VPP Startup SODEN Raises 2.26 Billion JPY Cumulative Seed Funding

Driving 2GWh Distributed Power Vision by 2030, Equivalent to 185,000 Households*—Building an Integrated AI Energy Management System

Virtual Power Plant (VPP) startup SODEN has completed a third-party allotment of shares in its seed round, bringing its total cumulative equity and debt funding to 2.26 billion JPY.

Amid rising energy costs and price volatility driven by structural shifts in Japan's power market, SODEN was founded in 2022 to build an open world with absolute control over electricity. Entering its third fiscal year, the company has achieved rapid profitability, registering 2.82 billion JPY in revenue and 180 million JPY in operating income.

CEO Rui Iino previously steered a prior startup to a successful M&A exit, establishing a transparent and highly resilient financial foundation at SODEN. While maintaining profitable operations, this strategic funding round addresses the heavy capital requirements needed to build grid-scale battery systems and proprietary energy management software.

Investors highly value SODEN’s engineering capability, turnkey execution, and "SODEN Platform"—an integrated energy management ecosystem combining AI-driven demand forecasting with algorithmic automated control. This funding will accelerate executive hiring and scale our distributed network of commercial energy storage systems.

Long-term, SODEN will expand into residential storage and electric vehicle (EV) energy services. By 2030, the company aims to scale its total distributed asset capacity to 2GWh, completing its visionary integrated energy management infrastructure.

*1 Based on total operational asset capacity, calculated using an average household electricity consumption of 10.8kWh/day.

Key Investors (Alphabetical Order)

• AG Capital Co., Ltd.

• HERO Impact Capital

• Ibis Partners Co., Ltd.

  (Including additional undisclosed institutional investors)

Executive Commentary
Rui Iino, Representative Director & CEO

"We are pleased to close our seed round, reaching 2.26 billion JPY in cumulative funding across equity and strategic debt. I want to express my gratitude to our investment partners. SODEN aims to decentralize the power ecosystem, ensuring everyone can freely generate, store, and trade electricity. This successful round reflects high market expectations for our AI software architecture and proven execution capability. We are fully committed to driving next-generation grid transformation."

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