SmartHelio — Predictive Solar Software

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Blurb

SmartHelio is software to prevent downtime in a solar plant

HQ Location

Lausanne (Switzerland)

Founded

2019

Employees

22

Total funding raised

$6.51M

Last Funding Event

Seed, $5.00M, December 14, 2022

Smart insights

  • Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
  • Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
  • 6m headcount growth: 25%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 94%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M

SmartHelio, a B Corp-certified AI company, has developed cutting-edge algorithms to enhance the sustainability and profitability of solar assets. Their innovative approach focuses on fault prediction and prescription through predictive maintenance techniques.



Their software offers two essential products: a climate risk assessment tool for investors, providing long-term solar forecasting based on climate change, and Autopilot, designed for real-time fault detection and prediction, ensuring peak solar asset performance, resulting in 10% revenue increase and an 80% reduction in manual interventions for many customers. The company has offices in Switzerland, the U.S., and India.