Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us. Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking. At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America. Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country. Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company. The old system is breaking. Come build the new one. Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.

Super excited about this new product from @basepowerco Infinite backup for long duration grid outages Texas homeowners, sign up today

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Great conversation w @ZachBDell of @basepowerco on Energy markets Surprisingly fast solar adoption Batteries and next-gen distributed grids Do regional energy costs drive future AI dominance? Energy as an input to everything humanity does

You don’t want to compete with a team having fun. The best will win through creative: speed, taste, and craft compounding. Know your audience, clarify your message, make it beautiful, and have fun doing it.

@ZachBDell, CEO of @basepowerco, draws parallels between Tesla, SpaceX, and Anduril, companies that brought technology into stagnant industries. He believes energy is next.

Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land & the State of Energy Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries. In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg, Katherine Boyle, and Erin Price-Wright sit down with Zach to discuss the current state of home power generation, what’s misunderstood about the data center buildout, and how to fix the US electricity grid. Plus, Erik and Katherine talk with a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin about Silicon Valley’s favorite Dark Enlightenment philosopher, Nick Land. @ZachBDell @eddylazzarin @espricewright @KTmBoyle @eriktorenberg

. @Statesman Your first headline was a defiant promise: to stand for democracy and champion the public’s right to know. From the ink on thousands of papers to the screens of millions, that promise has echoed for over a century. Stepping into your iconic South Congress printing facility, we feel the weight of this building, the history in its bones. Where your great press roared mightily as an engine of information and culture, we are honored to start a new engine of energy and progress. Our company won’t print words, but it will deliver on a similar, vital promise: to empower our community. We are Base Power, born in Austin. Right here, we’re forging the technology that powers our community's home, businesses, and future. The Statesman storied Austin’s relentless growth, from dirt roads and cowboys to hippies and techies. Now we'll power the next chapter. With Gratitude from Deep in the Heart of Texas, Base Power Company

Fun chat with ⁦@shaylekann⁩ on ⁦@CatalystPod⁩ If you work in the industry and are curious to learn more about how our model works, this one is for you podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Factory🤝Product The rebuilding of the grid won't happen unless we deploy physical assets, at scale. Those assets have to come from somewhere - and that somewhere needs to be right here in the US. @basepowerco's first factory is actively under construction just south of downtown Austin and across the street from our HQ office.

Fun to join @SquawkCNBC this morning to talk about what we are building at @basepowerco

It was great talking to @espricewright & @rmcentush on the pod about all things electric grid. The grid itself - less so generation - is the real bottleneck to American Dynamism.

This month, right on the heels of today’s Series C announcement, @basepowerco will operate the largest aggregated distributed energy resource (ADER) fleet in ERCOT. Our fleet of residential, behind-the-meter Base Power Company batteries demonstrates two important things:

Come Build the First Beloved Power Company. The future of power is a battery on every home. To make that future real, people have to love their power company - the way they love Costco’s samples or H-E-B's tortillas. That kind of love is earned, not bought. It comes from trust, consistency, and showing up when it matters most. We’re building that trust one home at a time. When the lights stay on through a storm, when the bill comes in low, when support feels like a neighbor and not a call center. That’s how we’ll win.

Spent the day at Base in Austin this week, and the talent they’ve assembled is incredible. The product and vision is audacious. How many companies might become one of the most important in the country? Not many. Base is one.

News: @basepowerco raises $1B and issues a call to JOIN THE CHARGE in building America’s Power Company™. Terrain partner @vanlancker sat down with CEO @zachbdell in front of Base Factory 1 to discuss hiring, hardware, culture, and what it takes to build a new energy future. 0:00 - Building America's Power Company 0:19 - Intro 1:00 - Base Factory 1 reveal 1:10 - Building in Austin 2:38 - A technology company competing in energy 3:53 - The importance of vertical integration 5:23 - Where Base's joyful culture comes from 7:14 - Why work at Base? 9:51 - Base Pace & the turtle 11:42 - Building a beloved energy brand 12:59 - Infrastructure level ambition 13:42 - Longevity & compounding opportunity 15:03 - The appeal of hard problems 17:14 - Endless energy in subject matter 21:10 - Closing

Today we begin the first 100 Year Conversation with @MichaelDell. A project to capture timeless wisdom from leaders who have built institutions that endure. At the heart of the work is one question: How do you build something that lasts 100 years? Few founders have endured through four eras of technology: PC, Internet, Mobile/Cloud, and now AI. Michael Dell is one of them ↓

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