Simple Energy
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | Boulder, Colorado (2010) |
| Founder | Yoav Lurie Justin Segall |
| Headquarters | Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yoav Lurie (CEO) Justin Segall (President) |
| Products | Customer Engagement Platform Software as a Service Social Energy Competition Portal Mobile Applications |
Number of employees | ~50 (May 2015) |
| Website | simpleenergysoftware |
Simple Energy is a privately held software-as-a-service (SaaS) company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
History[edit]
Simple Energy was founded in 2010 by longtime friends Yoav Lurie and Justin Segall, classmates at Duke University.[1] The two had met on a backpacking trip in Pisgah National Forest in 2000.[2]
Green Button[edit]
In September 2011, then-US CTO Aneesh Chopra challenged the energy industry to model a Green Button, off the successful Blue Button, where energy providers would give energy users their consumption data in an easy to read and use format at the click of the button.[3] In January 2012, Simple Energy became the first third-party application developer to implement the Green Button standard to deploy publicly available applications.[4]
Awards and highlights[edit]
- In February 2015, Simple Energy was named Metro Denver's Healthiest Employer (small companies) by the Denver Business Journal.[5]
- In November 2014, Simple Energy was named one of the "Top 100 Digital Employers" in Colorado Built In Colorado [6]
- In November 2014, Simple Energy was listed on Global Cleantech 100’s Ones to Watch list by Cleantech Group [7]
- In July 2012, Simple Energy Founders Yoav Lurie and Justin Segall were named to Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30" list of the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 years old.[2]
- In June 2012, Simple Energy was named to Bloomberg BusinessWeek list of America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.[8]
- Simple Energy graduated from the Techstars startup accelerator program in August 2011.[9]
- In August 2011, Simple Energy was named one of "Eight Startups Changing the World" by Mashable.[10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Colorado energy users compete for power and prizes The Denver Post
- ^ a b Saving Energy is Just a Game Inc. Magazine
- ^ Aneesh Chopra (2011-09-15). "Modeling a Green Energy Challenge after a Blue Button | The White House". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2012-04-19 – via National Archives.
- ^ "Green Button — About". Greenbuttondata.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-02.
- ^ "Gallery: DBJ's 2015 Healthiest Employers award winners". Denver Business Journal. 17 February 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ "The Top 100 Digital Employers in Colorado".
- ^ "Global Cleantech 100 Ones to Watch | Cleantech Group".
- ^ America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2012 Bloomberg BusinessWeek
- ^ TechStars Graduate Simple Energy Gamifies Energy Savings Tech Cocktail
- ^ Diamond, Jennifer (August 19, 2011). "8 Startups That Are Changing the World". Mashable.
Categories:
- Software companies based in Colorado
- Environmental technology
- Sustainable technologies
- Energy conservation in the United States
- Companies based in Boulder, Colorado
- American companies established in 2010
- Energy companies established in 2010
- Renewable resource companies established in 2010
- Software companies established in 2010
- 2010 establishments in Colorado
- Software companies of the United States