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Paces

Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure

paces.com
HQ: New York, NY, USA
11-50
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Overview

Paces is a Brooklyn-based energy infrastructure software company building AI-powered software and expert services that help renewable energy and data center developers find viable sites, de-risk projects, and move from siting to shovel-ready faster.

Primary product

Paces Agent and the Paces platform for site search, diligence, permitting, interconnection, and pipeline management

Founded

2022

Headquarters

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Team size

50-60

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Energy infrastructure software / GIS and AI for renewable development

Offices

Brooklyn, New York, United States
New York, New York, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS
Software + services
Professional services
Reports / data products

Funding

Stage

Series A

Total raised

$13.9M

Latest round

Series A · Jul 2024

Latest amount

$11M

People & investors

Leadership

James McWalter

CEO & Co-Founder

Charles Bai

CTO & Co-Founder

Kyle Baranko

Head of Product

Jamal Batar

Head of Solution Engineering & Development

Katherine Olecki

Head of Customer Success and Solutions

Stuart Pomeroy

Partnerships & Business Development

Investors

MCJ Collective
Navitas Capital
Resolute Ventures
Soma Capital
Suffolk Technologies
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Climate-first, builder-oriented, and highly collaborative; the company emphasizes directness, shared success, acting/learning/adapting, in-person Brooklyn teamwork, offsites, karaoke, unconferences, lunch-and-learns, and a dog-friendly office.

Work style

Hybrid

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Public job postings show broad compensation bands from roughly $110k-$280k depending on role, plus competitive equity, 401(k) matching, and health/dental/vision benefits; one full-stack posting listed $150k-$200k and hybrid Brooklyn office attendance 2-4 times per week.

Benefits

Competitive equity compensation
401(k) matching
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid company holidays
PTO

Product & market

Differentiators

  • —Combines AI software with expert services in one platform
  • —Expert-validated outputs for high-stakes diligence
  • —Built for the full development funnel from siting to interconnection
  • —Uses proprietary development datasets
  • —Focuses on renewable energy and data center infrastructure
  • —Helps parallelize workflows that are usually sequential and manual
  • —Auditable outputs designed for regulated filings

Technology

AI agents
geospatial/GIS search
proprietary development datasets
workflow automation
pipeline management
modular diligence reports
power flow studies
permitting analytics
environmental analytics
human-in-the-loop validation

Customers

Demeter Land Development
Qcells
onCORE Origination
New Energy Equity
EDF power solutions
Chaberton Energy
Radiant Power
EDF Renewables
AES
Third Pillar Solar

Competitors

LandGate

Scale & contact

Estimated monthly visits

11.3K

team@paces.com320-305-2397

Latest news

Paces Agent is here: An AI teammate for power development

Data Center Dynamics · Jul 2026

External coverage of the Paces Agent launch, emphasizing its autonomous workflow execution and the company’s pitch that AI plus expert review can speed power-development work.

Paces Agent: Autonomous AI for accelerated power development

Paces · May 2026

Official launch post for Paces Agent, describing an autonomous AI that runs end-to-end power development workflows, cites a 5x pipeline goal, and says the agent has been deployed on more than 3.2 GW of project pipeline.

From weeks to days: What vertical AI looks like inside energy diligence

Paces · Mar 2026

Explains how Paces combines agentic workflows with human expertise for energy diligence, and why vertical AI is better suited than generic AI tools for this domain.

The one-person, billion-dollar power development company

Paces · Jan 2026

Essay arguing that AI and automation can compress power-development timelines and enable much smaller teams to run very large project pipelines.

Paces Raises $11 Million in Series A Funding to Accelerate Renewable Energy Projects

Paces · Jul 2024

Official funding announcement for the $11 million Series A led by Navitas Capital, with participation from Suffolk Technologies, MCJ Collective, Resolute Ventures, Soma Capital, and Y Combinator.

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