Rabot Energy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.