Heat Geek Raises £3.7M in Seed Funding
Summary
Heat Geek, a London, UK-based provider of a digital platform for heating engineers, raised £3.7M in Seed funding The round, which brought total funding to £4.2M, was led by Transition, with participation from Triple Point Ventures, Ed Broussard, Rob Harris, Jeff Twentyman, Akta Raja, Stewart Seigel and others. Founded by Adam Chapman, Aadil Qureshi, and Matthew Gunn, Heat Geek provides a digital platform that offers heating engineers with a “business-in-a-box”, empowering them with training, innovative technology and a pipeline of paying customers that have been pre-qualified using the company’s proprietary property intelligence algorithms. The company has already established a partnership with OVO Energy was launched in September, and with Resi, a digital-first renovation and extension service. Commenting on the news, Aadil Qureshi said: “At the heart of our business is a shared obsession with empowering everyone in the UK to upgrade their home and save money every month. But one of the biggest issues facing mass uptake of heat pumps is a lack of skilled installers.