# Verse

> Verse is a San Francisco climate-tech company building AI software that turns messy energy, market, and financial data into decisions organizations can actually act on. Its flagship platform, Aria, helps companies forecast Scope 2 emissions, plan and procure clean power (including PPAs), optimize on-site assets like batteries, and - increasingly - get AI data centers connected to the grid years faster. Founded in 2022 by clean-energy veterans from Fluence, Tesla and AMS, Verse raised an oversubscribed $54M Series B in June 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with GV, NVIDIA and Norrsken.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Seyed H. Madaeni (Co-Founder & CEO), Matt Penfold (Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer)
- **Team size:** ~75 employees (2026)
- **Products:** Aria Platform, Dispatch Intelligence, Portfolio Insights / Planning
- **Notable:** Raised an oversubscribed $54M Series B in June 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners with GV, NVIDIA and Norrsken., Raised over $80M in total funding across seed, Series A and Series B in under three years., Signed Climeworks as its first customer at product launch.

## Products & services

- **Aria Platform** — AI-powered energy intelligence platform that unifies market prices, contracts, meter data and invoices into one live source of truth, then uses optimization and generative AI to help organizations plan, procure and manage clean energy portfolios.
- **Dispatch Intelligence** — Real-time AI that forecasts optimal times to charge and dispatch behind-the-meter batteries and on-site renewables, letting data centers run flexible load and connect to the grid years faster without throttling compute.
- **Portfolio Insights / Planning** — Energy planning and portfolio tools that model, forecast and optimize costs and emissions against pre-loaded 20-year hourly market forecasts, comparing forecasts to actual performance.

## Achievements

- Raised an oversubscribed $54M Series B in June 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners with GV, NVIDIA and Norrsken.
- Raised over $80M in total funding across seed, Series A and Series B in under three years.
- Signed Climeworks as its first customer at product launch.
- Launched Dispatch Intelligence to help AI data centers connect to the grid years faster.
- Founding team previously built Tesla's Autobidder and Fluence/AMS's clean-energy optimization software.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Closed an oversubscribed $54M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with GV, NVIDIA and Norrsken.
- **2026-06** — Launched Dispatch Intelligence to help data centers get online years faster by managing on-site renewable resources as flexible load.
- **2024-05** — Raised $20.5M Series A led by GV to help organizations cut electricity costs and emissions.

## Links

- Website: https://verse.inc
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/versedotinc

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Last updated: 2026-07-10