Fervo Energy is a Houston-based next-generation geothermal company that borrows horizontal drilling and fiber-optic sensing from the oil and gas playbook to make enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) commercially viable. By drilling into hot dry rock almost anywhere - not just rare natural hotspots - Fervo produces around-the-clock, carbon-free firm power. Its flagship Cape Station project in Utah is on track to be the world's largest next-generation geothermal development, and the company has become a go-to supplier of clean baseload electricity for AI data centers and utilities.
Amit Narayan is the Co-Founder and CEO of GridCARE, a Redwood City-based generative AI company that unlocks hidden power grid capacity to slash data center connection timelines from 5-7 years to 6-12 months. A serial entrepreneur with a PhD from UC Berkeley and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, he previously founded AutoGrid (acquired by Schneider Electric in 2022) and Berkeley Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2014), and holds 7 U.S. patents across semiconductor design and energy software. GridCARE emerged from stealth in May 2025 with a $13.5M seed round led by Xora and backed by Tom Steyer, Ram Shriram, and Breakthrough Energy, targeting what Narayan calls the defining constraint on AI: immediate access to power.