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We are pleased to announce that QUIXOTIC has been selected as a finalist at the Energy Tech Challengers 2026, in the Climate Software X track, competing alongside nine other software startups chosen from more than 400 applications worldwide.
Energy Tech Challengers (ETC2026) is one of Europe's leading competitions for energy sector startups, founded by Contrarian Ventures and backed by investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, AWS and EDF Pulse Ventures. Each year, a panel of industry experts selects the 70 most promising companies across seven technology tracks to pitch live in front of the world's top climate and energy investors.
On April 15–16, 2026, our co-founder Omar Sequera will take the stage at the Energy Tech Summit in Bilbao, representing what we have spent years building: software that truly understands how an energy retailer operates.
Why this recognition matters
The Climate Software X track is designed for platforms that power, measure or transact the climate economy. QUIXOTIC fits that profile because we solve one of the most persistent operational bottlenecks in the sector: the complexity of billing and managing combined energy products — electricity, solar, batteries, telecoms — in an integrated, accurate and scalable way.
While the industry debates the energy transition, retailers are still struggling with legacy systems that were never designed for today's market reality: dynamic tariffs, renewable energy communities, complex B2B contracts. QUIXOTIC was built to solve exactly that.
The 10 finalists of the Climate Software X track
QUIXOTIC shares the track with nine other European startups selected from over 400 applications — a group that reflects the breadth of climate software, from physical risk intelligence to local energy communities.
- Bia (Spain) — Smart charging software for electric vehicle fleets
- DEC Energy (Switzerland) — Platform enabling companies to produce Guarantees of Origin and profit from renewable energy
- Latitudo 40 (Italy) — AI-powered satellite geospatial analysis for urban climate resilience
- Mitiga Solutions (Spain) — Physical climate risk intelligence for investors, banks and insurers
- Ecosphere (Norway) — Automated ESG reporting platform aligned with CSRD, GRI and CDP
- ENERGUS (Lithuania) — Building and energy efficiency solutions
- NOX Energy (Denmark) — Platform connecting residential energy assets to flexibility markets
- Perse (United Kingdom) — Energy, carbon and real estate data for the net zero transition
- UpGrid (Switzerland) — Local solar energy communities to reduce electricity bills for SMEs and communities
Bilbao will be an opportunity to put forward something we have been working on for years: that the energy transition does not only need new energy sources — it also needs the operational and technological infrastructure to distribute, bill and manage energy with the complexity the current market demands. We will be there to make that case.
If you are interested in learning more about the platform or meeting the team in Bilbao, reach out at info@quixotic.energy
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Ernesto Puente
Chief Technology Officer in SaaS for Energy Markets
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