Top Utilities Startups in 2027

LineVision is accelerating the net zero grid by equipping our utility partners with unique monitoring and analytics that improve the capacity, resilience, and safety of the grid.

Alert Labs’ Insight series protects our customers’ properties by gathering and analyzing real-time data using attractive, reliable, and easy-to-install IoT hardware and software. Sensors can be installed by anyone in less than 2 minutes, and then they are on the alert for water leaks, floods, power issues, and more. Alert Labs monitors your water usage, power, heating/cooling, temperature, humidity, sump pump, and water softener. Customers receive real-time alerts to their smartphones for emergency events (e.g. a flood), and gain insight with long-term big data analytics (i.e. escalating water use or inefficient equipment) in order to avoid damage to their properties and to save money, hassle, and natural resources. Sensors are cellular, so no Wi-Fi is required. Battery back-up ensures sensors continue to monitor during a power outage. Our target audiences are property managers, landlords, cottage owners, and home owners.

National Grid facilitates electricity and gas transmission system and focuses on delivering clean energy. They are one of the world’s largest investor-owned energy companies, committed to delivering electricity and gas safely, reliably and efficiently to the customers and communities they serve. They play a vital role in connecting millions of people to the energy they use, through their regulated utility businesses in the UK and US; with principal operations in electricity and gas transmission and distribution, as well as National Grid Ventures. They also understand their responsibilities for future generations, so they are shaping the energy systems that they will need in years to come. They are working closely with customers, partners and communities to develop solutions to the very real challenges they all face as they make the transition to decarbonised, decentralised, smart energy systems.

Amber is a new way to buy power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 30 mins. We then provide the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price is highest. It’s a cheaper way to buy power and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy. We have thousands of customers who love what we are doing and a great product that will play a significant role in driving Australia towards a renewable future. We are backed by Australia’s leading VCs (including Square Peg Capital and Main Sequence Ventures), impact-focused investors and individuals, and most recently by Commonwealth Bank. We’re now at a critical moment in taking the business to real scale as we disrupt a huge market for the better. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world. You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 60 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.

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Simon-Kucher, they have over 30 years of experience in creating top- and bottom-line growth strategies that deliver measurable results. A project with us increases their clients’ profitability by 100 to 500 basis points on average.They are especially renowned for their pricing experience. This is where they started, and this is where their core competence remains. Or, as acclaimed Northwestern University marketing professor Philip Kotler says, “No one knows more about pricing than Simon-Kucher.” Their solutions are made to last. That is easily said, but not so easily done in today’s dynamic business environment. The world has never been so dynamic, with digitalization unhinging established revenue models and urging everyone to rethink the way they market, price and sell products and services. At Simon-Kucher, they are ahead of these developments, and their solutions prepare their clients for the digital era.

We provide homeowners with the option to purchase their electricity utility through solar energy at a lower rate than they currently pay. Typically 20-40% savings on their energy bills. We win the hearts of our customers because they can see that we are fighting for them. We are committed to doing this the right way. Our customers are no longer consumers. They become producer - consumers who sustainably use what they produce, and save money while doing it. Our average customer saves $45 per month right away, and locks in low energy rates. As traditional energy costs continue to rise, our customers’ savings grow exponentially. Our customers join a new movement to change the way we power our homes and businesses, promote a healthy environment and economy, and save money while doing it. Its a win-win-win for all. Join Us.

Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) is a growth-oriented renewable energy company that owns and operates a portfolio of 24 renewable energy facilities across nine states, totaling more than 2,500 MW of installed capacity. The company is actively developing new wind, solar, and energy storage projects in energy markets across the U.S., with about 20 GW of projects under development spanning over 100 projects. LRE is a portfolio company of OMERS Infrastructure, a preeminent global infrastructure investor and investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans with C$121 billion in net assets (as at December 31, 2021). As passionate renewable energy advocates, LRE takes great pride in responsible development and the safe operation of its projects. LRE is focused on building sustainable solutions for clean, renewable energy, and we remain dedicated to empowering communities through energy independence, job creation, and lasting partnerships.

In 2007 Avertra began as a services company focused on utility industry enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Esri, Qlik and Maximo. Throughout our services work, we discovered a whitespace in the utility industry where there was a lack of easy to use, modernized industry-specific solutions that integrate and add innovation layers to existing ERP and CIS systems. In 2012 we started investing in developing our MiUtility™ platform with the focus on optimizing, streamlining and automating the new construction to cash lifecycle. MiUtility™ is an easy to deploy utility specific platform with end-to-end capabilities that optimizes operations, facilitates business driven customer service, offers enhanced communication and customer engagement, and simplifies billing and payment. With the continued growth and adoption of MiUtility™ , we have now developed a Research and Development lab where we are continuing to evaluate emerging technologies for utilities.