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Gridware (YC W21) — Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible.

Gridware is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow. The founders listed are Tim Barat (Founder), Omar B (Founder), Hall Chen (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 19, 2021).

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Gridware

New accelerator entry · 2021-02-19 · the record

Winter 2021
batch
125
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2021
Announced2021-02-19
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size125
IndustryIndustrials
Sub-industryIndustrials -> Energy
SectorsHardware, Climate, Energy, Enterprise Software
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://www.gridware.io

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Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid is compromised, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages, and other related disasters, from happening at all. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in San Francisco

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