Verse Raises $54M in Series B Funding Led by Bessemer Venture Partners

The round also saw participation from GV, NVIDIA, Norrsken VC, and others.

The company plans to use the funds to continue developing and deploying its products.

Through a strategic partnership with Calibrant Energy, a provider of on-site energy solutions for large power users, data centers can operate as flexible, grid-responsive assets without affecting performance or reliability.

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By using battery systems and other technologies to reduce grid demand during peak periods, developers can speed up interconnection approvals by several years and significantly improve time to power. Dispatch Intelligence also helps lower overall system costs while providing greater long-term price stability in volatile energy markets.

Verse is also integrating Dispatch Intelligence with NVIDIA’s DSX AI Factory reference design. This is designed to speed up the building, simulation, and operation of large-scale AI data centers.

Verse’s core platform, Aria™, is already used by Fortune 500 companies to manage large and complex energy portfolios. It brings together utility bills, contracts, and power purchase agreements (PPAs) from thousands of sites into a single system.

This gives customers a unified view of their energy data, helping them compare forecasts with actual usage, improve purchasing decisions, optimize portfolio performance, and reduce costs and risk. Dispatch Intelligence builds on this foundation by expanding Verse’s role from energy management into power access and delivery.

“Verse is building the kind of technology every AI infrastructure company will need in a world increasingly constrained by power,” said Lindsey Li, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners. “Their platform continues to evolve to meet the moment. Now, with Calibrant Energy, the company is delivering a full-stack solution that helps data center developers bring new capacity online faster and more cost-effectively.”

“The main limiting factor for AI supremacy is access to power. To ensure success, data center developers and operators need a path to deploy infrastructure quickly and at scale,” said Philip Martin, CEO of Calibrant. “Together with Verse, we’re enabling a new model where power can be delivered on-site, on-demand, without waiting years for grid upgrades – and without impacting electricity costs for others.”

“The race to AI is now a race to power, and developers are losing time they don’t have,” said Seyed Madaeni, CEO and co-founder of Verse. “Most approaches to data center flexibility ask you to throttle your workloads, but Dispatch Intelligence takes a different approach. By orchestrating physical storage on-site, we deliver flexibility without impacting compute so systems run full-tilt while the grid sees a flexible load, letting operators skip the queue without ever slowing performance.”

About Verse

Founded in 2022 by Seyed H. Madaeni and Matt Penfold, Verse is an energy intelligence company whose platform, Aria™, helps large energy users manage their entire portfolio in one place. Aria™ combines Dispatch Intelligence — which automatically controls behind-the-meter energy storage in real time — with Portfolio Insights, ensuring every automated decision is based on a live, unified view of all sites, contracts, and assets.

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