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Accelerating the energy revolution

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We Fuel Innovation in the Energy Business

There is a revolution going on in the energy business. Utilities depending on yesterday’s business models will be outsmarted by digital utilities that will serve a society in need of smarter energy solutions. With Utilihive we empower utilities to be ready for the future in months instead of years, enabling them to optimize grid operations, embrace the data economy, and to become a platform operator for smart city applications infrastructure.

Why Utilities Need to Work with Next Generation iPaaS Solutions

Our commitment to sustainable growth

Everything we do is designed to help utilities transition to clean energy and accelerate the energy revolution. In this transition to a more sustainable future, nobody can do it all, but everyone can do something! As an Eco-Lighthouse we work systematically and continuously to achieve environmental improvements and environmental awareness.

Greenbird has become a certified Eco-Lighthouse

Why Greenbird and Utilihive?

Utilihive is a unique integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) built for utilities. Greenbird believes that utilities powered by Utilihive can transform from traditional grid operators to platform operators that will create more innovative services in the new digital energy markets. They can be in the driver’s seat for accelerating innovation. Utilihive is build with cloud native technology – ready to power the energy revolution.

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The secret Sauce

Unlike a traditional approach for system integration in utilities, Greenbird offers out-of-the-box approach. Forget about failing integration projects, hard-to-maintain solutions, and traditional middleware slowing down innovation. Decades of experience from a wide utility client base is built right into Utilihive. Greenbird is a true DevOps company, delivering both reliability and ground-breaking time-to-market.

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The Greenbird Story

The founders of Greenbird have extensive experience of systems integration derived from large scale smart metering rollouts in the Nordic countries. It struck them that every utility was starting from scratch when they approached systems integration, wasting enormous amounts of time and resources. They wanted to find a way to fight these inefficient, costly, slow and risky processes. The founders realised that utilities would benefit from using integration as a service. Greenbird and Utilihive were born.

Work with us

At Greenbird, we hire the best minds in technology and the industry to innovate, develop and test things for the benefit of our customers. That intense focus on customer success is why we are a leader in the industry. Our challenges are big - impacting mission-critical systems and applications for millions of customers. We are on a mission to challenge the current mindsets that will accelerate the energy revolution.

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2010

Founded to develop the domain specific iPaaS Utilihive for end-to-end integration of the smart metering value chain for utilities.

2013

Gained strong foothold in Norway with a client list owning more than 80 % of the meters in Norway.

2017

Signed contract with global IT vendor for delivering Utilihive to nationwide utility in the Middle East rolling out close to one million smart meters.

2018

Named Cool Vendor by Gartner in application architecture, infrastructure and integration | Awarded €1.9 million from Horizon 2020 SME Instrument

2019

Signed contract with Taiwan Power Company to help deliver Smart Meter technology to millions of households across Taiwan | Chosen by German Energy Utility, EnBW, for the integration of metering specific services within their event-driven and loosely coupled IT architecture for their metering business | Greenbird wins place in Salzburg Innovation Challenge

2020

Signed first contract in India with BSES Rajdhani Power Limited €5 million series B funding Greenbird wins 2020 European Energy Data Access Pilot | Utilihive receives recognition by SEI Global Power & Energy Elites for Data & Analytics | Greenbird secures €5 million series B funding

2021

Signed contracts with KMD delivering Utilihive to Danish utilities including Visue and multi-utility SK Forsyning running more than 1.3 million metering points and Iskraemeco delivering innovation to Arewal in Belgium | Recognized with the prestigious Innovation Award for Best Smart Grid Project in India for its work to implement a Data Lake at Delhi utility, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd.

2022

Signed contract with BKK Nett, Greenbird achieves ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation for its Utilihive platform and certified Eco-Lighthouse Norway's most widely used certificate for companies that will document their environmental efforts and show social responsibility (Miljøfyrtårn).

Leadership team

Thorsten Heller

CEO

Silje Skulevold

CFO

Marius Hansen

COO

Bill Joss

Chairman of the Board

Our investors

After gaining a strong foothold in the Nordics, Greenbird raised €10 million in a series A ( ́16) and B ( ́20) round for global expansion with Utilihive. EnBW New Ventures GmbH (ENV) and Nysnø joined existing investor ETF Partners in the last round of funding. All of the organizations share with Greenbird a vision of future IT infrastructure development.

ENV supports entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging its financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of the corporate investor EnBW. ENV offers start-ups access to professional investor expertise and a customer and supplier network in the areas of energy and infrastructure.

Established in 2017, Nysnø Climate Investments (Nysnø) is a state-owned company that invests in companies and funds with profitable and smart solutions to climate change. Nysnø invests within clean energy, digital & enabling technologies, resource efficiency, sustainable demand and the circular economy. Nysnø is based in Stavanger and owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry & Fisheries.

ETF Partners supports entrepreneurs with investment capital and experience. The funds come from institutional investors, global corporations and family offices. They invest in technology companies that make a difference with ‘sustainability through innovation’.