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The billion-dollar business beneath your feet
Core & Main turns pipes, valves and local know-how into a $7.6 billion business. Its real product is getting the right parts to the people who cannot afford to wait.
Xylem: Think before you dig
A sewer in Indiana explains Xylem’s wager: better information can make old infrastructure do more. The water company sells the pumps, sensors, treatment systems and software that turn that idea into working machinery.
ESG makes the meter count.
The energy transition has a billing problem. ESG connects the readings, rules and transactions that turn electricity into a business.
Abjayon and the art of making a utility bill boring
Behind a simple utility bill sits a surprisingly complicated machine. Abjayon makes its living connecting that machine, with Oracle expertise, its own Impresa software, and a taste for the unglamorous details.
Kalkitech makes the old grid speak fluent cloud
The energy transition has a translation problem. Kalkitech connects yesterday’s meters and relays to today’s software, giving utilities a way to modernize without throwing out the machinery.
Kigen wants your next SIM to disappear
The Arm spinout puts cellular identity inside connected devices, from cattle tags to electricity grids. Its real business is making those devices manageable long after they leave the factory.
ENSEK followed the missing money. British Gas followed ENSEK.
The Nottingham software company built its business around the unglamorous problem of making energy bills add up. Then British Gas’s parent paid £91 million to own it.
Ahmed Ashour Is Teaching Old Grids New Tricks
He spent years watching water, electricity and revenue disappear through aging networks. Then he built Pylon around a stubborn idea: the smartest grid may be the one a utility can actually afford.
The Humble Power Meter Is Learning to Think
For 130 years, Landis+Gyr has counted electricity. Its next act is to turn the meter on your wall into a sensor, a computer and a traffic cop for an increasingly unruly grid.
Pylon
Pylon is a Cairo-based smart infrastructure platform that sells electricity and water utilities a subscription-based Smart Metering as a Service (SMaaS). Its software layers on top of any meter - old or new - to cut losses, improve revenue collection and give operators real-time visibility, all at zero upfront cost. Founded in 2017 and backed by Y Combinator (S21), Pylon runs across more than a million metering endpoints in Egypt and the Philippines.
Hangzhou Laison Technology Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Laison Technology Co., Ltd. is a Chinese high-tech manufacturer of smart water and gas metering solutions, founded in 2012 and based in Hangzhou's Zhejiang University National Science Park. Laison designs and produces STS prepaid, ultrasonic, and IoT-connected (NB-IoT, LoRaWAN, GPRS) meters along with the software systems that run behind them, helping water authorities improve bill collection, cut non-revenue water, and modernize operations. The company serves utilities in more than 30 countries, with particular strength across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and produces over a million smart water meters a year.
Beacon Power Services
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.