Our purpose is to address the climate crisis with innovation.
POWERHOUSE
Powerhouse is an innovation firm that works with leading global corporations to help them find, partner with, invest in, and acquire the most innovative startups in clean energy, mobility, and climate. Leveraging our industry expertise and an unparalleled database of thousands of climate tech startups, we provide scouting and consulting services to convert our clients’ business goals and decarbonization commitments into meaningful outcomes.
Our clients include Google, Schneider Electric, DNV, Enel, Marubeni, BP Launchpad, and more.
https://www.powerhouse.fund/clients
POWERHOUSE VENTURES
Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize our global energy and mobility systems. We believe that addressing the climate crisis requires deploying our most viable market-based solutions today.
https://www.powerhouse.fund/ventures
POWERHOUSE
Powerhouse is an innovation firm that works with leading global corporations to help them find, partner with, invest in, and acquire the most innovative startups in clean energy, mobility, and climate. Leveraging our industry expertise and an unparalleled database of thousands of climate tech startups, we provide scouting and consulting services to convert our clients’ business goals and decarbonization commitments into meaningful outcomes.
Our clients include Google, Schneider Electric, DNV, Enel, Marubeni, BP Launchpad, and more.
https://www.powerhouse.fund/clients
POWERHOUSE VENTURES
Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize our global energy and mobility systems. We believe that addressing the climate crisis requires deploying our most viable market-based solutions today.
https://www.powerhouse.fund/ventures
Location: United States, California, Oakland
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2013
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 32
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 29.02.2024 | Rock Rabbi... | rockrabbit.ai | - | - |
| 27.11.2023 | Copia | gocopia.com | $1.48M | United Sta... |
| 27.11.2023 | Presto | prestocharging.com | - | United Sta... |
| 28.04.2023 | SPECIFX | specifx.com | - | United Sta... |
| 28.04.2023 | Adaptis | adaptis.ca | - | Canada |
| 26.01.2023 | Tyba | tyba.ai | $2.3M | Anguilla |
| 20.01.2023 | Mobilyze.a... | mobilyze.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 19.08.2022 | Zeti | zeti.co.uk | - | United Kin... |
| 17.06.2022 | Helio | heliohome.io | - | United Sta... |
| 16.06.2022 | Granular | granular-energy.com | $2.09M | France, Il... |
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Persons 3
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Drew | Baglino | Former CTO | - | - | - | |
| - | Alina | Zagaytova | Former Gen... | - | - | - | |
| - | Craig | Tighe | Partner | - | - | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.10.2021 | Social Entrepreneurship: What It Is and Why Everyone's Talking About It | Entrepreneurs used to be those who had an idea, started a company, and made money. They wrote a business plan , circulated the document to a bank for capital, and worked tirelessly to scale their company and drive profits for themselves and... |
| 16.12.2020 | VC funding in solar 2020: perovskites, silicon and utility-scale foundations, plus lots of software | During the great thin-film PV scare of the late aughts, venture capitalists showered billions of dollars upon scores of largely undeserving solar startups. The solar startup pipeline is smarter these days, as are, one hopes, the venture cap... |
| 13.09.2020 | Software is eating renewable power markets: cleantech investment roundup | Utility solar software gets $6 million Terabase Energy is on a mission to drive down utility-scale solar power prices to below $0.01 per kWh by 2025. Using its software, automation and “digital-twin” modeling, the new company aims to modern... |
| 09.09.2020 | Terabase Energy raises funding to break the $0.01/kWh utility-scale solar barrier with software | Terabase Energy is on a mission to drive down utility-scale solar power prices to below $0.01 per kWh by 2025. Using its software, automation and “digital-twin” modeling, the new company aims to modernize solar power-plant optimization. Ter... |
| 16.04.2020 | Amperon raises $2 million for its predictive software for energy grids | Energy demand has fallen globally. Oil prices are plummeting. Everywhere in the energy world things look fairly grim, but keeping the lights on and electrons moving remains critical to keeping even the hobbled economies of the world humming... |
| 20.03.2020 | Podcast experts talk about clean energy stories and success in podcasting | #Solar100’s Todd Alexander, Emily Kirsch, and Stephen Lacey: Solar’s Podcast Experts In this special edition #Solar100, kWh Analytics’ Richard Matsui speaks with three solar podcast experts, Norton Rose Fulbright’s Todd Alexander, Watt it T... |
| 16.01.2020 | Leap | When USV started looking closely at the energy sector, we were excited to find networks on multiple levels: at the grid level, a network of electrons; at the market level, a network of transactions and financial products; and at the data le... |
| 24.07.2019 | Electricity marketplace WattBuy is the latest Seattle-area energy startup to raise funding | WattBuy founders Naman Trivedi and Ben Hood. (WattBuy Photo) Another Seattle-area clean energy startup is raising cash. This time it’s WattBuy, which just reeled in a $1.2 million seed round led by venture capital firm Powerhouse Ventures t... |
| 23.01.2019 | #Solar100’s Emily Kirsch: The Oprah of Clean Energy | Dubbed the “Oprah of Clean Energy” by Emily Fritze and Alex Harbour of Powerhouse – with special thanks to fellow #Solar100 Leaders Kyle Cherrick and TJ Kanczuzewski for the nomination – Emily Kirsch is Founder and CEO of Powerhouse and the... |
| 06.12.2018 | Watt it Takes: The Origin Story of Wunder Capital | This week on Watt It Takes: Wunder Capital CEO Bryan Birsic on why he wants to solve the commercial solar financing challenge, when so many others couldn't. |
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