Beebop.ai, an influence grid orchestration software program, introduced its €4.9 million seed spherical, led by Angular Ventures, with help from Contrarian Ventures. Beebop is already utilized by main utilities and producers throughout Europe, the UK and the Center East, and expects to regulate greater than 100K residential belongings underneath administration within the coming 12 months.
Beebop’s orchestration middleware effectively permits utilities, grid operators, producers and Digital Energy Plant (VPP) know-how leaders to regulate complicated fleets of residential belongings. This answer empowers companions to ship extra worth from the facility system to end-customers, spanning photo voltaic and vitality storage, EV chargers and warmth pumps.
Jan-Willem Rombouts, CEO and founding father of Beebop, commented: “We’re at a crossroads the place improved system connectivity, regulatory modifications and advances in AI enable for brand spanking new options. Beebop is the brand new abstraction layer within the energy system driving materials price and emission financial savings for the end-consumer. We’re excited to construct Beebop with a crew of business veterans and now backed by excellent buyers.”
Beebop brings collectively a uniquely skilled crew within the energy grid flexibility market. Beebop is led by Jan-Willem Rombouts, who beforehand based and scaled Digital Energy Plant pioneer REstore NV (acquired by Centrica in 2017). He’s joined by Sandra Trittin, who beforehand based and scaled Tiko Power Options, a cleantech vitality aggregator (acquired by ENGIE in 2019). The founding crew is accomplished by former REstore NV government Prof. Bert Claessens.
David Peterson, Accomplice at Angular Ventures, commented: “Power markets are altering. Renewable vitality is taking up. Electrification is on the rise. To be resilient, the grid of the longer term have to be versatile. However orchestrating “behind-the-meter” units at scale is a deeply technical, and roughly unsolved, problem. The founders of Beebop, nevertheless, are precisely the suitable crew to crack it. They’ve been leaders within the house for over a decade, and from our very first assembly, it was clear that they had each the imaginative and prescient and the technical acumen to drag this off. We’re extremely excited to guide Beebop’s seed spherical and help Jan-Willem and crew on their mission to construct the essential infrastructure layer that can energy the grid of the longer term.”
Tomas Kemtys, Accomplice at Contrarian Ventures, added: “As a fund, we’ve needed to speculate on this house for a very very long time – nevertheless, it’s taken us a very long time to discover a crew now we have the conviction to again, able to increase the infrastructure know-how to get the very best out of our ever creating vitality networks. Jan-Willem, Sandra, Bert and crew are distinctive founders able to increase an thrilling enterprise in a difficult, fragmented house – probably the most succesful we’ve come throughout on this class. With impeccable market timing, we imagine Beebop’s answer is uniquely positioned to lastly empower end-consumers as essential contributors to grid resiliency.”
