# GridCARE

> GridCARE is a Redwood City, California company that uses generative AI to find hidden capacity inside the existing electric grid - turning data-center 'time-to-power' from a 5-to-7-year wait into 6-to-12 months. Founded in 2024 by Amit Narayan with co-founders from Stanford, the company is building what it calls 'power acceleration for AI,' partnering with utilities like National Grid and Portland General Electric and counting Sutter Hill Ventures, Xora, Emerson Collective and John Doerr among its backers.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founders:** Amit Narayan (Co-Founder & CEO), Ram Rajagopal (Co-Founder & CTO), Liang Min (Co-Founder), Arun Majumdar (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~27 employees
- **Products:** GridCARE Energize, Power Acceleration for AI, Utility partnerships toolkit
- **Notable:** Named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list for 2026, Selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2026, Closed a $64M Series A in May 2026 led by Sutter Hill Ventures

## Products & services

- **GridCARE Energize** — A generative AI platform that models grid congestion, outages, weather, and demand variability simultaneously to surface geographic and temporal pockets of available capacity for AI data center siting and interconnection.
- **Power Acceleration for AI** — Advisory plus software workflow that compresses time-to-power for hyperscale and gigascale AI clusters from 5-7 years to 6-12 months, working in partnership with utilities.
- **Utility partnerships toolkit** — Joint capacity-discovery and planning workflows used by utilities such as National Grid and Portland General Electric to evaluate flexible interconnection and load-flex opportunities.

## Achievements

- Named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list for 2026
- Selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2026
- Closed a $64M Series A in May 2026 led by Sutter Hill Ventures
- Ram Shriram (Google founding board member) joined the GridCARE board
- Announced partnership with National Grid to unlock grid capacity for AI infrastructure

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for AI Power Innovation.
- **2026-05** — Raised oversubscribed $64M Series A led by Sutter Hill Ventures with John Doerr and National Grid Partners participating.
- **2026-03** — Announced collaboration with National Grid to unlock capacity for AI infrastructure; named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2026.
- **2026-01** — Ram Shriram, Google founding board member, joined the GridCARE board of directors.
- **2025-05** — Emerged from stealth with $13.5M seed round led by Xora Innovation.

## Links

- Website: https://gridcare.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridcare

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Last updated: 2026-06-29