AENU · Jul 2026
AENU explains its seed investment thesis: Plume tackles the unstructured-paper-trail bottleneck in renewable development, has over a dozen enterprise customers, and has been net positive since launch.
Renewable infrastructure deployment at scale.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Plume (plumefinder.com) is a YC S24, Franco-American geospatial AI company building an AI-powered site-selection platform for renewable energy and infrastructure developers. Its software turns structured geospatial data and messy regulatory documents into natural-language site intelligence to speed up prospecting, permitting, grid connection, and project de-risking.
Primary product
AI-powered geospatial site-selection platform for renewable energy infrastructure
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Climate Data and Analytics
Sub-industry
Geospatial AI for renewable energy infrastructure
Offices
Paris, France
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
Subscription
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Founding Deployment Strategist
Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer
Work & culture
Mission-driven and engineering-led, with a strong climate/energy-transition focus. Public job posts emphasize customer closeness, high ownership, and building hard technical systems rather than shipping routine tickets.
Compensation
Public hiring posts advertise €80K-€100K annual salary plus 0.50%-2.00% equity for a Founding Engineer, and describe compensation generally as very competitive.
Benefits
Relocation assistance to Paris
Competitive salary
Equity
High ownership over product and technology
Work on the energy transition
Use of modern tools and tech
Product & market
Pricing
Annual fixed subscription
Differentiators
- —Natural-language querying over geospatial and regulatory data
- —Combines 150+ continuously updated datasets
- —Processes unstructured permitting and planning documents
- —Focuses on site viability before CAD/design
- —Cross-border deployment across multiple countries
Technology
PostgreSQL
Python
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Dagster
GeoPandas
PostGIS
GDAL
Rasterio
QGIS
MapLibre
SQL
RAG
text-to-SQL
LLM workflows
Customers
Photosol
Dozens of energy companies across 4 countries
Enterprise renewable-energy developers in Europe and the US
Competitors
PVcase
Glint Solar
Other solar design / site-selection software
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $330K ARR (estimated)
Estimated monthly visits
2K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
FinSMEs · Apr 2026
FinSMEs reported Plume's $3.9M funding round led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture, Better Angle, and Collab Fund.
Tech.eu · Apr 2026
Tech.eu reported Plume's €3.3M round led by AENU and described the product, datasets, and expansion into new European markets plus the US.
EU-Startups · Apr 2026
EU-Startups covered the funding round, founders, product thesis, customer traction, and market expansion plans.
pv magazine France · Aug 2025
PV magazine France described Plume's geospatial AI platform, founders, data sources, and subscription pricing, and noted adoption in Europe.
Jobs and careers at Plume
21 jobs at Plume
Director of Information Security
Remote
IT Support
United States; United States - Remote
4d ago
Remote
Full-time
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Manager
On-site
NOC L2 (Devops/SRE)
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Slovenia
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Engineering Manager - SRE
On-site
NOC L2 (Devops/SRE)
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Data Scientist
Remote
Data Science
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Wroclaw, Poland; Lithuania - Remote; Poland; Slovenia
1w ago
Remote
Full-time
QA Engineering - Student
On-site
Integration Engineering
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Slovenia
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Staff Engineer
On-site
Core Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Site Reliability Engineer
On-site
NOC L2 (Devops/SRE)
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Manager, Engineering
On-site
Core Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
Manager, Engineering
On-site
Product Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
4w ago
On-site
Full-time
QA Intern – Wi-Fi
On-site
Core Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
4w ago
On-site
Full-time
QA Engineer (DPI) - Contract
On-site
Product Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
4w ago
On-site
Full-time
QA Engineer - Contract
On-site
Product Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
4w ago
On-site
Full-time
QA Engineer
On-site
Product Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior QA Engineer - WiFi
On-site
Core Engineering
Hyderabad, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Sales Director
On-site
Direct Sales
United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Sales Director
On-site
Direct Sales
Europe
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
VP, NA Sales
On-site
Direct Sales
United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Vice President, Global Delivery & Customer Engineering
On-site
Professional Services
United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Software Engineer
On-site
Product Engineering
Hyderabad, India
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineer)
On-site
Product Engineering
United States
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer
On-site
Hardware Engineering
Hyderabad, India
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time