Best Smart Grid Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 37 best Smart Grid companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: OhmConnect.
Ranked: Best Smart Grid companies in San Francisco
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OhmConnect Provider of energy management software solutions | $90M | 51 mo ago | Series D | 77 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sunverge Developer of smart energy storage and energy management systems | $75M | 39 mo ago | Series C | 33 | Dean Sanders Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 3 | Nexant Offering solutions for demand response for distribution and transmission | $65M | 193 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 375 | John Gustafson CEO | 6 patents Optimizing electrical grid energy distribution and advanced fuel‑cell stack design. | — |
| 4 | Leap Provider of demand response management solutions | $58M | 33 mo ago | Series B | 49 | Thomas Folker Co-Founder & CEO | 29 patents Microwave-based on‑site asphalt recycling and pavement production technology | — |
| 5 | compology Compology is building technology focused on increasing efficiency and revenue growth for waste and recycling… | $33M | 85 mo ago | Acquired | 34 | — | 19 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 6 | Camus Energy Machine learning-based DERs management solution provider | $26M | 31 mo ago | Series A | 30 30 → 27 (-10%) | Astrid Atkinson CEO & cofounder | — | — |
| 7 | Splight Provider of AI-based transmission capacity for the grid 35AI top 35%Funding top 37%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾AItop 35% Fundingtop 37% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 38% Marketbottom 30% AI: Product described with: ai-based, machine learning Funding: Raised $24.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $24M | 12 mo ago | Series A | — | Thomas Vadora Co-Founder | — | — |
| 8 | Splight Artificial Energy Developer of software to increase grid capacity and enhance reliability | $14M | 26 mo ago | Funding Raised | 36 | Thomas Vadora Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 9 | Myst AI Business intelligence solution for energy industries | $8M | 72 mo ago | Acquired | 18 | Pieter Verhoeven Co-Founder & CEO | 14 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 10 | TrackNet LoRaWAN based end-to-end solution for IoT applications | $7M | 115 mo ago | Series A | 8 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Blumen Systems Software for energy transition by aggregating geospatial datasets and regulatory documents | $6M | 26 mo ago | Seed | 5 | Hannes Boehning Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 12 | TrueMeter Provider of AI utility bill management for multi-site businesses | $6M | 15 mo ago | Seed | — | Ozge Islegen-Wojdyla Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 13 | SHYFT Power Solutions Provider of end-to-end energy metering and monitoring solutions | $4M | 65 mo ago | Seed | 21 | Cole Clayton Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer | — | — |
| 14 | Current Software Developer of billing software that automates processes and provides real-time analytics | $4M | 11 mo ago | Series A | — | Jin Ong Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 15 | EigenPatterns Machine learning based solution provider for electric network monitoring | $1M | 73 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Krishna Karambakkam Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 16 | SRECTrade Provider of environmental commodity management, transaction, and technology solutions | $500K | 184 mo ago | Acquired | 54 54 → 27 (-50%) | — | — | — |
| 17 | Energy Adaptive Networks Developer of IoT gateways and applications for power grid optimization | $300K | 134 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Steven Low Co-Founder | — | — |
| 18 | Leafpress AI-powered utility data management platform | $160K | 39 mo ago | Seed | — | Devi Jha Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 19 | Pelm Platform offering API integration software | $125K | 51 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | Drew Kim Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Smart Grid companies in San Francisco
#1
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2021$24.4Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based transmission capacity for the grid. It provides users with a company that develops and deploys real-time data and machine learning-based solutions to increase transmission capacity in the energy grid, enhancing its reliability and flexibility. The company's technology responds to grid contingencies in real-time to unlock additional transmission capacity.
- Aug 2025Series A$12.4M
- Jan 2025Seed—
- Jul 2024Seed$12M
#2
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$3.8Mraised▾
Developer of billing software that automates processes and provides real-time analytics. The software enables end users to manage their usage and helps optimize operations. It enhances customer experience and increases profitability through digital solutions. The platform allows clients to save time and money on back-office tasks.
- Oct 2025Series A$3.8M
#3
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI utility bill management for multi-site businesses. It offers a platform that tracks, pays, and lowers utility bills. The AI audits billing items, corrects errors, and secures optimal rates. The platform consolidates bills into a single invoice and automates service requests. It also provides energy consumption insights and benchmarks across locations.
- Jun 2025Seed$5.5M
#4
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2017 · 49 employees$58Mraised▾
Provider of demand response management solutions. It offers a platform that provides demand solutions and enables users to earn its revenue by shifting energy consumption. Its features include meter data collection, bid matching, customer authorization, API connection, and much more.
- Nov 2023Series B—
- Jun 2023Series B$16.3M
- Nov 2021Series B—
- Oct 2021Series B$33.5M
#5
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 33 employees$74.8Mraised▾
Developer of smart energy storage and energy management systems. It manufactures an integrated intelligent distributed energy storage system and energy management platform to manage energy flow and consumption. Its offered storage system captures solar power and delivers it when needed most. The products optimize the renewable energy systems by taking advantage of distributed generation, energy storage, and the cloud. The platform can communicate with smart home appliances such as smart plugs, thermostats, smart water heaters, and other devices to optimize energy usage and control the systems from anywhere.
- May 2023Conventional Debt$2.1M
- Mar 2022Series C$10.3M
- Apr 2021Conventional Debt$4M
- Aug 2019Series C$11M
#6
Funding Raised · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 36 employees$14Mraised▾
Developer of software to increase grid capacity and enhance reliability. The software integrates with existing energy infrastructure to solve congestion and meet energy demands. It unlocks transmission capacity to increase generator revenue and lower ratepayer costs. The software also accelerates interconnection queue times for both generation and loads. It transforms assets into tools for enhancing system reliability.
#7
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 30 employees$26Mraised▾
Camus specializes in providing machine learning-based distributed energy resource management solutions. It offers an open-source software called Mimo that provides a grid edge orchestrator, that uses machine learning to optimize distributed energy resources in real-time.
- Feb 2024Series A$10M
#8
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 77 employees$90Mraised▾
Provider of energy management software solutions. It provides home energy management through smart meter analytics and energy market integration. It also enables residential users to sell their energy reductions directly into energy markets via demand response.
- Jun 2022Series D$55M
- Dec 2020Series C$20M
- Apr 2018Series B$8.5M
- Dec 2015Series A$6.5M
#9
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2023 · 5 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Software for energy transition by aggregating geospatial datasets and regulatory documents. It aggregates federal and state geospatial datasets and regulatory documents to provide valuable insights and solutions for the energy industry.
- Jul 2024Seed$6.4M
- 2023Seed—
#10
Acqui-Hired · San Francisco, California · founded 2000 · 375 employees$65Mraised▾
Nexant provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers Nexant iEnergy, a cloud-based business process management software platform for utilities to rollout and manage a portfolio of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and demand side management (DSM) programs; Nexant Grid360, a network modeling and simulation platform that enables power system engineers to build, monitor, analyze, and perform “what if” scenarios. It analyzes the demand response from Distribution and Transmission and serve them to Utility.
- Jul 2010Series B$50M
- Sep 2000Series A$15M
#11
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2012 · 34 employees$33Mraised▾
Developer of a waste metering technology designed to meter the water, electricity, and gas consumption. The company's technology automatically monitors and detects fullness, content, location, and activity, enabling clients to save on costs and drive toward sustainability goals.
#12
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2018 · 18 employees$8Mraised▾
Myst AI provides business intelligence solutions for energy industries. The features of the product include industrial risk assessment & management, industrial threat monitoring, predictive analytics, time-series analytics, grid management, etc.
- Sep 2020Series A$6M
- 2018Seed$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 the United States
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 6,724 United States-affiliated papers.
- Electric Power Research Institute254
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory200
- Northeastern University192
- National Laboratory of the Rockies158
- Texas A&M University158
- Microgrid86→607
- Renewable energy38→219
- Electric power system35→190
- Scalability12→159
- Control theory (sociology)21→151
- Microgrid161→1189
- Renewable energy70→586
- Distributed generation68→316
- Demand response107→353
- Electricity60→292
- Renewable energy23→151
- Microgrid21→127
- Electric power system24→96
- Electricity22→92
- Computer security26→90
Where smart grid is researched across United States
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 the United States
United States smart grid patent filing is accelerating — 1,315 filings from 760 assignees (2016–2025), led by General Electric, Siemens, Honeywell INT; annual filings 120→147.
- General Electric137
- Siemens97
- Honeywell INT95
- Bloom Energy59
- Enphase Energy50
- IBM42
- Itron41
- Lennox IND38
Common questions
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