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Sealed finances and installs home weatherization and electrification upgrades, paying itself back from the energy savings generated by the improvements.
Sealed is a home decarbonization company founded in 2012 that offers a unique pay-from-savings financing model for home energy upgrades including insulation, air sealing, heat pumps, and smart controls. The company handles the full process from energy assessment through contractor management and installation, then finances the upfront cost through a savings-based model where customers repay from the energy bill reductions the upgrades generate. This eliminates the capital barrier that prevents many homeowners from pursuing upgrades they know would be beneficial. Sealed operates primarily in the northeastern United States where heating costs are high and savings potential is significant. The company's model aligns its incentives with customer outcomes since Sealed only gets paid when upgrades actually deliver the projected savings. Sealed has raised $100M and works with utility partners and state energy programs to expand access to financing and incentives. As federal IRA credits and state programs expand financial support for home electrification, Sealed's integrated financing and installation model is positioned to scale home energy upgrades at a pace that individual homeowners acting alone cannot match.
Global payments infrastructure founded by Patrick and John Collison (YC W10); $1.4T payments volume in 2024; $18B+ revenue; $106.7B valuation as of Sept 2025; powers everything from startups to Fortune 500 companies with developer-first API design.
Stripe is a global payments infrastructure company founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, headquartered in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland. Stripe was born from the insight that accepting payments online was unnecessarily complex for developers, and that a well-designed API could unlock an entire generation of internet businesses. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2010 batch and grew to become the defining payments infrastructure layer of the modern internet economy, processing payments for businesses in virtually every industry worldwide.\n\nStripe's platform provides payment processing, fraud prevention via Stripe Radar, subscription billing, revenue recognition, banking-as-a-service through Stripe Treasury, corporate card issuance, identity verification, and tax compliance tools. It serves a spectrum from early-stage startups to publicly traded enterprises including Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Shopify. Stripe's developer-first philosophy — comprehensive documentation, SDKs in every major language, and a sandbox testing environment — created an ecosystem of millions of businesses built entirely on its infrastructure.\n\nStripe processed $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024 and generates over $18 billion in annual revenue, with a valuation of $106.7 billion as of September 2025. The company has remained private longer than most comparably sized technology companies, giving it flexibility to invest in long-term product expansion. An April 2024 partnership with Apple Pay extended Stripe's reach further into mobile and in-store commerce. Stripe competes with Adyen, Braintree (PayPal), and Square, but its developer ecosystem depth and global infrastructure make it the default payments platform for a generation of technology companies.
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