# Evergy Ventures

> Evergy Ventures is a VC fund backing Energy and Energy Management. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gxp-investments/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gxpinvestments
- Website: http://www.gxpinvestments.com/

Evergy Ventures is a VC fund in Kansas City focused on Energy and Energy Management. Evergy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Evergy specializing in investments in growth capital and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in the energy sector focusing on opportunities in the customer energy solutions, energy infrastructure industries, energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security, and renewablesservices, but is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Evergy Ventures prefers to make investments using equity and debt instruments. It prefers to invest in North America with a special focus on Midwest based companies. Evergy Ventures began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Kansas City in Missouri.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 13 | 43% |
| Energy Management | 7 | 23% |
| Renewable Energy | 6 | 20% |
| Solar | 5 | 17% |
| Software | 5 | 17% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 7 | 23% |
| Series A | 5 | 17% |
| Series B | 5 | 17% |
| Series C | 5 | 17% |
| Series D | 4 | 13% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 67% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Odell | Vice-President and ClimateTech Venture Investor | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-odell |
| Ashwin Shashindranath | Managing Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashwin-shashindranath |
| Brock Smith | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brock-smith |
| Lana Jennings | Manager of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lana-jennings |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ConnectDER | ConnectDER develops small elegant solutions for big complex problems in the power and water sectors. | $35M | Series D | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Omnidian | Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, such as funds and third-party owners, that manage large portfolios of residential solar assets. The company's lifetime performance guarantee includes real timemonitoring, proactive service alerts and 100% covered hardware and software through a nationwide network of field service professionals, as well as a 100% guarantee on energy or plan owners will be reimbursed for energy loss.The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry. Omnidian is backed by the DOE SunShot Program which accelerates the development of highly impactful solar technologies. | $25M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Yotta Energy | Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storagesystem compared to traditional centralized systems. | $8M |  | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| ConnectDER | ConnectDER develops small elegant solutions for big complex problems in the power and water sectors. | $27M | Series C | May 23, 2023 |  |
| XENDEE Corporation | XENDEE develops advanced software for financial & technical optimization and operation of resilient Microgrids and renewable energy systems. and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States. | $12M | Series A | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| SkySpecs | SkySpecs automates the inspection, diagnostics, and maintenance of utility scale wind turbines with custom autonomous drones. The company develops an affordable form of energy, through the use of an automated drone inspection service and analytics platform that allows for repeatability, high-quality data, and safer inspections.SkySpecs wasfounded on 2012 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $80M | Series D | May 10, 2022 |  |
| WattBuy | At WattBuy, we’re focused on an ambitious vision: making cleaner, more affordable electricity accessible to every household. We’re looking to bring on team members to help us reach that goal. Based in NYC, DC, and Seattle, WattBuy is a team of product leaders and engineers from Google and Amazon who share a love of using technology to tackleinequality and positively impact the climate. | $11.2M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Omnidian | Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, such as funds and third-party owners, that manage large portfolios of residential solar assets. The company's lifetime performance guarantee includes real timemonitoring, proactive service alerts and 100% covered hardware and software through a nationwide network of field service professionals, as well as a 100% guarantee on energy or plan owners will be reimbursed for energy loss.The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry. Omnidian is backed by the DOE SunShot Program which accelerates the development of highly impactful solar technologies. | $33M | Series B | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Librestream Technologies | Librestream Technologies Inc. develops the operations-driven video collaboration solution for enterprises. With its patented Onsight video collaboration solution, Librestream extends traditional video-conferencing and collaborative services to places previously unreachable by video such as an off-shore oil rig or a manufacturing plant floor.Collaborators across multiple locations can use a combination of Onsight software and camera devices to interact through live video, voice, image sharing and onscreen telestration. Industries as diverse as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, insurance, and government sectors are using Librestream’s Onsight solution to connect their ecosystem of employees, suppliers, and customers. These enterprises achieve cost-efficiencies resulting from accelerated problem resolution, reductions in downtimes and travel, improvements in customer service and increased productivity.To learn more about the company, its products and services, visit the website at www.librestream.com, email information@librestream.com or call 1.800.849.5507 (NA) / +1.204.487.0612 (Intl). |  |  | Feb 09, 2021 |  |
| Librestream Technologies | Librestream Technologies Inc. develops the operations-driven video collaboration solution for enterprises. With its patented Onsight video collaboration solution, Librestream extends traditional video-conferencing and collaborative services to places previously unreachable by video such as an off-shore oil rig or a manufacturing plant floor.Collaborators across multiple locations can use a combination of Onsight software and camera devices to interact through live video, voice, image sharing and onscreen telestration. Industries as diverse as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, insurance, and government sectors are using Librestream’s Onsight solution to connect their ecosystem of employees, suppliers, and customers. These enterprises achieve cost-efficiencies resulting from accelerated problem resolution, reductions in downtimes and travel, improvements in customer service and increased productivity.To learn more about the company, its products and services, visit the website at www.librestream.com, email information@librestream.com or call 1.800.849.5507 (NA) / +1.204.487.0612 (Intl). |  | Corporate Round | Feb 09, 2021 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EnerTech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enertech-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [National Grid Partners (NGP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-grid-partners-ngp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Evergy Ventures invest in?

Evergy Ventures invests primarily in Energy, Energy Management and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Evergy Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Evergy Ventures?

The team at Evergy Ventures includes Dennis Odell (Vice-President and ClimateTech Venture Investor), Ashwin Shashindranath (Managing Director) and Brock Smith (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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