — Becomes Director of Corporate Development at SWEP
- **2017** — Relocates to the United States; joins Dover Corporation as Director of Shared Services
- **2020** — Co-founds Emulate Energy in Lund, Sweden with his childhood friend, building on postdoctoral research from MIT
- **2024** — Emulate expands into US, Austria and Germany after establishing Scandinavian foothold
- **2025-04** — Emulate closes EUR 5M Series A led by Helen Ventures with participation from Enpulse, Skellefteå Kraft and CC.VC

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Emulate Energy to serve most of Sweden's top energy retailers
- Raised EUR 5M Series A in April 2025 led by Helen Ventures
- Expanded operations across Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and into the United States
- Featured in Futurice's Digital Energy 40 report on European clean-energy innovators
- Established partnership with NISC to transform DER management in the U.S.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Emulate closes EUR 5M Series A led by Helen Ventures, with Enpulse joining and existing investors Skellefteå Kraft and CC.VC following on.
- **2025** — Expanded U.S. footprint via partnership with NISC to bring DER management to American cooperatives.

## Links

- Website: https://emulate.energy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwan-lamei/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Mt_zAAmmYmOUfRk31rg9w

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Last updated: 2026-07-08