Green Energy Exchange YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Green Energy Exchange went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2019
Industry: IndustrialsEnergy
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

patrick WoodsonFounder

What Green Energy Exchange does

The Green Energy Exchange delivers affordable renewable energy direct to homes and businesses. The company offers the most affordable green energy plans in the market and is dedicated to increasing the demand for renewable energy by offering to clean energy at affordable prices. By removing middleman and inefficiencies we can provide lower prices to consumers, higher revenues to generators and help increase the adoption of clean energy sources. Empowering people to buy renewable energy at great prices will help move us to a cleaner and greener future. We are a licensed retail electric provider and operate in Texas currently.

Green Energy Exchange's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Green Energy Exchange, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Green Energy Exchange

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Affordable direct renewable energy sales

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a platform that sells renewable energy directly to homes and businesses in Texas. We remove middlemen to offer the lowest prices to consumers while increasing revenue for clean energy generators. It's a licensed retail electric provider service focused on making renewables cheaper and more accessible.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and operate in Austin, TX, and the company remains based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Austin is a prime energy market with deregulated electricity, making it the best place to launch and scale a licensed retail energy provider focused on renewables.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Green Energy Exchange YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Green Energy Exchange's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Green Energy Exchange would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.