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Continuum Industries, founded in 2018 in Edinburgh, uses AI to help utilities plan routes for power lines, onshore and offshore cables, and pipelines for hydrogen, water, and CO2. The platform compresses what was previously a 12-month manual planning process down to just 8 weeks.

Buzz Solutions, founded in 2017 in Palo Alto, California, provides an AI-powered power line inspection platform that helps utilities identify maintenance priorities to reduce wildfire and outage risk. Customers include NYPA and Southern California Edison.

Karman (formerly Utilidata), founded in 2011 in Providence, USA, develops distributed AI software embedded in smart meters to help utilities optimize grid performance and integrate renewable energy.

Urbint, founded in 2015 in Miami, USA, provides AI-driven risk management tools that help utility and infrastructure companies respond to storms and extreme weather events.

Texture, founded in 2023 in New York, provides a unified operations layer for electric utilities and cooperatives to monitor and manage grid infrastructure, distributed energy resources, and real-time network data.

Pathways is a New York-based climate-tech company whose AI platform automates Environmental Product Declarations and life-cycle assessments for building-material manufacturers by ingesting their operational data, cutting the EPD process from months to weeks.