• EnergySavvy Raises $315K For One Stop Shop For Home Energy Smarts

    Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

    Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    EnergySavvy, a one stop shop web application that helps homeowners become more energy efficient, has raised $315K in new financing from a number of angel investors, including Mike Galgon, founder of aQuantive led this round; and Karl Siebrecht, CEO of AdReady. The startup previously raised $580k in seed financing last year.

    Seattle-based EnergySavvy allows users to quickly get an energy score for their homes plus an estimate of their potential for energy savings. The application actually builds a simulation of your home and then compares it to an ideally energy efficient version of your home. The site will then find all applicable tax credits and rebates and make a slew of recommendations to help your home become more energy efficient.

    The company also licenses its software out to energy companies that want to provide their customers with a way become more energy-efficient. EnergySavvy’s first SaaS customer, Next Step Living, launches a customized embedded online energy audit tool today. The new funding will be used to scale EnergySavvy’s offerings to other large SaaS customers.

    EnergySavvy faces competition from Google Powermeter, Microsoft Hohm, and Apogee.

    Company: EnergySavvy.com
    Website: energysavvy.com
    Launch Date: 2008
    Funding: $2M

    EnergySavvy.com’s mission is to make energy efficiency easy for homeowners. Homeowners can quickly and easily model their home’s energy use by using our web-based energy audit. The audit gives a report with an energy score as well as an estimate of their potential for energy savings. From there, it’s a one stop shop. EnergySavvy makes it easy to get applicable tax credits and rebates, find financing and get bids from screened expert energy contractors to improve their...

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