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PingThings builds the PredictiveGrid platform, a high-performance, scalable system for ingesting, managing, and analyzing diverse time-series sensor data. It centralizes information from AMI and synchrophasors, providing anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and custom grid application development. This transforms raw sensor input into actionable operational intelligence.
Established in 2014 by CEO Sean Murphy and CTO Mike Brown, PingThings addresses the challenge of leveraging high-frequency time-series data. Murphy contributes data science and machine learning expertise; Brown brings systems engineering and venture experience. Their insight: empowering utilities to derive critical operational insights from sensor data.
PredictiveGrid is adopted by utilities to improve grid reliability and efficiency via advanced analytics. The platform enables engineers and data scientists to build bespoke applications and dashboards, leveraging open-source ML/AI. PingThings’ vision is to unlock sensor data's full value, fostering smart grid solutions and enabling proactive, data-driven infrastructure management.
PingThings has raised $3.0M across 2 funding rounds.
PingThings has raised $3.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
PingThings has raised $3.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
PingThings's investors include Artichoke Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Granite Asia, ParaFi Capital, Polygon, Qiming Venture Partners, Balaji Srinivasan.
PingThings is a technology company specializing in a high-performance platform for managing, analyzing, and applying AI to massive volumes of time series data from sensors, primarily serving the energy sector's smart grid needs.[1][2][3] Its PredictiveGrid platform ingests, stores, visualizes, and learns from high-density sensor data at grid scale, enabling real-time analytics, machine learning, event detection, equipment health monitoring, and renewable energy integration for utilities and industrial assets.[1][3][4] The company targets electric utilities, transmission operators, and infrastructure firms, solving the challenge of handling millions of sensors at high sampling rates for predictive maintenance, grid optimization, and the energy transition—demonstrating growth through operational deployments with North America's largest utilities, over $8M in U.S. government grants, seed funding from GE Ventures, and a Series A raise in 2020.[2][4]
Founded in 2014 in Anaheim, California (later El Segundo), PingThings emerged from the need for ultra-fast handling of high-density time series data in industrial applications, particularly smart grids.[1][2] CEO Sean Murphy, a serial entrepreneur, previously scaled a data science consultancy to over $1M in annual revenue and bootstrapped an email analytics firm to $500K ARR.[5] CTO Mike Brown brings expertise from co-founding four venture-backed companies in broadband, mobile video, cloud storage, cybersecurity, and AI health tech, with products serving 300M+ subscribers and $3.2B in sales.[5] Key advisor Leonard (likely CTO background) held leadership roles at GE, Oracle, and PeopleSoft.[5] Early validation came via GE Ventures seed funding—the only startup to receive it—and $8M+ from NSF, ARPA-E, and DOE, leading to live deployments with major U.S. transmission utilities.[4][2]
PingThings rides the energy transition wave, where smart grids must integrate renewables, EVs, and distributed energy amid rising sensor proliferation and data volumes.[1][2] Timing aligns with global pushes for grid modernization—U.S. DOE/ARPA-E funding and utility digitization reflect market forces like aging infrastructure, climate goals, and AI-driven predictive ops.[4] It influences the ecosystem by enabling utilities to optimize capital deployment, detect events, and manage microgrids/transformers, reducing outages and supporting net-zero via scalable IoT/AI—positioning it amid cleantech leaders like Bentley Systems collaborators.[2][5]
PingThings is primed for expansion as grids digitize further, with trends like AI-optimized renewables, edge computing, and geospatial IoT amplifying its platform's strengths.[3] Next steps likely include Series A-fueled growth into new verticals (e.g., infrastructure beyond energy), deeper ML integrations, and global utility partnerships, evolving from grid specialist to broad industrial time series leader.[4][1] Its technical edge and funding pedigree suggest sustained momentum in a data-exploding world, directly advancing the reliable, intelligent grids essential for tomorrow's energy systems.
PingThings has raised $3.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $2.0M Seed in June 2016.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2016 | $2M Seed | — | Artichoke Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Granite Asia, ParaFi Capital, Polygon Labs, Qiming Venture Partners, Balaji Srinivasan | Announced |
| Jan 1, 2015 | $1M Seed | — | Artichoke Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Granite Asia, ParaFi Capital, Polygon Labs, Qiming Venture Partners, Balaji Srinivasan | Announced |
