Amit Narayan 

Amit Narayan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled, and exited multiple technology companies. He is currently the Founder and CEO of GridCARE, a pioneering company focused on unlocking existing power capacity on the electric grid, and Founder and CEO of Aina Climate AI Ventures, a venture fund and company creation studio dedicated to catalyzing AI-driven solutions for planetary-scale climate impact. Previously, Amit founded and led AutoGrid from inception in 2011 through its acquisition by Schneider Electric in 2022. AutoGrid Flex has been consistently ranked #1 globally for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), deployed in over 20 countries and managing more than 8 GW of capacity. Earlier, Amit was Director of Smart Grid Research at Stanford University and a founder and executive in semiconductor design automation. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur.