Powerhouse

Founded in 2013, Powerhouse is an innovation firm that supports seed-stage startups developing software to accelerate decarbonization in global energy and mobility systems. It offers a 6-month program, investing $50,000 to $250,000 for equity stakes.

Past deals in CleanTech

Adaptis

Seed Round in 2025
Adaptis is a decision-support platform focused on carbon reduction planning throughout the entire life cycle of building projects, including both existing and new constructions. The company aids building owners and consultants in enhancing return on investment and lowering costs associated with decarbonization, circularity, and resilience planning. By employing innovative methodologies, Adaptis generates design solutions while assessing them across various performance metrics from the early planning stages through to construction and maintenance. The platform offers features such as automated assessments of building conditions, material salvage value estimation, and deconstruction planning, thereby enabling clients to make informed decisions that reduce carbon footprints. Adaptis's approach leads to higher-quality design options at a significantly faster pace and lower costs compared to traditional consulting methods, ultimately resulting in enhanced economic performance and the achievement of decarbonization targets.

Presto

Seed Round in 2025
Presto is a software platform to power magical charging experiences for fleets, mobility providers, and businesses.We believe that access to reliable and affordable charging is the key to unlocking mass electrification and fighting climate change.

AmpUp

Series A in 2024
AmpUp is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in electric vehicle charging solutions. It develops a reservable networking software that facilitates electric vehicle charging for drivers, hosts, and fleets. The company's platform establishes a peer-to-peer electric vehicle charging network, allowing businesses and property owners to manage multiple charging stations efficiently. By listing their chargers on AmpUp's network, users can earn revenue while contributing to electrification efforts. The software is designed to make the charging experience seamless and stress-free, catering to a diverse range of communities and enabling easy access to charging technology services.

SHAED

Seed Round in 2024
SHAED is a company dedicated to transforming the transportation sector through its innovative mobility platform. The company focuses on Shared, Hydrogen, Autonomous, Electric, and Distribution technologies, aiming to accelerate the shift from traditional internal combustion engines to sustainable vehicle solutions in the commercial market. By integrating digital automation tools and educational resources, SHAED facilitates the transition to electric and sustainable transportation methods. Additionally, the platform utilizes artificial intelligence-driven recommendation engines to enhance customer engagement and streamline legacy processes. Through these efforts, SHAED is committed to redefining sustainable transportation for a more environmentally friendly future.

Audette

Seed Round in 2022
Audette provides an analytics platform for commercial buildings that accelerates carbon reduction investments. The platform collects utility and equipment data, analyzes building operation, and generates recommendations and decarbonization roadmaps to improve performance. By helping property owners optimize energy management and access capital, Audette aims to unlock operating expense savings and reduce carbon emissions across large building portfolios.

Adaptis

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Adaptis is a decision-support platform focused on carbon reduction planning throughout the entire life cycle of building projects, including both existing and new constructions. The company aids building owners and consultants in enhancing return on investment and lowering costs associated with decarbonization, circularity, and resilience planning. By employing innovative methodologies, Adaptis generates design solutions while assessing them across various performance metrics from the early planning stages through to construction and maintenance. The platform offers features such as automated assessments of building conditions, material salvage value estimation, and deconstruction planning, thereby enabling clients to make informed decisions that reduce carbon footprints. Adaptis's approach leads to higher-quality design options at a significantly faster pace and lower costs compared to traditional consulting methods, ultimately resulting in enhanced economic performance and the achievement of decarbonization targets.

Zeti

Seed Round in 2022
Zeti is a digital financing platform that connects operators of business-critical vehicle fleets with institutional funders to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission transport. Positioned at the intersection of fintech, mobility, and sustainability, the platform funds electric vehicles and related infrastructure and provides real-time data and analytics to support flexible, risk-adjusted financing and value-added insights. Founded in 2020 and based in London, Zeti enables fleet operators to scale clean mobility by aligning financing with operational needs.

Carbon Collective

Seed Round in 2022
Carbon Collective is an innovative online investment advisor dedicated exclusively to climate-focused investing. The company aims to address the significant annual climate investment gap of $5 trillion by providing a platform that offers sustainable and green investment services. Through its user-friendly interface, Carbon Collective provides low-fee, diversified investment portfolios designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This approach empowers investors to support and reinvest in companies that are actively working to combat climate change, aligning financial growth with environmental responsibility.

Recurrent

Venture Round in 2022
Recurrent Motors, Inc. specializes in analyzing electric vehicle (EV) batteries and providing detailed reports that assist car dealers and private buyers in purchasing used electric cars. Founded in 2020 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company offers tools that assess battery health, life expectancy, and current maximum range of EVs, addressing the complexities involved in understanding these factors as vehicles age. By delivering non-invasive tests and leveraging a national database of vehicle data and history, Recurrent enables informed decision-making for both dealers and consumers. Additionally, the company provides personalized monthly battery analyses for EV owners, enhancing their understanding of their vehicles' performance over time.

RenewaFi

Seed Round in 2022
RenewaFi operates a renewable energy marketplace platform designed to enhance transparency and liquidity in power purchase agreements (PPAs). The platform automates actions, facilitates proposal comparisons, and streamlines deal execution, enabling businesses to secure offtake efficiently.

Finite

Seed Round in 2022
Finite is a platform that sources and manages private credit assets for investors. It specializes in residential solar credit investments and commercial solar credit investments, providing direct access to these traditionally hard-to-reach assets.

Helio Home

Seed Round in 2021
Helio is a company focused on facilitating the transition from fossil fuels to complete electrification of homes. It operates an innovative online platform that provides customers with a straightforward and cost-effective approach to achieve whole-home electrification. The platform integrates various systems including solar energy, heating and cooling, electrical systems, insulation, and ventilation, ensuring a holistic design for energy efficiency. By promoting the use of electric solutions, Helio aims to help customers reduce their carbon footprints and minimize reliance on fossil fuels, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Sust Global

Seed Round in 2021
Sust Global leverages AI-powered geospatial analytics to quantify climate-related risks and opportunities. Their platform integrates diverse geospatial data sources, enabling users to understand, mitigate forward-looking losses, create climate-resilient products, and enhance disclosure practices.

Audette

Seed Round in 2021
Audette provides an analytics platform for commercial buildings that accelerates carbon reduction investments. The platform collects utility and equipment data, analyzes building operation, and generates recommendations and decarbonization roadmaps to improve performance. By helping property owners optimize energy management and access capital, Audette aims to unlock operating expense savings and reduce carbon emissions across large building portfolios.

AmpUp

Venture Round in 2021
AmpUp is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in electric vehicle charging solutions. It develops a reservable networking software that facilitates electric vehicle charging for drivers, hosts, and fleets. The company's platform establishes a peer-to-peer electric vehicle charging network, allowing businesses and property owners to manage multiple charging stations efficiently. By listing their chargers on AmpUp's network, users can earn revenue while contributing to electrification efforts. The software is designed to make the charging experience seamless and stress-free, catering to a diverse range of communities and enabling easy access to charging technology services.

Dollaride

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dollaride is a mobility company focused on enhancing transportation accessibility in urban areas, particularly for underserved communities. It develops innovative software and provides financial services to support the transition to clean energy in the transportation sector. Drawing inspiration from New York City's commuter vans, known as "dollar vans," which have been operating since the 1980s and serve over 120,000 residents daily, Dollaride connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers through a comprehensive digital platform tailored for informal transit networks. The company's system includes an operator business dashboard, fleet management capabilities, automated fee collection, and tools for territory expansion, enabling operators to manage their fleets efficiently while ensuring transparency and compliance with regulations. This approach allows drivers to maximize their earnings and offers passengers a convenient means to hail rides quickly.

Nithio

Series A in 2021
Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company established in 2018 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It specializes in providing data-driven financing solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the off-grid energy sector across sub-Saharan Africa. Nithio leverages a proprietary artificial intelligence risk analytics engine to support distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders involved in the solar energy market. The company focuses on enhancing access to solar home systems, productive use appliances, agribusiness, and microfinance, thereby facilitating sustainable energy solutions in underserved regions.

Solstice

Venture Round in 2021
Solstice facilitates shared solar energy solutions, aggregating consumer demand and connecting households with community solar projects. Founded in 2016, it aims to increase access to affordable renewable energy regardless of income or credit score.

Pearl Street Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pearl Street Technologies develops a simulation, optimization, and design platform for power grid planning. Its SUGAR platform uses advanced circuit simulation methodologies to analyze and optimize grids, enabling utilities and stakeholders to prepare for renewable energy integration.

Recurrent

Seed Round in 2020
Recurrent Motors, Inc. specializes in analyzing electric vehicle (EV) batteries and providing detailed reports that assist car dealers and private buyers in purchasing used electric cars. Founded in 2020 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company offers tools that assess battery health, life expectancy, and current maximum range of EVs, addressing the complexities involved in understanding these factors as vehicles age. By delivering non-invasive tests and leveraging a national database of vehicle data and history, Recurrent enables informed decision-making for both dealers and consumers. Additionally, the company provides personalized monthly battery analyses for EV owners, enhancing their understanding of their vehicles' performance over time.

Station A

Seed Round in 2020
Station A is a technology company that provides AI-powered software for clean energy procurement, analysis, and deployment. Its platform helps commercial real estate owners and energy users evaluate building portfolios, analyze markets, and simulate clean energy options to identify financially and environmentally favorable opportunities. It aggregates geospatial, environmental, and financial data to model optimal energy needs for buildings and areas, supporting solar, storage, energy efficiency, and other solutions. The platform connects users to a network of clean energy developers, financiers, and installers and offers a marketplace with indicative pricing and firm proposals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco.

Ensemble Energy

Seed Round in 2019
Ensemble offers a SaaS-based prescriptive analytics platform for clean energy power plant operators. The platform provides energy plant operators with actionable insights into the condition of their assets. Features include failure detection and prediction, anomaly detection, and energy production forecasting.

PVComplete

Seed Round in 2018
PVComplete Inc. is a developer of a solar design platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of commercial rooftop solar project designs. Founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California, the company provides software that automates the design process by utilizing a cloud-based database of photovoltaic modules. This tool analyzes roof zones and obstructions through shadow modeling, facilitating the optimization of module layouts. PVComplete's solutions cater to solar installers, project developers, engineering firms, and financiers, allowing design professionals to create, model, and quote projects seamlessly from concept to construction.

Station A

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Station A is a technology company that provides AI-powered software for clean energy procurement, analysis, and deployment. Its platform helps commercial real estate owners and energy users evaluate building portfolios, analyze markets, and simulate clean energy options to identify financially and environmentally favorable opportunities. It aggregates geospatial, environmental, and financial data to model optimal energy needs for buildings and areas, supporting solar, storage, energy efficiency, and other solutions. The platform connects users to a network of clean energy developers, financiers, and installers and offers a marketplace with indicative pricing and firm proposals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco.

SHYFT Power Solutions

Seed Round in 2018
SHYFT Power Solutions develops an integrated hardware and software platform to monitor, manage, and control distributed energy resources from mobile and cloud interfaces. Its core offering, the SHYFT system, combines a hybrid smart meter and transfer switch to enable IoT-driven energy management that automatically transitions between the grid and backup sources. The company provides software that allows users to monitor, meter, and control power sources across sites, supporting residential, commercial, and industrial deployments. SHYFT focuses on industrial IoT and the orchestration of distributed energy resources to improve energy efficiency, resilience, and cost savings, with initiatives to expand decentralized power systems in markets with unreliable infrastructure.

Solstice Energy Solutions

Seed Round in 2018
Solstice Energy Solutions uses IoT and software to enable, connect, and intelligently manage the shared-economy of distributed energy resources in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sun Exchange

Seed Round in 2017
The Sun Exchange (Pty) Ltd. is a solar leasing platform based in Cape Town, South Africa, that facilitates peer-to-peer ownership of solar equipment. Founded in 2015, the company allows individuals from anywhere in the world to purchase solar cells and lease them to various end-users such as hospitals, factories, and schools in sunny emerging markets. By leveraging blockchain technology, the platform ensures transparency and efficiency in the leasing process. Solar cell owners can earn income from the electricity generated, while lessees benefit from access to affordable clean energy, thus reducing their electricity costs and carbon emissions. The Sun Exchange aims to drive sustainable energy development and expand the environmental, social, and economic advantages of solar power.

Solstice Energy Solutions

Venture Round in 2017
Solstice Energy Solutions uses IoT and software to enable, connect, and intelligently manage the shared-economy of distributed energy resources in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

RPM Solar

Seed Round in 2015
RPM Solar is a solar installation company that serves both residential and commercial customers. It develops solar asset management software created to manage financial operations.

BrightCurrent

Seed Round in 2014
BrightCurrent, Inc., founded in 2011 and based in Brooklyn, New York, is a company that specializes in facilitating the transition to solar energy through innovative educational approaches. It employs various channels such as in-store kiosks, canvassing, event management, and home solar parties to engage potential clients. BrightCurrent provides free, no-obligation solar quotes and connects clients with solar providers who install systems on their roofs at no upfront cost. Clients then pay a monthly bill for the power they use. The company operates as a subsidiary of Horizon Solar Power, Inc., and offers marketing services for products like home solar, connected devices, and energy-efficient electric vehicles. BrightCurrent is known for its field marketing and retail services, providing substantial training, competitive hourly wages, and clear career advancement paths.

Heron Power

Heron Power is a startup specializing in energy technology. It focuses on developing innovative power electronics to modernize and strengthen the electrical grid, enabling increased electricity generation.
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