Delfos Energy, a Barcelona-based AI firm constructing “digital engineer” know-how for the power business, right this moment introduced the shut of a €3 million Seed extension spherical. It has additionally surpassed 1,000 supported power websites throughout Europe.
The spherical contains new funding from Vox Capital/COPEL. Present traders additionally participated, together with Headline, Contrarian Ventures, DOMO VC and EDP Ventures. Delfos Power has now raised a complete of €10 million to this point.
The Spanish startup states that the Seed extension was raised in response to continued investor demand and can help its ongoing consolidation throughout Europe. The corporate expects to pursue a Collection A fundraising spherical throughout the subsequent 12-18 months to help its subsequent part of development.
Guilherme Studart, CEO and co-founder of Delfos Power, stated, “The power transition will solely succeed if current infrastructure runs way more effectively and reliably than it does right this moment. Delfos Power makes use of AI to seize and scale the data of skilled engineers – translating advanced operational alerts into clear priorities and actions at a time when experience is being misplaced. This funding permits us to consolidate our presence and proceed constructing AI that’s purpose-built for real-world power operations.”
Based in 2017 by Guilherme Studart and Samuel Lima, Delfos Power is an EnergyTech firm targeted on predictive upkeep options and digital transformation, utilizing AI to enhance efficiency in renewable power era.
The corporate develops utilized AI options for renewable and power infrastructure operators, aiding them in managing belongings extra effectively, reliably, and at scale. Its platform features as a continually working digital engineer, ingesting operational information in actual time, detecting irregular behaviour and early-stage failures, deciphering advanced alerts in context, and changing them into prioritised, actionable suggestions for engineering, operations, and government groups.
In response to the corporate, fairly than merely surfacing information or triggering alerts, it’s designed to unravel an execution and decision-making downside.
Not like conventional monitoring and analytics instruments that cease at dashboards, alarms or generic anomaly flags, Delfos Power claims to copy the work of an skilled efficiency engineer. The platform detects and interprets operational alerts, supplies context and prioritisation throughout websites and belongings, suggests really useful actions, and helps groups transfer from “one thing appears off” to “right here’s the possible trigger and the perfect subsequent step” quicker.
The corporate additionally presents natural-language interfaces, like WhatsApp, permitting groups to question advanced operational information utilizing plain language, thereby decreasing the adoption barrier throughout organisations.
Delfos Power’s platform is constructed as a two-layer AI system for power operations. At its core is a proprietary machine-learning engine that performs steady efficiency and reliability evaluation in actual time, figuring out irregular patterns, early-stage failures and effectivity losses throughout power techniques.
On high of this, the corporate is increasing a second AI layer targeted on automating engineering workflows. This contains producing experiences, supporting upkeep planning, and turning insights into operational choices throughout asset varieties, notably because the power transition introduces new applied sciences similar to power storage alongside current infrastructure.
Delfos Power claims that it has created an AI system designed particularly for power operations and never a generic AI interface tailored to the sector. It has managed to take action by combining open-source giant language fashions with its proprietary guardrails, area logic and operational information
Over time, Delfos Power anticipates this workflow layer growing into brokers able to performing specified engineering duties, enabling lean groups to handle bigger, extra advanced asset portfolios.
With this capital, the corporate plans to consolidate its AI Suite, deepening deployments throughout key power transition markets, and proceed increasing into adjoining power transition verticals, together with power storage.
It additionally expects to enter the US market as soon as it reaches enough scale and maturity in Europe. Delfos Power is consolidating its presence throughout Europe, the place it now helps greater than 1,000 power websites in over 10 international locations. Europe is predicted to make up 35–40% of Delfos’s international revenues this 12 months, with the corporate’s current European buyer base projected to generate over 4–5 occasions income development as deployments develop throughout multi-site operators.
In 2024, the corporate announced its €6.3 million Seed spherical, led by Contrarian Ventures and Headline.
