Company · Energy & Climate

Bamboo Energy

bambooenergy.tech ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

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.

Founded

2020

Founders

News

Rounds

Investors

SectorsEnergy flexibility / demand response, Virtual Power Plants (VPP), Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Energy analytics & AI Start-up MapEnergy & Climate › Industrial resource monitoring

Profile updated 30 Jul 2026

Founders

Alex Gomar Manresa

Founder & Partner

Cristina Corchero

Co-Founder & CTO

Manel Sanmarti

Co-Founder & CEO

Mattia Barbero

Founder & Product Owner

Global models 5

Octopus 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

Stem, 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

sonnen

Germany · sonnen.de ↗

Aggregates residential batteries into a virtual power plant community, paralleling Bamboo's VPP and Bamboo Community offerings.

$160M+Comparable

Voltus

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

AutoGrid 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

Investors 2

EIT InnoEnergy

innoenergy.com

Investor Spain

IDAE (Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía)

www.idae.es ↗

Investor Spain

Funding rounds 1

Seed · €375K

Bamboo Energy, an IREC spin-off founded in Barcelona in 2020, closed a €375,000 seed round jointly subscribed by Spain's state energy agency…

2021-09-30

News & media 3

Published	Article
2026-07-24	Huawei, Bamboo Energy, Flexumers to launch telecom battery virtual power plant in Romania ↗ Telecompaper
2026-04-30	Introducing the Free Electrons 2026 Top 60 Startups ↗ Free Electrons
2025-07-31	El lustro de Bamboo Energy luchando contra los 'apagones': la historia de éxito de la startup adelantada a su tiempo ↗ El Español (Invertia)