Y Combinator Energy Startups

51 Y Combinator-backed Energy companies across 26 batches — with batch, status, and location for every startup.

Total
51
Active
40
Acquired
4
Public
1
Shut down
6

Y Combinator has backed 51 Energy companies across 26 batches. Of these, 40 are still active, 4 have been acquired, 1 have gone public, and 6 have shut down. Below is every YC-backed Energy startup grouped by batch, with links to each company profile.

YC Winter 2026 — 6 Energy startups

  • Terranox AI — The first AI-powered uranium discovery company
  • RoboDock — Robots that run autonomous depots for autonomous fleets.
  • Voxel Energy — Energy independent data centers with solar and repurposed batteries.
  • Inviscid AI — Real-time Physics Simulations for Industrial Facilities & Data Centers
  • Squid — AI agents for power grid planning 🦑
  • Condor Energy — Software for enterprise energy procurement.

YC Spring 2026 — 2 Energy startups

YC Summer 2026 — 3 Energy startups

  • Maingen — Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies
  • Atomarine — Floating nuclear powered data centers at sea.
  • Marengo — AI-Native Engineering Firm designing Data Centers

YC Fall 2026 — 1 Energy startups

  • Talos — Predictive maintenance for power infrastructure.

YC Winter 2025 — 2 Energy startups

YC Fall 2025 — 1 Energy startups

  • Zephyr Fusion — Powering tomorrow's industrial revolution in space

YC Spring 2025 — 1 Energy startups

  • NODI Energy — Distributed energy infrastructure unlocking grid power to data centers

YC Summer 2024 — 2 Energy startups

  • Ionworks — Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies
  • Rewbi — A stealth mode startup.

YC Winter 2024 — 1 Energy startups

  • Vista Power — Batteries and solar for $0 upfront to help businesses save money

YC Winter 2023 — 1 Energy startups

  • Atmeto — We develop ML that optimizes how batteries in the grid store energy

YC Summer 2023 — 1 Energy startups

  • Nectar — Manage energy cost & usage with AI for facility & sustainability teams

YC Winter 2022 — 2 Energy startups

  • KorrAI — Traceable AI for billion-dollar infrastructure.
  • Phoenix Hydrogen — First commodity marketplace for hydrogen.

YC Summer 2022 — 2 Energy startups

  • Evoly — Smart electric & water meters as a service
  • MaverickX — Engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction

YC Winter 2021 — 5 Energy startups

  • Gridware — Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow
  • Moxion Power Co. — Mobile Energy Storage Technology
  • Aurabeat — Providing clean, safe, virus free air for homes, buildings and cars
  • Enode — Energy Orchestration Platform
  • inBalance — Electricity price forecasts for energy storage, ev charging, etc.

YC Summer 2021 — 3 Energy startups

  • Kapacity.io — Reducing energy costs & emissions in buildings.
  • Ferveret — Nuclear-inspired cooling that turns wasted power into more AI compute
  • HeyCharge — Low-cost, high-scale EV charging platform for apartments (and more).

YC Winter 2020 — 1 Energy startups

  • SINAI — Enterprise software to quantify cost-effective decarbonization…

YC Summer 2020 — 2 Energy startups

YC Winter 2019 — 2 Energy startups

  • Green Energy Exchange — We deliver affordable renewable energy direct to customers and are…
  • Prometheus — We use solar and wind power to make zero net carbon electrofuels

YC Summer 2019 — 1 Energy startups

  • Kitekraft — Building flying wind turbines.

YC Summer 2017 — 2 Energy startups

  • NextDrop — NextDrop is the water marketplace for urban India. We connect water…
  • Sunfolding — Sunfolding builds next generation infrastructure for solar farms. By…

YC Winter 2017 — 1 Energy startups

  • Nuvola — Nuvola is transforming battery manufacturing, making EV batteries…

YC Winter 2016 — 2 Energy startups

  • MineralSoft — Data management platform for oil & gas assets
  • Carbic — using ultrasonics + ml to analyze fluid behavior at infrastructure…

YC Summer 2016 — 2 Energy startups

  • Validere — A carbon MRV solution for energy and hard-to-abate sectors
  • GTRACK Technologies — Nanoparticle tracers for reservoir characterization during hydraulic…

YC Winter 2015 — 1 Energy startups

  • Bright — Sunrun for the developing world

YC Summer 2015 — 2 Energy startups

  • Reach — Long range, wireless energy distribution that scales
  • Oolu — Oolu is one of the fastest growing off-grid solar firms in West Africa

YC Summer 2014 — 2 Energy startups

  • Helion Energy — Building the world's first fusion power plant
  • Oklo — Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.

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