Overview
Gorilla builds an Energy Margin Intelligence platform for energy retailers. It connects commercial, operational and trading data so that companies can see margin at contract level, steer pricing, align pricing with forecasting and billing, and make portfolio decisions based on margin. The platform is organised in four areas: See, Steer, Protect and Grow. Named customers include ScottishPower, EDF, ENGIE, Centrica Business Solutions, Gas South, SEFE, SachsenEnergie, ESB, Luminus, UGP, SouthStar and CleanChoice Energy. The company started as a research project at the Belgian tech agency November Five, was founded in 2018 and officially spun off in early 2019. Ruben Van Den Bossche is co-founder and CEO. Gorilla is headquartered in Antwerp and has offices in London, Austin and Melbourne, with a presence in Germany. In December 2022 Gorilla raised a €6 million Series A from Beringea and PMV, with support from VLAIO, when it had 40 employees. In June 2024 it raised a €23 million Series B led by Headline, with Beringea and PMV participating, to expand into the US and Germany. It signed its first American customer in 2023, a multi-year contract with ESB in 2024, SachsenEnergie in 2025 and CleanChoice Energy in 2026, and announced a partnership with Capco in 2025. Gorilla won Startup of the Year at the Flanders International Business Awards 2024, was named Most Sustainable Company 2024 for Climate & Energy (SME) at the Trends Impact Awards, was shortlisted for Innovator of the Year at the Reuters Energy Industry Awards 2026 and won Best Product for Energy & Utilities at the 2026 SaaS Awards.
Funding history
- 2022 Series A: €6M from Beringea and PMV, with support from VLAIO
- 2024 Series B: €23M led by Headline, with Beringea and PMV
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2018 (spin-off of November Five, official early 2019)
- Headquarters: Antwerp
- Offices: Antwerp, London, Austin, Melbourne, Germany
- Employees: 51-200
- CEO: Ruben Van den Bossche (co-founder)
- Total raised: €29M
- Investors: Headline, Beringea, PMV, VLAIO (support)
- Customers: ScottishPower, EDF, ENGIE, Centrica Business Solutions, Gas South, SEFE, SachsenEnergie, ESB, Luminus, UGP, SouthStar, CleanChoice Energy
- Awards: Startup of the Year, Flanders International Business Awards 2024; Most Sustainable Company 2024 (Trends Impact Awards); Best Product for Energy & Utilities, SaaS Awards 2026
Key people
In the news
- Simon Werneke is in Leipzig this week for GO. DIGITAL, hosted by Energieforen Leipzig GmbH. It's been a great event so far, two days, two stages and an interactive exhibition, all focused on how German energy companies are digitalising.
- The talks get people into the room. The conversations between them are what people take home. That’s what we’re most looking forward to at The Energy Edge: agentic Frontier, at Kings Place in London on 17 November. Energy retail leaders will be swapping notes on pricing, data and AI with people facing the same decisions. Some are coming back after Margin by design in June; others are joining us for the first time. Ruben Van den Bossche, our CEO, said it well in his recent post: ‘One of the things I’ve always valued about working in
- The biggest opportunity for AI in energy retail sits in pricing, settlement and contract decisions. That’s also where legal, security and IT teams set the highest bar, and they’re right to. Joris Van Genechten, our VP of Product & Engineering, argues that the way past sign-off is the foundations underneath the AI. When every number traces back to a deterministic calculation and uncertainty is made explicit, risk and governance teams have something they can properly assess. His advice for the next twelve months: strengthen your data
- When a deal closes, is the margin you priced still there a year later? If your CRM, pricing and billing systems each hold their own version of the numbers, it's hard to answer with any certainty. This carousel looks at how connecting those systems keeps sales, pricing and finance on one set of numbers, from quote to bill. Find out more about the Gorilla platform at gorilla.co
- October's newsletter is now ready! All eyes are on November's Energy Edge, but that doesn't mean that October was a quiet month. Far from it, as we saw the launch of new products, attended multiple events, and released three new versions of the EMI Index. Check it out below:
- Settlement tells you the book is off weeks or months after delivery. It doesn’t tell you which contracts or why. This is what leads to margin erosion, and the same assumptions get carried into the next round of pricing and renewals. Explorer, launching today, recalculates the margin on fixed-price contracts as costs, forecasts and meter data move after signature. Every team works from the same numbers, with the history of what changed. ‘Margin isn’t a finance problem. Commercial teams in energy retail are accountable for a
- Belgian energy retailers are confident in their margin. 94 per cent trust their margin reporting. Yet only 27 per cent can consistently reconcile sales to margin with high accuracy, the lowest of six European markets surveyed. Our new Belgium report explores why. Read the Belgium edition of the Energy Margin Intelligence Index 2026 here to find out the reasons: https://lnkd.in/eTMbvd7c
- Three weeks to go, and the guest list for The Energy Edge: agentic frontier is taking shape. Check out some of the companies that have already registered attendees in the video below. Join them at Kings Place, London, on 17 November, alongside our host Harry Wheeler and speakers Don McDonnell of AWS, Neil Procter of Inardua, Ryan Thomson & Benjamin Dugauquier of Baringa, Carl Haigney of Capgemini, our CEO Ruben Van den Bossche, and VP of Product Joris Van Genechten. Register here: https://lnkd.in/edY4KvZ6
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