Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Emerald AI, founded in 2024 and based in Washington, D.C., develops energy technology for data centers. The company has raised more than $65 million since its founding and has announced a new $90 million financing round. Emerald AI recently landed a deal with Silicon Valley Power and is preparing to participate in Nvidia's 96-megawatt Manassas data center project. The article does not provide revenue, user, or other operating metrics, nor does it detail the company's specific product architecture. It also does not disclose its investors or valuation in connection with the new financing.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2024

Treehouse has built AI models that predict job duration and material needs to minimize truck rolls for residential electrical work, focusing initially on EV charger installs. The company asks customers targeted questions and photos, can do virtual visits, and only sends a truck when necessary. Treehouse is licensed as an electrician and serves as the lead contractor, with independent electricians working as subs; it also employs electricians in California and Colorado. It operates in 40 states today and plans to be in all 50 by the end of the year, and intends to hire electricians in six to eight additional markets. The startup competes with Qmerit, Kopperfield, and Zero Homes and has partnerships with CarMax, Holman, Emporia, Quilt, and ChargePoint. Recent financing will be used to hire engineers and improve the company’s automation and quoting models as it expands geographically. Treehouse is a Detroit-based electrification company that delivers turnkey installations for home EV charging and is led by CEO and co‑founder Eric Owski. Its core product is an Installation-as-a-Service offering that pairs a proprietary network of electricians with automated permit documentation and end-to-end customer journey management. Treehouse's pricing technology provides instant, guaranteed quotes for home charging installation at the point of sale or via API, allowing installation costs to be integrated into vehicle financing. The company also compiles every federal, state, and local incentive for home EV charging to help owners maximize incentives and rate plans. Treehouse intends to use new funding to expand its Installation-as-a-Service to more than 30 states in the next 12 months and to invest in software to extend the offering to other electrification products. The company raised $10M in this funding round.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2023

ChargeLab builds a hardware-agnostic software platform that operates at the edge and in the cloud to deploy and manage large networks of EV chargers for fleets, building operators, and utilities. Key capabilities include automated monitoring of chargers, management of pricing and access rules, payment processing, and electrical load balancing. The company is led by CEO Zak Lefevre and CTO Ehsan Mokhtari. ChargeLab raised an additional $15M in Series A funding, consisting of $10M in new equity and $5M in venture debt, to support growth. The firm intends to use the proceeds to expand its engineering team and introduce new products to market. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. ChargeLab builds a cloud-based charging station management system that runs on the edge and in the cloud and provides apps for EV drivers, dashboards for fleet managers and open APIs for third-party integration. The software is hardware-agnostic and includes automated monitoring, pricing and access rules, payment processing, electrical load balancing and embedded code on chargers to improve security and reliability. ChargeLab works with charger manufacturers (Phihong, United Chargers, Siemens, Tritium) and its tech is white-labeled by charging networks like Girardin Energy, TurnOnGreen and EVStart. The company says its software is currently inside thousands of devices in North America but has not yet surpassed 10,000 chargers. The new funding will help the startup move beyond a seed-stage solution to build SOC 2 compliance, scale to support hundreds of thousands of devices, and meet enterprise needs for large fleets and deployments. ChargeLab has also formed an InfoSec team and built offline behavior and self-healing features to address cybersecurity concerns as chargers become connected. ChargeLab develops a software platform intended to run EV chargers made by many different hardware manufacturers rather than forcing a single closed ecosystem. The company aims to be the ‘Android’ of EV charging software and intends to integrate with manufacturers such as ABB, Schneider Electric and Siemens. ChargeLab already has an agreement with ABB to be their default software provider as ABB launches its next North American charging product. The startup targets operators revamping parking assets—examples cited include REEF and Metropolis—as customers for its charging services. CEO Zachary Lefevre says the company plans future backend integrations with networks like ChargePoint and Electrify America to streamline charging across platforms. Financially, ChargeLab raised $4.3 million in a seed financing and previously raised $1.1 million in a pre-seed round.