National Grid Partners is the corporate venture capital arm of National Grid, investing in energy transition, grid modernization, electrification, distributed energy, and climate infrastructure technologies. The firm is especially valuable to founders who need utility partnerships, pilots, and deployment credibility, because strategic value is often as important as the check. National Grid Partners is not a fit for consumer sustainability apps or companies without realistic utility/energy-market adoption pathways. Founders should pitch with a clear deployment and regulatory story.