What DEPsys does

DEPsys is a Swiss for-profit technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Puidoux, Switzerland, that delivers solutions enabling traditional low-voltage electricity networks. The company's functional focus is on the distribution-grid edge — the segment of power networks closest to end consumers — where it provides technology that allows utilities to monitor, control, and optimize low-voltage feeders that historically have been operated passively. With a headcount of 11–50 employees, DEPsys operates at the scale of an early-growth SME serving distribution utilities, grid operators, and related energy-sector stakeholders.

DEPsys's product surface centers on hardware-enabled grid intelligence and software for low-voltage network management. The firm has raised approximately $18.5 million cumulatively across multiple equity and grant rounds between 2013 and 2019, with the largest — a $13.1 million round closed in February 2019 — led by BNP Paribas Private Equity and SET Ventures, and supported by One Creation, Statkraft Ventures, VNT Management, and Wecken & Cie. Earlier funding came from Statkraft Ventures, VNT Management, FIT, Venture Kick, and EISMEA, reflecting a blend of utility-strategic, cleantech-venture, and European public-innovation capital. The company is led by CEO Michael De Vivo, with founders Joël Jaton (CTO) and Guillaume Besson (COO) continuing in operational roles, Stéphane Rousset as Chairman, and Nicolas Carteron heading finance.

The business model is consistent with a B2B sale of grid-monitoring hardware combined with associated software and analytics to distribution utilities and grid operators, primarily in Europe. GTM motion, specific pricing mechanics, and named customer accounts are not documented in the available sources — the corporate website content could not be retrieved (only a verification/loading screen), and no customer logos, segment mix, or pricing data were provided. The company is privately held with no disclosed parent, subsidiaries, or public-market plans.

Name

DEPsys

Website

https://depsys.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DEPsys is a Swiss technology company founded in 2012 that delivers hardware and software solutions enabling monitoring, control, and optimization of traditional low-voltage electricity distribution networks for utilities and grid operators, primarily in Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Grid Technology

NAICS

Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2211)

SIC

Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

DER Management Systems (DERMS) & Virtual Power Plants (VPP) (EUADAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Switching, Tagging & Safety Procedures (Work Clearance) Software (EUADAEAK)

Keywords

• Smart grid solutions
• Low-voltage network management
• Energy distribution technology
• Grid monitoring software
• Electricity network optimization

Headquarters

HQ city

Puidoux

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

DEPsys is a technology company that delivers solutions enabling traditional low-voltage electricity networks. The company's offering focuses on providing the technology, tooling, and systems that allow legacy distribution grids to be monitored, managed, and optimized by utility operators and distribution system operators.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Opus One Solutions: Opus One Solutions provides a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) for utilities integrating high penetrations of DERs. It competes head-to-head with DEPsys in offering real-time LV grid visibility and DER optimization to DSOs.
• Smarter Grid Solutions: Smarter Grid Solutions is a UK-based DERMS vendor (acquired by Mitsui) whose ANM platform does real-time active management of DERs on distribution networks. It is one of the most direct comparables to DEPsys in LV grid-edge monitoring and DER orchestration for utilities.
• GridPoint: GridPoint offers an energy management platform combining on-site hardware (submeters, sensors) with software for distributed asset monitoring and optimization. Its hardware-plus-software approach to behind-the-meter and grid-edge assets mirrors DEPsys's model.
• AutoGrid Systems: AutoGrid (acquired by Schneider Electric) provides a flexibility management and VPP/DERMS platform for utilities and energy service providers. It overlaps directly with DEPsys's DER orchestration use cases and is now part of a much larger platform vendor.
• Enbala (Generac Grid Services): Enbala, now part of Generac Grid Services, provides a DERMS / VPP platform that aggregates and optimizes distributed energy assets in real time. It is a close functional peer to DEPsys in enabling distribution-level DER coordination.

Broad incumbents

• Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure / DERMS): Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure ADMS and DERMS (including acquired AutoGrid) serve utilities integrating DERs and managing distribution grids. It is a broad-line incumbent with overlapping functionality to DEPsys, but with much greater scale and global reach.
• Hitachi Energy: Hitachi Energy (formerly Hitachi ABB Power Grids) offers Lumada APM, ADMS, and distribution automation products. As a major grid vendor, it competes broadly with DEPsys for utility customers managing distribution networks with growing DER penetration.
• Siemens Smart Infrastructure: Siemens offers Spectrum Power ADMS and broader grid software suites used by utilities worldwide. It is a broad incumbent whose expanding ADMS/DERMS capabilities compete with DEPsys in the LV grid management market, though DEPsys specializes narrowly where Siemens is broad-line.
• Landis+Gyr: Landis+Gyr is a global leader in smart metering and grid edge intelligence, with software/analytics products extending from AMI into distribution and DER management. It is a broad incumbent with overlapping customer base (utilities) and adjacent product capabilities to DEPsys.
• ABB (Grid Automation): ABB's Network Manager ADMS and grid automation portfolio are widely deployed at utilities and increasingly incorporate DER management. ABB is a broad-line incumbent competitor to DEPsys at the distribution/DERMS layer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/depsysen
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors9 records

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M&A

Investments

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