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Termina

Energy procurement software

Termina builds energy procurement software for multi-site businesses. It pools demand across 10,000+ locations to negotiate rates, re-tenders the market continuously and switches customers onto the lowest, then reports the emissions that follow.

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The founders

Michael Koopman
Michael Koopman
Co-Founder

Mike brings over five years of experience in the energy sector, including roles at the Australian Energy Foundation and the Australian Energy Market Operator, where he forecast grid reliability before turning to company building. He first founded Custodian, a micro-investment marketplace that let individuals invest in pools of solar and wind projects for as little as a dollar a day, an experience that surfaced the difficulty businesses face in securing affordable energy pricing and directly inspired Termina. He co-founded Termina in 2020 and now leads the company as CEO.

Rodrigo Garcia-Mulder
Rodrigo Garcia-Mulder
Co-Founder

Roddy co-founded Termina and leads sales and partnerships, bringing the platform's procurement model to businesses managing energy across multiple sites. His background is in science and commercial strategy: he researched salmon feed efficiency at New Zealand's Cawthron Institute and worked on macroalgae commercialisation at Pacific Bio, an Australian biotech company, in both research and commercial strategy consulting roles. He studied conservation and ecology at Monash University, where he also developed an entrepreneurship education module for Year 10 students at Monash Tech School.

Tom Dempster
Tom Dempster
Co-Founder

Tom came to energy through electrical and mechatronics engineering. He holds a commerce degree in economics from the University of Melbourne alongside a master's specialising in grid-stable, market-optimised trading of behind-the-meter energy assets. Before co-founding Termina, he worked as a business analyst at Kogan and as a mechatronics engineer for an industrial machinery manufacturer. As CTO, he brings that combination of power systems knowledge and software engineering directly to how Termina's platform is built.

Why this team

Mike ran into the pricing pain behind Termina himself, across years in Australian energy and an earlier renewables startup. Tom's an electrical and mechatronics engineer who studied market-optimised energy trading, so the software runs on real power-systems knowledge. Roddy handles the commercial side, turning a deeply technical product into a case multi-site operators can act on.