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AI Is Eating Software. Industrial Software Eats With It.

Urbint acquired by Itron Corporation for $325M
Energize invests in GridStrong $10M round
Hiring Alan Glass to Co-Head Energize Endurance

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Greenlite raises capital from Energize
Energize Capital invests in Greenlite Technologies
Nozomi Networks on the front page of the WSJ
Nozomi Networks Acquired by Mitsubishi Electric for ~$1 Billion
Energize NEXT Coming in 2 weeks
Energize’s Endurance – Strategy is Hiring
HQ Expansion
In 2020 the entire Energize team fit comfortably in a (maybe) 2,000 square foot space on the 11th floor of One South Wacker Drive. At Energize we have a phrase "we choose to grow, together" and this represents our desire to growth with the climate market opportunity. Alongside this phrase you will usually hear me say "why not us?"
Team first
In September Energize held our 2-day marathon of events: the Energize NEXT Climate Software conference, and our Annual General Meeting. Before the day started at our conference we were able to sneak away for a quick team photo. That photo of the current team is below – and we have another 3 starting before year-end.
Energize X Elum
Europe scales up – Energize leads $13M investment into Elum
One of the first investments Energize made as a firm was in a European leader, Nozomi Networks. Since then we have deployed nearly 20% of our invested capital into the European ecosystem. While others shy from the market we believe there is tremendous climate and industrial technology innovation emerging.

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