# Southern Company

> Southern Company is a VC fund in Atlanta backing Energy and Energy Storage. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/southern-company
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/southerncompany
- Website: http://www.southerncompany.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SOCompany

Southern Company is a VC fund in Atlanta focused on Energy and Energy Storage. With 4.4 million customers and more than 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company is the premier energy company serving the Southeast.A leading U.S. producer of electricity, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as well as fiber optics and wirelesscommunications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices that are significantly below the national average.Southern Company has been listed the top ranking U.S. electric service provider in customer satisfaction for nine consecutive years by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 50% |
| Energy Storage | 3 | 38% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 25% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Series C | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan D. Anderson | Executive vice president and president of external affairs, Southern Company | 0 | — |
| Daniel S. Tucker | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | — |
| Harry Nuttall | System Air Director Manned and Unmanned | 0 | — |
| Lauren Deren | Manager, Cybersecurity Architecture and Consulting | 0 | — |
| Slade Bridges | Drone Pilot/GIS Analyst | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blip Energy | Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services. | $150K | Convertible Note | Nov 18, 2022 |  |
| Station A | Station A is a clean-tech company that offers an AI-powered clean energy marketplace. Station A's technology automatically evaluates available clean energy solutions for any building, enables data-driven decisions, and sources the best offers from Station A's expanding provider network. The company was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $4M | Seed | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| Station A | Station A is a clean-tech company that offers an AI-powered clean energy marketplace. Station A's technology automatically evaluates available clean energy solutions for any building, enables data-driven decisions, and sources the best offers from Station A's expanding provider network. The company was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2018 |  |
| Advanced Microgrid Solutions | Advanced Microgrid Solutions installs advanced energy storage systems in buildings to lower energy costs for consumers and provide clean. AMS's Hybrid-Electric BuildingsTM Project deploys large networks of battery systems in targeted buildings where electric utilities need grid support. The company can seamlessly shift an entire fleet ofbuildings from grid power to battery power providing real-time support to the electric grid. Building owners get paid for being part of the solution to today's energy challenge.Advanced Microgrid Solutions artificial intelligence-powered software maximizes the value of renewables, batteries, and entire asset portfolios so they can deploy and use more clean energy with higher ROI. It uses deep learning algorithms to enable optimized trading of complex energy assets in wholesale energy markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $34.7M | Series B | Jul 11, 2017 |  |
| Autogrid | AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems. | $20M | Series C | May 24, 2016 |  |
| Perfect Commerce | Perfect Commerce provides a SaaS spend management solutions and the open supplier network. The company's solutions include PerfectSource, which creates value from effective supply management; PerfectProcure, which establishes control of the procure-to-pay process; and PerfectShop, which enhances visibility of company-approved goods andservices. Perfect Commerce solutions specialize in procurement operations by identifying organizational needs and requirements, as well as capturing and analyzing empirical spend and marketplace data to develop a suite of business solutions tailored to each organization's operating environment. In addition, the company's solutions include Open Supplier Network, a hosted service that connects buyers and suppliers to facilitate B2B transactions; and Commerce One Procurement tool, a behind-the-firewall solution that manages and controls the procurement and purchasing process. It serves chemicals, retail, energy, financial services, health/medical, hospitality, food products, education, manufacturing, technology, and transportation industries. | $30M |  | Nov 17, 2005 |  |
| Utility Associates | Utility Associates, Inc. offers mobile resource management solutions to command and control field operations. It offers AVaiL, which delivers a mobile operations command and control service that provides a view of the current location and status of mobile resources layered with data from various business systems, such as GIS, customer, and outagemanagement yielding unparalleled awareness of mobile operations; AVaiL-Navigator, which provides an on board navigation system; AVaiL Tablet, which delivers various levels of mobile computing functionalities; AVaiL RFID, which delivers information on the location and status of various mobile resources; AVaiL Diagnostics, which delivers vehicle diagnostic information to AVaiL command and control; AVaiL Cell, which is downloaded to cell-phones; PadWORKS, a work management system for the utility industry; AVaiL Boost, which maintains wireless connectivity in geographic areas; and OnComm Rocket, which enables enterprises to track the location and status of various mobile assets, such as toolboxes, backhoes, personnel, and vehicles. | $22M | Series C | Nov 14, 2000 |  |
| Utility Associates | Utility Associates, Inc. offers mobile resource management solutions to command and control field operations. It offers AVaiL, which delivers a mobile operations command and control service that provides a view of the current location and status of mobile resources layered with data from various business systems, such as GIS, customer, and outagemanagement yielding unparalleled awareness of mobile operations; AVaiL-Navigator, which provides an on board navigation system; AVaiL Tablet, which delivers various levels of mobile computing functionalities; AVaiL RFID, which delivers information on the location and status of various mobile resources; AVaiL Diagnostics, which delivers vehicle diagnostic information to AVaiL command and control; AVaiL Cell, which is downloaded to cell-phones; PadWORKS, a work management system for the utility industry; AVaiL Boost, which maintains wireless connectivity in geographic areas; and OnComm Rocket, which enables enterprises to track the location and status of various mobile assets, such as toolboxes, backhoes, personnel, and vehicles. | $30M | Series B | Apr 24, 2000 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Energy Impact Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-impact-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Idealab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idealab) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kinetic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kinetic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Powerhouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/powerhouse-ventures-b1e4) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Primedia Ventures — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Trident Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trident-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Southern Company invest in?

Southern Company invests primarily in Energy, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 8 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 Southern Company?

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### Who are the partners at Southern Company?

The team at Southern Company includes Bryan D. Anderson (Executive vice president and president of external affairs, Southern Company), Daniel S. Tucker (Chief Financial Officer) and Harry Nuttall (System Air Director Manned and Unmanned), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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