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Pylon (YC S21) — Infrastructure management software for water & electricity companies

Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for reducing their losses as well as opening new revenue streams. These losses are coming from leakages, consumption thefts, and uncollected bills, amongst others.

Pylon is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Infrastructure management software for water & electricity companies. The founders listed are Ahmed Ashour (Founder), Omar Radi (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 30, 2021).

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Pylon

New accelerator entry · 2021-07-30 · the record

Summer 2021
batch
72
people
Early
stage
Egypt
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2021
Announced2021-07-30
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size72
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
SectorsEnterprise Software
RegionsEgypt, Middle East and North Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedCairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.pylonump.com/
Founded2017
YC group partnerNicolas Dessaigne

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Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for reducing their losses as well as opening new revenue streams. These losses are coming from leakages, consumption thefts, and uncollected bills, amongst others. We have signed 11 utilities onto our platform across 2 countries and connected our systems to over 560k endpoints.

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