Verse Raises $54M in Series B to Launch AI-Powered Platform That Accelerates Data Center Grid Connections
June 19, 2026
Verse Raises $54M in Series B to Launch AI-Powered Platform That Accelerates Data Center Grid Connections
As the global race to deploy artificial intelligence infrastructure intensifies, a critical bottleneck has emerged: the time required to connect massive data centers to the electrical grid. In response, San Francisco-based startup Verse has secured $54 million in Series B funding to commercialize a platform designed to slash those interconnection timelines from years to months, without compromising computing performance.
The funding round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from GV, Nvidia, and Norrsken VC. Verse said the capital will be used to launch its Dispatch Intelligence platform, a system developed in partnership with energy storage firm Calibrant Energy. The platform orchestrates on-site battery systems and other energy resources alongside existing grid infrastructure, allowing data centers to reduce their draw from the grid during peak periods. According to the partners, this approach can accelerate interconnection approvals by years, dramatically improving speed to power for new facilities.
“The race to AI is now a race to power, and developers are losing time they don't have. Most approaches to data center flexibility ask you to throttle your workloads, but Dispatch Intelligence takes a different approach. By orchestrating physical storage on-site, we deliver flexibility without impacting compute, so systems run full-tilt while the grid sees a flexible load, letting operators skip the queue without ever slowing performance,” said Seyed Madaeni, CEO and co-founder of Verse.
The company has already integrated its platform with Nvidia’s DSX AI Factory reference design, a blueprint aimed at accelerating the construction, simulation, and operation of large-scale AI data centers. Verse plans to onboard more than 100 sites over the next 12 months and significantly expand the scale of on-site battery capacity it manages.
Calibrant Energy, Verse’s development partner, has an established track record in the data center sector. In February, the firm inked a deal with data center developer Iron Mountain to deploy a 23MWh on-site battery energy storage system at a New Jersey facility. Last October, it partnered with Aligned Data Centers to install a 31MW/62MWh battery energy storage system at one of its campuses. Prior to that, in August, Calibrant energized three front-of-the-meter battery storage systems in New York in collaboration with CoreSite.
The broader industry implications are significant. By enabling data centers to act as flexible, grid-friendly loads without throttling compute, Verse’s technology could fundamentally reshape how new AI facilities are permitted and powered. This approach not only addresses a growing pain point for developers racing to meet AI demand, but also positions data centers as good grid citizens, potentially easing regulatory hurdles and reducing the need for costly grid upgrades.
Source: datacenterdynamics
