Top 10 Smart Grid startups in USA

Updated: April 21, 2024

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Funding: $582.6M
Stem pairs artificial intelligence with energy storage to help organizations automate energy cost savings and protect against changing rates.
2
Funding: $495.5M
Arcadia Power is a nationwide home energy platform providing clean energy and savings.
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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.
4
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.
5
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.
6
Funding: $45.3M
ConnectDER make products that integrate power and data from residential scale DERs into the grid.
7
Funding: $41.2M
SparkMeter offers comprehensive low-cost metering solutions for everything from rural micro-grids.
8
Funding: $40.5M
Enervee is a platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products.
9
Funding: $31.3M
Amperon is a provider of a digital smart meter platform that delivers real-time energy data forecasts and analytics.
10
Funding: $29M
Camus provides a grid orchestration platform to help electric utilities operate and build a reliable, affordable, and zero-carbon grid.
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Funding: $24.3M
Innowatts’ platform transforms how energy providers understand and serve their customers. We use AI to unlock meter-level data, provide consumer insights and make businesses processes automated and smarter for energy retailers, utilities and grid operators.
12
Funding: $19.8M
Virtual Peaker’s web-based platform uses customers’ smart home devices to track and control consumption, keep the grid stable, and allow utilities to bring in more renewable energy sources.
13
Funding: $16.8M
LO3 Energy is developing blockchain based innovations to revolutionize how energy can be generated, stored, bought, sold and used, all at the local level.
14
Funding: $16.6M
WattBuy aims to give households a simple platform to shop for an electricity provider in states where that is an option. Users are able to upload their electricity usage and compare available plans to save money or buy electricity from a solar or wind energy provider.
15
Funding: $11.5M
Copper is a wireless energy monitor that helps utilities leverage real-time energy data to engage consumers with actionable energy insights.
16
Funding: $11.7M
UtilityAPI is a service that automatically collects utility bill and usage data from utility web portals.
17
Funding: $9.3M
Blue Planet uses it’s patented Liquid Condensed Phase Technology to convert CO2 into high-value CarbonMix building and highway materials.
18
Funding: $8M
Myst AI is a developer of the AI-based data analysis platform intended for electricity demand and supply forecasting.
19
Funding: $5.9M
Singularity Energy, a SaaS platform that reports on carbon emissions for the electricity grid
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Griddy is a wholesale electric provider that connects you directly to the grid. Griddy gives homeowners and businesses direct access to the ups and downs of wholesale prices.
21
Funding: $4.8M
Operant Networks is a network service provider company for complex systems and energy companies.
22
Funding: $4.5M
Buzz Solutions is developing artificial intelligence technology to spot and analyze power line flaws so companies can repair them before a fire starts.
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Online bidding platform for residential solar buyers. Compare quotes from dozens of top solar companies.
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Funding: $1M
Drone Energy is revolutionizing how energy producing assets are optimized. Our ultra-high density smart grid technology maximizes utilization, processing power, and profitability, giving our partners a sustainable competitive advantage.
25
Funding: $376K
Sync Energy is developing AI-based predictive software that streamlines planning and operations for electrical utilities, especially during emergencies.
26
Funding: $120K
Using satellite imagery, EnergyHawk’s software scours for the largest and most energy intensive facilities in North America. Then, using industry specific PowerTrends, Rooftop AI, and automated analysis of each facility and local characteristics, EnergyHawk can provide an Energy Assessment for over 1,000,000 facilities.
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Anderson Optimization develops renewable siting and grid modeling software that delivers results faster and more accurately than traditional solutions.
28

Griddy which sells electricity from the wholesale spot market to retail customers, unwittingly exposed data errors from power generators that make their way on to the Texas grid — mistakes that cost consumers millions of dollars.
29

Grid Sentry aims to monitor power equipment remotely. Equipment which can be monitored includes infrastructure such as power lines. Sensors are used in order to identify any potential problems before further issues such as a power outage is caused.
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Developer of the award-winning iRestore mobile platform for utilities.