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Mana Battery is a CU Boulder spinout (2023) based in Broomfield, Colorado, developing anode-free sodium-ion cells and a flame-retardant electrolyte platform compatible with existing lithium-ion lines, targeting grid storage, defense, rail, low-cost EVs and hyperscale data-center UPS.

Seed · $14M · 2026-10

Voltus, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, runs a distributed energy resource software platform and virtual power plant that aggregates batteries, cooling systems, backup generation and flexible commercial, industrial and residential loads, dispatching them into nine wholesale power markets across the US and Canada. It uses AI-driven load forecasting and revenue optimization, and its Bring Your Own Capacity program aggregates flexibility for utilities and large power buyers including AI data centers. It manages about 8.5 GW across 22,000+ sites.

Series D+ · 2026-10

Verse is a San Francisco-based energy infrastructure software company, co-founded in 2022 by former Fluence Chief Digital Officer Seyed H. Madaeni and former Fluence/AMS commercial executive Matt Penfold. Its AI-powered platform Aria gives enterprises and data centers a centralized hub to manage electricity spend and intelligently dispatch behind-the-meter battery and solar assets, while its Dispatch Intelligence product lets AI data centers bypass interconnection queues and come online up to three years earlier. It is already used by Fortune 500 companies to manage complex energy portfolios.

Series B · 2026-06

KiWi New Energy Inc. (奇異果新能源), founded in Taipei in May 2019 by Dr. Steve Huang with an office in San Mateo, runs AI-EDC, an AI-driven platform that forecasts load and matches distributed solar/wind supply with multi-site retail and SME demand on a 15-minute planning loop, with storage control and traceable green-power certificates. Its flagship deployment spans 1,000+ FamilyMart stores in Taiwan integrated with Tesla Energy storage; Decathlon is also a customer.

Shenzhen Eternalplanet Energy (EP Cube; founded 2021, Shenzhen) is the residential energy-storage subsidiary controlled by Canadian Solar (SSE STAR 688472). Its EP Cube all-in-one home storage system integrates a hybrid inverter with stackable LFP battery modules (about 3.3 kWh each, up to 19.9 kWh), has shipped to more than ten countries since mass production in September 2022, and held roughly 5% share in Italy and Japan in 2025. AI is used for household PV-storage energy management and scheduling.

Series A · 2026-09

Wuhan Superconductor, established in September 2025 in the Wuhan Chegu area, is a superconducting equipment company that has mastered proprietary and controllable superconducting strong magnetic key technologies. Its products target industrial heating, power grid phase adjustment, and single-crystal manufacturing. It plans to jointly establish a joint laboratory with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, relying on the National Major Scientific and Technological Infrastructure of Pulsed Strong Magnetic Field. In July 2026, it completed a seed round of nearly 100 million yuan funded by two local state-owned enterprises.

Seed · $14M · 2026-07

Suena Energy, founded in 2020 in Hamburg, Germany, uses AI to optimize trading of energy storage and renewable energy assets.

Series A · $9M · 2025-09

Axle Energy is a London-based energy flexibility software company founded in February 2023. Its single API connects distributed energy assets — EVs and chargers, home batteries, heat pumps and solar — to electricity and balancing markets, acting as B2B back-end infrastructure for virtual power plants. It sells to device OEMs, energy suppliers and fleet/charging operators such as SolarEdge, myenergi, Pod Point, GivEnergy, Easee and Monta, who pass earnings back to households. The platform coordinates over 300,000 connected devices and more than 2GW of shiftable capacity.

Series A · $34M · 2026-07

Space Solar is a UK company based at Harwell Campus developing the CASSIOPeiA space-based solar power satellite and RF power-beaming technology to deliver continuous clean baseload electricity to ground rectennas. It has a letter of intent with Reykjavik Energy and a partnership with Thales Alenia Space.

$7M

Amber Electric is a Melbourne-based energy retailer whose AI-driven SmartShift platform gives households wholesale electricity pricing and automates home batteries, solar and EVs, holding over 50% of Australia's automated residential battery market and licensing its technology to E.ON Next in the UK.

Series D+ · 2026-09

ASUENE Inc., founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, is an AI sustainability (climate-tech) SaaS company serving manufacturers and supply chains. Its flagship ASUENE platform automates GHG (Scope 1-3) data collection, calculation, reduction and audit-ready disclosure aligned with CDP, CSRD, CBAM and SBTi, alongside supply-chain emissions management, third-party assurance, a carbon-credit exchange (Carbon EX) and AI energy management (NZero), serving 60,000+ customers.

Series D+ · $161M · 2026-07

ARC Ride is a Nairobi, Kenya-based electric two- and three-wheeler and battery-swapping company founded in 2019 by Joseph Hurst-Croft, operating an open, cross-brand Battery-as-a-Service network across Kenya and expanding into Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.

Undisclosed · 2026-09