Tagged: renewables
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BeeX
The Singapore deeptech cutting the tether on underwater inspection - autonomous drones that survey ships, wind farms and seabeds without divers, ROV pilots or a support vessel overhead.
Unleash live
Unleash live is a Sydney-based enterprise computer vision company that turns live video and imagery from drones, CCTV, IP cameras and mobile devices into real-time, actionable insights. Its cloud and edge platform runs a library of AI models to inspect critical infrastructure - power lines, wind turbines, solar farms, rail, roads and industrial sites - detecting faults, corrosion and equipment wear so utilities, transport authorities and resource companies can inspect assets faster and safer. Alongside the core platform it offers Autofly for automated drone and robot inspections and an AI App marketplace for building and deploying custom vision models.
Continuum Industries
Continuum Industries is an infrastructure-technology company behind Optioneer, an AI-powered platform that helps utilities, developers and engineers plan large linear infrastructure - power lines, cables, water networks and pipelines. Optioneer analyses geospatial data and tests millions of routing alternatives against environmental, social, cost and technical criteria, producing a shortlist of viable options in hours rather than months. Founded in 2018 and headquartered across Edinburgh, London and New York, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 to accelerate the build-out of grid and water infrastructure needed for the energy transition.
Qnergy
Qnergy is an Ogden, Utah cleantech manufacturer that builds Free Piston Stirling Engine generators to mitigate methane emissions at the source. Its PowerGen systems turn waste methane and other gaseous fuels into reliable, grid-quality remote power - and can destroy methane while doing it - serving oil and gas operators, landfills, livestock farms, and other off-grid sites worldwide. Led by cleantech veteran Ory Zik, the company has deployed thousands of units, abated millions of tonnes of CO2e, and is expanding into landfill gas abatement and voluntary carbon markets.
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.
Verse
Verse is a San Francisco climate-tech company building AI software that turns messy energy, market, and financial data into decisions organizations can actually act on. Its flagship platform, Aria, helps companies forecast Scope 2 emissions, plan and procure clean power (including PPAs), optimize on-site assets like batteries, and - increasingly - get AI data centers connected to the grid years faster. Founded in 2022 by clean-energy veterans from Fluence, Tesla and AMS, Verse raised an oversubscribed $54M Series B in June 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with GV, NVIDIA and Norrsken.
Vishal Kapadia
Vishal Kapadia is the Chief Executive Officer of LineVision, a Boston-based company that bolts non-contact sensors to high-voltage power lines and, through dynamic line rating, squeezes as much as 40% more capacity out of wires already in the ground. He took the top job in June 2025 after co-founder Hudson Gilmer moved to chairman. Before LineVision he ran energy transformation at Walmart, where he built a coast-to-coast EV fast-charging plan and oversaw more than 2 GW of clean energy; earlier he was CFO and CCO of Orsted's onshore renewables business and led renewable-energy investing at Morgan Stanley. Across his career he has financed or developed over 15 GW of energy and mobility infrastructure.
Power Kiosk
Power Kiosk is a Chicago-based SaaS company that runs a cloud-based marketplace connecting retail energy suppliers with the brokers and consultants who buy electricity and natural gas on behalf of businesses. Founded by Northwestern Ph.D. Hamed Babai, the platform pulls fragmented supplier rates, contracts, and market data into one AI-assisted workflow so brokers can quote, compare, and close deals in minutes instead of days. The company says it has managed 16,000+ customers across 34 states and provinces and returned roughly $120 million in savings.
Thomas Sisto
Thomas Sisto is the CEO and co-founder of XL Batteries, a Marlborough, Massachusetts startup commercializing water-based organic flow batteries for long-duration, grid-scale energy storage. A synthetic organic chemist by training, Sisto discovered the company's core molecule during a Columbia University postdoc - a compound he originally designed for solar cells that turned out to be extraordinarily stable in pH-neutral saltwater. He spun XL out of Columbia in 2019 and has since steered it from a lab curiosity to its first commercial pilot, betting that cheap, abundant organic chemicals can break China's grip on the battery supply chain.
Critical Loop
Critical Loop is an industrial power company founded in 2023 by former SpaceX, Tesla and Palantir engineers. It deploys modular, relocatable battery-storage microgrids - paired with its software-defined controller, Cygnus - to give factories, data centers, airports and other grid-constrained sites reliable power in weeks instead of waiting years for utility upgrades. The company raised a $26M Series A in April 2026, bringing total committed funding to $49M, and operates a fleet of control nodes across California.
Panthalassa
Panthalassa is a Portland, Oregon public-benefit corporation building autonomous, mass-produced floating nodes that harvest wave energy in the open ocean and use it on the spot to run AI compute, beaming inference results back to land by satellite. Founded in 2016, the company raised a $140M Series B in May 2026 led by Peter Thiel to finish its pilot manufacturing facility and deploy its Ocean-3 node series.
Equilibrium Energy
Equilibrium Energy is a San Francisco-based clean power company building PowerOS, an agentic AI platform purpose-built for the power industry. Its flagship product, EQ Mission Control, optimizes battery storage and renewables portfolios across US power markets, blending grid physics, market modeling, and AI copilots.
Rajesh Swaminathan
Rajesh Swaminathan is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he backs bold founders reinventing how the world powers, builds, and heals itself. With two decades of deep-tech investing experience spanning Bell Labs, Deutsche Bank, Applied Materials' venture arm, and now one of Silicon Valley's most storied VC firms, he leads investments across renewables, industrial decarbonization, advanced manufacturing, critical minerals, compute infrastructure, and the intersection of all of these with AI. A chemical engineer by training who was awarded the President of India Medal at IIT Madras and later earned an MBA from Harvard, Rajesh brings rare depth - scientific rigor, financial discipline, and operational empathy - to backing the founders who will, as he puts it, 'save the world.'
John Mern
John Mern is the Co-Founder and CEO of Terra AI, a Khosla Ventures-backed startup using generative AI and probabilistic modeling to transform how humans find and develop critical minerals and energy resources underground. A Stanford PhD in aerospace engineering and alumnus of Boeing Phantom Works and KoBold Metals, Mern built Terra AI's platform to cut mine development timelines in half - running geophysical simulations 125,000x faster than traditional methods, achieving 40% reductions in drilling costs, and helping partners unlock over $100 million in investments. His work sits at the intersection of deep reinforcement learning, geoscience, and the urgent global race to secure the copper, lithium, and cobalt the energy transition demands.