Haven Energy just closed a $40M Series B and it lands like a voltage spike through an aging grid that forgot the country now runs on EVs, heat pumps and Wi-Fi tantrums. The trio behind it, Vinnie Campo, Jeff Chapin and Philip Krim, built Haven Energy with the kind of range you only get when Uber operations, IDEO product discipline and Casper scale collide. Giant Ventures stepped in as lead on the $15M equity while Turtle Hill rolled in a $25M debt facility, and you do not see that kind of split unless the market senses a company that is not selling gear but rewriting how electrons move through American life.
The name fits too well. Haven Energy has turned into a literal haven for homeowners who are done gambling with outages and peak rate roulette. They already have 10+ MW deployed and 50+ MW lining up for 2026, and they are stitching together one of the largest VPP networks in the country. What looks like a home battery on a garage wall is actually a node in a coordinated swarm using software to choreograph when power flows, when it saves, when it earns and when it shields a household from another transformer meltdown. California’s SGIP RSSE program became Haven Energy’s slingshot, wiping out upfront cost and opening a path for thousands of families who were always told resilience was something you bought, not something you earned access to.
The playbook is sharp. Utilities and CCAs like Clean Power Alliance, Peninsula Clean Energy, San Jose Clean Energy and Clean Energy Alliance get real distributed capacity instead of more grid stress tests. Local installers get a platform that handles quoting, permitting, financing and VPP integration so they can scale without drowning in red tape. Investors like Lerer Hippeau, Comcast Ventures, Chaac Ventures, Carnrite Ventures and the California Infrastructure Bank keep coming back because the pattern is unmistakable. Consistent execution, consistent demand, consistent belief that the grid’s future is not a top-down rebuild but a distributed uprising built one battery at a time.
The real story here is that Haven Energy turned complexity into currency. They learned how to turn a 5 kW solar array and a 20 kWh battery into both personal backup and grid-level stability. They learned that if you remove friction for homeowners, simplify life for installers and give utilities a partner that speaks their language, momentum becomes inevitable. The grid gets smarter. Families cut their bills by 20 to 90%. Investors get megawatts instead of metaphors. And Haven Energy cements itself as the quiet operator stitching together a modern power system, one install, one partner and one household at a time.
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