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Gridmatic Wants to Turn the Power Grid Into a Forecasting Problem
The former Google engineer behind Gridmatic is applying search-ad automation to a harder auction: electricity. The company now trades across all seven major U.S. power markets, operates batteries in Texas and California, and sells energy to businesses that need cost certainty without giving up cleaner power.
Verse
Verse is a San Francisco climate-tech company building AI software that turns messy energy, market, and financial data into decisions organizations can actually act on. Its flagship platform, Aria, helps companies forecast Scope 2 emissions, plan and procure clean power (including PPAs), optimize on-site assets like batteries, and - increasingly - get AI data centers connected to the grid years faster. Founded in 2022 by clean-energy veterans from Fluence, Tesla and AMS, Verse raised an oversubscribed $54M Series B in June 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with GV, NVIDIA and Norrsken.