Milsoft began with a pencil, a calculator and one engineer’s circuit model. Thirty-seven years later, more than 1,000 utilities use its software to find faults, dispatch crews, answer anxious callers and keep the grid’s many databases speaking the same language.
Beacon Power Services (BPS) is an energy-technology company building data and grid-management software for Africa's power sector. Its AI-enabled platforms - Adora for real-time grid monitoring, CAIMS for utility asset and customer data, and the Xepp consumer app - help electricity distributors cut losses, prevent outages and digitize networks. Founded by aerospace engineer turned investment banker Bimbola Adisa, BPS now serves utilities reaching more than 50 million people across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and beyond, processing over a billion grid data points a day.