Shatterdome Energy, an AI-driven energy trading and intelligence startup, emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop a platform designed to help renewable energy operators, utilities, and large power consumers navigate increasingly volatile electricity markets. The round was led by Crucible Capital, with participation from Transpose Platform and Entrepreneurs First.
The company is building an AI-powered platform that aggregates renewable generation, battery storage, and flexible industrial demand into a coordinated virtual power plant network. Founded by quantitative trader Amann Shariff, the platform ingests real-time grid data including weather forecasts, congestion patterns, ramp-rate pressures, and electricity price signals to determine when energy should be produced, stored, or sold. The system then executes those trades programmatically.
According to the company, U.S. data centers are projected to draw 75.8 gigawatts of power in 2026, with demand expected to reach 134 gigawatts by 2030. Wholesale electricity prices have also increased 22% year-over-year and are forecast to rise another 8.5% in 2026. Shatterdome believes the growing adoption of AI infrastructure, electric vehicles, industrial reshoring, and renewable energy deployment is creating significant demand for intelligent energy trading and optimization systems.
Shatterdome’s platform applies quantitative risk modeling techniques traditionally used in commodities, credit, and rates markets to physical energy infrastructure. The company aims to convert renewable and storage assets into structured, tradable financial instruments that can dynamically participate in modern electricity markets.
The company said it plans to use the new funding to deploy its core AI forecasting and dispatch platform, expand virtual power plant asset integrations, and grow operations across North American and European markets. These regions are seeing increasing activity in deregulated electricity markets and industrial battery deployments.
Since launching, Shatterdome said it has already deployed its core platform, integrated renewable and storage assets into its VPP network, and started working with early partners across energy trading and infrastructure markets. The company added that it has moved 200 mWh of power within three months of inception and currently has 1.5 GW of assets in its pipeline.
KEY QUOTES:
“Every great industrial buildout in American history – the oil industry, railroads, the internet – was unlocked by incredible feats in technical engineering coupled with novel innovations in financial engineering. At Crucible, we are capital markets maximalists. Amann has the rare combination of systematic trading DNA and deep ISO market expertise to build the risk management tools to reshape power grids by leveraging America’s greatest strength: its robust capital markets.”
Meltem Demirors, General Partner, Crucible Capital
“Power markets are entering a phase of structural volatility as renewable penetration increases and electricity demand from AI infrastructure continues to grow. Energy infrastructure is becoming increasingly programmable as grids digitize and renewable assets scale. Our goal is to build the intelligent operating system that allows energy assets to participate dynamically in modern power markets.”
Amann Shariff, Founder, Shatterdome Energy