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Vortexa Wants to Know What’s on That Ship
A tanker’s location is only the beginning. Vortexa turns cargo movements, storage levels and freight costs into intelligence for the people who trade the world’s energy.
Enverus Built a $6 Billion-Plus Data Machine for Energy Decisions Nobody Can Afford to Guess
A database built by oil-patch insiders became the operating intelligence behind wells, grids, invoices and billion-dollar bets. The clever part is not the dashboard - it is the network underneath it.
The Tiny Box That Lets Solar Installers Refuse the Walled Garden
Tigo Energy spent nearly two decades making a small, unglamorous box beneath the solar panel unusually consequential. Its wager: installers will pay for safety and intelligence without surrendering the freedom to mix brands.
Niklas Panten Is Teaching Heavy Industry to Stop Guessing
A sailing fan turned control engineer, he learned inside a working research factory that the costliest machines are often run by habit. Now his company is taking that lesson from Darmstadt to San Francisco.
etalytics
etalytics is a Darmstadt-based deep-tech company that builds AI software to make industrial energy systems more efficient and resilient. Its flagship platform, etaONE, pairs machine learning with physics-based model predictive control and digital twins to monitor, forecast, and autonomously optimize energy-intensive systems - especially HVAC and cooling - in data centers, automotive plants, and pharmaceutical and chemical production. Customers including Volkswagen, Equinix, Merck, and Digital Realty have reported cooling and ventilation energy reductions of up to 50%. Spun out of TU Darmstadt in 2020, the company raised a €16 million Series A backed by Microsoft's M12 fund and Alstin Capital.