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By empowering landlords to sell solar energy directly to tenants, we make it a no-brainer for landlords to adopt solar energy.", "one_liner": "We enable landlords to generate income from solar panels.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Climate", "launched_at": 1658513576, "tags": [ "Solar Power", "Real Estate", "Climate", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Climate" ], "regions": [ "Israel", "Middle East and North Africa" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wand-solar", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/wand-solar.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Tel Aviv-Yafo", "country": "IL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandsolar/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d578cfd1e80bacd21b29dac7951d27cd195252dc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1014551, "full_name": "Idan Shahar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I always operate at the forefront of technology, curious about Kubernetes, App Innovations, Cloud Native, and OSS technologies.\nI enjoy partnering with developers and C-level executives to realize the value of Cloud Native through, public speaking, communities, and hackathons.\nI've been a backend developer most of my life, and in the last few years, I helped companies build and modernize Cloud Native applications.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sh_idan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/72d905a5a098b2ed28329a16eb8eb3e325efa0b8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018437, "full_name": "Itai Peri", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm super passionate about entrepreneurship, and have been in this area for the past 6 years.\nI come from a background of Software Engineering and Machine Learning, and love to solve complex problems using these two disciplines.\nIn the past I've been CTO of a B2C startup, and as a Data Scientist in another startup led a project for identifying diseases in trees using advanced Computer Vision algorithms.\nNowadays I'm working to help companies better manage their delivery pipelines.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1a61f264e74c8443fc4c1b0a0706e7c577c4c7b6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 89699, "title": "🚀 Wand Solar — Utility-style solar billing for landlords", "tagline": "Landlord with Solar? Start billing tenants like a utility.", "body": "# 🚀 Wand Solar — Bill Tenants for Solar Energy Like a Utility\n\n👋 Hi everyone! We’re Idan and Itai, co-founders of **Wand Solar**.\n\n## 🔥 The Problem\n\n**Solar wasn’t built for rentals.**\n\nToday, landlords invest in solar systems for their rental properties, but **tenants get all the savings**.\n\nLandlords pay tens of thousands upfront—and see no return. ❌\n\nWe spoke with dozens of landlords who installed solar on their house, but when they moved out and kept it as a rental, they had **no way to bill their tenants** and recoup their investment.\n\n\n\n## ⚡ What We’re Building\n\n**Wand lets landlords bill tenants for solar energy—just like a utility.**\n\n* 💰 Tenants pay what they normally would for electricity (or less)\n* 🏠 Landlords finally earn from the solar systems they paid for\n* ⚡ Same utility line items and tariffs. Full transparency\n* ✨ Want to offer a deal? Set your own discount (e.g., 10%, 15%)\n* 💳 Tenants pay by credit card—just like any other utility\n* 🏦 Landlords get paid via wire transfer\n\n**_No additional hardware. No tenant disruption. Just new income from the sun._**\n\n**_You earn first, we only earn when you do_** - we charge 10% of the solar revenue you collect.\n\n## 🔄 How It Works\n\n1. **Add your property and connect your solar system -** just enter basic property info and link your solar setup.\n2. **We track solar usage in 15-minute intervals -** we measure how much solar energy your tenants use—accurately, throughout the month.\n3. **We generate monthly solar bills using your utility’s rates -** the bills reflect the same line items and tariffs your utility company uses.\n4. **Tenants receive transparent, familiar-looking bills -** nothing confusing—just clear, itemized solar billing that looks like a standard utility bill.\n5. **Tenants pay, you get paid -** tenants pay by card, you receive automatic transfers. You keep 90%, we take 10%.\n\n## 💡 Why We Built This\n\nBefore Wand, we built a DevOps startup together. But we wanted to work on something with deeper impact—something that could actually move the needle on climate.\n\nThen we saw this stat:\n\n**55% of electricity in the U.S. is used in rental properties.**\n\nYet solar adoption in rentals is almost nonexistent—because of the **split incentive problem**: landlords pay for solar, but tenants get the savings.\n\nIt’s a broken system. And it’s a massive opportunity—both for reducing carbon emissions and unlocking billions in untapped properties across the entire value chain.\n\nWe built Wand to fix it. Now, landlords can finally earn from solar, and tenants still benefit from clean, affordable energy. Win-win.\n\n🚀 [Use Our Solar Income Calculator to See How Much You Could Earn—in Seconds.](https://www.wandsolar.com/real-estate)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89699&key=user_uploads/1014551/e1089a7c-f5b5-494e-ab45-6ef4458b85d4)\n\n## 🏁 Ready to Boost Your Income?\n\n☀️ **Already have solar?**\n\n[Sign up now](http://app.wandsolar.com/signup) and **get your first month free.**\n\n_shoot us an email at _[_founders@wandsolar.com_](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)_ after you sign up to claim it._\n\n🔧 **No solar yet?**\n\nWe’ll connect you with trusted installers—schedule a call or drop us a line \\*\\*[**here**](https://www.wandsolar.com/schedule-a-call).\n\n**Wand Solar — Utility-style billing for landlords with solar.**\n\nCheck us out → [www.wandsolar.com](http://www.wandsolar.com)\n\n📬 Questions? [founders@wandsolar.com](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NKl-wand-solar-utility-style-solar-billing-for-landlords", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2025-04-21T14:30:32.587Z" }, { "id": 65694, "title": "🛡 Allero - Open source project that protects your production CI/CD pipelines", "tagline": "We scanned many OSS project and found tons of CI/CD pipelines which are not protected. Allero is here to protect them all.", "body": "### **Hey Fam! 👋**\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io/).\n\n### **📣 TL;DR**\n\n**We scanned public repositories of FreeCodeCamp, Medium, Supabase, Posthog, and many more. Guess what we found out?!**\n\n[Allero](https://github.com/allero-io/allero) is an open source () CLI policy enforcement tool that protects your production CI/CD pipeline. CI/CD pipelines tend to be messy, and there are so many variations of pipeline manifests spread across different repositories. This makes it difficult to ensure security, code quality, and compliance standards are in place in every pipeline.\n\nBy running Allero, you can easily reveal and prevent problematic pipelines across multiple organizations and repositories.🏁\n\n### **👩🏽‍💻Who is it for**\n\nYou are a DevOps engineer or a platform engineer responsible for CI/CD pipelines in your company. You have at least a few dozen pipelines, and they are complex as hell! You obviously spend so much time managing and maintaining them, which is a total nightmare. Why? because you need to ensure that the code they deliver is bug-free, not vulnerable, scalable, and ready for production.\n\n**We already found many problematic pipelines in open-source projects, and we are 100% sure there are many of them out there!**\n\n* [Medium](https://github.com/Medium/jupyterhub/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml#L141) - When using npm in CI, in order to avoid surprises in dependencies’ versions, you should always use `npm ci` instead of `npm install`\n* [Supabase](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml#L42) - When using `npm ci` / `npm install` without `--ignore-scripts` - you risk running unknown scripts injected by your dependencies - which may be malicious.\n\n**Are you sure you don’t have them as well? Go ahead and see for yourself** **with** **our** [**CLI**](https://github.com/allero-io/allero#%EF%B8%8F-one-minute-installation-to-run-allero-validation-on-a-daily-basis-most-recommended)**!**\n\n**Wanna help us out?**\n\nWould love for you to run our tool, and to hear your thoughts! If you’re missing any rules, please reach out to us at [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io) or just create a [new issue](https://github.com/allero-io/allero/issues/new) in our repo!\n\nIf you found this helpful, would love you to share it with your friends. Also, a GitHub Star goes a long way in helping our journey. 🌟", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H5a-allero-open-source-project-that-protects-your-production-ci-cd-pipelines", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2022-08-29T17:35:55.185Z" }, { "id": 64859, "title": "Allero - Prevent Non-compliant Code from Reaching Production", "tagline": "With Allero, only high quality and secure code makes it to production.", "body": "### Hey Fam! 👋\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io).\n\n### 📣 TL;DR\n\n[Allero](https://allero.io) scans your code delivery processes (aka CI/CD pipelines) to verify that security, code quality, and compliance checks are in place and that only valid code reaches production. 🏁\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/711f2234-57e1-44b6-8dd5-c9e678973107)\n\n## 📖 Our Story\n\nItai and I both have been engineers for most of our careers. During my years at Microsoft, I worked with lots of companies who developed microservices in the cloud. While microservices bring lots of advantages, they also come with a lot of complexity - as there are so many of them, often by the hundreds.\n\nHundreds of microservices means hundreds of delivery processes - a significant bottleneck with DevOps engineers. I witnessed developers ending up developing their own delivery processes (CI/CD), while the DevOps team owns the process organization-wise and provides guidance to developers.\n\nThis poses a huge challenge for companies (and in particular DevOps and Platform Engineers) to ensure CI/CD pipelines are up to security, quality and compliance standards.\n\nAs a result, companies are forced to allocate significant engineering resources to deal with incidents like data breaches, complex rollbacks due to bugs, long delivery times, etc.\n\n## 🤯 We solve it with one simple CLI tool!\n\n**Manage your deployment risks with us!**\n\n* ✔️ Simply query pipelines to ensure they are up to security, compliance, and quality standards, across the entire organization.\n* 📊 Gain visibility into your pipelines across multiple SCM and CI/CD platforms in one single tool.\n* 🏃 Simplicity is our thing. Just download the CLI, generate a token, and start querying pipelines.\n\n**For example:**\n\n* Verify that every pipeline implements Snyk / SonarQube / unit/integration tests. (or any other tool!)\n* Make sure binaries are not being published to the wrong destinations.\n* Get the top 10 pipelines that fail the most / are the slowest.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/eae5776e-8ef1-4b8d-8b5c-49f1cda57bca)\n\n**Sounds interesting? Wanna try our alpha version? Check out our** [**Website**](https://allero.io)**,** [Sign Up,](https://www.allero.io/waiting-list) and start gaining trust in your code delivery processes again.\n\n## 🤝 Don’t have this problem but wanna help us out?\n\nWe would love to talk with Platform and DevOps Engineers\n\n* **Who work for companies that develop microservices.**\n* **With at least 150+ Engineering team.**\n* **Cares about having a healthy and secure production.**\n\nShoot us an intro email to [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gs7-allero-prevent-non-compliant-code-from-reaching-production", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2022-07-25T15:25:53.546Z" } ] }, { "id": 27862, "name": "Bluedot", "slug": "bluedot", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8fd6f1d5fb7457d7a65b3b8719a1b2c7f07928b.png", "website": "https://thebluedot.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets. They're growing 40-45% weekly and made $110K GMV last week.\r\n\r\nOver 50% of vehicles sold will be electric by 2030. The payments management infrastructure for EV charging and the expenses doesn’t exist at the moment. The founders operated 100+ EV charging stations, worked in companies like Zipcar, Bosch, and Mercedes, and faced this problem through their own experiences. They built a team with a strong fintech background and publicly launched their Bluedot card on Dec 14th, 2022.\r\n\r\nBluedot has raised their pre-seed from Y Combinator, Axel Springer, Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, and Pritchard Automotive. ", "one_liner": "Bluedot is a single payment platform for EV drivers and fleets.", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1677704231, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Climate", "Transportation", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bluedot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/bluedot.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluedottechnologies/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thebluedot_co", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8fd6f1d5fb7457d7a65b3b8719a1b2c7f07928b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 711267, "full_name": "Selinay Parlak", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinayfilizparlak/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/selinayfilizp", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6bb9fdc713e01ad2bf6caf255ded6a8da3716f9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 711269, "full_name": "Ferhat Babacan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I’m co-founder and CEO of Bluedot. I was working at Zipcar and Bosch before starting Bluedot. I’m a former national volleyball player in Turkey. \n\nI did in high school by feeding worms at home, I received awards from many companies such as Google and Microsoft at the age of 14. As a university climate activist, I participated in many studies. I dropped out of the Munich Technical University, where I went for my master's degree, and we founded Bluedot with my high school friend Selinay.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferhatbabacan/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ferhaatbabacaan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a8121f5ad1611054208685c0051910e1f1218fbf.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How credit cards are getting in on the electric vehicle spending trend - MarketWatch", "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-credit-cards-are-getting-in-on-the-electric-vehicle-spending-trend-11644614659?mod=credit-cards", "date": "Feb 17, 2023" }, { "title": "Bluedot's debit card for EV owners offers cheaper charging, cash back • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/bluedots-debit-card-for-ev-owners-offers-cheaper-charging-cash-back/", "date": "Jan 23, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69841, "title": "(🌍) Bluedot - Single payment solution for electric vehicle drivers and fleets", "tagline": "Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n* **What:** [Bluedot](https://thebluedot.co/) is a single payment platform for EV (electric vehicle) drivers and fleets to charge their cars and manage expenses.\n* **Traction:** We continue to grow since launching publicly on December 15. As of Feb. 28, our **GMV was $82K last wee**k, and it’s **growing by 45% weekly**. We have closed 5 fleet companies.\n* **Here’s what one of our EV fleet management customers had to say:**\n\n “We have partnered up with Bluedot to give our drivers a better charging experience and understand charging behavior and optimize it. Our drivers enjoy using Bluedot so far. The charging map is great and makes it easy for me to drive without worrying.” \n\n “They love that they can pay a flat fee at any charging station and pay without having to download numerous apps. Saves money and time!”\n\n### ⏳ **Problem and how fuel card industry is changing**\n\nCurrently, EVs account for 5% of new car sales in the US and the Biden administration has set an ambitious goal to increase the **market share to 50% by 2030.** To encourage EV adoption, the federal government is investing in building 500,000 new public charging stations for these cars. Along the way, the projected spend for all-electric vehicle charging is expected to hit **$25 billion**.\n\nHowever, this transformation comes with some challenges and opportunities around charging and payments, such as:\n\n📱 **Accessibility:** Currently, to charge their cars, drivers need 5-6 different apps & cards to find and pay at charging stations. This is especially inefficient and difficult for fleet drivers who need to charge frequently.\n\n📊 **Trackability:** It’s hard for fleet managers and drivers to track charging behavior and spending, which creates an inefficient ecosystem.\n\n🧾 **Reimbursement:** Lack of accessibility and trackability also makes it harder for fleet drivers to get reimbursed for charging expenses. Also, most drivers can charge their cars at home, which adds to reimbursement problems.\n\n### Bluedot aims to address these challenges and help accelerate the transition to EV transportation.\n\n### **💡 How Does Bluedot Work?**\n\n▶️ **Bluedot Driver App:** EV drivers can access 60% of available charging stations and pay with the [Bluedot App](https://bluedot.app.link/SPpSLBVv8ub), while also enjoying savings on auto-related expenses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69841&key=user_uploads/711269/024d8b2f-e99b-44bf-9b06-b368614ec80f)\n\n▶️ **Bluedot Dashboard:** Fleet managers can monitor and authenticate driver permissions, as well as gain better visibility into charging and driving behavior, helping to improve fleet efficiency and control costs.\n\n### **👥 Bluedot Crew**\n\n> ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/825Nr_5QT2HD7fYmh4DKuM9NiifgbBP7hNua8V_VxG2pwDcRE7KFieNd_FHkLSy_wCZLjcEAhg8sVfo_SDcwa3dJ3MwKVlPVlcq7rGrYtp5BgtKyz0HuHvdXiH-fKyHsgLDc4rzhQqwgZTOa2kBKUkQ)\n\n\n_From our Bluedot Exclusive event for our drivers_\n\nOur team comprises long-time friends Ferhat and Selinay, who have known each other since high school. Ferhat has worked at reputable car and mobility companies such as **Zipcar, Bosch**, and **Mercedes-Benz**. Meanwhile, Selinay has worked on multiple EV projects and has been recognized by **Business Insider as a Rising Star in the EV Industry**. She was also nominated as Women4Climate by C40 cities.\n\nEmre and Yunus, our technical leads, have built applications that have reached 3 millions users without a marketing budget. Our team is characterized by our grit and perseverance, and we pride ourselves on acting fast and building faster. \n\nWe are backed by investors including Axel Springer and Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, Eksim Ventures and Pritchard Automotive.\n\n### **🙏🏼 Ask**\n\nWe are expanding and distributing our offering through auto dealers, auto financing companies, fleet management and delivery companies.\n\nWe want to learn more about how they currently manage charging and if they could benefit from payments platform and dashboard.\n\nAlso, try our product and let us know your feedback! If you want to reach out, here is our e-mail: [founders@thebluedot.co](mailto:founders@thebluedot.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAT-bluedot-single-payment-solution-for-electric-vehicle-drivers-and-fleets", "votes": 99, "created_at": "2023-03-01T20:25:28.552Z" } ] }, { "id": 27878, "name": "RUUF", "slug": "ruuf", "former_names": [ "Ruuf" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4a9ecc0033d5bfee665cac41bbb93d0a33181c19.png", "website": "https://www.ruuf.cl", "all_locations": "Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile", "long_description": "We offer no-money-down installations that generate free money for homeowners from day one. We are digitalizing the whole process of going solar. Instead of using traditional forms and leaving it up to customers to fill them, we use technology to take all that burden off our customers plate. 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If you have connections to the following groups, we’d love the introductions!\n\n* asset managers / battery owners\n* utilities\n\nFeel free to send me a DM on LinkedIn to get in touch: \n\n### **Quick Links:**\n\nWebsite: [https://www.keelinglabs.com](https://www.keelinglabs.com/)\n\nContact Us: \n\nJoin Our Team: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hs7-keeling-labs-applied-ai-for-batteries-in-the-grid", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2023-01-25T16:33:06.343Z" } ] }, { "id": 29089, "name": "Line.Build", "slug": "line-build", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/02320662022f49489050fc19df1ac3ad750c205e.png", "website": "https://www.line.build/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Line.Build is software for contractors to seamlessly find and apply for financing and rebates for energy efficiency upgrades. 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We consolidate the thousands of rebates, incentives, and green financing options for energy efficiency upgrades, and make it easy for contractors to secure funding for their customers.\n\n**We’re looking for intros to HVAC installers and electrification services for our pilot**. And if you’re thinking about getting a heat pump, we’d love to help you find and apply for rebates and other incentives. Get in touch at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nWith buildings accounting for almost 40% of US GHG emissions, retrofitting for efficiency is essential to reduce emissions and load on the grid, but expensive. Over $80B of rebates, incentives and financing is available but hyper-fragmented across utilities, federal funds, grants, and green lending programs. Contractors are often responsible for helping consumers navigate this fragmented landscape - not only does their consumer demand it, but many sources of funding require it. 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We knew that funds such as utility rebates were available, but were surprised at how hard the process of discovering and applying for them is – so we decided to help solve that! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72550&key=user_uploads/1432654/96e73cbe-5f05-4084-b4bc-890df449174a)\n\n### **Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to contractors such as HVAC installers, residential solar companies, electricians or whole home electrification contractors to try out our pilot\n * _quick blurb to copy & paste:_ [Line](https://www.line.build/?utm_source=YCLaunch&utm_medium=post) is a new tool that creates a single source of truth for all available funding options for home energy efficiency projects. They help access sources of funds to reduce project cost and increase conversion. 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A GW facility requires a staggering $10-20 billion investment before purchasing any servers or switches.\n\n**🔌 Power:** \n\nPower capacity is the primary constraint in building new data centers. Real estate with high-power infrastructure and power availability is extremely high in demand.\n\n**💧 Water:**\n\nSince water usage doesn’t affect net-zero carbon goals, most hyperscalers prioritize energy efficiency by using water-intensive evaporative cooling systems. This approach is facing scrutiny, as evidenced by [Google's recent permit](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chile-partially-pulls-google-data-center-permit-seeks-tougher-environmental-2024-02-27/) issues in Chile. \n\n# **Solution: 🌊**\n\n**Underwater data centers.** \n\n1. They’re cheaper to build than on-land data centers, significantly reducing costs in land, building, and cooling infrastructure. \n2. 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Eric has patented a renewable energy device and developed various CV and LLM applications at Cornell, Merge, and Palantir. Sam, to fund his ocean tech ambitions, built various startups and hardware projects, most recently exiting a hiring marketplace for creators. A year ago, he built and deployed a floating web server that hosted our site in a port in the bay. \n\n### **Asks:**\n\nAs of this launch, **we have 2,048 H100s available NOW.**\n\n[Reserve 1-2,048 H100s](http://networkocean.io), minimum 1 week reserved, ≤ $2.10 / GPU / hr\n\nWe can operate GPUs cheaper than anyone else, but we will be constrained by capacity. 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Many of these devices find a second life on the resale market, extending their usefulness and reducing their environmental footprint.\n\nHowever, the process – inspection, data-wiping, reprogramming, and packaging – is **extremely** **tedious and time-consuming**, limiting how many devices can actually re-enter circulation.\n\nWe’re changing that. With robotics, computer vision, and AI, we’re breaking down these barriers and advancing a more circular electronics industry 💻\n\nWe just completed our first pilot project last month, and we are excited to be iterating and gearing up for our second pilot at the end of February!\n\n**Ask**: Introductions to e-waste recycling facilities or IT asset management/disposition companies. Please reach out if there’s someone you think we should speak to! [rupesh@reviserobotics.com](mailto:rupesh@reviserobotics.com) \n\n# **Full Demo Video**\n\n[**https://youtu.be/QMFTsSG-FyQ**](https://youtu.be/QMFTsSG-FyQ)\n\n# **Still Shot**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87007&key=user_uploads/943950/ca646ef9-8d31-4865-93cd-6b629a1612c3)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MdL-revise-robotics-automated-electronics-refurbishment", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-01-21T16:43:12.194Z" } ] }, { "id": 30202, "name": "Astro", "slug": "astro", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/988eb2e2b20c2a99fe4d96b54932cdebea0632d4.png", "website": "https://www.astroenergy.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Astro develops power-ready land for AI data centers. Power is now the bottleneck for new data centers, and Astro’s models find the sites that have it. 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Most potential locations are unprofitable because developers discover too late that they need to spend millions upgrading power lines and infrastructure for grid connection. Traditional energy developers spend months evaluating single locations, only to have projects die when they discover these hidden costs.\n\n**The Solution**\\\nAstro’s proprietary AI models predict these grid connection costs upfront, enabling it to buy the most profitable land before costs increase. Astro’s models handle all the early development work - from finding the right location to securing grid connection agreements - creating a pipeline of development-ready projects that larger energy companies can immediately start building.\n\n**Backstory**\\\nI’m Alex, I studied physics + computer science at Stanford and was an energy trader at Citadel. While trading energy markets, I discovered that power grid congestion patterns are highly predictable - but developers aren’t using this data. This insight led me to build models that identify the best land to buy and prepare for larger developers to build on.\n\n**Ask**\\\nWe’re looking to connect with:\n\n* Energy companies interested in buying development-ready projects (land secured + grid connection approved)\n* Landowners and brokers near major transmission lines in central Illinois\n* Power systems engineers with interconnection study experience\n\nIf you’re interested in accelerating the clean energy transition or have expertise in any of these areas, I’d love to chat! You can reach me at [alex@astroenergy.ai](mailto:alex@astroenergy.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87853&key=user_uploads/89898/f2583845-46e4-471f-8932-1fbc09d4e105)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mqz-astro-the-world-s-first-ai-energy-developer", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2025-02-20T17:18:28.843Z" } ] }, { "id": 30781, "name": "Duranium", "slug": "duranium", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2a84608596d6e85a1a64227a175491ef9496eb22.png", "website": "https://www.duranium.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "China and Russia control the world’s critical minerals. We can produce Titanium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Zirconium & Hafnium in the U.S. more profitably than any existing process, and carbon neutrally via co-production.\r\n\r\nCarbochlorination is the primary process for producing critical metals like titanium, hafnium, and zirconium, and was once the standard for magnesium. The problem: conventional carbochlorination relies on purchasing carbon feedstocks, wastes valuable byproducts, and is highly CO₂-intensive.\r\n\r\nDuranium changes this with a novel reactor that recycles CO₂ emissions back into feedstock (CO) while generating a valuable co-product (bleaching agents). This closed loop slashes emissions and delivers Chinese-level metal pricing without subsidies — unlocking the full potential of carbochlorination for U.S. critical mineral production.", "one_liner": "Reshoring critical metal production", "team_size": 12, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "launched_at": 1757191317, "tags": [ "Manufacturing", "Advanced Materials", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Manufacturing and Robotics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/duranium", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/duranium.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/duraniumlabs/about/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2a84608596d6e85a1a64227a175491ef9496eb22.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/4f169782511f31df122e36a7e40d55cfbfe2dda3.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2509424, "full_name": "Brenden Prins-McKinney", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO of Duranium, working to reshore critical metal production. Previously a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in D.C., where I advised the DoD on reshoring critical chemical production. Graduate of Stanford Law School where I was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenden-prins-mckinney-96959a69/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/af5542d9d05f59e1ba7fd4a89578786de67eb41e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2570104, "full_name": "Berkley Noble", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO of Duranium, working to reshore critical metal production. My expertise lies in molten-salt electrolysis. I hold a a patent for an electrochemical metal cell and built the only U.S. pilot magnesium electrolyzer in the last 20+ years.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkleynoble/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8d7b8cdd1d6993ae48c6b620e0d011ff39d018a5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93706, "title": "Duranium — Reshoring critical metal production", "tagline": "Reshoring critical light-weight metal production (Ti, Mg, Al, Zr, Hf) — more profitably than any other method through modernized carbochlorination and co-production.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93706&key=user_uploads/2509424/cab46185-5d50-4822-bf45-873f52ae6571)\n\n**TL;DR** — **China and Russia control world’s critical minerals. We can produce Titanium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Zirconium & Hafnium in the U.S. more profitably than any existing process, and carbon neutrally. On track to supply 12% of U.S. magnesium by 2029, at 50%+ EBITDA margins (@ world’s lowest mkt prices).**\n\nHi all, we’re Berkley and Brenden of Duranium, and we’re delivering American critical mineral independence with a light-weight metal production process that competes globally without subsidies. As brothers-in-law, we’re passionate about rebuilding the U.S. industrial base — not through taxes and subsidies, but through real technological innovation. Our mission is to help America reclaim its place as the world’s greatest builder of _tangible_ things.\n\n# ❌ The Problem\n\nMagnesium, titanium, aluminum, hafnium, and zirconium are all listed on the DOE’s Critical Minerals List, with magnesium ranked among the highest in both supply risk and strategic importance to U.S. energy security. _The U.S. has zero domestic magnesium production and no titanium sponge production — yet both are indispensable for fighter jets, missiles, satellites, rockets, and advanced aerospace systems._ \n\nChina and Russia control \\~97% of magnesium and \\~90% of titanium production (directly or indirectly). \n\nOn top of that, U.S. magnesium costs nearly 3x the global average, and legacy methods are CO₂-intensive and waste valuable byproducts.\n\n# ✨ Our Solution\n\nWe’ve modernized carbochlorination metallurgy (the primary methods for producing many of these critical metals) with a novel reactor and process that:\n\n* Creates a closed-loop system that profitably matches Chinese pricing — without subsidies — and slashes emissions\n* Recycles CO₂ emissions into CO feedstock\n* Generates a valuable co-product (bleaching agents)\n\nOthers are trying to reinvent lightweight metal production from scratch with approaches that are costly and dependent on government subsidies or green premiums to hit profitability. Our approach is different: we harness the laws of thermodynamics instead of fighting them, co-producing valuable outputs that make the economics best-in-class.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93706&key=user_uploads/2509424/38fd63f0-e5a7-4f91-88cf-ad06c8b7e01a)\n\n# 🏆 What we’ve achieved so far and where we’re headed\n\n* We’ve proven the process at benchtop scale, producing magnesium, bleaching agents, and converting CO₂ produced by carbochlorination into CO\n* We are now scaling with the build of a pilot facility to be operational by June 2026\n* We’re on track to supply 12% of U.S. magnesium by 2029, at 50%+ EBITDA margins (@ world’s lowest mkt prices)\n\n# 👥 Our Team\n\nBerkley, CTO — A leading American expert in magnesium production; holds a patent for an electrochemical metal cell and built the _only_ U.S. pilot magnesium electrolyzer in the last 20+ years. Brings unmatched technical depth in lightweight metal production\n\nBrenden, CEO — Former McKinsey D.C. consultant, where he advised the DoD on reshoring critical chemical production and spent 1 year with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Ex-Goldman TMT investment banker, Stanford Law graduate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93706&key=user_uploads/2509424/babe8628-8537-44c5-aa1a-daecb483c077)\n\n## 🙏 Asks\n\nJoin our team! We’re looking for engineers with experience in high-temperature or corrosive reactors. 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We're starting with clearing overcast clouds above utility-scale solar farms to increase their annual generation by 10–30% with no new infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to scale this system to weaken severe storms and hurricanes. First large-scale cloud clearing flight in 2027 and first storm flight in 2028.\n\nHey everyone! We’re [Mete](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mete-karslioglu) and [Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nilsson-2b3775254), and we’re building drones to engineer clouds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111583&key=user_uploads/2005935/5c79de40-e828-4e83-aff5-e1ae0feb3dc4)\n\n⚡ **Starting with solar**\n\nAI has created an enormous demand for power, and solar is scaling exponentially. [US utility-scale solar capacity is set to double by 2030](https://cleanpower.org/resources/market-pulse-utility-scale-solar-summer-2026), and [the world will add 2+ TW](https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2025/renewable-electricity) over the same period.\n\nBut building new capacity is getting harder and less profitable. Only [\\~14% of US utility-scale solar projects](https://emp.lbl.gov/queues) actually get built and [773 GW is already waiting in interconnection queues](https://emp.lbl.gov/queues). \n\nAt the same time, generation costs are rising as tax credits are overhauled and tariffs increase material prices. This makes each additional MWh generated from an existing plant more valuable.\n\n[Low and mid-level overcast clouds cut incoming sunlight by 73–82%](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0038092X80903916) while they’re overhead. We recover that without building new infrastructure. \n\n🌤 **What we're building**\n\nFleets of 10s-100s of autonomous drones that fly into low and mid-altitude clouds (1–5 km) over a solar farm and alter the water droplets that form them without using any chemicals. This reduces their reflectivity and brings back measurable amounts of sunlight to the panels below.\n\nOur cloud-loss model shows that this process can increase annual generation from existing assets by 10–30% across major US grid regions, worth \\~$5,000–28,000/MW, without building any new infrastructure.\n\n⚙️ **Traction**\n\n* Built a working prototype that dissipated an artificial cloud by 13% in cloud-chamber tests\n* Built a cloud-loss model that quantifies how much generation a given US solar plant is losing to the clouds we can treat\n\n👉 **Why now**\n\n* Cloud access got \\~97% cheaper: conventional seeding aircrafts cost $2,000+/hr; electric drones are at $30–60/hr. \n* AI is transforming weather forecasting: DeepMind's weather models produce [15-day forecasts in less than a minute](https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/) and [outperform traditional physics-based models on more than 90% of benchmarks](https://developers.google.com/weathernext/guides/evals).\n\n🎯 **Weakening storms and hurricanes**\n\nOur ultimate goal is to reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes.\n\nSevere weather has already cost the US [$31.9B in the first half of 2026](https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters), and from 2020 to 2024 severe storms, floods, and tropical cyclones caused [an average of \\~$121B/yr in losses](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/summary-stats). Severe storms alone generated [$50B+/yr in insured losses for the past three years](https://www.iii.org/press-release/triple-i-severe-convective-storms-generate-more-than-50b-in-insured-losses-for-third-consecutive-year-041326). There's now [a billion-dollar weather disaster every 16 days vs. every 82 days in the 1980s](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/climatology).\n\nGlobally, these disasters caused [over $2T in damage in the past decade](https://iccwbo.org/news-publications/policies-reports/new-report-extreme-weather-events-cost-economy-2-trillion-over-the-last-decade) and claimed [more than 2 million lives in the past 50 years](https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136897). \n\nClearing stable overcast clouds is our first major technical milestone. It will prove we can reliably alter clouds at scale. From there, we’ll expand our fleets and control systems to reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes. 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The US produces enough biogas to make over $20 bn/y worth of chemicals, but 60% is wasted in low-margin applications or flared altogether.\n\nRise Reforming is commercializing a modular process to transform this underutilized biogas into valuable supply-secure chemicals like dimethyl ether (DME) and methanol. Our technology can be deployed on-site, helping biogas producers properly valorize their gas.\n\nWe've just broken ground on our pilot project at a Chicagoland wastewater plant. This will be the first wastewater biogas-to-methanol demo in the Americas.\n\nRise Reforming is hiring for a senior chemical process engineer. Apply here: \n\nVideo: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105232&key=user_uploads/3620299/89d6b5de-3729-4019-a87f-0fe27a549152)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105232&key=user_uploads/3620299/b4ac7aec-afea-4a96-9174-ae6202812c2f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RNI-rise-reforming-distributed-chemical-production", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-07-13T14:13:24.467Z" } ] } ]