Pila Raises $4M to Scale Plug-In Home Batteries for Everyday Resilience
As outages grow and energy costs rise, Pila delivers affordable, modular backup power for renters, multifamily, and small businesses
A note from Cole Ashman, Founder and CEO:
Today we’re announcing Pila Energy’s $4M seed round. Our mission is simple: make reliable, intelligent power the default for every home and business.
I started Pila after seeing, again and again, how fragile our energy system can be. Growing up with annual storms on the Gulf Coast and later deploying Powerwalls and SPAN, it became obvious that the people who need resilience the most are often last to get it — and that a new generation of products is required to change this. Smart, reliable power doesn't have to be a luxury good.
Pila is building a new kind of home battery — one you can plug in, place where it matters, and scale room-by-room over time. No rewiring. No red tape. No waiting.
And as we scale, these batteries will work together — forming a distributed network that is infrastructure-grade, mesh-backed, and built from the bottom-up instead of waiting for top-down upgrades. A new energy intelligence layer for the built world — combining storage, sensing, & edge compute to deliver resilience and energy optimization at home today, and a more responsive grid tomorrow.
Thank you to our partners and investors — R7, Refactor, Toyota Ventures, GS Futures, 981, Acclimate Ventures, Alumni Ventures and beyond — for believing in this distributed, abundant energy future. Thank you to the many supporters of the Pila mission. And to the Pila team: you’re building something game-changing that simply didn’t exist before.
Now we get to work.
We’re hiring across engineering, software, and operations. Join us in building the next generation of distributed energy: reach out or visit pilaenergy.com/careers.
Onward. ⚡