Evergy Ventures

Evergy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Evergy specializing in investments in growth capital and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in the energy sector focusing on opportunities in the customer energy solutions, energy infrastructure industries, energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security, and renewables services, but is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Evergy Ventures prefers to make investments using equity and debt instruments. It prefers to invest in North America with a special focus on Midwest based companies. Evergy Ventures began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Kansas City in Missouri.

Odell, Dennis

Vice President and ClimateTech Venture Investor

Ashwin Shashindranath

Managing Director

Brock Smith

Managing Director

23 past transactions

Xendee

Series A in 2022
XENDEE develops advanced software for financial & technical optimization and operation of resilient Microgrids and renewable energy systems. and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.

SkySpecs

Series D in 2022
SkySpecs is simplifying renewable energy asset management by offering purpose-built technologies and services that help our customers deliver industry-leading productivity, efficiency, and returns. Every day, we help our customers unlock the power of their data to make confident, informed decisions. Our team brings deep industry experience and a willingness to get our hands dirty to first understand and solve customer problems on the ground. Learn more about our best-in-class technologies and how we’re helping the renewable energy industry realize its potential at skyspecs.com.

Omnidian

Series B in 2021
Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, such as funds and third-party owners, that manage large portfolios of residential solar assets. The company's lifetime performance guarantee includes real time monitoring, proactive service alerts and 100% covered hardware and software through a nationwide network of field service professionals, as well as a 100% guarantee on energy or plan owners will be reimbursed for energy loss. The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry. Omnidian is backed by the DOE SunShot Program which accelerates the development of highly impactful solar technologies.

Librestream Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
Librestream Technologies Inc. develops the operations-driven video collaboration solution for enterprises. With its patented Onsight video collaboration solution, Librestream extends traditional video-conferencing and collaborative services to places previously unreachable by video such as an off-shore oil rig or a manufacturing plant floor. Collaborators across multiple locations can use a combination of Onsight software and camera devices to interact through live video, voice, image sharing and onscreen telestration. Industries as diverse as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, insurance, and government sectors are using Librestream’s Onsight solution to connect their ecosystem of employees, suppliers, and customers. These enterprises achieve cost-efficiencies resulting from accelerated problem resolution, reductions in downtimes and travel, improvements in customer service and increased productivity. To learn more about the company, its products and services, visit the website at www.librestream.com, email information@librestream.com or call 1.800.849.5507 (NA) / +1.204.487.0612 (Intl).

WattBuy

Series A in 2020
At WattBuy, we’re focused on an ambitious vision: making cleaner, more affordable electricity accessible to every household. We’re looking to bring on team members to help us reach that goal. Based in NYC, DC, and Seattle, WattBuy is a team of product leaders and engineers from Google and Amazon who share a love of using technology to tackle inequality and positively impact the climate.

Redaptive

Private Equity Round in 2020
Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, save money, lower their carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and contractual barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with real-time data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary Data-as-a-Service metering platform.

Palmetto Clean Technology

Series B in 2020
Just as technology has advanced society and delivered exciting consumer products, like Tesla cars and the iPhone, tech innovation is empowering homeowners across the country to join the New Utility Revolution. Palmetto’s clean energy marketplace and custom software tools help homeowners quickly estimate utility cost-savings and get renewable energy sources up and running, with ongoing data insights and support. For individuals, this innovation means lower utility bills, more transparency, control over energy use, increase in property value, and protection against power outages. When adopted en masse, a clean energy shift is a major step towards combating climate change and achieving American energy independence.

SkySpecs

Series C in 2019
SkySpecs is simplifying renewable energy asset management by offering purpose-built technologies and services that help our customers deliver industry-leading productivity, efficiency, and returns. Every day, we help our customers unlock the power of their data to make confident, informed decisions. Our team brings deep industry experience and a willingness to get our hands dirty to first understand and solve customer problems on the ground. Learn more about our best-in-class technologies and how we’re helping the renewable energy industry realize its potential at skyspecs.com.

Blue Pillar

Series A in 2019
At Blue Pillar, we connect industrial equipment to the internet and serve up the data to manage, monitor, and control equipment and devices so our customers can create flexible, scalable solutions for themselves or their customers. We're energized by the challenge of making the power of Industrial IoT widely accessible. We make things a little better in a connectivity-centric world where things are a lot harder than they should be.

ESS

Series C in 2019
ESS is a provider of long-duration energy storage solutions ideally suited for C&I, utility, microgrid, and off-grid applications. Since their founding in 2011, ESS has been focused on laying the groundwork for a future powered by clean and reliable energy. With a team that boasts decades of experience in distributed power generation and energy storage technologies, ESS has developed an extremely cost-effective energy management system that combines a safe, abundant and non-toxic iron-electrolyte with their patented flow cell design. This combination of high performance with low cost means that ESS’s technology is ideally suited for applications that range in size from retail energy management to utility-scale renewables integration.

Sunverge Energy

Series D in 2019
Sunverge Energy provides integrated solar solutions for distributed generation and storage. It offers Sunverge Solar Integration System (SIS) Release 1.2 that distributes the generation and storage of renewable energy; and Sunverge SISport load management software that supports strategies for shaping and shifting peak residential load. Sunverge Energy serves homeowners, small– to medium–sized businesses, utilities, and electricity regulators. Dean Sanders and Kenneth Munson founded it in 2010, with its headquarters in Stockton in California and an additional office in Fortitude Valley in Australia.

Innowatts

Series B in 2019
Innowatts is a data analytics and energy transition leader who uses energy usage data, insights and best-in-class machine learning to help energy retailers and utilities from around the world manage their grids, profitability, customer relationships and sustainability goals in a digitalizing, decarbonizing, and electrifying world. To date, the Innowatts eUtility™ technology platform has leveraged data from more than 34 million meters to help energy providers ensure grid reliability, anticipate trends, secure profitability, and promote sustainability — advancing and creating a more personalized energy experience for their customers. For more information, please visit www.innowatts.com.

Tomorrow.io

Series B in 2018
Tomorrow.io develops a SaaS Weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts. Fully customizable to any industry impacted by the weather, customers around the world including the NFL, Uber, Delta, Ford, National Grid, and more use Tomorrow.io to dramatically improve operational efficiency. Tomorrow.io was built from the ground up to help teams predict the business impact of weather, streamline team communication and action plans, improve productivity, and optimize profit margins. Tomorrow.io has operations across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

LiveSafe

Series B in 2018
LiveSafe provides a mobile social safety application for individuals and safety officials to collaborate and build safer communities. LiveSafe’s mission is to create a safer world by redefining the way it responds to threats and emergencies. Using the latest in smartphone technology, our service empowers people by providing them with access to the right tools and information they need, right when they need it. The company's unprecedented technology connects citizens and safety officials through a real-time, two-way communication system. The robust application allows people to easily receive and send important safety information to law enforcement, who can then respond to situations better and faster than ever before. By engaging the whole community in a social network of safety, our student and citizen-centered design takes policing to the next generation.

Axiom Exergy

Series A in 2018
Axiom Exergy is an energy storage company that develops energy management solutions for supermarkets and commercial buildings. Axiom Exergy offers a thermal energy storage retrofit and software solutions to monitor and manage the energy use of refrigerators. The company also offers a system integrator and thermal storage tank. Axiom Exergy was founded by Anthony Diamond and Amrit Robbins in 2014. It is headquartered in Richmond, California.

Redaptive

Venture Round in 2018
Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, save money, lower their carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and contractual barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with real-time data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary Data-as-a-Service metering platform.

ecobee

Series C in 2018
Ecobee is a provider of Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostats for residential and commercial applications, delivering energy conservation solutions. The company offers ecobee Smart Thermostat, a digital programmable thermostat that helps in customizing temperature settings. The thermostat connects the clients to their WiFi, and gives them remote access to the thermostat settings from any computer and helps in energy conservation. Its products are used in single family homes, multi-family dwellings, and offices. The company accepts orders online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Convergent Energy and Power

Funding Round in 2018
Convergent Energy + Power is a technology-neutral energy storage asset developer with experience across a wide range of projects, from commercial and industrial applications to grid-connected systems. The company manages all aspects of the energy storage asset development cycle, including project-specific opportunity identification and economic evaluation, contract and financial structuring, engineering-procurement-construction, as well as operations and maintenance.

Grid Assurance

Funding Round in 2018
Grid Assurance is your Grid Resiliency Solution. We are a cost-effective solution to electric grid restoration. As a subscriber to Grid Assurance, you will have access to critical, long lead-time equipment housed in secure warehouses and readily deployable when needed. Our services are intended to complement existing sparing programs at individual energy companies and established industry solutions.

Pepper

Funding Round in 2018
Pepper offers an IoT operating system and service delivery platform that empowers enterprises to deploy sophisticated IoT solutions. The introduction of billions of new connected devices (and other "things") requires a new user-experience paradigm—one that enables both consumers and enterprises the ability to effectively manage, control, and engage with their increasingly connected worlds. Pepper solves the problems associated with this increased complexity through the combination of its user operating system and service delivery platform.

Blue Pillar

Venture Round in 2017
At Blue Pillar, we connect industrial equipment to the internet and serve up the data to manage, monitor, and control equipment and devices so our customers can create flexible, scalable solutions for themselves or their customers. We're energized by the challenge of making the power of Industrial IoT widely accessible. We make things a little better in a connectivity-centric world where things are a lot harder than they should be.

EnergySavvy

Series D in 2016
EnergySavvy is a cloud software company that helps utilities transform their customer experience and operations. EnergySavvy provides personalized customer insights, breakthrough customer engagement, and automated program delivery with the industry's only platform purpose-built to enhance the customer experience and increase operational efficiency. Nearly 40 utilities and state programs rely on EnergySavvy to enable customer experience transformation in the modern, digital customer era. The company is led by alumni from Microsoft, Amazon, PG&E, and EnerNOC. EnergySavvy brings together expertise in software, user experience, and analytics to deliver cloud solutions that clients love.

Go Electric

Series A in 2016
Go Electric is a green-tech early stage company, developing customer side of the meter energy solutions and services that serve facilities and utilities. Its energy products and services accelerate a renewable energy future by integrating renewable energy, advanced batteries, and generators to reduce energy costs, assure energy security, and enhance grid stability. Go Electric is based in Anderson, I.N.
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