Gridware

Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow

gridware.io

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

51-200

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Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Gridware Technologies Inc. is a privately held climate/grid-technology company founded in 2020 that provides utilities with real-time visibility into the physical, electrical, and environmental condition of power-grid assets. Its stated goal is to eliminate “Hazard Awareness Delay” so utilities can detect, localize, and respond to faults and hazards before they become outages, fires, or safety incidents.

Primary product

Active Grid Response (AGR): the Gridscope pole-mounted sensor system plus Gridware’s cloud monitoring and analytics service. Gridscope uses solar-powered, self-contained sensing/edge computing to monitor pole tilt, line vibration, sound, electrical fields, and environmental conditions, communicating over cellular, satellite, or device-to-device links.

Founded

2020

Headquarters

945 Front Street, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States

Team size

100–150 (third-party estimate; another aggregator reports 145, while other sources vary)

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Software Development / grid technology

Sub-industry

Utility grid intelligence, IoT sensing, wildfire mitigation, and energy infrastructure software

Offices

945 Front Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 (headquarters)

Applied Research Complex, Richmond, California

Walnut Creek, California (office reported by company-data aggregators)

Business model

B2B enterprise utility software and analytics

Hardware-enabled subscription/service model using pole-mounted Gridscope devices

Deployment, monitoring, and operational support for electric utilities

Funding

Stage

Series B / growth-stage private company

Total raised

$97.4M

Latest round

Series B strategic growth round · Nov 2025

Latest amount

$55M

Series B

Nov 2025 · Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management

$55M

Series B strategic growth round

Nov 2025 · Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management

$55M

Series A

Jan 2025 · Sequoia Capital

$26.4M

Seed / early-stage financing

Jun 2023 · Fifty Years and Lowercarbon Capital (reported by funding databases)

$10.5M

Seed extension

Jun 2023 · Fifty Years and Lowercarbon Capital (led by)

$10.5M

Seed

May 2021 · Fifty Years and True Ventures (co-leads)

$5.3M

Non-equity assistance / grants and accelerator support

People & investors

Leadership

Timothy Barat

Co-Founder & CEO

Abdulrahman Bin Omar

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Hall Chen

Co-Founder & CTO / Director of Engineering

Meghan Reibstein

Chief Operating Officer

Redmond Huen

VP of Finance

Steve Parr

Vice President, Business Development

Jessie Calderon

Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs

Jennifer Dampf

Director of Business Development

Kevin Ahern

Director of Business Development

Julia Schetelig

Chief of Staff

Founders

Tim Barat

Co-Founder & CEO

Investors

Work & culture

The careers page emphasizes showing up, finding a way, delivering quality quickly, embracing growth, fostering trust, disagreeing then committing, respecting the team, and bringing joy. Job postings describe a low-structure, high-autonomy environment with high ownership across hardware, firmware, cloud, data, and field operations.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Compensation

Public engineering postings show approximately $190,000–$220,000 for a senior software role and $190,000–$215,000 for a senior cloud role, plus the benefits above. These are role-specific ranges, not a company-wide compensation policy.

Benefits

Gold/Platinum health, dental, and vision plans, with some plans fully covered

Paid parental leave

Alternating Monday off / every other Monday schedule

Two-week annual paid “Off the Grid” break

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; appears to be an enterprise utility deployment combining Gridscope hardware with recurring monitoring/analytics and operational services.

Differentiators

—Continuous pole/span-level visibility rather than relying only on traditional electrical/impedance fault detection
—Measures physical, mechanical, electrical, and environmental conditions
—Can detect pre-failure conditions and some hazards while circuits remain energized or de-energized
—Rapid installation and solar-powered, self-contained devices
—Precise hazard localization and integration with utility operational systems
—AGR is positioned for both wildfire mitigation and general outage/fault response

Technology

Pole-mounted electromechanical sensors

Solar power and edge computing

Cellular, satellite, and device-to-device communications

Python

TypeScript

React

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kafka/MSK

Databricks

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

gRPC

MQTT/WebSockets

Mapbox/Leaflet

Customers

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)

Duquesne Light Company

Con Edison

Xcel Energy

Investor-owned utilities

Customer-owned utilities

Electric cooperatives

Municipal utilities

Public utility districts

Competitors

Pano AI

Utilidata

Dryad Networks

OroraTech

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M–$10M (third-party estimate; not company-reported and conflicting aggregator figures exist)

Estimated monthly visits

11.8K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

971-506-7769 (media contact listed in the January 2025 Series A release; no general corporate phone publicly confirmed)

Latest news

How Gridware’s grid monitoring sensors won over a career lineman

Latitude Media · Jul 2026

Latitude Media reported that Gridware worked with nearly 30 utilities, including Xcel Energy, Con Edison, and Duquesne Light, and described Gridscope’s vibration, sound, electrical-field, and edge-computing capabilities.

Gridware Study Finds Active Grid Response Technology, Enabled by Gridscopes, Improves Power Reliability While Mitigating Wildfire Ignitions

Business Wire · Feb 2026

Gridware reported a UC Berkeley-linked study using 2022–2025 PG&E data; it reported a 48% ignition reduction during fast-trip enablement, 16% median outage-duration reduction, and a 13.4 marginal benefit-cost ratio for adding AGR.

Gridware announces $55 million growth round to accelerate U.S. deployments and support global expansion

Gridware · Nov 2025

Announced a $55 million growth round led by Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management, with continued support from existing investors.

Gridware Raises $55 Million Growth Round to Accelerate U.S. Deployments and Support Global Expansion

Business Wire · Nov 2025

Gridware announced a $55M Series B led by Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management to expand U.S. deployments and begin international expansion.

Gridware powers forward with $26.4 million Series-A round led by Sequoia Capital

Gridware · Feb 2025

Official company announcement of the Series A led by Sequoia Capital to scale Gridscope production and expand the team.

Jobs and careers at Gridware

20 jobs at Gridware

Strategic Finance

Hybrid

San Francisco, CA

1w ago

Hybrid

Full-time