Solving the immediate power supply bottleneck
4+ year lead times?
Data centres. Renewables. Reindustrialisation. Grid upkeep. Together, they're pushing a demand wave through equipment categories that haven't changed how they sell capacity in decades.
Opna is the market infrastructure for that wave. We verify supply and factory capacity, match it to the buyers who need it, and finance it on terms aligned to the project, not the OEM's billing cycle.
Why we exist
The grid is the bottleneck. The equipment is the bottleneck of the bottleneck.
Europe's transformer fleet sits at 4.5 million, it needs to double to 9 million by 2050 . Global grid procurement is running at $400 billion a year and rising . OEMs are quoting 4+ years on critical HV equipment.
That maths doesn't work. Not for the data centre operator with a 2027 energisation date. Not for the renewables developer trying to clear conditions precedent before FID. Not for the industrial reshoring production into a connection that won't be ready until 2030.
The capacity exists in the market. It's just sitting in the wrong shape, behind the wrong queue, financed on the wrong terms. That's what we fix.
Where it all started
20 years of untangling complex trade markets.
Opna is built by Shilpika (Shilps) Gautam. Twenty-plus years across carbon markets, commodities, capital markets, and fintech at startups and global financial institutions. Her job, repeatedly, has been to take markets that don't trade well and build the infrastructure that lets them.
She looked at critical power equipment, the most supply-constrained category in the build-out of the next decade, and saw a market still being sold the way commodities were sold thirty years ago. No transparency on capacity. No financing aligned to how buyers actually build. No way to take supply risk off the register before a board signs off the spend.
Shilps built Opna for the people who need the equipment, on the terms they need it.
Shilpika (Shilps) Gautam is Founder & CEO of Opna and a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She is recognised as a leading voice in accelerating electrification, while ensuring AI-driven digital transformation becomes a force for regeneration, not extraction. Her north star remains constant: to level the starting line for everyone, everywhere.
She is also known for her 3,000-kilometre source-to-sea expedition along the River Ganges, completed on a stand-up paddleboard, which earned her a Guinness World Record and helped raise global awareness of water and climate challenges.
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Tell us what you're building and when you need it energised. We'll hold the date.
