Build your virtual power plants

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Build your virtual power plants

Get in touch

Build your virtual power plants

Get in touch

A global team

Where to find us

Leap was founded in San Francisco and the Netherlands, but we are a distributed workplace with teammates across North America and Europe.

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A global team

Where to find us

Leap was founded in San Francisco and the Netherlands, but we are a distributed workplace with teammates across North America and Europe.

A global map with markers over areas of North America and Europe

Our mission

Decarbonize the world's electric grids

Leap's virtual power plants help fight climate change by lowering the need to use fossil fuel power plants to balance grid and by enabling the integration of more clean energy resources.

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Leadership

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Jason Michaels

CEO

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Thomas Folker

Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer

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Susie Dirks

Chief Product Officer

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Andrew Hoffman

Chief Development Officer

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Cindy Smith

Chief Financial Officer

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Amanda Faulkner

VP of Operations

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Christie Dodge

Head of Partner Success

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Trevor McManamon

VP of Markets

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Sean Grimes

Head of Product

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Laura Sankey

Head of Marketing

Investors & advisors

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Remco van den Elzen

Co-founder, Leap
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Nick Grossman

Partner, Union Square Ventures
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Abe Yokell

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Congruent Ventures
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Ben Sampson

Managing Director, Standard Investments
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Carly Brantz

Chief Marketing Officer, LaunchDarkly
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David Brewster

Co-Founder, EnerNOC; climate tech investor
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Emily Kirsch

Founder & Managing Partner, Powerhouse Ventures
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Raghuram Madabushi

Director, National Grid Partners
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DNV Ventures

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Elemental Impact

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National Grid Partners

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Park West

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Presidio Ventures

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Sustainable Future Ventures

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Standard Investments

Awards & Recognitions

  • Global Cleantech 100 2020
  • Global Cleantech 100 2021
  • Global Cleantech 100 2022
  • World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers 2022
  • Global Cleantech 100 2023
  • AWS Clean Energy Accelerator 3.0

Industry Coalitions & Associations

  • Advanced Energy United logo
  • VP3 logo
  • VPP Convergence Project title card with EPDI logo
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David Brewster

Co-Founder, EnerNOC; climate tech investor

I think Leap is the new frontier. Leap’s model for providing a single interface for wholesale markets around the world massively unlocks and accelerates the transition we need to bring more distributed, flexible resources to market.

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David Brewster

Co-Founder, EnerNOC; climate tech investor

I think Leap is the new frontier. Leap’s model for providing a single interface for wholesale markets around the world massively unlocks and accelerates the transition we need to bring more distributed, flexible resources to market.

Meet Leap

The leading platform for building virtual power plants

Our platform helps technology providers unlock new revenue streams and deliver more value to their storage, electric vehicle, and smart building customers by connecting them to energy programs that support the grid. We empower our partners and their customers to help create a more flexible, resilient grid powered by renewable resources.

Explore how it works

Powering a smarter energy future

Powering a smarter energy future