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GridCARE raises $64 million Series A financing to scale AI-powered grid intelligence platform for data center power acceleration

Type: Financing · Technology: Data Center · Country: United States · Value: $64M · Announced: 2026-05-19

GridCARE, a California-based grid intelligence startup founded in 2024, secured $64 million in Series A financing to scale its GridCARE Energize platform, an AI-powered solution designed to unlock underutilized grid capacity for data centers. The platform uses physics-based AI to evaluate quadrillions of real-time grid conditions—modeling congestion, outages, weather, and demand variability—to identify available capacity that traditional interconnection processes cannot detect. The company claims its technology compresses interconnection timelines from years to months, enabling the deployment of gigawatts of new power capacity for AI infrastructure. GridCARE is currently engaged in projects spanning over a dozen markets, with more than 2 GW of new AI compute capacity in development, and has unlocked over $10 billion in economic value for data center developers by accelerating power capacity deployment. The funding round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with participation from investors including John Doerr, National Grid Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Stanford University, alongside existing backers Xora, Aina Ventures, Overture, Acclimate Ventures, and Clearvision Ventures.

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