Derapi Secures $7M Seed Funding to Enhance Distributed Energy Infrastructure
Some companies sell energy software. Derapi sells relief. Relief from the migraine that happens when the grid meets reality and reality shows up with solar panels, batteries, EVs, thermostats, utilities, regulators, and a thousand manufacturers all speaking different dialects and all insisting they are the standard. Distributed energy is supposed to be the future. Until you try to integrate it, then it feels like the past calling collect.
Derapi was born in 2022, incubated at Union Labs Ventures, after Thomas Lee and Jake Masters spent enough time watching engineers duct tape integrations together to realize the problem was not ambition. It was plumbing. Universal plumbing does not sound sexy until you remember that civilization collapsed every time it ignored infrastructure. APIs are not flashy. Neither is electricity until it disappears.
Fast forward to today and Derapi just locked in $7M in seed funding, bringing total funding to $10.5M. Earthshot Ventures led, with Tuesday Capital, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, WYVC, Breakthrough Venture Capital, WovenEarth Ventures, Radicle Impact, Raisewell Ventures, E8 Angels, GreenSky Capital, and Aurora Venture Investments leaning in. UNION, Ubiquity Ventures, and Mission One Capital came back because grownups tend to double down when the math keeps working.
This is not capital chasing vibes. This is capital following execution. Under Stina Brock, CEO, with Thomas Lee as Founder and President, Derapi is doing the unglamorous work that makes virtual power plants, utilities, DERMS platforms, and device manufacturers actually function together. One secure cloud API instead of bespoke integrations. One integration instead of 20. Fewer engineers fighting fires and more engineers building things customers notice.
Joe Wilner is making the architecture boring in the best possible way. Mike DeBenedittis is making the product understandable to people who do not want a PhD in grid theory. Matt Witkin is keeping the machine moving. Ramsay Siegal from Earthshot Ventures is on the board because infrastructure investors know when a company is quietly becoming load bearing.
When Gisela Glandt at Uplight says Derapi changed how fast they onboard battery partners, that is not marketing copy. That is time being returned to the people who actually innovate. That is capacity unlocked. That is utilities moving faster without breaking trust.
Derapi supports solar, storage, EVs, HVAC, thermostats, induction stoves, the whole messy orchestra. It operates across the United States and Canada, not chasing headlines, just connecting devices so the grid can finally behave like software instead of a museum exhibit. This funding is not about expansion theater. It is about making the distributed grid work at scale, quietly, reliably, and sooner than most people expect.