Hey all!
For the past nine months, a team of wildly talented people (special thanks to Nicholas Alan Brown and Victor Quinn) and I have been working on Texture (www.texturehq.com). Although there’s a lot to be said about being heads down working, I’m excited to finally tell you all more about it.
First what is it? Texture is a data platform that enables conversations between devices and systems on the energy grid.
The push towards renewables and electrification is adding computers to the grid faster than we did to the internet. As it should, this is attracting a ton of innovation and companies working on really cool tech for energy. But like the early days of ecommerce and fintech, they’re building without the support of standards and shared tools.
This is where Texture comes in. We’re building in energy, but we’re solving connectivity and technology stack challenges that we’ve all seen before.
Here’s how we’ll do it:
Unifying data: Centralize, standardize and synthesize data from devices, internal systems, third-party data sources and energy markets.
Monitoring: Understand your network, better than ever. Centralized monitoring for you to find anomalies and optimize device performance.
Streaming: Send data anywhere, anytime. Sync your data with internal & customer-facing applications, or share to create dialogue with other grid participants.
Commands: Orchestrate your desired outcomes across your network. Control devices individually or in batches using your own rules.
Thank you to our early investors and supporters: Rick Zullo at Equal Ventures, Graham Brown at Lerer Hippeau, Alex Davidov at Abstract Ventures, Masha Bucher at Day One Ventures, Alexei J. Cowett and angels, including Kiran Bhatraju (Arcadia), Naveen Selvadurai (Foursquare, Expa) Christopher Kemper (Palmetto), Michael Ruehlman (Swell, Sunlight), Prem Ramaswami (Google), Andrew Chang, Dorothy Chang and Andrew Chang, Joy Faucher, Rubina Singh, Neil Patel and more.
Thanks to TechCrunch for sharing the news and Tim De Chant for doing the hard work to capture the story right. https://lnkd.in/ewq7-Azd.