Squid
Squid is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in London, United Kingdom. Team of 2.
About Squid
Summary
Squid builds a model repository for power-grid planning, serving the engineers and teams who plan and operate electricity networks. It ingests models from tools like PowerFactory, PSS/E, IPSA, CYME, and ETAP alongside GIS layers, spreadsheets, and studies, resolving them into a single versioned, governed network model. It replaces the fragmented workflow of disconnected specialist tools, queues, and static spreadsheets that cause plans to drift from the underlying network model.
Go-to-market
Grid planning engineers and network operators at utilities are the buyers; the product is browser-based and is already live with National Grid DSO.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI agents for power grid planning 🦑
We believe the electricity grid is the most important machine on Earth. If we want electrification to move fast, the teams planning and operating networks need software that is as modern as the challenge. Our thesis is simple. Better decisions come from one unified, trusted network model. When everyone works from the same model, planning becomes consistent, assumptions are visible, and progress stops getting lost in spreadsheets and static reports. Squid is AI powered grid planning in your browser. We have spent years inside National Grid, Octopus Energy, and AWS, building and learning what breaks. Now we are building what we wished existed.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Energy
- London, United Kingdom
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Conor Jones
- George Kolokotronis
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