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Illumine-i
Illumine-i is a power and design engineering firm that provides turnkey engineering support for solar PV, battery storage, EV charging, substations, and grid infrastructure. Founded in 2015 by former Tesla and Sunrun engineers, the company works with EPCs, developers, independent power producers, and lenders - handling everything from preliminary feasibility to construction-ready permit packages, plus independent and owner's engineering. It has engineered more than 3 GW of clean energy across 200,000+ projects and complements its solar roots with construction-focused BIM/VDC and MEPF design services.
Modo Energy
Modo Energy is a London-based data and analytics platform that helps investors, developers, lenders and traders value and finance battery storage and other electrification assets. It provides regulated benchmarks, transparent revenue forecasts, expert market research and an AI analyst, turning complex power-market data into investment-grade decisions across markets in Great Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia.
Tyba
Tyba is a San Francisco-based climate software company that helps energy companies develop, model, and operate battery energy storage projects more profitably. Its AI-driven platform pairs a Project Simulation product - which backtests and forecasts revenue for storage assets in development - with an Asset Operations product that automates real-time bidding and dispatch in wholesale power markets like ERCOT and CAISO. Founded in 2022 by former energy developers and infrastructure engineers, Tyba positions itself as the 'autopilot for batteries,' emphasizing transparent, non-black-box optimization. The company raised a $13.9M Series A led by Energize Capital in February 2025.
Nithish Sairam
Nithish Sairam is the co-founder and CEO of Illumine-i, a solar and power-engineering design firm he built after stints at Tesla and NextEra Energy. Under his leadership the bootstrapped firm expanded from a five-person team to roughly 240 engineers across offices in Fremont, Austin, and Chennai, and has been described as the largest independent digital design engineering firm in the residential PV solar sector.
Quentin Scrimshire
Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire is the co-founder and CEO of Modo Energy, a London-based B2B SaaS platform that benchmarks and forecasts the performance of grid-scale battery energy storage assets. A Manchester-trained electrical engineer who cut his teeth on offshore wind and gas-fired plants at Centrica before running Kiwi Power's European storage business, he now leads a roughly 80-person team building what he describes as the 'benchmarking and valuation operating system for global electrification.' In December 2025 Modo closed a $33M Series B led by Molten Ventures.
BuildQ
BuildQ is an AI-native software and services company for capital-intensive infrastructure - energy, data centers and real estate. Founded in 2024 by attorney and former renewable-energy operator Maryssa Barron, the platform centralizes a project's documents, financials and contracts, then uses AI to run due diligence, surface risks and obligations, and produce investor-ready memos and data rooms. The pitch, in Barron's words, is 'TurboTax for project finance': turn the slow, six-figure, thousand-page grind of financing a clean-energy project into something faster and cheaper. Less than a year after launch, BuildQ reported 300+ projects, 10+ gigawatts of capacity and $150M+ in deal flow on the platform.
Jamal Burki
Jamal Burki is the co-founder and CEO of Renewance, Inc., an Elmhurst, Illinois company that manages industrial and grid-scale batteries across their full lifecycle - installation, monitoring, decommissioning, repurposing, and recycling. A former Motorola telecom engineer turned energy-storage operator, he built Renewance in 2015 with two ex-GE Energy Storage colleagues to solve a problem few were watching: what happens to the millions of batteries powering the clean-energy transition once they wear out. Under his leadership the company has commissioned and serviced over 20 gigawatt-hours of storage, decommissioned more than 100 megawatt-hours, and built RenewanceConnect, an AI-assisted platform for battery asset management and regulatory compliance.
Maryssa Barron
Maryssa Barron is the founder and CEO of BuildQ, an AI-powered project intelligence platform for the energy sector that structures project data, automates due diligence, and accelerates clean energy financing and M&A. A Harvard graduate, Stanford-trained lawyer, and licensed D.C. attorney, she spent nearly a decade in renewable energy - pioneering early power purchase agreements and rising to COO at a global independent power producer - before building the tool she wished had existed. She founded BuildQ in 2024 while studying for the bar exam, won the 2025 AngelNV competition and over $1 million in funding, and within a year had grown the platform to 300+ projects, 10+ gigawatts of clean energy capacity, and over $150 million in deal flow.
SYSO Technologies
SYSO Technologies is a Boston-based market operations partner for renewable energy and battery storage assets. The company acts as the market operator for solar, wind, and energy storage projects, handling registration, forecasting, bidding, scheduling, real-time dispatch, and settlement across every major North American ISO/RTO market. Its cloud-based, AI-enabled Energy Management Platform turns passive renewable generators into active market participants, and by 2026 SYSO managed more than 4.5 GW across 300+ sites.
Renewance, Inc.
Renewance, Inc. is an Elmhurst, Illinois company that manages the full life cycle of industrial batteries - from installation and remote monitoring to decommissioning, repurposing, and recycling. Founded in 2015 by three former GE Energy Storage leaders, it pairs hands-on field services with the RenewanceConnect software platform so energy-storage and EV operators can track assets, stay compliant, and retire batteries safely instead of letting them become environmental liabilities.