Digital Audit: E.ON SE
Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships
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E.ON ran a cybersecurity startup competition in Israel circa 2018; Israeli OT security firm Indegy Ltd. won and entered a joint pilot with E.ON 12. No contract value, duration, or deployment scope was publicly disclosed 12. The relationship ended when Indegy was acquired by Tenable Holdings Inc. in December 2019 for approximately $78M 2.
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E.ON joined the SOSA innovation platform in Tel Aviv as a corporate member circa 2018, with stated purpose to locate Israeli cybersecurity companies 1. Globes reported: “E.ON is looking for innovation in diverse fields, but is especially emphasizing cyber in its activity in Israel” 1.
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E.ON acquired Innogy SE (transaction completed 2020); Innogy’s Israeli innovation center in Tel Aviv became E.ON’s local headquarters upon acquisition 13. The center’s focus areas included Smart & Connected, Urban Solutions, Disruptive Digital, Big Data, and Machine Economy/Blockchain 1.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON holding active licensing, subscription, or integration relationships with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, Nice, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or other Israeli-origin cybersecurity, cloud, or analytics vendors in E.ON’s documented technology stack 124.
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E.ON acquired a majority stake in gridX GmbH in September 2021, achieving full ownership by December 2022 56. All founders (David Balensiefen, Andreas Booke) and operations are German, based in Munich and Aachen; no Israeli operations or founders identified 56.
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Tobias Mitter, former gridX CTO, joined E.ON Germany as CIO in September 2025 7. This represents a German domestic personnel transfer with no Israeli technology or personnel nexus 7.
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E.ON–CyrusOne data center power partnership is EU/US-only; no Israel involvement identified 8.
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E.ON ISRAEL LTD is an active Israeli subsidiary registered as Registration No. 516283298 at Shaker Arieh 1, Herzliya 9. Declared occupation field is blank; no financial statements, revenue, or business activity publicly available without purchase of a detailed registry report 9.
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EON IO LTD (Registration No. 516912441) is NOT an E.ON subsidiary 1011. This standalone Israeli cloud backup company was founded in 2023 by Ofir Ehrlich, Ron Kimchi, and Gonen Stein (all ex-AWS/CloudEndure) at Menachem Begin 121, Tel Aviv 1011. Name similarity caused a Round 1 enumeration error that was subsequently corrected 1011.
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Indegy’s founders are all alumni of the same Talpiot cohort: Barak Perelman (CEO), Mille Gandelsman (CPO), and Ido Trivizki (CTO) 21213. Perelman received IDF official commendation for cybersecurity projects 13.
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Indegy develops OT security for critical infrastructure including power production, water utilities, pharmaceuticals, and chemical industries 2. The platform protects SCADA/ICS networks from cyber infiltration that could disrupt power supply to data centers 2.
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E.ON has no documented retail operations in Israel 9. E.ON ISRAEL LTD’s declared occupation field is blank and no customer-facing retail operations have been identified 9.
Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s use of facial recognition, biometric identification, behavioural analytics, or gait analysis technologies, whether of Israeli origin or otherwise 124.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s use of Israeli-origin predictive policing, sentiment analysis, social media monitoring, or workforce surveillance tools 124.
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No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin surveillance technologies reaching E.ON indirectly via third-party platform providers, managed security services, or bundled enterprise suites 124.
Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation
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No public evidence identified of E.ON operating, leasing, or co-locating data centre infrastructure within Israel 124.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s participation in Israeli government cloud initiatives, including Project Nimbus or comparable state-backed digital infrastructure programmes 1412.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON providing services explicitly marketed or contracted to ensure digital sovereignty, data residency, or infrastructure resilience for Israeli state institutions or military bodies 124.
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The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) awarded its smart metering tender in June 2023 to Landis+Gyr AG 14. The tender covers 565,600 residential meters, extendable to 4.2 million units 14. No documented E.ON involvement in this programme 14.
Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships
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No public evidence identified of E.ON holding contracts, partnerships, or service agreements with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, or other Israeli state security bodies 124.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s commercially available technology being deployed for military, intelligence, or law enforcement surveillance applications within Israel or occupied territories 124.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s development, sale, licensing, or maintenance of offensive cyber capabilities, zero-day exploit tools, or digital weapons systems 124.
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Indegy’s stated customer verticals prior to acquisition included power production, water supply, and chemical/pharmaceutical facilities 2. Whether any Israeli government agencies (including IEC or Energy Ministry) were among pre-acquisition customers is not confirmed in any publicly available source 2.
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Tenable’s 10-K (FY2024) states customers span “over 170 countries” and include “large government agencies” in aggregate; no single customer exceeded 2% of revenue 15. No specific Israeli government or military customer is named 15.
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Tenable acquired Indegy ($78M, December 2019) without any publicly identified CFIUS filing 16. No mandatory review was triggered or disclosed in Tenable’s SEC filings 16.
AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s provision of AI, ML, computer vision, or autonomous decision-support systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies 124.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s AI models or platforms being trained on, or provided access to, civilian population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets originating from Israel or occupied territories 124.
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No public evidence identified of E.ON’s provision of autonomous target generation, automated threat detection, or autonomous tracking systems to Israeli military or security forces 124.
Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint
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No Israeli R&D centres, engineering offices, or innovation labs confirmed as currently operated by E.ON 13. The Innogy Innovation Hub Israel (Tel Aviv) became E.ON’s local headquarters upon acquisition; its current operational status post-2022 is not confirmed in available sources 13. Mickey Steiner, who managed the Israeli outpost, departed in summer 2021 and founded Libra Consulting 17. No current country manager or Israel-based R&D lead identified 17.
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E.ON maintains indirect Israeli technology ecosystem exposure through Future Energy Ventures (FEV) 1819. FEV spun out from E.ON in August 2022 as an independent VC firm 20. E.ON remains anchor LP of Fund I (€250M total; E.ON committed €40M) and Fund II (€235M, closed November 2025) 2122.
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FEV maintains a Tel Aviv operational hub and explicitly names Israel as an investment geography, alongside Berlin and Palo Alto 1819.
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FEV Israeli portfolio companies include Vicarius Ltd (Jerusalem), a patch-less vulnerability management company that raised $5M seed in 2020, $24M Series A in 2022, and $30M Series B in 2024 182324. Vicarius co-founders are Roi Cohen (CEO), Michael Assraf, and Yossi Zeevi (CTO) 2324.
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Yossi Zeevi (Vicarius CTO) was previously a co-founder of Indegy 1823. Calcalist confirms Zeevi, Barak Perelman (Indegy CEO), and Ido Trivizki (Indegy CTO) are from the same Talpiot cohort 1218.
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FEV Israeli portfolio companies include Shield-IoT Ltd. (Israel), a real-time AI-based cybersecurity company for mass IoT deployments that raised $7.4M Series A in November 2021 182526. Founders are Udi Solomon (CEO) and Motty Goldcher (VP R&D); no documented Unit 8200 or Talpiot founders 2526.
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FEV Israeli portfolio companies include Firstpoint (Israel), a network-based cybersecurity firm for mobile and IoT devices 18.
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FEV Israeli portfolio companies include Oriient (Israel), an indoor GPS/navigation technology company sourced on September 30, 2020 1819.
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FEV Israeli portfolio companies include Buildots (Israel), a construction progress monitoring company 18.
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E.ON is not named in UN A/HRC/59/23 (Albanese 2025) 2728. The report identifies 48 corporate actors in the occupation economy across weapons, technology, finance, energy, and construction sectors; E.ON does not appear in any category 2728.
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Innogy partnered with OurCrowd (2017), an Israeli equity crowdfunding platform, in a strategic partnership to deliver next-generation energy solutions in Israel 29. No documented specific co-investments, Israeli portfolio companies, or Israeli government counterparty relationships resulting from this partnership in available sources 29.
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FEV Investment Partner Ohad Mamann joined the Israel team with IDF reconnaissance unit reserve service and an MBA from Tel Aviv University 30.
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No Israeli academic partnerships documented; no evidence of E.ON partnerships with Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, or Ben-Gurion University in available sources 132.
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No E.ON acquisitions of Israeli technology companies documented 132.
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Environmental Resources Management (ERM) law firm published an advisory titled “ERM Advises E.ON in Relation to Their Israeli Operations” in 2019 31.
Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History
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E.ON is not named in the UN OHCHR Settlement Business Database 32. Direct site search returned no results for E.ON; the database tracks energy sector actors including IEC, Delek, and Energean, but not European utilities such as E.ON 32.
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E.ON is not named in UN A/HRC/59/23 (Albanese 2025) 2728. The report covers weapons (Chapter II.A), technology (II.B), finance (II.C), energy (II.D), and construction (II.E) sectors; E.ON does not appear in any category 2728.
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E.ON is not named in the Who Profits database 33. No company profile, sector report, or supply chain entry for E.ON in whoprofits.org records 33.
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E.ON is not named in the AFSC Investigate database 34. No Israeli occupation involvement entry for E.ON in investigate.afsc.org records 34.
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E.ON is not named in the “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” 2024 or 2025 reports 35. The DBIO lists (104 companies) focus on financial institutions and settlement-adjacent companies; European energy utilities are not included 35.
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E.ON is not named in SOMO’s “Powering Injustice” report 33. The report focuses on IEC and gas companies (Delek, Energean) as direct complicity actors in the energy-occupation nexus; European utilities are not analyzed 33.
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E.ON is not named in BankTrack’s “Dodgy Deals” database (Israeli illegal settlements category) 36. BankTrack tracks financial institutions financing settlement activity; E.ON does not appear 36.
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No OECD National Contact Point complaints filed against E.ON identified 34. The OECD Watch complaints database (500+ entries covering Israel/Palestine, energy, and supply chain topics) contains no E.ON entry 34.
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No organized boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaigns specifically targeting E.ON for Israeli technology provision identified in available sources 3334.
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No regulatory inquiries, export control actions, or sanctions-related investigations involving E.ON’s technology sales or services to Israeli state entities identified 12434.
Controlling Principals
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No E.ON supervisory board member documented with Israeli defence-industry, Unit 8200, Talpiot, or settlement-NGO affiliations identified 4. Named supervisory board members per GB24 are European union and labour representatives and industry executives; no documented ties to Israeli defence, cyber, or intelligence sectors identified 4.
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Mickey Steiner (former Head of E.ON Israel, c. 2015–2021) holds BSc Electrical Engineering from Technion and MSc Computer Science from UCLA 17. He served as VP of the German-Israeli Chamber of Commerce (AHK) since 2012 17. He founded Libra Consulting upon departing E.ON in summer 2021 17. No documented Israeli military-intelligence background identified 17.
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Talpiot cohort connection exists through investment vehicle, not direct corporate role 121823. Yossi Zeevi (co-founder and CTO of Vicarius, FEV portfolio company) is from the same Talpiot cohort as Barak Perelman (Indegy CEO) and Ido Trivizki (Indegy CTO) 1223. This creates a documented network link between two FEV Israeli cybersecurity portfolio companies through elite Israeli military-intelligence alumni 121823. None of these individuals hold direct E.ON corporate roles 121823.
End Notes
Footnotes
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https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-eon-looks-to-invest-in-israeli-startups-1001264489 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24
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https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-us-co-tenable-buys-israeli-cybersecurity-startup-indegy-1001309487 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24
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https://www.jpost.com/jpost-tech/german-energy-company-eon-acquires-innogy-649161 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://annualreport.eon.com/content/dam/eon-annualreport/documents/en/GB24-gesamt-EN_final.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15
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https://www.gridx.ai/press-releases/e-on-acquires-majority-stake-in-leading-smart-grid-company-gridx ↩ ↩2
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https://www.gridx.ai/press-releases/new-leadership-duo-leads-smart-energy-scale-up-gridx-into-next-growth-phase ↩ ↩2
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gridx_after-two-and-a-half-years-as-cto-at-gridx-activity-7366011350935834625 ↩ ↩2
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https://www.cyrusone.com/resources/press-releases/cyrusone-and-e.on-announce-strategic-partnership ↩
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https://en.checkid.co.il/company/E.ON+ISRAEL++LTD-8epDWOB-516283298 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.kycisrael.com/companies/516912441/eon-io-ltd ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-cloud-backup-co-eon-raises-300m-1001528213 ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/by00yicwwzg ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://www.landisgyr.com/nam/en/home/news-media/newsroom/2023/Israel-Electric-Corporation - IEC - and-Landis-Gyr-sign-agreement-for-smart-metering-solutions.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660280/000166028025000034/tenb-20241231.htm ↩ ↩2
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660280/000166028022000035/tenb-20211231.htm ↩ ↩2
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https://www.il-leadership.com/leaders/mickeysteiner ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://fev.vc/portfolio ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12
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https://globalventuring.com/corporate/future-energy-ventures-spins-out ↩
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https://www.fev.vc/110-million-euro-fund-for-the-digitalization-of-the-energy-transition-established ↩
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https://globalventuring.com/corporate/fundraising/e-on-anchored-fev-closes-fund-ii ↩
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https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/jerusalem-venture-partners-backs-israeli-cyberthreat-tech-firm-vicarius ↩ ↩2
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https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://fev.vc/welcoming-aaron-israel-to-future-energy-ventures ↩
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https://erm-law.com/en/media/erm-advises-e-on-in-relation-to-their-israeli-operations ↩
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https://www.oecdwatch.org/complaints-database ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://paxforpeace.nl/publications/dont-buy-into-occupation-2025 ↩ ↩2