National Grid

National Grid Partners is a venture and innovation fund connected to the utility company National Grid, investing in technologies aimed at addressing current and future energy challenges. Its site describes its role as bridging entrepreneurs and utilities, and lists a range of portfolio and former portfolio companies spanning data discovery and privacy software, Kubernetes security, satellite-based vegetation and asset-inspection AI, energy forecasting and analytics, operational data validation, identity-based cloud security, AI-driven customer support for service tickets, sound-recognition technology for the home, virtual power plant software, predictive maintenance AI, ruggedised industrial sensors, and large-scale infrastructure software. Several of the companies it once backed are noted as having since been acquired by larger technology and industrial groups.