Best Smart Grid Companies in France
The 52 best Smart Grid companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Elum Energy.
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- Juniper Research Prediction Smart Grid Savings to Surge 249% by 2029
Ranked: Best Smart Grid companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elum Energy Provider of monitoring and control solutions for renewable energy plants | $13M | 22 mo ago | 60 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+15 | — | 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 2 | Entech smart energies Provider of distributed grid management solutions | $9M | 58 mo ago | 120 | Christopher Franquet Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 3 | Izigloo Online platform offering home improvement and energy management services | $5M | 113 mo ago | — | Fabien Ratier Founder | — | — | — |
| 4 | Neelogy Develops magnetic sensors for current measurement | $5M | 134 mo ago | 11 | — | — | 46 patents Isolated PCB‑integrated current/voltage sensors using the Néel effect for low‑crosstalk measurement | — |
| 5 | Bohr Energie Provider of grid management solutions for power distribution | $4M | 22 mo ago | — | Luis Urday Co-Founder | WebflowreCAPTCHAHSTS+11 | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 6 | QOS Energy Energy management platform for renewable energy, smart building and smart grid projects | $4M | 114 mo ago | 58 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | SuperGrid Institute Provider of research, testing, expertise, and consulting for power transmission | $4M | 32 mo ago | — | Hubert LA Grandiere CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 8 | Qualisteo Energy consumption assessment using proprietary meters | $3M | 149 mo ago | — | Pierre Lambert Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 9 | AVOB Provider of building energy management software for commercial spaces | $3M | 166 mo ago | 21 | Jean-Charles Matamoros Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLZoho+17 | — | — |
| 10 | NetCeler Power system monitoring and environmental monitoring for pharmaceutical manufacturing | $3M | 100 mo ago | 51 | Luc Philippot CEO | — | — | — |
| 11 | BeeBryte Offering AI based predictive HVAC-R control software for smarter buildings & factories | $3M | 94 mo ago | 37 | Patrick Leguillette Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+23 | — | — |
| 12 | Orus Energy AI-powered grid management platform | $2M | 24 mo ago | — | Alexandre Girard Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowGSAPTally+8 | — | 2 job openings · 1 partnership |
| 13 | Odit-e Provider of solutions for grid management | $2M | 56 mo ago | 20 | Philippe Deschamps Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 14 | Hxperience Online energy management service for commercial and industrial buildings | $2M | 101 mo ago | 16 | Claude F Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — | — |
| 15 | Grid Solutions Provider of app-based end-to-end smart grid solutions | $2M | 114 mo ago | 13,000 | Reinaldo Garcia CEO | — | — | — |
| 16 | GridPocket Provider of a SaaS-driven energy management solution | $2M | 45 mo ago | 18 | — | — | 2 patents Selective power‑source connection management for portable electronic devices | — |
| 17 | Enerdigit Platform for monitoring energy consumption of industrial buildings | $1M | 22 mo ago | 15 | Benedicte Pleau Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — |
| 18 | Opera Energie Provider of utility comparison solutions for energy buyers | $1M | 114 mo ago | 127 | Julien Teddé CEO & Co-founder | SentryNode.jsTailwind CSS+19 | — | — |
| 19 | Power Design Technologies Provider of software solutions to design power converter | $715K | 106 mo ago | 13 | Nicolas Videau Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 20 | Energy Pool Demand Response aggregator | $557K | 28 mo ago | 171 | Olivier Baud Founder & CEO | TypeScriptAmazon Web ServicesZone.js+4 | 27 patents Local electrical energy management, rectifier control, and power‑balancing for distribution networks | — |
| 21 | SENSING-LABS Manufacturer of long range wireless sensors | $421K | 114 mo ago | 9 | Yann Guiomar Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — | — |
| 22 | Sensewaves Offering time-series analytics solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Grid | $161K | 9 mo ago | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Socomec Provider of energy monitoring and control solutions | — | 114 mo ago | 375 | Syd Ridik Co-CEO | DrupalPHPSalesforce+22 | 400 patents Power electronics and current-sensing solutions for EV charging, energy storage, and distribution systems | — |
Top 12 Smart Grid companies in France
#1
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 60 employees$13Mraised▾
Provider of monitoring and control solutions for renewable energy plants. They build products to connect and operate installations, facilitating renewable integration. The company offers controllers and supervision tools to optimize asset value. They assist with commissioning, operation, and scaling of plants through a user-friendly interface.
- Sep 2024Series B$13M
#2
Seed · Toulouse, Occitanie · founded 2020$4.4Mraised▾
Provider of grid management solutions for power distribution. It offers tools for financial monitoring, performance monitoring, market information, billing and more.
- Sep 2024Seed$4.4M
#3
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 6 employees$160.6Kraised▾
Sensewaves makes connected assets smarter by transforming raw sensor data into impactful insights. Sensewave platform provides a complete time-series, streaming analytics solution through a set of predictive, prescriptive and trend analysis tools for energy and lifecycle management applications with a focus on real-time, context-aware anomaly detection for industrial and mission-critical applications. Using their analytics solution it offers dynamic grid optimization, asset management, real-time load balancing, building and residential analytics.
- Sep 2025Seed—
- Apr 2015Grant (prize money)$160.6K
#4
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2015 · 15 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Enerdigit is a platform for monitoring the energy consumption of industrial buildings. It offers an Energdigit CAPS application that provides real-time energy consumption data of the industry. Its features include monitoring, visualization, analysis, exploitation, etc. and provides the software to the industries for free.
- Sep 2024Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed$1.4M
#5
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023$2.4Mraised▾
AI-powered grid management platform. It helps commercial building operators activate and monetize their flexibility on the power grid for sustainable returns.
- Jul 2024Seed$2.4M
#6
Funding Raised · Villeurbanne, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2014$4.2Mraised▾
Provider of research, testing, expertise, and consulting for power transmission. The company offers technology transfer, applied research, and licensing. It delivers testing services using high-end test platforms. The company resolves technical challenges, identifies improvements, and optimizes solutions. It engages in education at every level to promote understanding of technologies.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$179.3K
- Apr 2022Grant (prize money)$210.4K
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$595.6K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$965.6K
#7
Public · Quimper, Brittany · founded 2016 · 120 employees$9.2Mraised▾
Provider of distributed grid management solutions. It provides solutions for distributed grid management which combine energy storage systems with precise control algorithms and optimized energy conversion systems. The core services include the creation and management of the network of distributed resources, load distribution and control of generators for microgrids. Also, offers services like electronic card design, the design of power converters, the wiring of electrical cabinets, photovoltaic power plants electrical engineering and others.
- Sep 2021Seed$3.5M
- Dec 2018Seed$5.7M
#8
Acquired · Le Bourget, Ile de France · founded 2008 · 171 employees$556.9Kraised▾
Energy Pool offers demand response and energy management solutions to commercial and industrial clients. Energy Pool’s Demand Response Management System (DRMS) allows for real-time frequency regulation to long-term energy management planning, and for an optimal aggregation of flexibilities. Their automation solution (DR box) is the link between end user's facilities and Energy Pool’s network operation center. Energy Pool currently manages 2500MW of flexible demand and develops its activities in many countries throughout the world such as Belgium, Cameroon, Japan, South Korea, Turkey & UK.
- Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$556.9K
- Jan 2014Grant (prize money)—
#9
Series A · Valbonne, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2009 · 18 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of a SaaS-driven energy management solution. It provides users with a company that specializes in the development of innovative value-added energy services for utility companies, taking part in the smart grid revolution. Their services are designed to complement monitoring and analysis elements of energy efficiency, encouraging consumers to adopt more sustainable energy practices.
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$213.9K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$203.3K
- Nov 2017Series A—
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$308.6K
#10
Funding Raised · Meylan, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2016 · 20 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Odit provides solutions for grid management. It provides big data solutions for modernization of Low Voltage networks. It uses the mass of data available on the network to identify potentially constrained areas. It provides diagnosis solutions using a reduced number of field measurements and offers precisely sized solutions to move the network towards more security.
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$123.3K
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$221K
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$394.6K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$816.6K
#11
Acquired · Cachan, Ile de France · founded 2006 · 11 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Neelogy is an ISO 9001 certified company that has developed magnetic sensors for DC and DC+AC current measurement with no residual magnetism. Measurement of DC and AC currents is crucial for ensuring energy quality and performance maximization. Company's current sensors come as flexible coils which wrap around and clip onto electric conductors. Use case includes smart grid implementation, metering on mobile equipment, energy storage optimization etc.
- May 2015Grant (prize money)$214.2K
- Sep 2013PE$1.7M
- Oct 2010PE$2.1M
- 2009Seed$1.4M
#12
Series A · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2015$5.3Mraised▾
Izigloo is an online platform offering home improvement and energy management services. Provides an online log book for users to note the details of their homes such as the location, surface area, and energy consumption, based on which the requirements can be assessed. Alternately, users can also book the home improvement services through the online marketplace where the customers can fill in their requests, receive the quotes from the professionals and book the services of the suitable professionals. The professionals can register for free on the platform and are charged part of the payments received as commissions. Also has a stand-alone energy audit offering, based on which the complete view of the energy footprint is provided along with the opportunities for improvements. Users can opt for the improvements based on the budget and Izigloo takes care of the installation. Started in 2015 by EP and was tested for a year with 4000 members of MGEN network as a partnership.
- Jan 2017Series A$3.2M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Smart Grid coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Smart Grid is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Smart Grid — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 831 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique215
- Université Grenoble Alpes75
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble68
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne62
- Nantes Université40
- Microgrid5→83
- Renewable energy2→35
- Control theory (sociology)3→30
- Energy management2→29
- Photovoltaic system1→24
- Microgrid15→224
- Renewable energy4→103
- Photovoltaic system4→65
- Energy management3→60
- Control theory (sociology)6→53
- Renewable energy1→12
- Microgrid3→12
- Software deployment1→9
- Electricity2→10
- Computer security1→7
Where smart grid is researched across France
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing smart grid patents in France
France smart grid patent filing is accelerating — 63 filings from 23 assignees (2016–2025), led by Schneider Electric IND SAS, UNIV North Carolina State, Total Solar INT; annual filings 1→11.
- Schneider Electric IND SAS33
- UNIV North Carolina State11
- Total Solar INT9
- Centre NAT RECH Scient8
- Alcatel Lucent7
- Electricite DE France7
- Totalenergies Onetech6
- UNIV Lille4
Common questions
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