Aurora Solar began with a peculiar delay: seven months to design a solar system that took two weeks to install. Its software now tries to make the rooftop, the sales pitch and the permit tell the same story.
Ivy Energy is a San Diego cleantech company whose cloud software, Virtual Grid, automates the billing and management of onsite solar, battery storage, and EV charging for multi-tenant properties. It solves a stubborn accounting problem - fairly splitting the value of a shared rooftop solar array among many tenants - and turns that onsite energy into recurring, predictable net operating income for property owners. Founded in 2019 by Dover Janis, the company raised an $18M Series A led by SolarEdge in 2024 and serves multifamily and commercial real estate portfolios across multiple U.S. markets.