GridDuck

Low-cost wireless cloud solution for Demand Response and variable tariffs. Enables electricity users to help balance out peaks and intermittent wind & solar.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location London, UK
  • Currency GBP
  • Founded April 2015
  • Employees 2
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website gridduck.com

Company Summary

As we move away from fossil fuel, it is becoming harder to balance the electricity grid – the wind blows when it blows, the sun shines when it shines.

Everybody can make a difference, and our service now makes it easy and economically viable for SMEs and households to turn down non-sensitive devices, like heating and cooling, at certain times.

We sell our cloud service to Demand Response aggregators and (in future) to energy resellers.

Team

  • Gregor Hoefter
    CEO

    At T-Mobile created & launched a Smart Home pack for E. European countries, created apps (TopApps, 1m users/month) and led app store integrations.
    Head of marketing at a mobile distributor and worked at Vodafone and Blackberry. Web consultant with Sony, Met Police, Estee Lauder. M&A in Lisbon and equity research in London.
    Studied philosophy, economics and business in the UK (UCL), Italy (Pisa) and France (Insead). 1 year volunteer in Mexico.

  • Richard Tolley
    CTO

    Talented software developer with experience in developing systems from the ground up and a background in machine learning.

    Joined from Wirewax, an online video analysis AI company, where he set up their cloud infrastructure.
    Before that at Ocado, where he developed a new picking & dispatch system by spending many months optimising processes in the warehouse.

    MMath degree in Maths & Physics from Durham Uni, dissertation on machine learning

Advisors

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