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Sunrun

600 California St #1800, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States

Overview

Sunrun is a United States-based provider of residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners. It invented a model known as solar service allowing homeowners to pay for the power, not the panels. It owns, maintains, and monitors the system while homeowners pay for the electricity it produces at a low, locked-in rate, saving them money over time. Sunrun operates in twelve states that include Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Connecticut. Each business day it puts 2 million U.S. dollars’ worth of solar onto people’s roofs and facilitates one solar installation every 10 minutes. The company’s network of over 30 solar installers employs more than 3,000 people. Sunrun was founded in 2007 by Edward Fenster, Lynn Jurich, and Nat Kreamer. It is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Battery
  • Clean Energy
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar
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Investment portfolio

  • Lunar Energy

    Participated · Series D · Feb 2026

    Lunar Energy builds an ecosystem of all-electric residential products, anchored by its proprietary home battery hardware and Gridshare optimization software that turns households into nodes of a virtual power plant. The company’s AI platform manages distributed energy resources, allowing utilities and homeowners to shift and store power intelligently. To date, Lunar Energy has deployed thousands of battery systems in California and remotely manages approximately 650 MW of devices worldwide. Its technology underpins several Sunrun-led power plant projects in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and New England. Fresh capital from its latest rounds brings total new funding to $232 million, positioning the firm to accelerate U.S. hardware rollouts and expand its software footprint. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is led by founder and CEO Kunal Girotra and continues to target affordable, green, and reliable home electrification.

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