# Great Plains Energy

> Great Plains Energy is a VC fund in Kansas City backing SaaS, Software and Energy Efficiency. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/great-plains-energy
- Website: http://www.greatplainsenergy.com/

Great Plains Energy is a VC fund in Kansas City focused on SaaS and Software. Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE: GXP) is the holding company of Kansas City Power & Light Company and KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company (GMO). The utilities operate under the brand name KCP&L.Our electric utilities serve over 838,000 customers in 47 counties in Missouri and Kansas with a combined diverse generationplatform of more than 6,600 MW of capacity.Management is focused on providing long-term earnings growth for shareholders and low cost, reliable energy for customers. In addition, Great Plains Energy has an attractive annualized dividend of $0.98 per share. Great Plains Energy's dividend, combined with earnings growth potential, provide investors with a strong total return investment alternative.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Energy Efficiency | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EnergySavvy | EnergySavvy is a cloud software company that helps utilities transform their customer experience and operations. EnergySavvy provides personalized customer insights, breakthrough customer engagement, and automated program delivery with the industry's only platform purpose-built to enhance the customer experience and increase operationalefficiency. Nearly 40 utilities and state programs rely on EnergySavvy to enable customer experience transformation in the modern, digital customer era.The company is led by alumni from Microsoft, Amazon, PG&E, and EnerNOC. EnergySavvy brings together expertise in software, user experience, and analytics to deliver cloud solutions that clients love. | $14M | Series D | Oct 20, 2016 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EnerTech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enertech-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Evergy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evergy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Green D Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-d-ventures-a230) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Inherent Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inherent-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Kansas City Power & Light Co. — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Great Plains Energy invest in?

Great Plains Energy invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Energy Efficiency startups, most often at Series D stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Great Plains Energy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Great Plains Energy closed in Oct 2016. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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