Brad Kayton

C-level Executive, Entrepreneur, Northeast CFO Center Regional Director; CEPA, RIA

📍 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Board member, CFO
Feb 2019
World Energy Consortium (WEC) is an optimization software technology company, with research roots from MIT which transforms buildings to grid-interactive buildings and creates Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) by aggregating demand capacity of IoT smart devices and other Behind the Meter Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as PV solar, batteries and Electric Vehicles. It delivers Real World Energy Solutions and Technologies such as: - Creation of Virtual Power Plants for wholesale and retail market participation Wholesale energy markets have been operating based on transactive energy principles for decades; that is reacting in real-time to demand and price fluctuations via actual operating spot markets. However, for the first time now we have the potential to disrupt the utility-centric business model, apply the transactive energy principles to utility distribution systems and business models, and to utility-customer relations – all enabled by the growth of DERs and the IoT revolution. The global electricity system is driving towards a future full of DERs, physically located everywhere, in all shapes and sizes, both in front and behind the meter. This transformative transition is, in turn, creating customers who are both savvy producers and consumers of electricity (“prosumers”). - Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) DERMS is used to optimize Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Distributed Photovoltaic (PV), Battery Storage and Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging. - WEC Gateway (WECKit) The WEC gateway was designed for the entire building rather than per apartment unit, this has never been done before, saving many thousands of dollars overall on outfitting the building - Transactive Energy Platform WEC’s Emporium Transactive Energy Platform revolutionizes the relationships between customers, energy companies and the grid under the new emerging transactive energy paradigm. - End-user mobile app (WECHOME)
Board Member, CFO
Mar 2013
Local hypothermia for neuroprotection
Investor; previously BoD and various C-roles
Jan 2012
1World Online is a Silicon Valley and Europe based company providing Consumer Intelligence Platform. It serves the entire web publishing enterprise. Websites will enjoy higher metrics of engagement; business teams will be able to better understand, profile, and monetize the audience; editors and journalists gain access to timely news content and can better target their stories, improving reader relationships.
Board Member, COO, Co-founder
Jul 2008
ZOME manages and monetizes Smart Energy for building owners, their occupants, and energy providers. ZOME has developed a smart building infrastructure software, called ZOMEKIT, with a focus on multi-family buildings, that both saves on energy bills via smart energy routines -- such as for HVACs and hot water heaters-- and also enables recurring revenue by connecting buildings to wholesale energy markets. Connecting building(s) to energy markets means building owners can immediately get paid to lower their energy levels at times of energy grid stress as a grid stabilizer participant (again, in addition to money savings from their energy savings routines). For those building owners that want to evolve into a micro-grid building-- for example generating rooftop or local/community solar, providing EV Chargers to tenants, or using electricity batteries in the building-- ZOME could be your partner, integrating it with ZOMEKIT, for energy flexibility, optimization, and additional monetization. Save money and make money, with ZOME Energy; install ZOMEKIT today.
Experience · 14 entries
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2019
World Energy Consortium, PLC
Co-founder, CFO, Product Strategy of Blockchain
Feb 2019
Board member, CFO
Feb 2019
World Energy Consortium (WEC) is an optimization software technology company, with research roots from MIT which transforms buildings to grid-interactive buildings and creates Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) by aggregating demand capacity of IoT smart devices and other Behind the Meter Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as PV solar, batteries and Electric Vehicles. It delivers Real World Energy Solutions and Technologies such as: - Creation of Virtual Power Plants for wholesale and retail market participation Wholesale energy markets have been operating based on transactive energy principles for decades; that is reacting in real-time to demand and price fluctuations via actual operating spot markets. However, for the first time now we have the potential to disrupt the utility-centric business model, apply the transactive energy principles to utility distribution systems and business models, and to utility-customer relations – all enabled by the growth of DERs and the IoT revolution. The global electricity system is driving towards a future full of DERs, physically located everywhere, in all shapes and sizes, both in front and behind the meter. This transformative transition is, in turn, creating customers who are both savvy producers and consumers of electricity (“prosumers”). - Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) DERMS is used to optimize Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Distributed Photovoltaic (PV), Battery Storage and Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging. - WEC Gateway (WECKit) The WEC gateway was designed for the entire building rather than per apartment unit, this has never been done before, saving many thousands of dollars overall on outfitting the building - Transactive Energy Platform WEC’s Emporium Transactive Energy Platform revolutionizes the relationships between customers, energy companies and the grid under the new emerging transactive energy paradigm. - End-user mobile app (WECHOME)
2015
Interim CFO, M&A deal negotiator
Apr 2015
EduMetrics transforms K-12 schools by changing how they gather, use and think about data. We do this by using the latest technology and social science research methods to capture and analyze information on non-cognitive domains from students, teachers and parents in real-time.
mid stageResearch
2013
Advisor to CEO
Jun 2013
Kairos Transmedia, Inc. is a company based out of 3028 Patriot Drive, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States.
General Partner, Member, Screening Committee
Apr 2013
Overview and Mission The iC provides strategic equity capital to select early stage companies in the following sectors: IT (including data center, mobile, apps/software, analytics/Big Data), clean technology/energy, healthcare, business and financial services, consumer services and hardware, communications and enterprise software. The iC is a collection of experienced angel investors and entrepreneurs that bring value-added expertise, mentoring, and third-party affiliations to the equation;-truly “smart money” for our portfolio companies. We seek start-ups with exceptional entrepreneurs that are developing innovative technologies and with whom we can partner to build world-class companies. We invest in companies that require capital and a trusted partner to enable them to reach the next level of development in order to help them fully realize their potential. Our early stage investments typically range between $50,000 and $250,000 while we syndicate with other groups to raise $1.5 million or more. Participation in needed follow-on stage investments ranges from $500,000 to $2.5 million. While we will invest anywhere in the United States, we prefer an iC member to be in or near the headquarters of the company we’ve invested in. Our geographic coverage is primarily in New England at this time. The iC helps build world-class, commercially successful and profitable companies. In that endeavor, we seek out entrepreneurs who think differently and are developing disruptive, industry changing technologies. We have organized ourselves in a new investment structure, what we call an Investment Collaborative. Read about our Investment Strategy or About The iC to learn more about us and our mission.
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