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Gridware, founded in 2020 in San Francisco, California, USA, deploys pole-mounted multimodal sensors and an Active Grid Response (AGR) platform for grid monitoring targeting electric utilities.
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Company· 12
Investor· 8
Founders / team· 2
Funding history
- 2025-11
- 2025-01Series A$26M
Investors · Lowercarbon Capital, Fifty Years, Sequoia CapitalSource · SVTR Weekly #087
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