Hear from our global investment partners as we celebrate the close of Emerald AI’s landmark $150 million Series A round. Below is what some of our world-class coalition, featuring twelve Fortune Global 500 companies, are saying about our milestone and our mission to build an innovative solution that helps resolve the AI energy bottleneck.

“The binding constraint on AI is no longer chips or capital; it is power, and software is the fastest way through it. Emerald AI has converted world-class research into commercial deployments faster than any company we have seen in this category, and we are proud to co-lead this round as the team defines how AI infrastructure and the grid grow together.”

— John Tough, Managing Partner at Energize Capital

“DCVC backs teams that use computational approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world. Emerald AI’s peer-reviewed research, its leading AI-driven compute workload orchestration platform, and the caliber of the partners deploying it convinced us that this is the company that will make flexibility a permanent feature of how AI factories are built and powered.”

— Zachary Bogue, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, DCVC

“AI represents one of the greatest opportunities of our time, but its continued growth will depend on how effectively we balance rising computing demand with available energy resources. Our investment in Emerald AI reflects our belief that greater coordination between AI workloads and the power grid will be essential. Together, we’re helping advance technologies that can accelerate AI infrastructure deployment, increase energy efficiency, and strengthen grid resilience.”

— Ann Fairchild, President & CEO, Siemens USA

“AI’s rapid growth is creating unprecedented demand for power, making the relationship between digital infrastructure and the energy system increasingly important. Emerald AI is addressing this challenge with a software-based approach that enables data centers to respond intelligently to grid conditions while maintaining critical computing workloads. We see potential in Emerald AI’s technology and how it can support the continued growth of AI infrastructure while strengthening the reliability and efficiency of the power systems that enable it.”

— Zayed AlAmri, Executive Managing Director, Aramco Ventures

“We are excited to support Emerald AI as they enable AI data centers to become grid-responsive assets. As AI demand accelerates and utility infrastructure strains, Emerald AI can offer a path to scale AI responsibly while strengthening grid reliability. Emerald AI’s vision strongly aligns with MIP’s commitment to advancing sustainable innovation across energy and technology.”

— Ichiro Miyoshi, CEO and CIO, Marunouchi Innovation Partners

“As electricity demand continues to grow, new approaches are needed to make better use of existing grid infrastructure. RWE is proud to partner with Emerald AI to advance software solutions that can help data centers respond to changing grid conditions by dynamically aligning power consumption and on-site generation. Our investment supports innovative solutions that can transform data centers into flexible grid assets, unlocking grid capacity while supporting reliability. As a member of Emerald AI’s Strategic Advisory Board, we look forward to working with leaders across the energy and technology sectors to scale this revolutionary technology and strengthen the future energy system.”

— Andrea Hu-Bianco, Senior Vice President of Engineering, RWE Americas

“Emerald saw that powering AI isn’t just a capacity problem; it’s a coordination problem across the chain from utility signal to data center operation to chip-level demand. Varun and team are building the shared interface that makes flexibility visible, measurable, and bankable. We understand how trusted measurement makes physical systems observable and controllable, which is why we’re proud to back the team tackling the AI power crunch.”

— Kimberly Blakemore, Head of ADVentures, ADI

“Power availability has fast become the defining operational challenge for the next generation of artificial intelligence. Emerald AI’s ability to turn data centers into flexible grid assets completely flips the script to unlock vital capacity and ensure that the momentum of AI innovation doesn’t stall. We are thrilled to partner with Varun and the entire team as they close this landmark Series A and accelerate their commercial scaling.”

— Sheel Tyle, Founder & Co-CEO, Collective Global Management

“Emerald AI’s technology stack, which enables data centers to act as power-flexible grid assets at scale without disruption to core customer workloads, delivers speed to power and increases grid utilization. We are proud to support the Emerald team to bring this vision to life.”

— Shayle Kann, Managing Partner, Frontier at Energy Impact Partners

“Earthshot backs the physical foundation of AI, the supply chain that makes intelligence possible. Speed to power is now holding back the AI buildout, and Emerald tackles the challenge in the most efficient way possible: by making compute flexible so data centers can come online faster, without requiring new grid infrastructure.”

— Matt Logan, GP, Earthshot Ventures

“The rapid growth of AI is creating significant new demand for electricity and increasing the need for closer coordination between computing and power systems. Emerald AI is developing an innovative approach to this challenge, and we see strong potential in combining its software capabilities with JERA’s expertise across the energy value chain. We look forward to exploring opportunities together as the technology continues to develop.”

— Takeshi Kodama, Head of JERA Ventures and Managing Partner, JERA Ventures

“Interconnection rules written for last century’s factories keep excess power locked up. We bet early on that Emerald’s flexibility software would become the fastest path to freeing up gigawatts for AI data centers, and we’re thrilled to watch Varun and his team prove this out at scale.”

— Shawn Xu, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital

“The bottleneck for AI is not compute. It is energy capacity. Having partnered with Varun since Emerald’s inception, we’ve always believed that software-driven flexibility is the fastest way to unlock gigawatts of stranded power. Emerald’s rapid leap from stealth to deploying multi-megawatt, grid-responsive AI factories proves this vision is not only viable, it is now essential to how future AI infrastructure is built.”

— Rob Toews, Partner, Radical Ventures

“One of the defining challenges of the AI era is meeting surging power demand without compromising grid reliability. Emerald AI addresses this head-on, transforming data centers from large, inflexible loads into intelligent, flexible resources that actively support the grid. At Sabanci Climate Ventures, we invest at the intersection of energy and AI infrastructure, and Emerald AI sits squarely at that intersection — with the technology, team, and market timing to scale rapidly. We are especially proud to back a team that includes Sabanci University alumna Ayşe Coşkun, and we look forward to supporting Emerald AI’s growth in the U.S. and globally.”

— Murat Arcan, Managing Director, Sabanci Climate Ventures

“The next chapter of AI won’t just be defined by model breakthroughs, but by the infrastructure built to power them. Emerald AI is tackling one of the greatest bottlenecks to AI growth, proving that data centers can strengthen the power grid rather than strain it. We’re proud to back Varun and the Emerald AI team as they build the critical infrastructure required to scale AI reliably, affordably, and sustainably.”

— Claudine Emeott, Partner, Salesforce Ventures

“Emerald’s insight - that flexibility, not just more generation, is the fastest way to relieve AI’s energy bottleneck - is exactly the kind of solution to a real constraint that we look for, and we’re glad to support the team.”

— Mike Lord, President, Temerty Group