Neara

Neara builds software that creates physics-enabled digital twins of entire power networks. Its platform models every pole, wire, and tree in a utility's network with structural precision, allowing utilities to simulate storms, equipment failures, and extreme weather scenarios before they occur. The work spans digital twins, physics-based simulation, structural and geospatial modeling, and power network modeling.

The software is used by utilities to prioritise maintenance, plan for extreme weather, and justify decisions to regulators. It also serves the energy sector more broadly, including wildfire and flood risk management and the renewable energy transition. Neara's utility customers are spread across four continents.

The company originated in Redfern, Australia. Its team is drawn largely from engineering and software backgrounds, and it describes a mission-driven focus on making the energy sector more resilient and sustainable, with an emphasis on giving customers full visibility to support their decisions.