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.

Dennis Odell

Vice President and Head of Evergy Ventures

Brock Smith

Managing Director

Past deals in Missouri

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.

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.