Company: Zendo Energy
Co-Founders: Drew Barrett and Jade Batstone
Website: https://zendoenergy.com/
About Zendo Energy
Zendo Energy is a British startup building the first AI-powered ‘Energy OS’ to decarbonise computing power in data centres.
Zendo’s co-founders, CEO Jade Batstone and COO Drew Barrett, bring over two decades of experience in renewable energy and B2B software to the data centre industry. Prior to founding Zendo, Drew spent 13 years at Octopus Energy, latterly as Head of Renewable Procurement, leading the multi-million turnover business unit for the UK’s largest energy supplier. Silicon Valley native Jade was an early employee at payments company Square and helped to set the business up in the UK. She has also built and led product innovation teams at SWIFT, developing software products to solve critical challenges in the financial services industry.
Together, they’re on a mission to help the data centre industry become smarter, more efficient and ready for the future of computing demand.
Founded in 2024, Zendo’s AI-powered software will empower data centres to increase capacity revenues and adapt to the growing unpredictability of AI workloads while navigating volatile energy markets that increasingly rely on intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar.
Thanks to the widespread adoption of AI and rapid rise of cloud computing and streaming services, electricity demand from data centres globally is expected to more than double by 2030 – almost as much energy as Japan uses today. Only half of this demand is likely to be met by renewable sources, posing a significant challenge to global progress towards decarbonisation.
Zendo’s advanced platform delivers flexible energy solutions with predictive analytics that allows data centres to forecast demand and maximise the value of their infrastructure. Zendo’s model is proven to save data centres up to 25% in energy costs and also simplifies the integration of renewables – helping to green an industry that has historically relied on fossil fuels.
The business has raised £1.75 million in pre-seed funding to date and is backed by Fly Ventures (first cheque investors in UK unicorn Wayve), Octopus Ventures, Pact VC, and angel investors in the data centre industry.
The strength of its pre-seed round reflects the market’s confidence in Zendo’s ability to increase capacity revenues and generate energy savings for data centres as demand for the industry’s services reaches an all-time high.
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