Top 91 Smart Grid startups

Nov 12, 2024 | By Alexander Gillet

These startups develop technologies that enable real-time grid monitoring, energy management, demand response and electric grid optimization.
1
Country: Sweden | Funding: $14.3M
Plexigrid develops software solutions that enable increased renewable energy in electrical distribution grids.
2
Country: UK | Funding: $2.9B
Octopus Energy develops cloud-based smart grid platform and provides fair prices forever and greener energy from the UK's largest investor in solar generation. It uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $582.6M
Stem pairs artificial intelligence with energy storage to help organizations automate energy cost savings and protect against changing rates.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $575.5M
Arcadia Power is a nationwide home energy platform providing clean energy and savings.
5
Country: UK | Funding: $215M
BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems. It also offers pay-as-you-go solar power. BBOXX Power DC product range is closed DC systems in standardised sizes. BBOXX Hub brings the smart capabilities of remote monitoring and control to larger capacity systems and projects. BBOXX Pulse is a comprehensive management platform that enables growth of next generation utility businesses.
6
Country: USA
Uplight’s suite of software gives utilities granular data about how customers consume energy in their homes and businesses and offers ways to reduce their base power demand. It also provides a marketplace for consumers to find rebates and deals on energy-efficient appliances and electric vehicles.
7
Country: UK | Funding: $86.5M
Origami Energy is creating a real-time marketplace for a distributed energy world. It's smart technology intelligently manages and remotely controls distributed energy assets to access the most profitable current and future value opportunities.
8
Country: USA | Funding: $60.1M
Leap is a marketplace for universal distributed energy resources to participate in the energy market. Leap allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it.
9
Country: USA | Funding: $50M
Weave Grid is dedicated to enabling large-scale electrification of transportation through direct & efficient system integration. The company taps into electric vehicle charging data and can optimize EV charging for customers such as utilities.
10
Country: UK | Funding: $46.1M
Moixa is the UK’s leading smart battery company. We develop our Smart Battery hardware and GridShare software to facilitate smart energy storage and sharing.
11
Country: USA | Funding: $45.3M
ConnectDER make products that integrate power and data from residential scale DERs into the grid.
12
Country: USA | Funding: $41.2M
SparkMeter offers comprehensive low-cost metering solutions for everything from rural micro-grids.
13
Country: USA | Funding: $40.5M
Enervee is a platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products.
14
Country: Norway | Funding: $37.7M
Heimdall Power is a global B2B SaaS company, providing software and sensors that help utilities increase the utilization of their power grid
15
Country: UK | Funding: £25M
Made up of Faraday Exchangers – independently-verified ‘plug and play’ devices that dynamically balance and smooth power flowing across the energy system – a Faraday Grid gradually transforms a traditional electricity network to deliver a more resilient system and lower energy costs.
16
Country: Australia | Funding: $35M
Power Ledger has developed a series of world-leading blockchain energy applications, such as its P2P energy trading application.
17
Country: South Korea | Funding: $34.7M
ENlighten brings solar power plants of varying sizes scattered across the country into one integrated platform, where its clients can operate and monitor their solar plants and also estimate the power output of their plant.
18
Country: Singapore | Funding: $35M
Electrify develops blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer (P2P) trading of renewable energy in the city, which allows both utilities and consumers to produce and sell electricity.
19
Country: USA | Funding: $31.3M
Amperon is a provider of a digital smart meter platform that delivers real-time energy data forecasts and analytics.
20
Country: USA | Funding: $29M
Camus provides a grid orchestration platform to help electric utilities operate and build a reliable, affordable, and zero-carbon grid.
Editor: Alexander Gillet
Alexander Gillet is a senior editor for EnergyStartups. He has a deep background in energy sector and startups. Alexander graduated from Emlyon Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability and has written over 250 articles on energy technology for various websites. In his free time, Alexander enjoys yoga, camping and exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can contact Alexander at alexgillet(at)energystartups(dot)com