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Dan Yates      

Executive Chairman at Dandelion & Active Tech Investor

Dan Yates is a mission-driven entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to the environment. Yates is the Executive Chairman at Dandelion, a fast-growing spinout of Alphabet’s X which raised 16 million in its series A fundraising round. Dandelion designed affordable and environmentally-friendly geothermal systems that replace your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and your home. He is also co-owner of ecommerce company The Spice House and an active tech investor.

Previously, Yates was co-founder and CEO of energy efficiency software company Opower. Dan led Opower through a $1Bn+ IPO (NYSE:OPWR) in 2014 and its sale to Oracle in 2016. Opower helped consumers save more than 13 terawatt hours of energy and eliminated more than $60 million from energy bills, making it the largest residential clean energy company in its time.

Yates has been recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, one of Fortune's 40 under 40, and a Washingtonian Tech Titan.

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Watt it Takes with Dan Yates
Opower Co-Founder & former CEO Dan Yates shared how he took the simple premise of comparing utility customers’ electricity use and built a billion-dollar business that went public in 2014 and was sold to Oracle in 2016. The business model was based on cutting-edge behavioral science—but it wasn’t always clear how it would play out.
Home Geothermal Startup Now Features Talent From Opower, Tesla, SolarCity, Conergy and Sungevity
Residential geothermal startup Dandelion just closed a venture round worth $4.5 million, more than doubling its funding to a total of $6.5 million. Daniel Yates, co-founder of Opower, contributed to the round and will join Dandelion as executive board member.
The Risk of Inaction
Are you a “Steady Eddy,” “Twin Peaker,” or a “Night Owl”? A software company called Opower has identified what times of the day a large swath of American households typically use the most electricity—and is helping consumers change their usage in order to save power and money. Steady users tend to be home all day, whereas Twin Peakers’ demand spikes in the morning and then again shortly after dinner.
How Opower’s Dan Yates Persuades People to Use Less Energy
How do you get people to use less energy? Dan Yates says it’s all about sparking neighborly competition.

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