BBamboo Energy
Barcelona-based energy-tech startup, spun off from IREC in 2020, that builds an AI-driven SaaS platform (Predict, Optimize, Act, Monitor) letting retailers, aggregators and energy communities manage distributed flexibility, battery storage (BESS) and virtual power plants. It closed a ~€375K seed round in 2023 backed by EIT InnoEnergy and IDAE, and counts TotalEnergies, Nexus and Huawei among its clients/partners.
SectorsEnergy flexibility / demand response, Virtual Power Plants (VPP), Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Energy analytics & AI
Start-up MapEnergy & Climate › Industrial resource monitoring
Founders
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Cristina Corchero
Co-Founder & CTO
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Manel Sanmarti
Co-Founder & CEO
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Mattia Barbero
Founder & Product Owner
Global models 5
OOctopus Energy (Kraken)
United Kingdom · octopus.energy ↗
Licenses its Kraken energy-flexibility and optimization platform to utilities worldwide, the same DERMS/flexibility-as-a-software model Bamboo Energy targets at retailers and aggregators.
$800M+Comparable
SStem, Inc.
United States · www.stem.com ↗
AI-driven software (Athena) for optimizing and monetizing battery storage and distributed energy assets, closely matching Bamboo's Optimize/Act/Monitor platform for flexible assets.
$600M+Comparable
Ssonnen
Germany · sonnen.de ↗
Aggregates residential batteries into a virtual power plant community, paralleling Bamboo's VPP and Bamboo Community offerings.
$160M+Comparable
VVoltus
United States · www.voltus.co ↗
Demand-response aggregation platform monetizing distributed flexibility in wholesale energy markets, directly analogous to Bamboo's core use case.
$149MComparable
AAutoGrid Systems
United States · www.auto-grid.com ↗
DERMS and flexibility-forecasting/optimization software for utilities and aggregators, the closest direct product analogue to Bamboo's Predict/Optimize stack.
$100M+Comparable
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Investors 2
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IInnoEnergy
innoenergy.com
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IDAE (Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía)
Funding rounds 1
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2021-09-30 | Seed | €375K |
Lead not disclosed
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News 3
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| 2026-07-24 |
Huawei, Bamboo Energy, Flexumers to launch telecom battery virtual power plant in Romania ↗
Telecompaper
2026-07-24 |
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