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Verse

Founded 2022 · 84 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors

Verse provides a faster path to grid power for data centers, helping AI infrastructure companies and large energy users bypass interconnection queue delays to come online sooner. Its Aria platform acts as an intelligence layer between energy assets and the grid, using dispatch intelligence to optimize storage and flexible assets in real time and portfolio insights to unify market prices, contracts, and meter data.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy

Founders & leadership

Verse was founded in 2022 by Seyed H. Madaeni, Ph.D..

SHSeyed H. Madaeni, Ph.D.
Seyed H. Madaeni, Ph.D.inCo-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Investors · 11

Bessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M
CIVVenice Beach
Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M
Twine VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $750K
GV (Google Ventures)reported · 2 sourcesMountain View · $250K – $50M
InnovacomreportedParis · $540K – $10.8M
Supernova InvestreportedParis

Also in the syndicate · 4

Amundi Avenir Innovation 3 (AAI4)BPICreazurCrédit Agricole Innovations et Territoires (CAIT)

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$59M disclosed across 2 of 4 rounds · 2024–2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Competitors · 3

by search overlap
Verse Ai31 shared keywordsVerse is an AI-powered two-way SMS platform that automatically engages, qualifies, nurtures, and follows up with sales leads across text, phone, and email, syncing conversation data to CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot. It serves sales and marketing teams looking to respond to leads instantly and book qualified appointments without adding headcount.
Verses Labs29 shared keywordsVERSES builds Genius, an AI system based on active inference and "digital brain" architecture that models cause-effect relationships and quantifies uncertainty to produce explainable, domain-specific predictions. It targets enterprise and financial services clients, including Fortune 500 companies and asset managers, offering cognitive AI as an alternative to generic machine learning tools.
Multiverse15 shared keywordsMultiverse develops workforce training programs focused on equipping workers with durable skills needed for effective AI adoption in the workplace, combining soft skills and cognitive competencies.

Companies competing with Verse for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

In the news

Verse Raises $54m to Tackle the Data Centre Power Crunch | Energy Digitalenergydigital.com · Jul 2026Verse Raises $54M in Series B Fundingfinsmes.com · Jun 2026Verse raises $54m in Series B funding round for platform to expedite data center connections - DCDdatacenterdynamics.com · Jun 2026AI Verse Raises €5 Million in Funding to Democratize Access to High-Performance AI Training Data | Reutersreuters.com · Jan 2026AI Verse Raises €5M to Democratize AI Training Data Accessai-verse.com · Jan 2026Verse Inc Secures $20.5 Million Series A Funding led by GV | Verseverse.inc · May 2024

Frequently asked questions

What does Verse do?
Verse provides a faster path to grid power for data centers, helping AI infrastructure companies and large energy users bypass interconnection queue delays to come online sooner. Its Aria platform acts as an intelligence layer between energy assets and the grid, using dispatch intelligence to optimize storage and flexible assets in real time and portfolio insights to unify market prices, contracts, and meter data.
Who founded Verse?
Verse was founded by Seyed H. Madaeni, Ph.D. in 2022.
Who are Verse's investors?
Verse's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, CIV, Coatue Management, Twine Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Innovacom, Supernova Invest.
How much funding has Verse raised?
Verse has disclosed $59M raised across 2 of its 4 known rounds.