Yottar, a startup building the intelligence layer between the electricity grid and asset developers, has raised £750,000 in pre-seed funding to scale its platform and help infrastructure developers find viable grid connections faster.
The round was led by Haatch, with participation from Cape Capital and angel investors. The funding will be used to expand the team, deepen platform functionality, and improve data coverage on UK grid capacity - a critical bottleneck in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Founded in 2023, Yottar is already supporting infrastructure developers including Tesla, which is using the platform to identify suitable locations for new supercharger hubs, and NHS England, which is using it to plan EV charging infrastructure and other decarbonisation projects across thousands of sites.
Investors say it's the team's speed and clarity of execution - and the scale of the underlying problem - that sets Yottar apart.
As grid constraints emerge as the defining bottleneck to decarbonisation, Yottar offers a new approach: a geospatial intelligence platform that makes it easy to answer questions like where can I connect? How much power can I get? When will it be available? Questions that today require weeks of manual effort and outdated data to answer.
There's no path to net zero without rapidly scaling clean energy - but today, developers are building blind, they're making multi-million pound decisions without clear data on where they can connect to the grid. Yottar exists to change that - giving them the visibility to act faster and avoid costly mistakes.
Yottar transformed our site selection process, it allowed us to quickly identify locations with real potential and avoid wasting time on sites that would never get a viable grid connection.
Yottar gives me an unrivalled strategic view of grid capacity. It has been an invaluable tool to help NHS England plan the EV charging infrastructure to support the zero emission ambulance fleet of the future.
We back founders who can run through walls - and that's exactly what the Yottar team is doing, they've gone from idea to shaping where organisations like Tesla and the NHS are rolling out assets in just months. What impressed us wasn't just the scale of the opportunity, but the speed, clarity, and ambition of the team. We're convinced they'll build something genuinely transformative.
