encoord
encoord is an energy-system planning software company founded in 2019 by Carlo Brancucci and Kwabena Pambour, with offices in Denver and Essen.
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encoord is an energy-system planning software company founded in 2019 by Carlo Brancucci and Kwabena Pambour, with offices in Denver and Essen. Its SAInt platform integrates economic and reliability planning across electricity, gas and thermal networks for utilities, system operators, developers, regulators and researchers in 13 countries, including data center siting analysis.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- encoord
encoord is an energy-system planning software company founded in 2019 by Carlo Brancucci and Kwabena Pambour, with offices in Denver and Essen. Its SAInt platform integrates economic and reliability planning across electricity, gas and thermal networks for utilities, system operators, developers, regulators and researchers in 13 countries, including data center siting analysis.
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United States
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- JERA Americas
Gas and renewable power generation, LNG and upstream natural gas, hydrogen and ammonia fuel development; parent plans behind-the-meter power supply for AI data centers.
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Factory-built advanced reactors (A-10/A-50/A-300) with PWR steam generators shrunk to human size, for data centers, industrial users and utilities
Seed · $31M · 2026-08
$31M - Voltus
Distributed energy aggregation and virtual power plant platform connecting C&I and residential flexible loads to North American wholesale power markets and easing grid capacity gaps for AI data centers
Series D+ · 2026-10
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China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- 芯擎宇能
Xinqing Yuneng, founded in 2025 in Shanghai's Lin-gang by SJTU professor Hu Zhiyu's team, develops micro-electro-mechanical energy (MEME) thermoelectric chips integrating about 60,000 thermoelectric pairs on a single silicon die to generate power from very small temperature differences, targeting industrial waste-heat recovery and data-center cooling.
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Deep energy-saving control services for industrial and building MEP energy systems, based on in-house physical AI engine (PhyAI)
Series B · 2026-09
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Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Nyobolt
High-power ultra-fast-charging batteries and integrated energy systems built on patented niobium tungsten oxide anode technology, for scenarios requiring 24/7 high-intensity operation such as warehouse autonomous mobile robots, AI data centers, EV fast charging, power grids and industrial fleets.
Series C · $160M · 2026-05 · Valuation $1.0B
$160MValuation $1.0B - Vanellus
Cloud GPU-based electronics thermal simulation (CFD) solver delivered via API, for data center, server and consumer electronics thermal teams.
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Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Firmus Technologies
Immersion liquid-cooled AI data centers and GPU cloud services
Strategic · $2.8B · 2026-04 · Valuation $5.5B
$2.8BValuation $5.5B - Cybernetic Physics
Robots for data center construction and operations: simulation training, VLA policies and inference, humanoid robot task execution and teleoperation
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