VoltSafe Blog Team – September 2, 2025
Most startups tweak, iterate, and improve on what already exists in the world today. Innovation goes from 1 to 1+n (incremental). But every once in a long while, a company emerges creating something entirely new. Something so foundational and powerful it can reshape the entire world we live in.
NEST redefined heat. RING redefined security. VOLTSAFE is redefining electrical power transfer.
This type of innovation is called “Zero to One” and is where the biggest opportunities (and returns) for investors begin because they have no direct competition except legacy incumbents.
What they did:
Turned a boring wall thermostat into a smart, learning, connected device that became the hub of energy automation. $3.2B (exit in 2014)
What they did:
Transformed the humble doorbell into a connected home security platform, adding camera vision, cloud access, and notifications. $1.2B (exit in 2018)
What they are doing:
Span replaced the dumb breaker box with a smart, app-connected energy control system, giving users visibility and panel breaker control over their home’s electrical flow. ~$600M (2023 – Series B)
What we are doing:
VoltSafe replaces a design patented in 1904 (and still used by 6 billion people daily) with a prongless, smart-by-design, safe-to-touch platform having receptacles that only become energized while both sides are connected. This isn’t an upgrade, it’s the end of yet another antiquated piece of hardware. <$50M (2025 – Seed+)
✅ Zero to One
VoltSafe isn’t making a better pronged plug design, we’ve eliminated the design constraint altogether… a category-defining shift that ushers in a new world of futuristic possibilities for safety, ease-of-use and smart capabilities, while retaining the advantages associated with conductive (metal-to-metal) power transfer (speed & high efficiency).
✅ Deep Tech
VoltSafe is also a deep tech startup, meaning we’re solving the root problem through real engineering breakthroughs that:
VoltSafe is entering a mature, slow-moving legacy industry that hasn’t seen meaningful innovation in over a century. For those old enough to remember using rotary phones, just imagine no smartphones! Rotary phones certainly taught us patience… I personally keep one to explain suffering to my kids.
The sobering fact that devices still connect the same way they did just after Thomas Edison lit up the first bulbs and (patented by Harvey Hubbell in 1904) is mind-numbing. Receptacles worldwide use pronged plug design to hide metal contacts because the contacts are always by default “live”.
VoltSafe’s competition isn’t a startup down the road or even on the other side of the globe. It’s the inertia of legacy infrastructure and, as such, VoltSafe products easily adapt to all existing pronged infrastructure. That said, VoltSafe’s vision isn’t to give pronged plug design a makeover, it’s to write its obituary.
🔌 What VoltSafe Has Built
If history has taught us anything, it’s that century-old infrastructure eventually falls short in today’s (or tomorrow’s) electrified world of ever-increasing standards and automation. VoltSafe eliminates these existing plug design shortcomings with its prongless (patented) technology via its seamless digital “handshakes”, meaning no potential for danger, just self-aligning (magnets), intelligent and ultra-efficient and fast energy transfer. Does the digital handshake take long when both sides connect? Once a connection is made, it occurs so fast it’s imperceivable to users.
🚀 But Why Now? 💸 Why This Matters for Investors
The world is electrifying at warp speed. EVs, boats, e-aviation, robotics, smart homes, grid resilience, and micro-mobility are all scaling. If history has taught us anything, it’s that century-old infrastructure eventually falls short of the ever-increasing needs of today and tomorrow. VoltSafe is what comes next.
We’ve now hit our major milestones: patents granted, real-world pilots completed, and commercially ready. What comes next is scaling our technology into multi-billion dollar verticals, starting with marine, defence, industrial, and eventually, your wall outlet. Strategically this will be accomplished via licensing partnerships with incumbents, along with VoltSafe choosing to commercialize certain verticals itself, such as marine.
📈 The Inflection Point Is Now
Category creators don’t compete on price or features. They define new standards and own the blueprint. We’re here to redefine the user experience how power connects – safely, intelligently, and globally. And that means:
We’ve spent years in deep R&D and the technology is ready for scale. We’ve protected it, proven it, and now we’re bringing the first major product (Shore Power) to market with it.
This isn’t just another startup, it’s a company redefining one of the world’s most foundational technologies (the pronged electrical plug).
If you’re an investor looking to back a Canadian deep tech company with global potential, IP protection, and first-mover advantage, we’re now raising through FrontFundr – but only for one more week and then this unique window of opportunity will be closed. We’re happy to show you more.
Reach out to learn how you can participate in this rare and powerful shift in electrification. Email us at invest@voltsafe.com
About VoltSafe Inc.
VoltSafe Inc. is changing the way people connect to power. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, the Canadian tech startup has reinvented the electrical plug by eliminating prongs, adding magnets and an “electrical fingerprint”. Using patented technology, VoltSafe has created the world’s safest, simplest, and smartest plug design since electricity came into homes more than 140 years ago. The company’s product pipeline includes magnetic plug replacement solutions for household, commercial, industrial, marine, electric and autonomous vehicles, emergency services, data centres and more.