Gridware
gridware.io
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$97.2M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$55M
Venture round · Nov 2025 · 11 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
14
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$50k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
6
Y Combinator, Anorak Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
11 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 10
First executive search Director of Business Development, Central US
Nov 17, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $55M · led by Tiger Global Management · businesswire
Jan 8, 2025
Raised a round Series A $26.4M · led by Sequoia Capital · businesswire
Jun 13, 2023
Raised a round Seed $10.5M · led by Fifty Years · PRNewswire
Nov 4, 2021
Won a grant $50k · CORDIS
May 24, 2021
Raised a round Seed $5.3M · led by Fifty Years · Insurance News InsuranceNewsNet
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Nov 2025 | $55M | Tiger Global Management lead, Generation Investment Management lead | businesswire |
| Series A | Jan 2025 | $26.4M | Sequoia Capital lead | businesswire |
| Seed | Jun 2023 | $10.5M | Fifty Years lead, Lowercarbon Capital lead | PRNewswire |
| Grant | Nov 2021 | $50k | — | CORDIS |
| Seed | May 2021 | $5.3M | Fifty Years lead, True Growth lead, Y-Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, Soma Capital, Anorak Ventures | Insurance News InsuranceNewsNet |
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Y Combinator 
Anorak Ventures 
Lowercarbon Capital 
Sequoia Capital 
Soma Capital 
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How Gridware hires
Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
134 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
9%
Reposted roles
0%
Gridware scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 9% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 134 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Gridware mounts sensors on distribution poles that detect faults, vegetation contact and equipment failure before they start a fire or an outage. Utilities receive a precise location within seconds instead of dispatching crews to patrol lines. The technology is deployed with electric utilities across wildfire-prone regions of the western United States.
News
Gridware Raises $55 Million Growth Round to Accelerate U.S. Deployments and Support Global Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, 2025--Gridware announced a $55 million Series B strategic growth round led by Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management to accelerate deployment of its continuous grid monitoring technology globally. The round also cont
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Gridware Raises $55 Million Growth Round to Accelerate U.S. Deployments and Support Global Expansion
Gridware announced a $55 million Series B strategic growth round led by Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management to accelerate deployment of its con...
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Gridware: Power Grid Monitoring Solution Provider Raises $26.4 Million (Series A)
Gridware - a continuous power grid monitoring solution provider - announced a Series A funding round of $26.4 million led by Sequoia Capital. The funding will enable Gridware to scale further production of Gridscope devices and the Gridware monitoring and
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Gridware Announces $26.4M Series A Funding Round led by Sequoia Capital
Gridware, a continuous power grid monitoring solution provider, today announced its Series A funding of $26.4 million led by Sequoia Capital.
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Gridware: $10.5 Million Raised To Improve On Grid Reliability Nationwide
Gridware recently announced it has raised $10.5 million in a seed extension funding round led by Fifty Years and Lowercarbon Capital.
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This startup making the electricity grid more resilient while reducing wildfires just raised $10.5 million. Check out the 10-slide pitch deck Gridware used to land the fresh funds.
The California-based firm, which helps prevent wildfires caused by utilities, brought Chris Sacca's Lowercarbon Capital on board in the round.
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Gridware Raises $10.5 Million to Improve Grid Reliability Nationwide
/PRNewswire/ -- Gridware today announced it has raised $10.5 million in a seed extension funding round led by Fifty Years and Lowercarbon Capital. This funding...
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Gridware Announces $5.3 Million Seed Round to accelerate its mission to create a future without suburban wildfires
--Today, Gridware announced a $5.3 million seed round investment co-led by Fifty Years and True Ventures, with participation from Y-Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, SOMA Capital, Anorak Ventures, and a fleet of outstanding funds and ange
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In a YC 'power' play, Gridware girds $5.3M to save humanity from weather
You might have thought that with more than 300 companies joining this year's winter batch of Y Combinator, the investor interest might have thinned. Well,
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Gridware is building early-detection sensors for power grid failures and wildfires
Like corporate financial accounting, the power grid never draws headlines when things are going well. No journalist writes
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Gridware over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
52
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
65/100
Languages
Python75%
SQL25%
MATLAB13%
C++13%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry13%
Dagster6%
SQLAlchemy6%
Databases
PostgreSQL6%
Apache Iceberg6%
Trino6%
Cloud & platforms
Apache Kafka31%
Kubernetes25%
Databricks25%
Grafana25%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$113k – $295k
Open positions
14
13
Jobs
Junior
23.1%
Middle
23.1%
Senior
46.2%
Architect
7.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $160k | $113k – $175k |
| Middle | 3 | $145k | $140k – $150k |
| Senior | 6 | $218k | $160k – $295k |
| Architect | 1 | $280k | $280k |
Highest paying role
Senior Manager, Machine Learning
$295k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Gridware
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
45/100
Stable
Open positions
14
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
131 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
27% ▲
AI/ML
18% ▼
Finance
18% ▼
Leadership
9% ▼
Product
9% ▲
Management
9% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
Learn more about Gridware.
13 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 54% engineering 10-50 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Finance
945 Front Street, San Francisco CA 94111
Jobs
$190k – $220k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
SQLAlchemy
Databases
PostgreSQL
Databricks
Apache Iceberg
Apache Kafka
Trino
Frontend
GraphQL
Mobile
Offline-First
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
QA
Sentry
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$145k – $160k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
SQL
MATLAB
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$260k – $280k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • San Francisco
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
Amazon Kinesis
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$260k – $290k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Apply
$190k – $215k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
Redpanda
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Loki
Prometheus
GitOps
Kubernetes
Grafana
Amazon Kinesis
DNS
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$155k – $165k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
Anomaly Detection
Human-in-the-Loop
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$160k – $175k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
Prefect
Time Series
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Grafana
Amazon Kinesis
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply