The most interesting thing about Exurgy is not what it does, but who is showing up to do it. The Austin-based startup, which promises to build the “internet of power” through “agentic energy orchestration,” is still in stealth. There is no product page, no funding announcement, and no named customers. What exists are the LinkedIn profiles of a handful of people who decided, in the late summer and fall of 2026, that this was the company to join [LinkedIn, October 2026]. It is a bet assembled from résumés, not revenue, and in the climate tech world, that often means someone has spotted a crack in the grid’s economics wide enough to drive a new business through.
The Team as the First Product
For a company with no public product, the founding team is the entire initial thesis. The profiles that have surfaced paint a picture of a group built for a specific kind of regulatory and technological frontier.
- Regulatory and legal heft. Co-founder and COO Ted Moskovitz is a former SEC attorney who began his career in the U.S. Senate [Ted Moskovitz]. Navigating the byzantine rules of energy markets and interconnection queues is a legal and lobbying exercise as much as a technical one. A founder who has worked inside the regulator that oversees financial markets brings a particular kind of institutional fluency.
- Blockchain and distributed systems DNA. Co-founder Matt McKibbin is described as an early-stage investor with a decade in the blockchain space [DeFiance Media]. The “internet of power” is, at its core, a distributed systems problem,coordinating thousands of independent assets (solar panels, batteries, EV chargers) to act in concert. The team building it would do well to include someone who has spent years thinking about trustless coordination and decentralized networks.
- Operational scale. CEO Eric Bravick’s profile cites prior experience managing a team of more than 20 and a $1.3 million build budget, with customers including VMware [LinkedIn, October 2026]. This suggests a focus on the enterprise-grade software execution required to sell into utilities or large energy consumers.
The fourth co-founder, Krisbell Robles, adds industrial engineering and sales marketing expertise from multinational enterprises [Hyla Funds, retrieved 2026]. It is a team assembled like a puzzle, each piece covering a critical surface area: regulation, distributed tech, enterprise sales, and industrial go-to-market.
| Role | Name | Key Background | Joined Exurgy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEO | Eric Bravick | Managed 20+ person teams, $1.3M build budget; prior customers include VMware [LinkedIn, October 2026] | October 2026 |
| COO & Co-founder | Ted Moskovitz | Former SEC attorney; U.S. Senate staffer; founder of investment firm DecentraNet [Ted Moskovitz] | August 2026 |
| Co-founder | Matt McKibbin | Early-stage blockchain investor and advisor; decade in blockchain space [DeFiance Media] | October 2026 |
| Co-founder | Krisbell Robles | Industrial Engineer with 5+ years in sales & marketing at multinationals [Hyla Funds, retrieved 2026] | Undated |
Decoding the “Internet of Power”
The company’s stated mission is grand but vague: “building the internet of power through agentic energy orchestration” [Exurgy]. In the dry language of the grid, this likely translates to software that uses autonomous AI agents to coordinate distributed energy resources (DERs). Think of a cloud platform that can tell a neighborhood’s worth of home batteries when to charge, when to discharge, and when to sit idle, optimizing for grid stability, energy prices, or renewable output. The “agentic” part implies these decisions are made autonomously, based on rules and market signals, not just by a human dispatcher.
The wedge here is coordination. The physical assets,batteries, inverters, smart panels,are increasingly commoditized. The value is in the software layer that makes them work together as a virtual power plant. This is a high-stakes, low-margin game where saving a utility a few cents per kilowatt-hour on peak demand charges can scale into real money.
Why This Team, Why Now?
The timing is not subtle. The Inflation Reduction Act has unleashed a tsunami of investment in renewable generation and storage. The U.S. grid is becoming more distributed and more chaotic by the day. The old command-and-control model, built for a few hundred large power plants, is buckling under the strain of millions of small, intermittent producers. This creates a massive market for software that can bring order to the chaos, turning a liability into a grid asset.
Moskovitz’s regulatory background is particularly relevant now. As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state bodies craft new rules for DER aggregation and market participation, having a founder who can read the regulatory tea leaves,and perhaps help shape them,is a non-trivial advantage. Meanwhile, McKibbin’s blockchain experience speaks to the trust and settlement layer needed when you have thousands of independent devices transacting value with the grid.
The Stealth-Mode Gambit
The complete lack of public traction is the most obvious risk. Stealth mode can be a strategic choice to build without scrutiny, or it can be a sign that there is simply nothing to show yet. The energy sector, particularly the utility segment, is a brutal market for a pre-product startup. Sales cycles are long, procurement processes are rigid, and incumbents like AutoGrid, Enbala (now part of Enervenue), and even sprawling giants like Siemens and Schneider Electric have deep relationships and installed bases.
Exurgy’s answer, for now, appears to be the team itself. The collective résumé is the initial proof of concept, designed to attract the first round of funding and the first pilot partners. The bet is that this specific combination of skills is rare enough to get them in the door where a generic software team would not.
The First Milestone
For Exurgy, the next twelve months are about moving from a team thesis to a technical one. The milestone to watch is not a revenue number, but the emergence of a named utility or large energy buyer for a pilot project. A partnership with a progressive municipal utility or a commercial real estate operator with a large distributed footprint would be the first real signal that their orchestration software works in the wild.
The back-of-the-envelope calculation for this market is straightforward. If a virtual power plant software platform can reliably deliver a 10% reduction in a commercial building’s monthly demand charges,a conservative estimate,that could save a large site $10,000 to $50,000 a year. At a 20% take rate, that’s $2,000 to $10,000 in annual software revenue per site. The math only works if you can sign up thousands of sites without the customer acquisition cost burning through the margin. That is the execution cliff they must climb.
To succeed, Exurgy will have to out-execute not the flashy new hardware startups, but the entrenched software incumbents who already have utility control rooms on their screens. Their first real competitor isn’t another stealth company; it’s the inertia of the existing SCADA system.
Sources
- [Exurgy] Exurgy homepage | https://exurgy.ai/
- [Ted Moskovitz] Ted Moskovitz personal biography | https://tedmoskovitz.com/
- [LinkedIn, October 2026] Ted Moskovitz LinkedIn profile | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedmoskovitz
- [LinkedIn, October 2026] Eric Bravick LinkedIn profile | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebravick
- [LinkedIn, October 2026] Matt McKibbin LinkedIn profile | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmckibbin
- [DeFiance Media] DeFiance Media team page | https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/2021/07/23/defiance-media-launches-to-cover-blockchain-based-defi-business-and-culture/
- [Hyla Funds, retrieved 2026] Krisbell Robles profile | https://app.qwoted.com/sources/ted-moskovitz