Software company Aether Energy has launched in Europe to support residential and commercial rooftop solar PV installers, from pre-sales to after-sales and energy monitoring. It recently secured seed capital to finance its plan to expand its operations.
Aether Energy, a US-based startup with operations in France, has launched a subscription-based software platform for solar installers to support their pre-sales, design, engineering, after-sales and monitoring business activities. energy at home.
The software is based on a unique combination of technologies, such as spatial modeling, computer vision, computer-aided design (CAD) and large language modeling (LLM), according to the startup’s founder and CEO Zayne Sagar.
“The big breakthrough we are making is that we are offering an extremely deep solar platform to solar installers,” said Sagar pv magazine. “Specifically, our internal artificial intelligence (AI) is a multi-modal model that uses image and text input. This is new in this industry and allows us to build solar-oriented automations. Combining spatial computing and computer vision with LLMs in our space has never been done before. There are plans to publish research on the technology.”
The software includes support for PV plant design and proposal preparation, as well as an application-specific CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool, which can avoid the need to purchase and integrate external applications, Sagar said.
Typical users are solar professionals working in sales, design, engineering, customer accounts, business administration and project management.
The company, which was founded in 2023, has already launched in the US, UK, France and Germany, according to Sagar. There are plans to add Spain and Italy in the next two months.
To fund the development of Europe’s residential and commercial rooftop markets, Aether recently raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by UK-based Noa, a decarbonization venture capital investor, together with US-based institutional investors Collab Capital, Amino Capital and Climate. Capital, together with the startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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