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 Solar Energy

Tyba

Series A in 2025
Tyba is a developer of an informatics platform that assists enterprises in the development and operation of renewable energy projects. The platform offers comprehensive modeling for both standalone and hybrid storage projects, facilitating early-stage development through to operational phases. It enables users to build production and revenue models, compare design variations, and analyze results using interactive dashboards and visualizations. By leveraging analytics related to renewable energy and power markets, Tyba empowers businesses to effectively model solar energy storage, allowing them to make informed decisions regarding expected production, revenue, dispatch, and asset operations.

Rock Rabbit

Seed Round in 2024
Rock Rabbit is an AI-driven platform facilitating transparent access to energy rebates for homeowners. It integrates various stakeholders – contractors, homeowners, and incentive providers – streamlining processes to accelerate building decarbonization.

Tyba

Seed Round in 2023
Tyba is a developer of an informatics platform that assists enterprises in the development and operation of renewable energy projects. The platform offers comprehensive modeling for both standalone and hybrid storage projects, facilitating early-stage development through to operational phases. It enables users to build production and revenue models, compare design variations, and analyze results using interactive dashboards and visualizations. By leveraging analytics related to renewable energy and power markets, Tyba empowers businesses to effectively model solar energy storage, allowing them to make informed decisions regarding expected production, revenue, dispatch, and asset operations.

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.

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.

Terabase Energy

Series A in 2020
Terabase Energy is a provider of automation and digital deployment solutions for utility-scale solar projects. The company develops software and services, including a cloud-based artificial intelligence project development platform that supports collaborative digital models, and offers technical advisory and engineering services. It markets an automation platform that integrates software, automation, and advanced construction techniques to help solar developers and EPC firms optimize project planning, streamline deployment, improve site efficiency, and manage costs, enabling scalable solar installations. The solutions are used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries. Terabase Energy is based in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia.

Raptor Maps

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2015, Raptor Maps specializes in AI-driven software for solar companies. Its platform converts drone and asset data into system analytics and reports, enabling frequent data coverage through cloud computing. It offers energized PV asset solutions like aerial thermal inspection, shading analysis, and portfolio solutions. Additionally, it provides advanced construction monitoring services and customized solutions. Serving global clients such as portfolio owners, asset managers, O&M providers, EPC contractors, and independent engineers.

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.

Raptor Maps

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2015, Raptor Maps specializes in AI-driven software for solar companies. Its platform converts drone and asset data into system analytics and reports, enabling frequent data coverage through cloud computing. It offers energized PV asset solutions like aerial thermal inspection, shading analysis, and portfolio solutions. Additionally, it provides advanced construction monitoring services and customized solutions. Serving global clients such as portfolio owners, asset managers, O&M providers, EPC contractors, and independent engineers.

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.

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.

PVBid

Seed Round in 2016
PVBid helps solar companies improve bottom lines by providing real-time insight into operations and costs, streamlining workflow.

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.
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