A new company focused on helping power producers navigate volatile electricity markets through a new AI platform has emerged from stealth.

Shatterdome Energy announced it had raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to support platform development.

The company was founded by Amann Shariff and is based in San Francisco. The company claims that its platform will aggregate renewable generation, battery storage, and flexible industrial demand into a coordinated virtual power plant (VPP) network. According to Shatterdome, its autonomous system can ingest real-time grid data to determine when energy should be produced, stored, or sold, and then execute those trades programmatically.

"Power markets are entering a phase of structural volatility as renewable penetration increases and electricity demand from AI infrastructure continues to grow," said Amann Shariff, founder of Shatterdome Energy. "Energy infrastructure is becoming increasingly programmable as grids digitize and renewable assets scale. Our goal is to build an intelligent operating system that allows energy assets to participate dynamically in modern power markets."

Since its founding, the company has said it has deployed its core platform, connected renewable energy and storage assets to its VPP network, and started working with early partners in energy trading and infrastructure markets. In its first three months, the company claims to have facilitated the movement of 200MWh of power and built a pipeline of 1.5GW in assets.