19In pipeline
8Cold-start
8Go
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Sven Eriksson

@sven_grid

Real-time optimization layer for distributed energy grids.

Climate AIStockholm, SESeedINBOUND
Grid-infra operator turned founder — deep domain, verified pilots
GO
Decided in 20h
Founder Score
79
A running score for this person, not this pitch — it persists across applications and never resets to zero.
Nov 01, 24 · 60 — Ex-grid-operator, left the utility to foundMar 01, 25 · 72 — 2 utility pilots signedJun 01, 25 · 79 — Verified load-shift savings in pilot
60Nov 01, 24
Ex-grid-operator, left the utility to found
72Mar 01, 25
2 utility pilots signed
79Jun 01, 25
Verified load-shift savings in pilot
3-Axis Score
Founder, market, and idea-fit are scored independently and never averaged — disagreement between them is signal, not noise.
Founder
Is this person capable of pulling this off?
80improving

Twelve years inside a national grid operator — rare regulatory and technical domain depth. Ships steadily.

1 evidence point backing this score
Market
BULLISH
Is this a market worth building a fund-scale outcome in?
76improving

Grid flexibility is a policy-tailwind, high-budget market as renewables scale.

Idea vs Market
Does the specific idea survive contact with that market?
74stable

Idea survives; the regulatory moat is real but sales cycles are long.

1 evidence point backing this score
Trust Score
2 verified · 0 claimed · 0 contradicted
Every claim this founder made, traced to a source and rated by how well it holds up.
Verifiedindependently cross-checked against an outside sourceClaimedfounder's word only — not yet checkedInferredreasoned from evidence, not stated outrightContradictedchecked, and it does not hold up
traction2 utility pilots live
Verified
Checked: Pilot confirmation from both utilities
Two Nordic utilities running load-shift optimization pilots” — Pilot confirmation
teamEx-grid-operator, 12 years
Verified
Senior grid engineer, national utility, 2012-2024” — linkedin.com/in/sveneriksson
Legibility
A great talker and a great builder can score the same on a deck. This strips out how well the pitch was told, and scores what was actually built.
Raw · the substance, stripped of delivery80
Polished · how good it sounded in the room79
Correction applied — the gap between substance and delivery is removed.
Corrected · what we actually act on80
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