GridCARE Raises $64M in Series A Funding Led by John Doerr

The company plans to use the funding to expand its operations and continue developing its products and technology.

GridCare Energize™ analyzes massive amounts of grid data in real time, including congestion, outages, weather, and energy demand, to identify power capacity that traditional systems often miss. The platform helps reduce interconnection timelines from years to months, allowing AI data centers, utilities, and energy providers to bring new power online faster and operate it more reliably for the growing AI economy.

Faster power expansion requires close collaboration with utilities that manage the electric grid. GridCARE is designed to work alongside utilities, helping them handle rising electricity demand from AI data centers, electrification, and industrial growth while maintaining grid reliability and affordable service for existing customers.

To address the growing demand for power infrastructure, GridCARE will host its first GridCARE Power Acceleration Summit in September 2026. The event will bring together leaders from the AI and energy industries to accelerate grid capacity, expedite power connections and deliver the infrastructure needed to support rapid AI growth.

"A year ago, few people were talking about power as a bottleneck for AI - today it's the rate-limiting step for the entire industry. GridCARE is directly addressing that bottleneck, with an unmatched team, deep domain expertise, and overwhelming customer demand," said Vic Miller, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. "Power sits beneath every other layer of the AI stack, and we believe Power Acceleration will be the key technology that enables the AI economy to scale."

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"While AI is accelerating breakthroughs in medicine, science and climate, power remains a bottleneck," said John Doerr, investor, and author of Speed & Scale. "GridCARE delivers affordable, sustainable energy by unlocking capacity in the grid we have already built."

“The fastest and least-expensive way to add capacity to the grid is to unlock the megawatts already hidden inside it,” said Steve Smith, President of National Grid Partners and Group Chief Strategy Officer at National Grid. “Our work with GridCARE earlier this year supports the approach. We are deepening that commitment by joining this round as an investor and extending the collaboration into additional markets. By responsibly activating latent capacity, utilities can support economic growth, strengthen reliability, and protect affordability for the customers and communities we serve.”

"The largest source of new power for the AI economy isn't waiting to be built. It's already in the ground, hidden in the grid we already have," said Ram Rajagopal, co-founder and CTO of GridCARE, and a tenured Stanford professor on leave to build the company. "Our job is to make it visible and put it to work in months, not years."

About GridCARE

Founded in 2024 by Amit Narayan, Ram Rajagopal, Liang Min, and Arun Majumdar, GridCARE is developing technology to speed up power delivery for the AI economy. Created at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, the company’s Energize™ platform uses AI and physics-based modelling to identify unused grid capacity and help AI data centers, utilities, and energy providers bring large-scale power infrastructure online faster.

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