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Timothy Barat
Timothy Barat is the co-founder and CEO of Gridware, a San Francisco climate-tech company that builds pole-mounted sensors to detect power grid failures before they cause outages or wildfires. A former electrical lineworker from Victoria, Australia who lived through the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, Barat moved to the United States, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, and founded Gridware in 2020 with Hall Chen and Abdulrahman Bin Omar. His Gridscope device, described as a 'Fitbit for power poles,' listens to the mechanical and electrical signals of the grid to pinpoint hazards. Gridware has raised roughly $97 million to date, including a $55 million Series B in November 2025, and its co-founders were named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Social Impact list.
Giuseppe Incitti
Giuseppe Incitti is the CEO of Sitetracker, the Montclair, New Jersey enterprise software company whose platform helps utilities, telecom operators, and EV charging companies manage the deployment and lifecycle of high-volume infrastructure assets. Since taking over in 2016 he has grown the company from about 30 employees to roughly 400 and raised more than $200M in equity and debt, including a $66M Series D in 2022. A Stevens Institute engineer who started in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan before operating roles at TIBCO and MongoDB, Incitti is a vocal advocate that digital transformation is no longer optional for the companies building the grid, the network, and the charging stations of the next decade.
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.
Kim Getgen
Kim Getgen is the founder and CEO of InnovationForce, an AI-powered innovation management platform born in Durham, North Carolina. She bootstrapped the company by moving in with her parents and selling her car, then watched it land on Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Workplace Solutions list and bring 165+ utilities onto a single collaboration platform. Named one of Inc.'s Top 500 Female Founders of 2025, she has spent two-plus decades shoving legacy industries (energy, cybersecurity) toward the future before the future arrives without them.
Chris Black
Chris Black is the CEO of GridX, Inc., an enterprise energy technology platform serving major US utilities. With nearly 30 years in technology and operations, he has been a central figure in the clean energy software sector - as CTO/COO at Tendril, he orchestrated the acquisitions that formed Uplight (now valued at $1.5B+), then invested via Huck Capital before taking the helm at GridX in April 2022 during its $40M Series C round. Under his leadership, GridX calculates 49 million bills daily, serves 40 million meters under contract, and models 1,000+ tariffs for utilities including PG&E, Southern California Edison, and ComEd.
Diana Frappier
Diana Frappier is the co-founder of Promise, an Oakland-based AI-powered government payment platform that helps municipalities and utilities distribute relief, recover revenue, and automate eligibility checks at scale. A UC Hastings-trained lawyer turned social entrepreneur, she co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights with Van Jones in 1996, helped launch the first Green Jobs Corps in Oakland, and then pivoted to fintech after years running operations at Green For All and Honor. At Promise, she and CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins have raised over $48M and built a platform that has distributed $150M+ in government relief to hundreds of thousands of residents.
Matthew Rosenthal
Matthew Rosenthal is CEO and Co-Founder of SewerAI, the AI-powered platform transforming how cities inspect and manage underground sewer infrastructure. A Carnegie Mellon-trained engineer who worked at Fitbit and founded Centosette (acquired 2010), Rosenthal pivoted into sewer tech after recognizing that one million miles of U.S. pipes were being assessed with 20-year-old software. SewerAI's Pioneer platform and AutoCode AI have now processed over 135 million feet of sewer inspection footage, slashing inspection costs by 40-70% and saving municipalities tens of millions of dollars. In June 2024, Rosenthal closed a $15M Series B led by Innovius Capital, bringing total funding to $18.5M.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is the co-founder and CEO of Promise, an Oakland-based govtech company valued at $520 million that helps municipalities and utilities offer zero-interest payment plans to struggling residents. A former union organizer turned labor federation executive turned music manager for Prince, she now runs a platform that has reached 5 million+ households across 20+ states, proving that treating people with dignity is not just ethical — it is a business model. Named #247 on the Forbes Self-Made 250, she built Promise from a YC Winter 2018 bet to a $23 million-funded company generating $33M+ in annual revenue.
Vikram Takru
Vikram Takru is the Co-Founder and CEO of KloudGin Inc., a Sunnyvale-based SaaS company building the utility industry's only cloud-native, mobile-first combined field service and enterprise asset management platform. With over 27 years of enterprise software experience and two successful exits - including growing Frontline Consulting Services (FCS) to 500+ employees and $40M+ revenue before its 2012 acquisition by TEKSystems - Takru brings a rare blend of deep R&D roots (Oracle) and street-level execution to one of infrastructure's most underserved technology gaps. Under his leadership, KloudGin has developed the 'Single Face of Work' platform powered by its AssetIQ AI co-pilot, raised $16.4M in total funding, and built a team of 240 serving electric, gas, and water utilities across the United States.
Robert Felton
Robert 'Bob' Felton is a serial entrepreneur and nuclear-turned-software pioneer who has founded three enterprise software companies over a 40-year career - TENERA, Indus International, and DevonWay - each leveraging new computing paradigms to serve the nuclear and utilities industries. After Ideagen acquired DevonWay in September 2023, Felton now serves as CEO of Ideagen EHS, bringing his lifelong mission of transforming industrial operations through software full circle. A Cornell-trained mechanical engineer and decorated Navy submarine officer, Felton coined the term 'Enterprise Asset Management' alongside Gartner Group and took two companies public before building DevonWay's no-code platform for EHS, quality, and workforce management.
Zach Robin
Zach Robin is the CEO of Recurve, a San Francisco-based clean energy software company building the leading demand-side platform for utilities, aggregators, and implementers. A computer scientist turned energy entrepreneur, Zach has spent two decades at the intersection of software and grid modernization — from scaling product at EnerNOC through its Enel acquisition, to co-founding Hatch Data and growing it into North America's top real estate decarbonization platform (acquired by Measurabl), to now leading Recurve's FLEX platform, which manages 54 million meters nationwide and powers performance-based clean energy programs across the country.