| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.04.2024 | Exclusive: Wellington raises $385M for first private climate fund | Wellington Management raised $385 million for its first private fund focused solely on climate investments, the firm tells Axios.
Why it matters: It's a significant commitment to climate by one of the world's biggest investors.
The big pict... |
| 10.05.2023 | Introducing Electrifying Everything: 2023 Edition | Last summer, Energize released our comprehensive “Electrifying Everything” investment thesis, including our proprietary deep dive research report, the culmination of our 10-part blog series and our list of the top 30 software innovators app... |
| 24.04.2023 | Span Raises $96M in Series B2 Funding | Span, a San Francisco, CA-based home electrification technology company, raised $96M in Series B2 funding.
The round was led by Wellington Management and included investors such as Congruent Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, Qualcomm Ve... |
| 24.04.2023 | Why a fast-growing climate tech startup raised its second Series B in 13 months | Picture this: Fast-growing startup raises a high eight-figure round. Then, a year later, it decides to raise another. Investors line up, and this time they pledge more money while giving the company a healthy valuation bump.
What’s wrong wi... |
| 19.01.2023 | Fifth Wall Expands Mandate of Its Climate Business to Include Infrastructure | Fifth Wall—the largest asset manager focused on decarbonizing the real estate industry—has hired Alok Sindher as a Partner to expand the mandate of its Climate business to include infrastructure investing alongside the Firm’s leading ventur... |
| 04.06.2022 | The most eco-friendly smart home companies | Upgrading the home with the latest tech feels great, but it’s even more rewarding when you know you’re doing your little part to help the planet. Smart home tech has a role to play in minimizing our energy consumption and generally leading ... |
| 28.03.2022 | Smart electric panel company Span gets a $90M jolt of cash | The lowly breaker panel has been around for a century without getting much love, and along comes Span. The company is making a compelling bid for better, smarter electrical panels, and just got a $90 million top-up to continue its evolution... |
| 25.03.2022 | Bloomberg: Renewable Energy Startup Span.IO Raises $90 Million in Funding | Mar 22, 2022 — Renewable energy startup Span.IO Inc. wants to give consumers more control over how their cars and homes are powered. |
| 23.03.2022 | Span.IO Raises $90M in Series B Funding | Span.IO, a San Francisco, CA-based creator of a smart electrical panel and a smart EV charger, closed a $90m Series B funding round.
The round, which brings total funding to date to $134m, was led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech and Wellington M... |
| 22.03.2022 | Savings app unicorn Acorns is adding Bitcoin exposure to portfolios. Here’s the catch | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
They say a little crypto can spice up a portfolio.
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| 18.11.2021 | Solar Company Green Home Systems Announces Partnership with SPAN to Offer Homeowners Smart Electric Panels | LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) November 18, 2021
California-based solar company, Green Home Systems, has officially announced a partnership with SPAN to offer customers smart electric panels.
SPAN electric panels are the next step in converting to a t... |
| 29.10.2021 | Freshly launched Span Drive continues Span’s mission to smarten up your home | Gone are the days when your A/C and washer/dryer were the movers and shakers (electrically speaking) in your house. These days, electric vehicle chargers, solar power and battery storage solutions set more electrons a-dancin’. Span is one o... |
| 23.10.2021 | I founded Nest. Here’s how startups can help solve climate change | Matt Rogers Contributor
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Matt Rogers built the first machine-learning thermostat as the co-founder of Nest. He was previously an engineer at Apple, where he helped build ten generations of the iPhone and the first iPad. He c... |
| 02.08.2021 | Energy Storage System Buyer’s Guide 2021 | Energy Storage System Buyer’s Guide 2021
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The market is overflowing with energy storage systems and batteries vying to be the peanut butter to distributed solar’s jelly, plus an emerging area of smart ... |
| 01.02.2021 | Smart Home Energy Startup Span Raises $20M From Munich Re Ventures and Amazon Alexa Fund | Smart Home Energy Startup Span Raises $20M From Munich Re Ventures and Amazon Alexa Fund
Eric Hal Schwartz on February 1, 2021 at 6:00 am
Smart electrical panel startup Span has raised $20 million in a funding round from new investors Munic... |
| 26.01.2021 | Span, the smart fusebox replacement founded by an ex-Tesla engineer, gets an Alexa upgrade | Automating and controlling devices and energy usage in homes has potentially become a bit easier thanks to an integration between Span, the startup making a digital fusebox replacement, and Amazon’s voice recognition interface, Alexa.
The i... |
| 26.01.2021 | Span Raises $20M in Funding | Span, a San Francisco, CA-based company providing an electrical panel to intelligently monitor and control the clean energy home, secured an additional $20m in funding.
The round was led by Munich Re Ventures’ HSB Fund and joined by the Ale... |
| 26.01.2021 | Span’s Smart Panel has an Alexa integration, $20M in new funding and a vision for home energy service providers | Span launched and started shipping its smart electrical panel last year – a reinvention of an old, basic concept to better serve today’s connected, electrified, renewably powered homes. Maybe more impressive than the technology is the amoun... |
| 21.06.2020 | Energy investment roundup: $50M for drinking water from solar-powered ‘hydropanels’ | Despite this miserable year, renewable energy has seen a modest wave of VC and corporate investment in 2020. pv magazine has logged it here. The wave continues:
Blackrock-led $50M gets water from a solar-powered panel
Zero Mass Water raised... |
| 12.06.2020 | Updated: A roundup of venture capital funding in clean energy | Venture capital investors and their funds are still hungry for deals in cleantech and renewable energy.
Although high-profile energy investments in today’s era have tended towards batteries and energy storage — here are some recent funding ... |
| 09.06.2020 | Panasonic bolsters EverVolt battery system by pairing with Span’s Smart Panel | Panasonic today announced a new strategic alliance with smart panel innovator Span, maker of the Span Smart Panel. You may remember it from this article in May: “Span raises $10.2 million in quest to reinvent the home electrical panel.”
Whe... |
| 09.06.2020 | Panasonic and Span team up for home battery backup and energy management | Panasonic has entered into an alliance with Span to deliver a combined energy storage and residential energy management product.
Span recently landed $10.2 million in venture capital to modernize and replace one of the more basic and ubiqui... |
| 15.05.2020 | Span Raises $10.2M in Series A Funding | Span, a San Francisco, CA-based smart panel company, raised $10.2m in Series A funding.
The round was led by ArcTern Ventures with participation from Capricorn Investment Group, Incite Ventures, and existing investors.
The company intends t... |
| 12.05.2020 | Span wins $10.2 million to modernize the home electrical panel, ease shift to solar, storage and EVs | Span just landed $10.2 million in venture capital to modernize and replace one of the more basic and ubiquitous pieces of home electrical hardware — the electrical panel. Span’s ambition is to “transform the electrical panel into an intelli... |
| 12.05.2020 | Ex-Tesla product exec raises $10 million for his mission to upgrade the lowly fuse box | Arch Rao closed the $10.1 million financing round for Span, his company pitching homeowners on an upgrade to the fuse box, in the middle of February.
The company had already seen what was happening in China and had a sense of how tough thin... |
| 12.05.2020 | Span raises $10.2 million in quest to reinvent the home electrical panel | While homes today are plugging in an assortment of connected devices, appliances, electronics and energy upgrades such as solar panels, batteries, and EV chargers, the standard electrical panel hasn’t been improved in nearly a century. Span... |
| 23.03.2020 | Job moves at DOE, Enel, Trina, FERC, Engie, Sunpower, PG&E | Jennifer DeCesaro, formerly director of technology-to-market and senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy is now director recovery and resilience at the DOE. DeCesaro is leading the DOE’s energy sector recovery efforts in the U.S. in... |
| 08.01.2020 | At CES, Schneider Electric unveils its own upgrade to the traditional fusebox | As renewable energy and energy efficiency continue to make gains among cost-conscious consumers, more companies are looking at ways to give customers better ways to manage the electricity coming into their homes.
At the Consumer Electronics... |
| 19.09.2019 | The man behind Tesla’s Powerwall is now pitching an all-in-one power management system for homes | Arch Rao, the former head of product at Tesla who was behind the company’s Powerwall home energy storage is system, is back with a new company pitching energy management and efficiency for homes.
Span is looking to upgrade the electrical fu... |
| - | Ex-Tesla engineer tries to reinvent the home electrical panel for 21st century | Many new EV owners (and solar customers) need to upgrade their electrical panel. That panel, which is so critical to your home’s energy, uses antiquated technology. It’s mostly a big dumb circuit breaker. Well, that was until Arch Rao came ... |
| - | Span.IO | “SPAN creates products to enable electrification for all” |
| - | EGEB: Ex-Tesla team launches ‘smart’ electric panel, Global Climate Strike day 2, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Former Tesla head of product Arch Rao launches Span, a smart, green-friendly electric panel.
Climate strikers hit the road for a second global march.
All new buildings in Ireland will require E... |
| - | This former Tesla engineer is reinventing the home electrical panel | The home is increasingly becoming a command hub for all kinds of smart technology and smart power. One major component of that, however, is not very smart at all: the electric panel. It hasn’t changed much in about 75 years.
With electrical... |
| - | SPAN’s new Level 2 EV charger works even if your house has less than 200 amp service | Smart electrical panel maker SPAN has shipped the first deliveries of the SPAN Drive – a Level 2 EV charger that doesn’t require a home electrical upgrade – but the caveat is that it has to be paired with SPAN’s panel.
SPAN’s Level 2 EV cha... |
