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AiDASH wants your utility to stop trimming by the calendar
Trees grow at different speeds. Utility budgets rarely do. AiDASH uses satellite imagery and AI to help power companies decide which branches, assets and risks deserve attention first.
Technosylva starts the fire before the spark
Millions of imaginary ignitions help utilities decide where to cut power, where to bury lines, and where to send crews. Technosylva turns the fire that might happen into a decision someone can make today.
NM Group Sees the Power Grid the Way a Laser Does
Its aircraft collect billions of precise measurements. Its engineers turn them into a practical answer for utilities: which tree, wire or tower needs attention first?
Celerity Found a Business in the Mess Behind the Meter
Utilities rarely lack data. They lack clean, connected evidence they can trust when a regulator, a wildfire or a courtroom raises the stakes. Celerity built its business in that gap.
Neara
Neara is a Sydney-founded software company that builds physics-enabled digital twins of utility networks. By combining LiDAR, satellite imagery, sensor data, AI and engineering-grade physics simulation, it creates geometrically accurate 3D replicas of power grids so utilities can model how their assets behave under real-world stress - wildfires, floods, storms, heat and rising demand. The platform lets operators find spare grid capacity, mitigate risk, plan maintenance and connect renewables faster, often replacing months of manual field inspection with analysis that runs in minutes. In February 2026 Neara raised an AUD $90 million Series D, reaching a roughly AUD $1.1 billion valuation to become one of Australia's newest unicorns.
Gridware
Gridware builds pole-mounted sensors and an analytics platform that give electric utilities real-time awareness of what is physically happening on their power lines. Its Gridscope device measures mechanical, electrical, and environmental signals directly at the pole, and its Active Grid Response platform turns those signals into immediate hazard detection, precise fault localization, and faster outage response. Founded in 2020 by three UC Berkeley graduate students - including a former lineman - Gridware aims to close the 'hazard awareness delay' that leaves utilities blind to fallen limbs and damaged lines until after they spark outages or wildfires.
Earth Force Technologies
Earth Force Technologies is a San Francisco climate-tech company modernizing wildfire prevention. It builds precision-forestry sensors, in-cabin tablets, and a web portal that give crews real-time, tree-level guidance during fuel-treatment work and let administrators oversee far more acres from a desk. By combining teleoperated machinery, jobsite connectivity, and automated reporting, the company aims to make landscape-scale forest treatments faster, safer, and cheaper - so states, federal agencies, and conservation districts can reduce catastrophic fire risk at the pace the crisis demands.