| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.05.2019 | Tendril Acquires EnergySavvy | Tendril, a Boulder, CO-based provider of AI-powered utility customer experience and DSM solutions, is to acquire EnergySavvy, a provider of personalized utility customer engagement solutions.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With t... |
| 04.12.2018 | Tendril Receives Investment from Rubicon Technology Partners | Tendril, a Boulder, Colo.-based provider of Home Energy Management solutions to the utility industry, secured a majority investment from Rubicon Technology Partners.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Morgan Stanley Alternative Inves... |
| 07.09.2018 | Utility-backed fund raises $681 million for advanced energy technologies | The electricity utilities are the biggest players on the block. Being the biggest means you make a lot of money and you attract smart people. A few years back, these smart, wealthy people got together to create Energy Impact Partners (EIP):... |
| 04.02.2015 | French Utility Giant Funds Tendril’s European Expansion With $7.2M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Tendril Networks, the Boulder, CO-based company that develops software for the utility industry, announced Tuesday it has received a $7.2 million investment from one of the la... |
| 16.12.2014 | SunPower’s $20M Investment Latest Sign of Tendril’s Turnaround | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Just two years ago, Tendril Networks was like many other formerly high-flying cleantech startups struggling to stay alive. But now Tendril is back, according to CEO Adrian Tuc... |
| 27.10.2014 | Nest Buys “Smart Home” Startup Revolv, Discontinues Automation Hub | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Revolv’s idea for a smart hub that could control lights, speakers, locks, and more won’t come to fruition. Nest, a division of Google that makes smart thermostats and home aut... |
| 14.03.2012 | Smart grid startups compete for highly variable venture funding | Venture capital industry interest and investment in smart grid startups has been up and down over the past five years, ranging from a peak of nearly $316 million in 2009 to around $100 million or less in 2011 (as of the end of September). T... |
| 14.03.2012 | Smart grid startups compete for highly variable venture funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capital industry interest and investment ... |
| 26.01.2012 | Cloud Roundup for January 26, 2012 | On tap for today, we’ve got a new jQuery Mobile release, a look at Tendril Connect, and the latest BitNami Stack for Ruby on Rails.
jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released – The jQuery Mobile folks have pushed 1.0.1 out the door. This fixes a bunch of... |
| 31.08.2011 | Blyk, Amnis, SPIE, OrbiMed, Atlassian, Tendril, RaceReady, etc.: News in Brief | Blyk, a Helsinky, Finland-based mobile messaging media company, appointed Eric Kip as Chief Executive Officer. Eric Kip joined Blyk in 2009, and was previously CCO. He has 20 years of experience working with advertising in various executive... |
| 28.02.2011 | Nexus EnergyHomes Raises $1.5 Million To Build Luxury, Net Zero Energy Houses | Annapolis-based Nexus EnergyHomes raised the first $200,000 of a $1.5 million dollar series A round, a new SEC filing revealed. The company designs, sells and builds pre-fab homes that are “net zero,” or zero energy homes (ZEHs).
According ... |
| 30.10.2010 | 32 companies charging the Super Grid now | The super grid, the theme of VentureBeat’s next GreenBeat conference, involves a bewildering array of technologies and companies from industry behemoths like GE and Cisco to disruptive young startups. Together, they’re taking existing effor... |
| 29.10.2010 | Use less power at peak, and pay less? Everyone’s jumping in | For the past century, buying electricity from your utility hasn’t changed much. If you pay a monthly bill, and you really don’t care what time of day you use your power. Whether it’s night or day, who cares? It costs about the same.
But tha... |
| 19.10.2010 | Tendril acquires GroundedPower, raises $23 million | Home energy management company Tendril announced it has acquired GroundedPower, a software company that focuses on behavioral-based engagement of consumers.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company also announced it has raised $23 ... |
| 29.06.2010 | Cisco unveils home energy management dashboard | Following up on the roll out of its first smart grid products last month, Cisco Systems announced today perhaps the most important component of any home energy management system: a consumer-facing interface.
The networking giant has been on... |
| 29.06.2010 | Cisco unveils home energy management dashboard | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Following up on the roll out of its first smart g... |
| 07.06.2010 | OpenPeak could throw energy management market for a loop with new $52 million | OpenPeak, maker of dashboard-like devices with applications that look vaguely like the iPad, has just raised $52 million from Intel Capital and General Electric Capital. And while many are postulating a potential iPad rival from the lesser-... |
| 07.06.2010 | OpenPeak could throw energy management market for a loop with new $52 million | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
OpenPeak, maker of dashboard-like devices with ap... |
| 03.06.2010 | AEP picks OPOWER to hook consumers into the smart grid | The movement toward a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid has hit a wall recently. The first phase for most electric utilities has been to roll out thousands of smart meters — meters capable of wirelessly beaming energy-consumption data... |
| 24.05.2010 | GridPoint suddenly relevant again with USPS energy management deal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As we’ve noted a number of times, the energy-mana... |
| 24.05.2010 | GridPoint suddenly relevant again with USPS energy management deal | As we’ve noted a number of times, the energy-management business is getting awful crowded. There’s a bevy of services tackling the residential market (Tendril, EnergyHub, Control4, etc.) and a handful of startups targeting commercial custom... |
| 24.05.2010 | Google PowerMeter even less dependent on smart meters with new Current Cost partnership | Google has just expanded the reach of its PowerMeter tool — the application that allows consumers to track how much energy they are using and how much they are paying for it in real time. Today, it added Current Cost, the world’s biggest pr... |
| 24.05.2010 | Google PowerMeter even less dependent on smart meters with new Current Cost partnership | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google has just expanded the reach of its PowerMe... |
| 19.05.2010 | New energy meters smart about data, but stupid about design, survey says | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hundreds of utilities across the U.S. have big pl... |
| 19.05.2010 | New energy meters smart about data, but stupid about design, survey says | Hundreds of utilities across the U.S. have big plans to roll out millions of smart meters to their coverage areas to keep tabs on how much energy their customers are using and how healthy the electrical grid is in real time.
Smart meters ma... |
| 13.05.2010 | What makes a good home energy-management system? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Smart Grid, an upgrade to our energy infrastr... |
| 13.05.2010 | What makes a good home energy-management system? | The Smart Grid, an upgrade to our energy infrastructure driven by information technology, is unquestionably gaining momentum as an industry in its own right. But it can also be divvied up into many different segments ranging from smart mete... |
| 13.04.2010 | 4Home bags $6.8M to automate appliances and save energy | 4Home, maker of software that gives homeowners centralized control over their appliances and electronics, has just brought in $6.8 million in venture funding — just two months after an SEC filing showed that it raised $4.3 million in equity... |
| 06.04.2010 | EcoFactor makes thermostats smarter with new $3.5M | EcoFactor, a provider of software that automates two-way thermostats for energy efficiency, has just banked another $3.5 million, bringing its recent round’s total to $5.9 million. For a company that just launched in November, it’s doing pr... |
| 06.04.2010 | EcoFactor makes thermostats smarter with new $3.5M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
EcoFactor, a provider of software that automates ... |
| 31.03.2010 | Ford joins forces with Microsoft to tackle EV charging challenge | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With Nissan and General Motors already hyping the... |
| 31.03.2010 | Ford joins forces with Microsoft to tackle EV charging challenge | With Nissan and General Motors already hyping their plug-in vehicles due out later this year, Ford seems to have fallen behind. Its all-electric Ford Focus hasn’t commanded as much attention. But today it looks like it’s pursuing a differen... |
| 29.03.2010 | Landis+Gyr to supply smart meters to British Gas on way to IPO | British Gas, the major electrical and gas utility in the United Kingdom, has decided to go with Landis+Gyr to build the 1 million smart meters it plans to deploy throughout its coverage area. This is a big victory for the Swiss meter maker,... |
| 29.03.2010 | Landis+Gyr to supply smart meters to British Gas on way to IPO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
British Gas, the major electrical and gas utility... |
| 22.03.2010 | Tendril unveils device to make saving energy run like clockwork | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A horde of companies is taking on home energy man... |
| 22.03.2010 | Tendril unveils device to make saving energy run like clockwork | A horde of companies is taking on home energy management — and each is working to present consumers with energy consumption information in a way that will actually make them change their behavior and conserve resources. One of the frontrunn... |
| 17.03.2010 | ZigBee, Wi-Fi join forces to kick home energy management up a notch | The smart grid community saw a major meeting of the minds today: the ZigBee Alliance and Wi-Fi Alliance have teamed up to develop applications for home energy management and networking.
Both ZigBee and Wi-Fi are wireless protocols that allo... |
| 17.03.2010 | ZigBee, Wi-Fi join forces to kick home energy management up a notch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The smart grid community saw a major meeting of t... |
| 03.03.2010 | Google opens PowerMeter API — and the field for energy efficiency apps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google announced today that it has released the a... |
| 03.03.2010 | Google opens PowerMeter API — and the field for energy efficiency apps | Google announced today that it has released the application programming interface (the API) for Google PowerMeter, the tool it launched last year to tell users in real time how much energy they are using and, more importantly, what it is co... |
| 20.01.2010 | The world’s best renewable source of energy: Efficiency | The term “green building” may bring to mind flimsy construction, uncomfortable temperatures, poor lighting — and perhaps the faint smell of peat moss. But nothing could be further from the truth. With focus on natural lighting and ventilati... |
| 20.01.2010 | The world’s best renewable source of energy: Efficiency | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The term “green building” may bring to mind flims... |
| 19.01.2010 | Home energy monitors come to big box stores — for less than $100 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fry’s Electronics announced today that average co... |
| 19.01.2010 | Home energy monitors come to big box stores — for less than $100 | Fry’s Electronics announced today that average consumers can now buy a PowerCost Monitor, made by Blue Line Innovations, in any one of its retail stores or on its web site. The device tells you how much energy you are using and how much it ... |
| 06.01.2010 | Home energy management gets a star turn at CES | Several companies, appliance maker Whirlpool and energy retailer Direct Energy among them, have joined forces to showcase what the energy efficient home of the future will look like at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas this week.
T... |
| 06.01.2010 | Home energy management gets a star turn at CES | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Several companies, appliance maker Whirlpool and ... |
| 31.12.2009 | 2009’s top 9 forward-looking cleantech investments | It was a big year for cleantech. After a dismal start in the first quarter, things picked up, leaving it in prime position to be one of the largest areas of investment in 2010. Overall, 2009 saw 356 deals totaling $4.85 billion, according t... |
| 31.12.2009 | 2009’s top 9 forward-looking cleantech investments | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It was a big year for cleantech. After a dismal s... |
| 15.12.2009 | Silver Spring becomes the smart grid’s golden goose with new $100M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If it wasn’t already, Silver Spring Networks is n... |
| 15.12.2009 | Silver Spring becomes the smart grid’s golden goose with new $100M | If it wasn’t already, Silver Spring Networks is now the official leader of the smart grid sector. Following success in 2009, it is expected to be the first startup in the space to go public, as early as next year. And now it’s secured $100 ... |
| 16.11.2009 | Hohm vs. Powermeter: A side-by-side rundown | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Much has been written about how the bitter rivalr... |
| 16.11.2009 | Hohm vs. Powermeter: A side-by-side rundown | Much has been written about how the bitter rivalry between Google and Microsoft has extended to their respective home energy management systems, Google PowerMeter and Microsoft Hohm. But most of these stories make it sound like the tools re... |
| 09.11.2009 | People Power launches into crowded home energy monitoring field | If any one thing can be learned from the deluge of events, conferences, articles and blog posts on the emerging Smart Grid, it’s that home energy monitoring companies are the sexiest startups in the space. Consumer-facing, colorful and slee... |
| 05.11.2009 | Tendril to release “eco-warrior” game, connecting conservation to virtual rewards | Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck sent ripples through the audience at GreenTech Media’s “Networked Grid” conference yesterday, letting slip that the home energy monitoring company is partnering with a well-known game maker to produce a new title tha... |
| 05.11.2009 | Tendril to release “eco-warrior” game, connecting conservation to virtual rewards | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck sent ripples through the ... |
| 08.07.2009 | GE, Tendril ink deal to create even better home energy management | General Electric’s Consumer & Industrial division finalized a deal with home energy management startup Tendril today to improve broadband communication between demand response appliances in the home, smart meters and utilities. Ideally,... |
| 08.07.2009 | GE, Tendril ink deal to create even better home energy management | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
General Electric’s Consumer & Industrial divi... |
| 23.06.2009 | Microsoft leaps into home energy management game with Hohm | As we’ve reported, the big boys are jumping into the smart grid space just in time for the stimulus funds to rain from the sky. Google introduced its home energy management system PowerMeter in February; Intel has been hard at work developi... |
| 23.06.2009 | Microsoft leaps into home energy management game with Hohm | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As we’ve reported, the big boys are jumping into ... |
| 06.03.2009 | DEMObeat video: Energy efficiency, social data sharing, and productivity 2.0 | Regular VentureBeat readers may still be recovering from our onslaught of coverage earlier this week of DEMO, the conference for technology companies launching products. (VentureBeat has partnered with DEMO, and editor Matt Marshall is now ... |
| 03.03.2009 | DEMO: Tendril releases mobile app for home energy management | Tendril Networks, a company that offers a portfolio of energy management tools to the utility industry, unveiled a web-based program for individual users at the DEMO conference today. The new application, called Tendril Vantage Mobile, lets... |
| 10.02.2009 | Google wants in on the smart grid of the future | reader comments 16 with 12 posters participating
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