He built a clever way to enter an energy trade. Customers wanted to know what happened next. Sameer Soleja’s answer became Molecule, a Houston software company built around the daily work of trading.
A $1.2 million billing recovery reveals the appeal of PCI Energy Solutions: software that connects the power plant, the trading desk and the final invoice. Its next chapter is a $1.4 billion acquisition agreement with Mitsubishi Electric.
Blackstone Technology Group spent decades learning where complicated operations break. Its answer is an odd but coherent pair: find the humans who can fix the system, then build the software that makes one stubborn industry run.
Molecule is a Houston-based software company that builds cloud-native energy trading and risk management (ETRM) and commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software. Founded in 2012 by Sameer Soleja, Molecule replaces slow, on-premise legacy systems with a modern SaaS platform that captures trades, calculates real-time position and P&L, and handles risk analytics across 50+ commodities. Its add-on modules - Elektra for power markets, Hive for renewable certificates, Djinn for crypto, and Bigbang for data-lake analytics - let energy traders, utilities, hedge funds and commodity firms manage multi-asset portfolios in one place. The company has captured more than five million trades and raised a Series B round led by Sundance Growth in July 2025.