WattBuy Secures $3.25 Million Series A Funding For Electricity Innovation

 WattBuy, an online electricity marketplace for consumers, announced it has raised $3.25 million in its Series A round of funding led by Evergy Ventures. Additional investors include Updater, Avesta Fund, Yoav Lurie, John Sherman, and Bill Gatreaux. Existing investors also participating in this round include Fort Ventures, Techstars Ventures and Powerhouse Ventures. 

Each investor brings a significant track record in supporting innovative companies that create solutions to decarbonize and democratize the energy value chain.

“We are thrilled to have leading energy technology investors recognize WattBuy’s contributions to energy innovation,” said Naman Trivedi, CEO and co-founder of WattBuy. “These funds enable us to expand our turnkey API offering within market leading real estate platforms like Updater as well as personal finance companies and energy services businesses. We’re enabling enterprises to launch their own renewable electricity marketplaces that can increase value to their existing customers.”

WattBuy’s Series A funding round follows the successful launch of the first ever calculator to estimate the electricity cost and carbon footprint impact for nearly every home in the United States. This calculator incorporates several open and proprietary data sources to build a machine learning model that takes location, building characteristics, and weather data as inputs, and returns an hourly electricity usage prediction. WattBuy will continue to improve this machine learning model with the funding from this round.

“Moving signals an important inflection point for electricity – the start and stop of service,” said David Greenberg, founder and CEO of Updater. “WattBuy’s transparent full-market views and innovative purchase experience will allow Updater movers nationwide to shop for and turn on electricity more efficiently than ever before. We’re thrilled to partner with WattBuy on such a compelling use case.”

Earlier this year, WattBuy initiated a Schmidt Futures-funded project in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to create the nation’s first complete, up-to-date database of electricity rates.

Since its founding in 2017, WattBuy has raised a total of $5 million in venture funding. The company closed its $1.5 million seed round in July 2019.