CB Insights · Jun 2026
Places Voxel Energy among YC startups addressing AI-era power constraints.
Energy independent data centers with solar and repurposed batteries.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Voxel Energy builds energy-independent data centers powered by solar and repurposed EV batteries, aiming to deliver off-grid data center capacity in months rather than years by bundling power generation, storage, and prefabricated systems.
Primary product
Off-grid, rapidly deployable energy-independent data centers with on-site generation and storage
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Energy Technology
Sub-industry
Data center infrastructure / off-grid power and storage
Business model
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Power-by-consumption
On-site energy generation and storage
Funding
Stage
Pre-seed / Seed
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Seed Round · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$125K
Jan 2026 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Public evidence suggests a small, highly execution-driven early-stage team with ex-Tesla operators focused on hardware and infrastructure. No formal benefits page was found.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
No public compensation ranges were found. The company has a very small team and is hiring at least one embedded software role, but public salary data was not available.
Product & market
Pricing
Power sold by consumption; likely project- or site-based infrastructure deployment with energy usage billing.
Differentiators
- —Data centers can be commissioned in months instead of years
- —On-site solar plus repurposed EV batteries
- —Bypasses utility interconnection delays
- —Integrated power + storage + data center delivery
- —Designed for redundancy and rapid deployment
Technology
solar power systems
battery storage systems
prefabricated systems
off-grid microgrid architecture
data center infrastructure
containerized deployment
LinkedIn
Customers
Neoclouds
Colocation providers
Enterprises needing compute capacity before grid connection
AI/data center customers
Competitors
Traditional data center developers
Cloud/data center infrastructure providers
Off-grid power and microgrid startups
On-site energy/storage infrastructure providers
Latest news
Fondo · Feb 2026
Launch write-up describing Voxel’s off-grid data centers powered by solar and batteries, with deployment in months rather than years.
Space Dirt · Jan 2026
Summarizes Voxel’s emergence from stealth and its off-grid data center concept.
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Post activity references YC-backed launch and Product Showcase win.
Zypsy
Investor perspective describing the company’s model, prototype status, and customer pull.
Jobs and careers at Voxel Energy
8 jobs at Voxel Energy
Director of Demand Generation
Remote
Design & Marketing
Chicago, IL
2mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Software Engineer, Perception
Remote
Engineering
San Francisco, CA
3mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Tier 3 Support Engineer
Remote
Customer Success
Remote
3mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Tier 2 Support Engineer
Remote
Customer Success
Remote
3mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Enterprise Account Executive, Industrial & Supply Chain
Remote
GTM
Remote
3mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure
Remote
Engineering
San Francisco, CA
4mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure
Remote
Engineering
San Francisco, CA
5mo ago
Remote
Full-time
General Opportunity
Remote
All
Remote
5mo ago
Remote
Full-time