Urjanet, Inc.

Urjanet is an energy data company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company develops and markets a form of big data coming from utilities. Urjanet offers data-as-a-service products that enable organizations to understand their energy usage, which is fundamental to reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. The company was founded in 2009 by Sanjoy Malik at the Georgia Tech VentureLab. After Malik secured a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Urjanet graduated to the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), then in 2013 after successfully raising $6.5 million in venture capital moved to the company's current location in Midtown Atlanta. The company is funded with support from the Georgia Research Alliance, Imlay Investment, Grotech Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and Osage Venture Partners.

Products

Urjanet has automated the process of a utility bill audit by collecting data from disparate utilities across North America then converting the data into a standardized format. This energy data is delivered to accounting, energy management, procurement and business intelligence systems to understand, analyze, and optimize energy usage. Urjanet is integrated with the EnergyStar Portfolio Manager an online tool that helps companies measure and track energy use and greenhouse gas emissions to benchmark building performance. Urjanet now allows its customers to take the normalized utilities usage data and input that data directly into business applications, saving tremendous time, improving benchmarking results and providing more accurate data with which to make business decisions.

Customers

Urjanet maintains partnerships with utility bill payment firms, and has a growing list of customers from the energy management services and energy management software providers who resell Urjanet's utility data to their customers. Partners include Johnson Controls, SAP, Lucid, Goby, Mesurabl, SchoolDude, and many others.

Media Coverage

Urjanet presented at The Wall Street Journal's 2014 ECO:nomics conference on "The Next Big Thing". Environmental Leader named Urjanet a Top Product of the Year for 2014. Venture Atlanta named Urjanet one of The Top 5 Atlanta Startups to Watch in 2014, and to the list of Atlanta's Energy Management All Stars. Urjanet also participated in the Department Of Energy 2014 Energy Datapalooza.