# Verdigris

> Verdigris is a Mountain View-based AI and IoT company that turns raw electrical data into actionable intelligence for data centers, commercial buildings, and industrial facilities. By clamping high-frequency sensors onto electrical circuits and running proprietary AI algorithms on the resulting waveform data, Verdigris gives facility operators real-time visibility into energy consumption, power quality, and equipment health - detecting failures before they happen, recovering stranded capacity, and driving 20-50% reductions in energy spend. Founded in 2011, the company serves Fortune 500 customers including T-Mobile, Verizon, and NVIDIA across 17 countries.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founders:** Mark Chung (CEO & Co-Founder), Jonathan Chu (Co-Founder & CTO), Thomas Chung (Co-Founder & Product Manager)
- **Team size:** ~90 employees (2026)
- **Products:** Building.AI Platform, Verdigris Signals, Smart Electrical Sensors (Hardware), Verdigris Adaptive Automation, Verdigris API
- **Notable:** Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Energy, Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leader in North American AI-based Energy Management and Automation, Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Award (2021) - Energy Management category

## Products & services

- **Building.AI Platform** — Cloud-based energy analytics software for enterprise facility managers. Provides web dashboard, mobile alerts, and lobby displays showing real-time energy consumption, power quality metrics, and equipment health insights.
- **Verdigris Signals** — Predictive reliability product that uses 8 kHz waveform analysis to detect equipment degradation in UPS rectifiers, motors, and compressors - predicting electrical failures 48 hours to weeks before they occur.
- **Smart Electrical Sensors (Hardware)** — Clamp-on IoT sensors that install inside electrical panels and sample circuits thousands of times per second. Connect via Wi-Fi or Verizon 4G/LTE to transmit data securely to the cloud. Non-invasive installation with no downtime.
- **Verdigris Adaptive Automation** — AI-driven HVAC and building system optimization that learns facility usage patterns to automatically adjust energy consumption without manual intervention.
- **Verdigris API** — RESTful API platform enabling enterprise customers and partners to integrate Verdigris electrical intelligence data into their own systems, dashboards, and workflows.
- **Verdigris Energy Network** — Virtual power plant (VPP) offering enabling commercial buildings to participate in demand response programs and grid services, developed in partnership with Leap.

## Achievements

- Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Energy
- Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leader in North American AI-based Energy Management and Automation
- Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Award (2021) - Energy Management category
- Silver Stevie Award (2021) - Achievement in Product Innovation for Building.AI platform
- Silver Award, Best in Biz Awards (2021) - Most Innovative Product of the Year (Enterprise)
- Thomas Chung named to Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 (2021)
- Recovered $75M in stranded GPU capacity at a single data center customer
- Deployed across 800+ UPS rectifiers at T-Mobile data centers, detecting 4% degradation standard alarms missed
- 20-50% energy cost reductions achieved by customers
- Deployed in 17 countries serving Fortune 500 enterprises

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Southwire announces strategic minority investment in Verdigris to integrate AI-native electrical intelligence into Southwire offerings for AI-scale data center power delivery
- **2025-12** — Verdigris Signals predictive reliability product deployed across mission-critical data center customers monitoring UPS rectifiers, motors, and compressors
- **2025-06** — Company reaches 85+ employees with 18% growth, continuing expansion in AI data center vertical
- **2024-09** — Expanded channel partner program for building services professionals and integrators
- **2023-08** — Raises $10M Series B extension led by DCVC and Solea Energy to expand AI data center focus

## Links

- Website: https://verdigris.co
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/verdigris
- Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/VerdigrisTech
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verdigristech

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Last updated: 2026-05-18