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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
Winning Accelerator Playbook 2026 by BambuUP
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Piq Agentic Grid Planning Platform
Piq Energy was founded in 2023 by Tom Nudell and Dionysios Stamatiadis and builds an agentic grid planning platform. It targets long grid interconnection queues for solar, wind,…
Opportunities
Energy Distribution
GridCARE Energize
GridCARE is a power-acceleration company based in Redwood City, California, that spun out of Stanford University’s Sustainability Accelerator. It works with data centers and electric utilities to bring…
ThinkLabs AI Grid Digital Twin
ThinkLabs AI is a New York-headquartered company, spun out of GE Vernova, that builds physics-informed AI digital twins and agents for electric utilities and grid operators. It addresses…
Critical Loop Cygnus Microgrid
Critical Loop is a Los Angeles-based industrial power company that provides behind-the-meter batteries and controls so industrial sites can obtain power faster. It targets sites that wait years…
Texture Grid Operations Platform
Texture is a New York-based software company that builds a grid operations platform for electric utilities, virtual power plant operators and grid services companies. The platform targets the…
CPower VPP Platform and CPower Connect
CPower operates a virtual power plant platform that pays commercial and industrial customers for demand response and energy flexibility. Its website lists an address at 1001 Fleet Street,…
Olivine ClimateResponse VPP and DER Platform
Olivine, Inc. is an energy company that states it was founded in 2010 and opened an operations center in Oahu, Hawaii in 2025. It delivers turnkey energy programme…
Enel X Virtual Power Plant and Demand Response
Enel X Singapore Pte Ltd is the Singapore entity of the Enel X network, which also covers Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand and other markets listed…
Hive Power FLEXO VPP Platform
Hive Power SA is a Swiss company, with an address in Manno, that develops energy management software to help owners of batteries, EVs and other e-assets earn revenue.…
EnergyHub Edge DERMS
EnergyHub provides the Edge DERMS platform that helps utilities scale virtual power plants to manage load growth and renewables. Its press releases are datelined Austin, Texas and Brooklyn,…