The autopilot for grid batteries - software that models a storage project before it exists, then trades it once it's live.
A logo mark on a company that makes nothing you can touch. Tyba doesn't build batteries or manufacture cells; it sells the judgment that decides, every five minutes, whether a battery should charge, sell, or sit still.
Here is a fact about the energy transition that does not make it onto slides: a solar farm is something you build and mostly forget, but a grid-scale battery is a decision you have to make again and again, all day, every day, for the life of the asset. Should it charge now while power is cheap? Sell now while it's expensive? Hold its charge for a spike that may or may not arrive at 6 p.m.? Get those calls wrong and an expensive box of lithium sits there earning less than it should, which in finance terms is a stranded asset wearing a green hat.
Tyba is a San Francisco software company built entirely around that problem. It does not manufacture batteries. It does not own them. It sells the software layer that decides what the batteries should do - and, increasingly, does it automatically. The founders like to call it "the autopilot system for batteries," which is a good line because it is both accurate and quietly ambitious. Autopilot doesn't fly the plane in your place so much as make sure a human never has to hand-fly the boring, high-stakes parts.
The pitch works because the underlying market is genuinely hard. Battery deployments in the U.S. hit nearly 12 GW in 2024, up 42% year over year, and U.S. grid demand is projected to climb roughly 15.8% by 2029. That is a lot of new batteries whose owners suddenly need to be very good at something - short-term power trading - that most of them have never done. Tyba's bet is that they shouldn't have to be. The software should be.
Tyba is the autopilot system for batteries. We make the nitty gritty of battery operations easy.
Tyba's cleverness is continuity. One product values a battery before a single cell is installed; the other runs it once it's connected to the grid. The same modeling engine follows the asset through its whole economic life.
A rapid, multi-scenario modeling platform that chews through historical price data, project constraints, and market rules to produce daily operating strategies and a detailed revenue forecast. It has modeled 100+ GW of projects in development and been used to help secure over $1 billion in financing - de-risking deals before the concrete is poured.
The trading brain. It formulates optimal bidding strategies and automates real-time dispatch in wholesale markets like ERCOT and CAISO, while letting traders and asset managers see the forecasts, override the machine, and adjust with a click. Profitability with less babysitting.
The unglamorous but essential bridge: onboarding and transition support that takes a resource from a spreadsheet model to a live, dispatching asset in the market - the step where most storage projects quietly lose money.
Tyba's headline claim, per lead investor Energize Capital: inside ERCOT, its optimized assets delivered 48% higher revenue than the median asset - "without risking reliability or regulatory missteps." Treat it as a company figure rather than an audited one, but the direction is the whole thesis: the same battery, run by better software, is simply worth more.
Source: Energize Capital investment note. Company-reported; illustrative index.
In a market where every optimizer claims to be "AI-powered," Tyba made a slightly contrarian promise: no black boxes. Traders get to see why the algorithm bid what it bid - the forecast behind it, the performance after it. This sounds like a UX detail. It is actually a sales strategy. The people who run battery portfolios are risk managers by temperament; they answer to financiers and regulators. An algorithm they can't interrogate is a liability. An algorithm that shows its work is a colleague.
That transparency is also a hedge against the market's oldest fear: that the software makes a confident, expensive mistake at 2 a.m. and nobody knows why. Tyba's answer is to keep a human in the loop by design - automated when you want it, overridable when you don't.
Despite their key role in the energy transition, batteries have proven to be complex assets to deploy effectively and profitably.
Tyba's origin is the good kind of cliché: people who did a job by hand, hated it, and decided it should be software. The founders came from energy development and infrastructure engineering, and they converged on a shared conviction that storage would be essential to decarbonizing the grid - and that modeling it manually would never scale.
Leads product and modeling. Previously at Cypress Creek Renewables, Stem, and EnerNOC - a career spent inside the exact problem Tyba now automates.
Brings infrastructure-scaling chops from Asana - the person making sure a five-minute trading decision holds up across a growing fleet of assets.
Over a decade scaling technology companies, with prior roles at Google X and Stem. The operator translating a hard product into a real business.
Tyba lists five values. The most telling one for a company selling automation to skeptical traders is "Strive for Simplicity" - the whole product is an argument that complex energy math should feel easy.
Tyba sells to storage developers, independent power producers, utilities, and traders. The name that lends the most credibility is TotalEnergies, whose Head of US Short Term Power provided a testimonial - a signal that a global major trusts the software near real money. Alongside it: White Pine Renewables, Linea Energy, and Intersect Power. Collectively, Tyba's engine now runs more than 1GWh of live storage across Texas and California.
Global energy major; uses Tyba to trade and operate US battery storage.
Developer using Tyba to maximize revenue and scale its portfolio.
Leverages Tyba for storage optimization and automated dispatch.
Named customer cited by lead investor Energize Capital.
In February 2025, Tyba announced a $13.9M Series A led by Energize Capital, bringing total funding to $18.15M. The round drew a climate-heavy syndicate - a bet not on hardware, but on the software that makes the hardware worth owning.
Baker, Nisonoff, and Thunell start the company to bring software scale to storage modeling and operations.
The company moves beyond simulation into automated real-time bidding and dispatch.
Grows to run storage across Texas and California; passes 100 GW of projects simulated.
Energize Capital leads, with Pear VC, Mobilize Climate Capital, and Borusan Ventures joining. Total funding hits $18.15M.
INVESTORS — Energize Capital (lead) · Pear VC · Mobilize Climate Capital · Borusan Ventures · Powerhouse · Wireframe Ventures · Virta · Lorimer
It builds software that helps energy companies model, develop, and operate battery energy storage projects more profitably - combining project simulation with automated real-time bidding and dispatch.
Michael Baker (CEO), Tyler Nisonoff (CTO), and Tom Thunell (COO) founded Tyba in 2022. They came from companies including Stem, Google X, Asana, and EnerNOC.
About $18.15M in total, including a $13.9M Series A led by Energize Capital announced in February 2025.
Storage developers, independent power producers, utilities, and traders - including TotalEnergies, White Pine Renewables, Linea Energy, and Intersect Power - across more than 1GWh of assets.
It emphasizes transparency over black-box algorithms and covers a project's full life, from pre-build simulation to live dispatch, keeping a human in the loop by design.