Texture

Texture is an AI-native platform that serves as the operating system for intelligent grid operations, enabling energy companies — including electric utilities, virtual power plants (VPPs), and grid services companies — to coordinate assets, teams, and distributed energy resources (DERs) from a single platform. The company integrates data from disconnected systems such as smart meters, EV chargers, batteries, and solar assets, transforming raw grid signals into actionable AI workflows for demand response, outage management, engineering, and customer service. Texture's platform supports demand response program enrollment and event reporting, real-time grid visibility across meter-to-substation hierarchies, and OEM device management via its Texture Device Cloud. With 190% net revenue retention, the platform is particularly focused on the underserved market of 2,900+ municipal utilities and electric cooperatives that need modern DERMS capabilities without the cost and complexity of legacy enterprise solutions. Founded by Sanjiv Sanghavi and Nicholas Alan Brown, Texture is headquartered in New York and has 11–50 employees.