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title: "What Is Emerald AI’s Valuation in 2026? $1.05B After $150M"
description: "Emerald AI closed a $150M Series A on August 25, 2026, at $1.05B. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led. NVIDIA and General Catalyst’s scout fund participated. The 100 GW grid figure is the company’s estimate, not a measured capacity print."
date: 2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["2026-vc-news", "startup-funding", "venture-capital", "climate-tech", "artificial-intelligence"]
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-emerald-ai-150m-series-a-1-05b
---

# What Is Emerald AI’s Valuation in 2026? $1.05B After $150M

> Emerald AI closed a $150M Series A on August 25, 2026, at $1.05B. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led. NVIDIA and General Catalyst’s scout fund participated. The 100 GW grid figure is the company’s estimate, not a measured capacity print.

**Emerald AI is worth $1.05 billion** after a **$150 million Series A** on **August 25, 2026**. **Energize Capital** and **DCVC** co-led. **NVIDIA** participated. [General Catalyst](/fund/general-catalyst)’s scout fund is on the list.

**Unexpected truth:** the **100 gigawatt** line in the release is a **company estimate** of unused U.S. grid capacity the software could unlock — not a measured plant or a signed offtake. **Revenue was not disclosed.** A Series A at **$1.05B** is a constraint price, not a software-ARR multiple.

This page is for people deciding whether grid-flexible AI load (or this data-center power lane) is worth another hour. Last verified **August 26, 2026**. Facts below are the Business Wire / company release.

## Five-minute decision

| If you need… | Verdict |
| --- | --- |
| What happened | **Funded.** $150M Series A @ **$1.05B**, Aug 25, 2026. Energize + DCVC co-leads. |
| What Emerald is | **Software** that flexes data-center power draw. Not a battery, not a generation plant. |
| Whether it is “shipping” | **Five demos done.** Company: commercial, multi-MW, full-data-center scale. Named next site: ~**100 MW** Manassas with Digital Realty and NVIDIA, later this year. |
| Whether to diligence | **Yes**, if you underwrite interconnection queues. **No**, if you need revenue or a verified GW figure first. |

**Investigate further when:** you believe the scarce asset is **verified, dispatchable flexibility** that utilities will trade for faster interconnects.

**Wait or pass when:** you need a disclosed dollar of revenue, or you think [Form Energy](/startup/form-energy) / new generation already occupies the AI-power allocation.

## What happened

| Field | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Company | Emerald AI ([emeraldai.co](https://www.emeraldai.co)); CEO Dr. Varun Sivaram; HQ Washington, D.C. |
| Round | **$150M Series A** · **$1.05B** valuation · Aug 25, 2026 (Business Wire) |
| Co-leads | Energize Capital; DCVC (neither has a `/fund/` page) |
| Directory name | [General Catalyst](/fund/general-catalyst) scout fund |
| Other named names | NVIDIA, Samsung Ventures, Siemens, Aramco Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, GE Vernova, RWE, JERA Ventures, ADVentures, In-Q-Tel, Radical Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, John Doerr, Tom Steyer |
| Total raised | **>$220M** (company) |
| Use of proceeds | Scale commercial deployments with AI firms, operators, and utilities |
| Traction disclosed | Five demos (AZ, IL, VA, OR, London); commercial California site; SVP Flexible Load Interconnection Program; Manassas ~100 MW with Digital Realty / NVIDIA (later 2026) |
| Revenue | **Not disclosed** |

**12 Fortune Global 500** companies are now investors, per the release. That is a **cap-table fact**, not a customer count.

## What Emerald actually does

**Product (company):** **Emerald Conductor** — orchestrates AI jobs and onsite energy so a facility can drop power when the grid is stressed and keep critical workloads up.

**Job:** get more AI megawatts onto **today’s** wires. The IEA line in the PR: data centers are projected to account for nearly half of U.S. electricity-demand growth through **2030**. New grid build can take a **decade**.

**100 GW:** company estimate of unused U.S. capacity this method could unlock. **Do not paste it as a measured resource.**

## Emerald vs Form Energy vs Starcloud — what differs

| | Emerald AI | [Form Energy](/2026-form-energy-750m-series-g-sequoia-coatue) | [Starcloud](/2026-starcloud-250m-2-3b-orbital-inference) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Live mark (Aug 2026) | **$1.05B** Series A | $750M Series G (no new valuation in that post) | **$2.3B** A extension |
| Product | Load-flex software | 100-hour iron-air batteries | Orbital inference satellites |
| Proof | Demos + one named commercial site | Manufacturing-scale raise | One H100 flown |
| Scarce asset claimed | Interconnect / flexibility | Multi-day storage | Launch slots + space GPUs |

Same complaint (AI needs power). Three different balance sheets.

## Worked numbers (company figures)

Setup: a hyperscaler wants **100 MW** in PJM (Manassas site named with Digital Realty and NVIDIA).

Move: Emerald’s product is **not** 100 MW of new generation. It is a **control loop** that the company says lets the site take more interconnect in exchange for shedding load at peak.

Punch: the Series A prices that control loop at **$1.05B** after **$150M** new. That is **~$7 per watt** of the named factory if you naively divide $1.05B / 100 MW — **illustrative only**, and it ignores every other site. Do not use it as a unit price.

## When not to use this page

- Do not treat **100 GW** as installed or contracted capacity.
- Do not treat **$1.05B** as an ARR multiple. Revenue was not disclosed.
- Do not invent `/fund/` pages for Energize, DCVC, NVIDIA, Siemens, or Aramco.
- Do not confuse Emerald AI with emerald-themed climate funds or with [Form Energy](/startup/form-energy).

## Where to go next

Entity: [Emerald AI](/startup/emerald-ai). Same-week physical tape: [Gatik $200M](/2026-gatik-200m-series-d-autonomous-freight). Grid hardware: [Form Energy $750M](/2026-form-energy-750m-series-g-sequoia-coatue). Orbital workaround: [Starcloud $2.3B](/2026-starcloud-250m-2-3b-orbital-inference). Month: [August 2026 VC news](/2026-august-vc-news). Directory: [/directory](/directory).

**By:** [Venture Capital Tracker](https://venturecapitaltracker.com/editorial-policy)
**Last updated:** August 26, 2026

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