The people replacing fossil gas, one plant at a time

Founded in Munich in October 2022 with a clear target: avoid one gigaton of CO2 emissions and displace 10 % of Germany's fossil natural gas demand.

The TURN2X team sitting and standing in front of a glass office building
More than 20 people, headquartered in Munich's Werksviertel and meeting in person every month.

Founders

Portrait of Philip Kessler

Philip Kessler

Co-Founder and CEO

Serial deep tech founder. Built the Karlsruhe AI startup Understand.ai and sold it to dSPACE. Studied computer science at KIT.

Philip on LinkedIn
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Benedikt Stolz

Co-Founder and COO

Physicist from KIT with experience financing multi-million euro infrastructure projects. Finds the sites for new plants and structures their financing.

Benedikt on LinkedIn
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Dr. Dominik Schollenberger

Co-Founder and CTO

PhD in chemical engineering from KIT and more than twelve years of research on scaling methanation. Leads reactor modularisation, automation and plant construction.

Dominik on LinkedIn

Advisory board

Portrait of Dr. Stefan Kaufmann

Dr. Stefan KaufmannFormer Hydrogen Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Portrait of Evan Horetsky

Evan HoretskyBuilt the Tesla Gigafactories in Nevada and Berlin

Portrait of Thomas Schaffer

Thomas SchafferVarious CFO positions at Siemens

Investors

€20 million Series A, announced in 2026.

  • LeadAntwerpen Ventures
  • Existing investorsLEA Partners, First Momentum Ventures (since 2023), Verve Ventures
  • Industry angelsTilman Weide (formerly Linde Engineering), Christoph Zinsser (former Head of Project Finance, Stegra), Marcelino Oreja (former CEO, Enagás)
  • Public fundingFunded by the European Union

How we work

  • UrgencyThe climate crisis demands it. We focus on outcomes, not perfectionism, because there is no planet B.
  • Earn customer loveWe remove barriers for our customers and make reaching net zero as easy and rewarding as possible.
  • Extreme ownershipA bias towards action, and accountability for the commitments we make.
  • Disagree and commitWe challenge each other openly, then follow a decision as if it were our own.
  • Strength in differenceDifferent backgrounds make the team better, so we build a diverse one on purpose.
The TURN2X team standing together outdoors

Join the team in Munich

Hybrid work, with the whole team in Munich every month for strategy sessions and offsites. The Series A funds a larger team.

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