Ohmconnect
Ohmconnect is building software based power plants. We pay users to reduce their electricity instead of having to pay the most inefficient power plants to turn on several times a week. By hooking into the internet of things, we automatically turn down users' wi-fi thermostats (ie Nest), electric cars (ie Tesla), and home automation tools (ie Belkin); our superusers manually turn down for additional savings. Ohmconnect helps the electricity grid when it is strained and reduces the collective footprint of our energy usage. During the peak times, the dirtiest, most environmentally unfriendly ("peaker") plants must turn on for supply to meet demand. Instead, by having thousands of users reduce in localized areas, we can mitigate the need for these plants while maintaining stability to the grid.
- Industry: Energy
- Year Started: 2013
- Organization Type: For-Profit
- # of Employees: 2 ( as of Dec 31, 2013)
Matt Duesterberg
CEO
Matt Duesterberg is co-founder and CEO of Ohmconnect. Ohmconnect connects the smart home to the smart grid, making it dead simple for users to participate in demand response events daily. Previously, he ran the data science division at utility meter data analytics company, DataRaker, which got acquired by Oracle in 2013. He got his start in the energy industry via finance; he traded futures for electricity flows for a small quantitative trading firm, DC Energy. He has an MS from Stanford and a BS from UVA.
- Age: 40
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
Curtis Tongue
CMO
Curt left his position as Director of Business Development at Bleu SF to found Karbon Karma, a startup that tracked a user’s scope 1 and scope 2 carbon footprint. A UC Berkeley grad, Curt previously spent seven years positioning and marketing high impact initiatives for companies like Google, HP, and Cisco.
- Age: 40
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
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