# Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP)

> Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) is an infrastructure developer and holding company that builds and operates businesses reshaping how energy and digital systems work together. Founded inside Alphabet in 2017 and spun out as independent in 2019 by Sidewalk Labs veterans Jonathan Winer and Brian Barlow, SIP raised $400 million in 2020 backed by Alphabet and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. It identifies bottlenecks in physical infrastructure, then pairs technology with capital to create new operating companies - most recently Renew Home, a roughly one-gigawatt residential virtual power plant, and Verrus, which designs large-scale data centers that flex their grid draw on demand.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Jonathan Winer (Co-founder, former Co-CEO), Brian Barlow (Co-founder, CEO)
- **Team size:** ~26 employees (corporate team; operating companies employ more)
- **Products:** Renew Home, Verrus, Infrastructure incubation & holding
- **Notable:** Raised $400 million Series A in 2020 from Alphabet and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs as an independent developer in 2019, Built Renew Home into a roughly one-gigawatt residential virtual power plant

## Products & services

- **Renew Home** — A residential virtual power plant that harnesses distributed flexibility from millions of homes to stabilize the grid. Formed by merging SIP-backed OhmConnect with Google Nest Renew; operates a load-shifting fleet of roughly one gigawatt.
- **Verrus** — Launched in 2024 out of 18 months of stealth, Verrus designs large-scale data centers that pair compute with on-site battery storage and intelligent dispatch, letting a facility reduce grid draw by up to 100% in under a minute while maintaining 99.999% uptime.
- **Infrastructure incubation & holding** — SIP identifies system bottlenecks, develops a thesis, builds and validates a solution, then scales it into a standalone operating company - acting as developer, investor, and convener of technologists, infrastructure players, and policymakers.

## Achievements

- Raised $400 million Series A in 2020 from Alphabet and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
- Spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs as an independent developer in 2019
- Built Renew Home into a roughly one-gigawatt residential virtual power plant
- Launched Verrus, a grid-flexible data center platform, out of stealth in 2024
- Verrus facilities target 99.999% uptime while flexing grid draw by up to 100% in under a minute

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — SIP launched Verrus out of 18 months in stealth - data centers designed as flexible grid assets, with first facilities planned for Arizona, California and Massachusetts and first sites targeted to come online in late 2026.
- **2023-10** — SIP-backed OhmConnect merged with Google Nest Renew to form Renew Home, a residential virtual power plant operating around one gigawatt of load-shifting capacity.

## Links

- Website: https://sidewalkinfra.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sidewalkinfra
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sidewalkinfra

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Last updated: 2026-06-12