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Uplight-acquired DERMS and VPP platform managing 3,500 MW of flexibility for National Grid and NextEra; $160M raised at $22.9M revenue enabling utilities to orchestrate batteries, EVs, and smart loads for grid balancing.
AutoGrid is a Redwood City, California-based energy flexibility management software company — acquired by Uplight (Boulder-based energy technology company) in 2023 after raising $160 million from investors including GE Ventures, Envision Energy, Eneco, and ENGIE — providing utilities, energy retailers, and grid operators with AI-powered distributed energy resource management (DERMS), virtual power plant (VPP) orchestration, and demand flexibility platforms that aggregate and dispatch batteries, electric vehicles, HVAC systems, and industrial loads to balance grid supply and demand in real time. AutoGrid generated $22.9 million in revenue prior to acquisition and deployed technology managing 3,500 MW of flexibility capacity and 37,000 MWh of energy storage, serving customers including National Grid, NextEra Energy, and Pacific Gas & Electric.
Grid capacity mapping platform for solar and storage developers pre-computing interconnection availability; $66M raised serving AES and Invenergy with 500+ GW analyzed across MISO, ERCOT, PJM markets.
Nira Energy is a Denver-based renewable energy software company providing grid capacity mapping and interconnection analysis tools that help solar, battery storage, and data center developers identify optimal project sites based on available grid capacity — reducing the years-long interconnection study process to minutes by pre-computing capacity availability across major US electricity markets. Backed by Y Combinator with $66 million raised, Nira generated $3.6 million in revenue in 2024, serving 100+ leading energy developers including AES, Invenergy, and Scout Energy with 500+ gigawatts of interconnection studies processed.
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