Red Cell Partners – an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable and technology-led companies that are bringing transformative advancements to market in cyber, national security, and healthcare, announced the public launch of Claros, a power management platform company that’s utilizing innovative hardware and software to optimize energy delivery and consumption at data centers to increase computing performance and maximize efficiency. The company has emerged from stealth with $9.75 million in initial funding from Red Cell Partners, General Catalyst, Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC)’s Virginia Venture Partners, Composite Capital Partners, and others.
Along with increased power usage, the demand for AI, cloud, and high-performance computing has created performance and energy efficiency bottlenecks as legacy power delivery methods have reached their limits. Claros is solving this challenge by rethinking power distribution from the chip to the meter. And the company has designed integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) to deliver power directly to the xPU, the integrated central and graphics processing units within servers. The Claros IVRs will minimize heat conversion loss, reduce power wastage, and allow operators to control voltage levels for additional efficiency.
Claros is also developing hardware to shift from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) power distribution. Even though traditional data centers depend on multiple AC-to-DC conversions—each introducing inefficiencies—Claros’ approach will deliver pure DC power, reducing energy loss, improving reliability, and simplifying infrastructure.
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“AI is fueling an explosion of energy demand at data centers around the world, boosting electricity consumption to levels that could potentially rise to more than 1,000 TWh by 2030. With this increased demand comes a growing need for sustainable, innovative, high-performance compute capabilities to offset skyrocketing energy consumption. That’s what Claros was built to provide. Its advanced power-delivery solution is intended to drive energy efficiency with technology designed to improve AI compute capacity and reliability.”
- Grant Verstandig, co-founder of Claros and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Red Cell Partners
“At a time when energy efficiency is just as important as computational power, our team is solving fundamental inefficiencies in how power is delivered,” said Kultran. “By reinventing how energy flows from the grid to the chip, we’re enabling the next generation of computing infrastructure to be more powerful and sustainable while maintaining the highest safety standards for DC power delivery.”
- Claros co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Kultran, who previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Epirus
