encoord kicks off 2026 with new funding, the release of SAInt 3.8, and influential industry publications—accelerating integrated grid planning for faster, more reliable decarbonization.
February 2026
encoord, an energy modeling software company based in the United States and Germany, started 2026 by announcing a $2 million seed funding round led by KittyHawk Frontier, the release of SAInt 3.8, and recent contributions to leading industry publications. Encoord closed out 2025 by achieving these major milestones, further accelerating its mission to enable faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective decarbonization.
Founded in 2019, encoord has developed and refined its energy planning software, the Scenario Analysis Interface for Energy Systems (SAInt), the industry’s first end-to-end platform integrating economic and reliability planning across energy infrastructure, including electricity, gas, and thermal networks, with a primary focus on the electric sector from generation to the end user.
New Funding Round
The $2 million seed funding round, led by KittyHawk Frontier, will support product development, team expansion, and market scaling. Paul Burgon, Partner at KittyHawk Frontier, has joined encoord’s board as an observer.
„The $2–3 trillion global power sector is undergoing unprecedented transformation, and encoord provides critical planning solutions to meet that need,“ said Carlo Brancucci, CEO and Co-Founder. „With SAInt, we’re enabling grid stakeholders to reduce interconnection timelines by up to five years while optimizing capital expenditures, system planning, and DER integration.“
SAInt 3.8 Advances Integrated Planning
The latest release introduces the Integrated Planner for seamless workflows spanning across generation, transmission, and distribution modeling needs, and a new system balance optimization capability, allowing security-constrained unit commitment and economic dispatch modeling, and locational marginal price decomposition.
„SAInt 3.8 significantly raises the bar for integrated planning, allowing planners to move faster and with greater confidence on today’s most complex grid challenges,“ said Wallace Kenyon, Chief Product Officer.
Advancing Industry Collaboration
encoord contributed to the December 2025 report „Flexible Data Centers: A Faster, More Affordable Path to Power“, co-authored with Camus Energy and the Princeton ZERO Lab and funded by Google, demonstrating how flexible interconnection strategies can accelerate data center deployment by 3–5 years. encoord also contributed to the June 2025 Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) Integrated Planning Guidebook, offering a practical framework for aligning generation, transmission, distribution, and customer-level planning.
„We believe encoord is building the definitive grid planning solution for the energy transition,“ said Paul Burgon. „The platform has the potential to significantly reduce costs and timelines across the energy value chain.“
Together, the new investment, SAInt 3.8 release, and recent publications reinforce encoord’s position as a leading provider of integrated planning software for the energy transition.
About encoord
encoord’s SAInt is the industry’s first unified platform for integrated economic and reliability grid planning, enabling utilities, developers, and grid operators to accelerate interconnection and optimize infrastructure investments. Learn more at www.encoord.com.