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Virtual Peaker

Can a SaaS DERM platform become the default customer-engagement and demand-response layer for US utilities and cooperatives?

Founded2015
HQLouisville, Kentucky, United States
Latest roundLater Stage VC, $12.3M
IndustryVertical SaaS / Energy & Utilities
The story

Virtual Peaker is a vertical SaaS company serving investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and cooperatives with a distributed energy resource management (DERM) platform for demand response, forecasting, and customer engagement. It runs branded enrollment portals (e.g. connecttosave.virtualpeaker.io, ompa.virtualpeaker.io, luma.virtualpeaker.io, rpu.virtualpeaker.io) on behalf of utility partners. Its 'financial' surface is limited to utility bill credits and enrollment incentives issued by the utility itself — not embedded finance products.

Last 12 months
Product timeline
2015
Founded in Louisville, KY as a smart virtual power plant platform for utilities.· pivot
The stack
0 layers disclosed in Virtual Peaker’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none