Top Utilities Startups in 2024

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team engineers an advanced sensing system to continuously analyze both the electrical and mechanical behavior of grid assets. Utilizing high precision sensor arrays, the system identifies and allows preemptive mitigation of faults. Our technology has been proven with utilities to bolster safety, reliability, and reduce customer outage durations. The demand for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

Safari AI uses computer vision to provide enterprises the ability to auto-measure the most important physical activity in their operations. Our clients point their own IP cameras inside and outside their theme parks, stores, buildings and other property to gather mission-critical data and insights using Safari AI's proprietary technology. Safari AI's clients are finally getting reliable and automated counts, throughput, utilization, dwell times, live wait times, and a number of other KPI's, replacing manual measuring, antiquated hardware and oftentimes no measuring at all. Safari AI is serving category-defining companies in Theme Parks, CRE, Transportation, Hospitality, Retail, and QSR/Restaurants. Click on the media below for specific client use cases. The company is venture-funded led by General Catalyst & Initialized Capital and operates distributed with team members residing in the US, Canada and Brazil.

Amperon is the leading analytics and forecasting company for the energy transition. We are venture-backed with support from leading venture and strategic investors who deeply understand energy and software. We are experiencing rapid growth on the back of a killer product that delivers compelling value for energy market participants on both the supply (power & utilities companies) and demand (large energy users) sides of the market. The company is 6 years old, with co-founders that have fused the best-of-breed from the energy (power trader at leading power generators and financials) and technology (data science and engineering at scaling tech companies) industries into a high-performance culture, with the following core values: • We fill in the blanks • We are reliable • We are customer-aligned • We are relentless • We do the hard things • We stay curious The company’s headquarters is Houston, TX, the energy transition capital of the world, but we operate as a highly effective distributed team, spread across the globe.

Skylark Drones was born out of the need to use disruptive technologies such as drones to help transform the way roads and highways are planned, our food is produced and farmers are taken care of, minerals and metals are mined and pipelines carrying valuable resources are monitored. We integrate drone solutions into scalable real-world applications that benefit enterprises and the community at large while making sure authenticity takes precedence along with increasing productivity, saving costs and lives.

We are re-imagining how businesses and professionals communicate & collaborate in the post-email “smartphone” era - via a suite of tools: (1) InTouchApp: An advanced contact manager that helps people stay in touch over time [intouchapp.com] and (2) Dome: A new group communication app that keeps everything organized! No more chaos of chat apps! [dome.so] Our products are used across the world in over 190 countries, with over 2 million registered users. We have managed to achieve this with a small passionate team!

Adya means "Original" in Sanskrit. Our vision: To make power Available, Affordable and sustainable. Mission: Be the one of the Top 3 Energy Platform supported with the most sophisticated Smart Metering Device in the world. We are bunch of geeks started this in 2011 with a passion to build ESG with Carbon Neutral and Zero Carbon Technologies. The backbone for cleantech is to rollout the Smart Meters and Smart Grids, so the data can be leveraged by consumers to build the Energy Management tools. Where we are: We have built worlds best smart metering solution delivering which high data quality. What we are building now: Building Energy Platform which can enable Do-it-yourself (DIY) concepts for energy management for Industries, Commercial, EV, Renewables and Residential. The Energy & Utilities is in transformation phase to Digital and this has lead to massive investments across Utilities and Consumers across the world. Also the surge in EV and Renewables has led to the need for creating a Energy Platform which can enable consumers to help reduce carbon, decrease tariffs and also buy and sell energy. We also plan to deploy Crypto over the Smart Meter data. Smart Metering is $25B market in India and $650 B globally Energy-as-a-Service is $114.7 B market and growing at very fast pace. Some achievements: 2 Patents Awarded : Key for deployment of Smart Metering Solution Awards: 2012: Times Go Green Award, Best Innovation, 2013: Best Innovation Award in Wireless Sector by Renesas, CPRI and ERDA Member We are looking for team members who share our vision and who understand the importance of our commitment to this sector and to achieve success. Our ideal fit will be someone looking for part-time or full-time with compensation partly as monthly salary and rest in ESOP and who would like to on-board full time once we start scaling up. Thanks for your interest! We have successfully raised Pre-Series A and looking will target to do the Series A by 2025 Q1.