encoord
encoord develops SAInt, an integrated planning platform that models coupled electricity, gas, and thermal networks for utilities, grid operators, developers, and data centers planning the energy transition.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2020
- HeadquartersDenver, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What encoord does
encoord is a private, venture-backed energy software company founded around 2019-2020 and headquartered in Edgewater, Colorado, with a European engineering entity (encoord GmbH) in Essen, Germany. The company develops SAInt (Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems), a proprietary integrated planning platform that models coupled electricity, gas, and thermal networks together in a single software environment, spanning generation, transmission, distribution, and market modules. SAInt's architecture unifies production cost and capacity expansion optimization, AC three-phase power flow and contingency analysis, security-constrained unit commitment, gas hydraulic simulations, and thermo-hydraulic district heating/cooling modeling, differentiated from legacy siloed tools by eliminating handoffs between planning stages. The product includes both a graphical interface and a Python API for automation, with a plugin ecosystem introduced in SAInt 3.9 (June 2026).
The company serves utilities and system operators, energy developers, data center operators, energy consultants, and government/research institutions. Named customers and partners include National Grid, Sumitomo SHI FW, Berkeley Research Group, Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute, Camus Energy, Highview Power, ConocoPhillips, and Enverus. encoord operates in 13 countries across North America, Europe, LATAM, and Asia-Pacific, with research and ecosystem ties to NREL, Princeton ZERO Lab, EPRI, ESIG, and EU-funded consortia (HYPERGRYD, FLEXIndustries).
Revenue is generated through annual enterprise licensing of SAInt on a quote-based model, with annual billing cadence and free trial programs supporting evaluation. GTM is direct enterprise sales with consultative technical demonstrations, supplemented by industry events, research publications, and the SAInt Community platform. The company has raised approximately $7.2M across multiple seed rounds (most recently $2M from KittyHawk Frontier in January 2026), plus a Colorado OEDIT grant and NSF SBIR Phase I award. With 11-50 employees and seed-stage funding, encoord remains an early commercial-stage company targeting the energy transition planning software market.
encoord firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- encoord
- Legal name
- encoord Inc. & encoord GmbH
- Website
- https://encoord.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2020
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- encoord develops SAInt, an integrated planning platform that models coupled electricity, gas, and thermal networks for utilities, grid operators, developers, and data centers planning the energy transition.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
encoord industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Energy System Planning Software
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (513210), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Data, Analytics & AI for Insurance (Risk, Pricing, Personalization) (FSAGAGAE)
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Where encoord is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Denver
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices2 records
Markets served
encoord business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- SAInt Software Licensing: encoord generates revenue through licensing its SAInt software platform to utilities, developers, data centers, and grid operators. The software supports integrated planning across generation, transmission, and distribution systems. Revenue appears to be enterprise licensing with potential per-seat or enterprise-wide deployment models.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Annual | Enterprise licensing with custom pricing |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels6 records
encoord product offering
Product offeringCore offering
encoord develops and licenses SAInt (Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems), a software platform that provides integrated financial and operational planning for energy networks and markets. The platform unifies generation, transmission, distribution, electricity, gas, and thermal network modeling in a single environment for utilities, grid operators, system operators, energy developers, and data center operators.
Product overview
encoord offers SAInt (Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems), the energy industry's first fully integrated financial and operational planning platform for utilities, developers, data centers, and grid operators. The platform unifies planning across generation, transmission, and distribution assets, and across power and gas systems in a single software environment. SAInt serves as the core product with six solution areas addressing specific planning challenges: Integrated Generation and Transmission Planning, System Electrification, DER Planning, Technology Evaluation, Optimized Data Center Siting, and Power and Gas Infrastructure Coordination. The platform also includes five specialized modeling modules covering Energy Market Modeling, Electricity Network Modeling, Gas Network Modeling, Coupled Electric & Gas Network Modeling, and Thermal Network Modeling. encoord supports its customers through the SAInt Community platform offering trial programs, datasets, user forums, documentation, and training videos.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- SAInt (Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems): encoord's flagship integrated planning software platform for modeling electricity, gas, and thermal networks and markets for utilities, developers, data centers, and grid operators.
Products and services
- SAInt (Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems)
Quantifiable outcome
- Flexible grid connections combined with bring-your-own-capacity arrangements can reduce data center grid connection wait times by 3-5 years compared to traditional interconnection processes.
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Companies that use encoord
Customer profileNamed customers5 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
encoord technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature8 records
encoord partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Gurobicoreencoord partnered with Gurobi, a leader in decision intelligence technology, offering SAInt customers the ability to leverage Gurobi's optimization solver when informing operational and strategic decisions. CEO Carlo Brancucci credits Gurobi's solver performance as central to SAInt's capabilities. A joint case study and webinars highlight the partnership.
- National GridcoreNational Grid licensed SAInt software for integrated modeling of electricity and gas networks to plan for decarbonization challenges. National Grid's procurement of licenses and training enables gas and electric network planning engineers to engage in combined modeling. National Grid Partners also featured encoord in their net-zero article.
- Camus Energycoreencoord partnered with Camus Energy and Princeton ZERO Lab on research showing how flexible grid connections and bring-your-own-capacity arrangements can accelerate data center interconnection by 3-5 years. Camus Energy published a December 2025 whitepaper demonstrating these approaches with encoord's modeling platform.
- Princeton University ZERO LabcorePrinceton ZERO Lab collaborated with encoord and Camus Energy on research demonstrating flexible grid connections for data centers. The research was funded by Google and modeled six sites in the PJM regional grid, finding that flexible approaches could reduce grid connection wait times by 3-5 years.
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)coreencoord has conducted multiple research projects with NREL including studies on gas security, hydrogen blending impacts, coupled modeling for high renewable penetrations, and 2024 renewable integration study for Mexico. NREL co-authored publications and hosted training sessions.
- Sumitomo SHI FWminorencoord worked with Sumitomo SHI FW to assess the value of their Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) technology in European markets. Joint webinar and whitepaper demonstrated SAInt's capabilities for long-duration energy storage evaluation.
- Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG)coreencoord became a member of ESIG and contributed to the Integrated Planning Guidebook. CEO Carlo Brancucci presented at ESIG workshops, and the company sponsors and attends ESIG technical workshops regularly.
- Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)coreencoord has published technical reports with EPRI including 'The Value of Gas Network Modeling on Electricity System Operations' and presented at EPRI events including their Annual Seminar on Resource Planning.
- HYPERGRYD (EU Consortium)minorencoord participates in the HYPERGRYD EU-funded consortium of 19 partners from seven countries developing solutions for integrating renewable energy within thermal grids. encoord contributes by modeling coupled electricity, gas, and heat networks.
- FLEXIndustries (European Commission)minorencoord participates in the FLEXIndustries consortium of 36 partners deploying Energy Efficiency Measures and Process Flexibility Methods for industrial environments. encoord's role includes using SAInt to model flexibilities between electricity and heat networks.
Scale indicators4 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights6 records
encoord competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Energy Exemplar: Energy Exemplar's PLEXOS platform is a leading energy market simulation and production cost modeling tool used by utilities, ISOs, and developers. It is the closest direct competitor to SAInt's energy market and capacity expansion modules, targeting the same enterprise buyers for long-term planning decisions.
- OATI: OATI provides energy management, market, and grid analytics software to utilities, ISOs, and energy enterprises. Its grid analytics and energy market platforms overlap with SAInt's market and network modeling modules, serving overlapping utility and ISO buyers.
- PowerWorld Corporation: PowerWorld Simulator is a power flow and contingency analysis tool widely used across North American utilities for transmission planning. It overlaps directly with SAInt's electricity network modeling capabilities, particularly the AC power flow and contingency analysis modules, though it does not couple gas and thermal networks.
- Ascend Analytics: Ascend Analytics provides PowerSim and other planning and analytics software for utilities, ISOs, and developers focused on resource adequacy and integrated planning. It is a direct competitor in integrated generation-transmission planning use cases that encoord addresses with SAInt.
Emerging players
- EnergyHub: EnergyHub provides a DERMS platform for utilities managing distributed energy resources, demand response, and behind-the-meter assets. It overlaps with SAInt's DER planning solution area from the operational deployment side, making it a partial competitor for utility DER planning and program budgets.
- Enverus: Enverus is a named encoord customer and adjacent competitor providing analytics and data platforms for energy developers and operators, covering upstream, midstream, power, and renewables. Its analytics and screening tools compete with SAInt's data center siting and technology evaluation solution areas.
Broad incumbents
- Hitachi Energy: Hitachi Energy (formerly ABB Grid Systems) provides network management, planning, and enterprise software for utilities and grid operators, including PSS products and the Lumada APM suite. It competes broadly with encoord in transmission and distribution planning for utilities globally.
- Schneider Electric (Grid Operations): Schneider Electric offers a broad portfolio of utility and grid operations software, including ADMS, DERMS, and resource planning tools that overlap with several SAInt solution areas. As a large global incumbent, it competes across integrated planning, DER planning, and electrification solution categories.
- GE Vernova (PSLF): GE Vernova's energy portfolio includes PSLF (Positive Sequence Load Flow) and the broader GridOS software suite for transmission planning and grid operations. It is a major incumbent in the utility planning software space against which encoord competes for generation and transmission planning budgets.
- Siemens (Grid Software): Siemens offers the PSS/E power system simulation suite, Grid Software (formerly Siemens Smart Infrastructure), and a broad portfolio of utility-grade planning and operations tools. As a much larger incumbent, it competes across most of SAInt's modules and is the dominant installed base in many North American and European utilities.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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encoord leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles6 records
encoord funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds5 records
Investors2 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
encoord M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about encoord
What does encoord do?
encoord develops and licenses SAInt (Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems), a software platform that provides integrated financial and operational planning for energy networks and markets. The platform unifies generation, transmission, distribution, electricity, gas, and thermal network modeling in a single environment for utilities, grid operators, system operators, energy developers, and data center operators.
Is encoord a public or private company?
encoord is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was encoord founded?
encoord was founded in 2020. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is encoord based?
encoord is headquartered in Denver, United States, in the North America region.
How does encoord make money?
One revenue line is on record: SAInt Software Licensing.
Who are encoord's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Energy Exemplar, OATI, PowerWorld Corporation and Ascend Analytics. Emerging players are EnergyHub and Enverus. Broad incumbents are Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric (Grid Operations), GE Vernova (PSLF) and Siemens (Grid Software).
Does encoord have an API?
Yes. SAInt includes a flexible API that enables users to automate and streamline their planning processes. The API allows for programmatic access to SAInt's modeling capabilities, supporting automation of workflows and integration with custom systems. Developer documentation is at docs.encoord.com.
What industry is encoord in?
encoord's product category is Energy System Planning Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is FSAGAGAE, Data, Analytics & AI for Insurance (Risk, Pricing, Personalization). Its NAICS code is 513210 and its SIC code is 7373.