Today Energize as back in the Wall Street Journal! This time not for an acquisition but rather the start of a journey with a company: a new investment in the Series B for Greenlite Technologies.

Greenlite is an AI-based platform that helps accelerate the permitting process for commercial projects. The labor pool at the federal, state, and local agencies are all stressed on people and time. New LLM based technologies that can interpret local rules and enable these groups to accelerate the plan-permit-approval process are providing incredible value and scaling quickly. Excitingly, both sides of the customer base wins: the commercial entities like restaurants or small infrastructure projects – but also the states who don’t have to scale their personnel to serve the increasingly decentralized buildouts.

At Energize we generally believe that the next wave of the infrastructure  movement is decentralized and digitized. Decentralized asset planning and management requires new tools versus historical process and we believe Greenlite will play a meaningful role in that efficiency.

The company was founded by Ben Allen and James Gallagher  and we are excited to partner with them for the next stages of the company’s growth. We are also excited to collaborate with Insight Partners in this round – our first time working with them directly.