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Whether you're an investment fund, a family office, an individual, or an advisor, MineralSoft has a tailored solution for you. 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Over 50 of North America's leading energy companies rely on Validere's technology and multidisciplinary experts to understand their physical and environmental commodities and navigate an increasingly complex environment with clarity and ease. Validere is on a mission to better human prosperity by making the energy supply chain efficient and sustainable. 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By connecting and analyzing data from fleets, equipment, and worksites in real time, TENDERD enables organizations to improve safety, productivity, and sustainability while reducing fuel use, emissions, and downtime. 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Using Pelm, you can query hourly electricity usage or transfer service for a specific property. Instead of building clunky integrations with hundreds of utilities across the U.S., you only need to integrate with one seamless API to start harnessing energy data. Our platform will provide the infrastructure for a whole new wave of climate focused technology companies to flourish. As sustainability-oriented efforts like automated demand response, home electrification, or solar installations (to name a few) become more popular, they will need certain tools to succeed. 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Our secure, fully automated charging technology, JustPlug, works instantly with no special hardware, software, or setup, making EV charging effortless.\r\n\r\nWith 122,000+ EV chargers integrated across the U.S. and Canada, Emobi is recognized as the largest EV charging ecosystem in North America. Backed by two provisional patents and 15+ enterprise customers, Emobi's technology is also trusted by the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Transportation (DoT). 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Founded in December 2020, the company is redesigning the architecture of an aircraft around hydrogen-electric propulsion, focusing on fuel cell technology, gaseous hydrogen tank integration, and advanced cooling systems. With offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, the company boasts a team of over 80 highly qualified engineers from leading aerospace companies. Beyond Aero has secured over $50 million in funding, backed by investors such as Giant Ventures, Bpifrance, and prior supporters like Initialized Capital, Female Founders Fund, and 7 Percent Ventures. Beyond Aero also completed Y Combinator in 2022. The company has secured $1.5bn in Letters of Intent (LOIs), completed France’s first manned, fully hydrogen-electric flight, and acquired Universal Hydrogen Co.'s assets, IP, and flight data. 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We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines.\r\n\r\nOur innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. \r\n\r\nToday, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. 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We sell the data to financial companies that want to invest into the best performing energy companies.\r\n\r\nUntil today, oil & gas companies use excel-based emission factors to calculate and report their emissions. As these excel-based emission factors underestimate actual emissions by ~70%, the finance companies that invest into oil & gas can’t mitigate against incoming risks from new regulations, \r\n\r\nWe have built a technology that can for the first time use satellite images to track methane from every single oil & gas facility on the planet, replacing emission factors and allowing finance companies to make the best bets on oil & gas companies that will withstand a wide avalanche of incoming regulation. In the summer 2023 our satellite-based technology got ranked #1 both in terms of accuracy and sensitivity of methane emission events by Stanford University in a peer-reviewed study, beating a range of multi-bn dollar competitors like Maxar.\r\n\r\nLearn more at https://orbio.earth", "one_liner": "Tracking methane emissions with satellites", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1687128394, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Satellites", "Analytics", "Climate", "Energy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orbio-earth", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2023/orbio-earth.json" }, { "id": 29438, "name": "Spark", "slug": "spark", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/334553fe55450cd0888b7e50f8918d05c8491633.png", "website": "https://www.sparkhq.ai", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Spark AI is workflow software for solar, storage, and data center developers. We've reviewed and identified over 1 million zoning, permitting, and project-related documents in nearly every jurisdiction in America, so that you can instantly identify project requirements, local sentiment, and fatal flaws in seconds.\r\n\r\nWe’re trusted by dozens of industry-leading developers representing over 90 gigawatts of project pipeline and $30 billion in financing. 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From assessing the risk of wildfires to predicting the energy grid load, we provide an infrastructure layer for our planet. 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We generate revenue by charging when electricity is cheap and discharging when electricity is expensive.\r\n\r\nWe rent battery storage for a fixed fee per month, and we earn 2x that fee in monthly revenue by dispatching the battery optimally.\r\n\r\nToday, power companies use human traders to manually track grid conditions and update the battery’s dispatch schedule. However batteries can adjust their power output 100x faster than traditional power generation (e.g. hydro, coal, nuclear, gas), with the ability to go from full-speed charging to full speed discharging in under a minute. Electricity prices change every 5 minutes, often by 300% or more. Our AI better tracks 100s of live inputs, and it makes decisions faster than a human operator (with lower overhead!), improving revenue 2x.", "one_liner": "Rewbi uses AI to increase grid-connected battery storage revenue 2x", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Energy", "launched_at": 1724874761, "tags": [ "Energy Storage", "B2B", "Energy", "Renewable Energy", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Energy" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rewbi", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2024/rewbi.json" }, { "id": 29701, "name": "Plume", "slug": "plume", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/848a0a716b3d688b2054184d78580f9988c075be.png", "website": "http://www.plumefinder.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Plume is an AI-powered geospatial platform for site selection in energy infrastructure projects. \r\n\r\nSelecting the right sites requires analysis of +50 geospatial, grid, and regulatory constraints across fragmented data sources. \r\n\r\nPlume changes the process by enabling users to interact with geospatial data using natural language.", "one_liner": "Renewable infrastructure deployment at scale.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Climate", "launched_at": 1724527338, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Solar Power", "B2B", "Energy", "Industrial" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Climate" ], "regions": [ "France", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/plume", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2024/plume.json" }, { "id": 30083, "name": "Curo", "slug": "curo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/451b623d0d8d5338642a73d361cc7f15a4cca9bc.png", "website": "https://www.curocharging.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Curo enables electric vehicle fleets to lease EV chargers. We do this by providing a standardized process so that any EV charger owner can host a fleet, such as an office building overnight when their employees go home.\r\n\r\nOwners of EV chargers get <15% usage after paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to install, and fleets are rapidly trying to electrify yet charging is a huge bottleneck. Curo increases revenue 5x for charger owners and enables fleets to electrify instantly, at a fraction of the cost. \r\n\r\nWe're live across 5 states, having grown 50% MoM for the past 6 months. 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Founded by Alex Fuster, a former Citadel energy trader, Astro's AI models identify profitable grid connections that eliminate the surprise costs causing 80-90% of renewable projects to fail. With the U.S. needing 2,000 gigawatts of new power generation by 2035 for AI data centers and electrification, Astro unlocks development opportunities that traditional methods consistently miss.", "one_liner": "The world’s first AI energy developer", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Energy", "launched_at": 1739813505, "tags": [ "Solar Power", "Energy", "Renewable Energy", "ClimateTech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Energy" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/astro", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2025/astro.json" }, { "id": 30224, "name": "Maritime Fusion", "slug": "maritime-fusion", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2af0192d25e843e5333e635fa35115413fbca155.png", "website": "https://maritimefusion.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Maritime Fusion is building fusion reactors for ships and off grid energy markets. En route on this endeavor we’re commercializing High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) cable technology for power distribution while advancing the physics basis of our HTS tokamak to decarbonize global shipping. \r\n\r\nBreakeven fusion is coming soon, but the first-of-a-kind (FOAK) reactors will be costly, high maintenance, and have low capacity factors, leading to 5–10x higher electricity cost on the grid. Maritime Fusion is pursuing the most widely accepted approach to fusion, the tokamak, but specifically designed for the marine environment where the challenges that arise between breakeven and a commercially viable energy source are alleviated. The market we're targeting requires 15x less power, lower up-time, and costs the same as alternative fuels but without any emissions. Since fusion does not use highly radioactive fuels or materials – unlike fission – we sidestep the vast majority of regulatory challenges and safety risks associated with nuclear energy. 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Voxel builds vertically integrated energy generation and storage systems for data centers that bypass utility connection delays. \r\n\r\nBy leveraging the vast supply of second-life EV batteries and our novel DC microgrid architecture, Voxel generates datacenter power on site and drastically reduces system cost and time-to-power.", "one_liner": "Energy independent data centers with solar and repurposed batteries. 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Facilities managers are overwhelmed with dashboards, alarms, and analytics for hundreds of boilers, HVAC units, and heat pumps across their buildings. Edviro continuously monitors and optimizes buildings using energy world models to detect anomalies, simulate interventions, and suggest the best options to the facilities manager. Once the changes occur, we create a comprehensive M&V report to ensure savings show up on the bill. \r\n\r\nOur tools also allow institutions to maintain detailed service history & equipment logs, and perform maintenance with AR. 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