Best Smart Grid Companies in Netherlands
The 61 best Smart Grid companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BritNed.
Ranking the top Smart Grid companies in Netherlands by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, this directory tracks 61 ventures sitting on a combined $127M in disclosed capital. No unicorns yet, but the spread tells a story: BritNed leads at $37M, Sympower follows at $36M, and Overstory Tech rounds out the top three at $25M. That concentration matters. Three companies account for the bulk of a pool spread across 61 entrants, which means the middle of this market is still wide open.
Globally, the sector's moving fast. Smart grid market forecasts peg growth from roughly $43.1B in 2022 to $173.0B by 2030, a 16.95% CAGR driven by aging infrastructure in developed economies and surging demand for grid reliability. The Netherlands fits squarely in that developed-economy frame, and investors like SET Ventures and Rockstart are already positioned. AI and ML integration in grid systems is the theme I'd watch most closely this quarter, alongside EV platform buildout. So if you're mapping where Dutch smart grid capital flows next, the infrastructure-intelligence intersection is where the action is.
- Smart grid demand to drive transmission investment to $573.7bn
- [Latest] Global Smart Grid Market Size/Share Worth USD 185.6 Billion b
Ranked: Best Smart Grid companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blicker Ai Developer of an AI-powered meter reading platform using photo recognition | — | — | — | 2019 | Noëlle Fischer Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowVimeoAzure+17 | — |
| 2 | Blockbax Provider of grid analytics solutions | — | — | — | 2017 | Roy Valk Co-Founder | HugoVimeoAmazon Web Services+13 | 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Capacity Energy Demand side management using platform to increase savings | — | — | 4 | 2013 | bart hoevenaars Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 4 | DCEM Provider of cloud-based energy monitoring solutions | — | — | — | 2012 | Roelof Wal Co-Founder | — | — |
| 5 | Ealyze Provider of web-based meter data management solutions | — | — | — | 2012 | Rob Bolsius Co-Founder | — | — |
| 6 | Ealyze Provider of web-based energy meter measurement services intended to give customers insights into their energy… | — | — | 2 | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 7 | EasyIO Provider of building energy management solutions | — | — | — | 2005 | — | — | — |
| 8 | EDSN Provider of a platform for grid operators | — | — | — | 2007 | Vijai Hoeblal CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+26 | — |
Top 12 Smart Grid companies in Netherlands
#1
Series B · Netherlands · founded 2018 · 31 employees$25Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered vegetation management software for electric utility companies. The software helps optimize resources and mitigate vegetation risk to improve infrastructure management. It combines artificial intelligence with remote sensing data from satellite and aerial imagery. The software helps utilities build data-driven vegetation management programs.
- Nov 2025Series B$43M
- Oct 2023Series A$14M
- Nov 2022Seed$5.2M
- Nov 2021Seed$3.9M
#2
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 141 employees$36.1Mraised▾
Provider of energy flexibility services for businesses and energy companies. The company offers solutions for battery energy storage systems, renewable energy sources, and demand response. These services enable businesses to optimise energy usage, support grid stability, and unlock new revenue streams. The company’s platform uses forecasting and trading to maximise revenue generation while preserving asset health.
- Sep 2025Series B$22.3M
- Nov 2024Series B$22.6M
- 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Nov 2022Series B$3.1M
#3
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2022$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of energy monitoring and smart grid controlling solutions. It provides Digital Twin technology solution for mapping energy management. It also offers monitoring and smart control solutions to manage assets such as heat pumps, charging stations and battery storage.
- Jun 2025Seed—
- Jan 2024Seed$3.3M
#4
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2016 · 20 employees$1.2Mraised▾
IoT and AI-based asset intelligence platforms for utility service providers. It provides custom-based applications and sensor-based devices to utilities in the electricity, water, heating, and gas market. Has features like leakage detection, temperature monitoring, and others along with dashboards.
- Mar 2025Conventional Debt$1.6M
- Mar 2025Seed$2.2M
- Sep 2021Seed$1.2M
#5
Funding Raised · Arnhem, Gelderland · founded 2001 · 26 employees$36.9Mraised▾
Cross border interconnector operator connecting electricity markets and offering auction based marketplace. It is an interconnector operator that has developed an auction and nomination platform that allows users to engage in various long and short-term capacity auctions, manage nominations, and access reports.
- Feb 2018Grant (prize money)$11.7M
- Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$25.1M
#6
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2017 · 45 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Blockchain-based software platform for energy management. The platform provides energy data management tools for smart energy management services. The software uses a real-time digital notary to accredit the source of electricity and assigns them automatically according to the requirement. It allows the user to opt for renewable source energy and can monitor real-time energy consumption data.
- Jul 2022Series A$6.5M
- Sep 2019Seed—
#7
Acquired · Houten, Utrecht · founded 2012 · 65 employees$8.2Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS and big data-based energy data management and analytics. It provides a platform for gathering data using APIs, storage, and flexibility to have data in value context-driven data points. The analytics engine ensures that unique actionable insights are isolated and highlighted. It is used by utility companies to understand the behavioral insights of the consumers and create customized pricing plans.
- Jul 2021Series B$6M
- Jul 2020Series A—
- Nov 2019Series A$1.1M
- Oct 2016Series A—
#8
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 34 employees$5Mraised▾
Online platform for energy trading. The company offers a platform for energy trading. It allows trading in energy and renewable sources. Features include an intraday market that facilitates trading on a quarterly base, short term energy portfolio on a weekly and daily basis, and offers aggregators, collectives, and smart grid solutions.
- Jul 2022Series A$5M
#9
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015$340.3Kraised▾
Spectral Utility is a plug and play energy storage provider. Its product line consists of renewable energy-based portable power systems and a range of energy storage solutions for off-grid, micro-grid, and behind the meter applications. They develop their own software and hardware extensions to add a layer of intelligence and functionality to the integrated products.
- Nov 2023Series A—
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$340.3K
#10
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2017 · 13 employees$1.4Mraised▾
AMMP Technologies provides a software platform for off-grid asset monitoring and management. Features include smart meter & irradiation sensor monitoring, asset performance visualization & reporting, geographic mapping, scheduled load shedding, alerts through e-mails & SMS, and compliance management. Has an AI-engine for real-time performance analysis, forecasting, and anomaly detection.
- Sep 2020Seed$1.4M
- May 2019Angel—
#11
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2013 · 111 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Vandebron enables retail electricity consumers to directly purchase power from the renewable power generators. The company claims that the rates when purchased from the generator is comparatively lower than if otherwise purchased from the local utility.
- Feb 2016Series A$2.2M
#12
Funding Raised · Zwolle, Overijssel · founded 2011 · 385 employees$257.6Kraised▾
Fudura provides energy measurement services and the energy infrastructure such as transformers, metering installations, switching installations and charging stations for electric transport. Gives insight on energy flows in an organisation, enabling them to understand their usage on gas and electricity. The service also gives a view on electricity consumption, enabling users to send, adjust and save. Provides an option to rent meters or transformers.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$257.6K
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 the Netherlands
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 431 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Delft University of Technology150
- Eindhoven University of Technology74
- University of Twente59
- University of Groningen27
- Utrecht University25
- Microgrid2→30
- Demand response1→16
- Renewable energy2→12
- Electricity1→10
- Context (archaeology)1→9
- Renewable energy1→48
- Electricity5→46
- Microgrid2→41
- Demand response5→37
- Flexibility (engineering)2→30
- Electricity4→16
- Renewable energy3→15
- Flexibility (engineering)3→10
- Software deployment1→6
- Environmental economics2→7
Where smart grid is researched across Netherlands
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.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.