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Funding and backers

Total raised
$120M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Venture round · Nov 2025 · 11 mo ago
Team
49
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +133% in a year
Hiring now
12
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Atomic, Andreessen Horowitz
The money's age
Fresh money
11 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
37/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 2 Launched Sam Altman-Backed Exowatt Launches ExoRise for AI Power · eWeek 2025 Team of 49 was 21 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Nov 14, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $50M · Pulse 2.0 Apr 21, 2025 Raised a round Series A $70M Sep 10, 2024 Launched Exowatt Unveils Pioneering Modular Energy Platform to Revolutionize Renewable Energy for AI-Driven Data Centers · businesswire.com 2023 Founded
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top 6%
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Nov 2025 $50M — Pulse 2.0
Series A Apr 2025 $70M — datacenterdynamics.com
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How Exowatt hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
114 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Exowatt scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 114 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 3

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Overview

Exowatt is an energy technology company that builds modular systems combining solar thermal collection with heat storage to supply dispatchable power to commercial and industrial customers, with a focus on data centers serving artificial intelligence workloads. Its units capture sunlight as heat, store it and convert it into electricity on demand. The company was founded in 2023 and runs engineering and manufacturing work in Austin and Miami. The company is headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States.

News

News pv magazine USA 3 months ago
Sam Altman-backedExowatttargets 'Frontier Land' data centers with modular solar thermal storage
Rather than targeting datacenters in space, clean energy developer Exowatt looks to the desert to develop an off-grid, behind-the-meter generation model, enabling artificial intelligence data centers to bypass congested utility transmission queues.
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News TechCrunch 5 months ago
The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock
F1 Grands Prix have emerged as a new place to see and be seen if you are a founder or investor.
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News datacenterrichness.substack.com 7 months ago
Exowatt: A New Take on Solar Data Centers
Thermal Solar Modules Optimize for Power and Long-Duration Energy Storage
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News eWeek 8 months ago
Sam Altman-Backed Exowatt Launches ExoRise for AI Power
ExoRise will develop powered land and on-site clean energy for AI data centers across the US Southwest.
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News PRNewswire 9 months ago
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News Pulse 2.0 11 months ago
Exowatt: $50 Million Closed To Advance U.S. Rollout Of Dispatchable Solar For The AI Era
Exowatt has secured an additional $50 million to expand its U.S. manufacturing footprint and accelerate deployments of its Exowatt P3 systems to the rapidly growing network of AI data centers and industrial facilities nationwide. MVP Ventures and 8090 Ind
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News SiliconANGLE 11 months ago
Exowatt has a rock-solid plan to provide cheap, abundant energy for AI data centers
Exowatt Inc., a solar-thermal energy startup backed by OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman and other high-profile investors, wants to solve the artificial intelligence energy crisis with milli
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News TechCrunch 11 months ago
Exclusive: Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks
The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Exowatt over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
MATLAB43%
Python36%
C++14%
Rust7%
Frameworks & libraries
Ray14%
NumPy7%
Transformers7%
OpenCV7%
Databases
InfluxDB7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS21%
GitHub7%
GitHub Actions7%
Amazon CloudWatch7%
AI & ML
Claude14%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$208k
Typical range
$200k – $215k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Staff 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Staff 2 $208k $200k – $215k
Highest paying role Lead Materials Engineer (Miami, FL) $215k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
12
6 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
114 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
50%
Hardware
14% ▼
HR
14% ▼
Field & Service
14% ▼
Product
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Smartsheet to stack Sep 2026
Added Jira to stack Sep 2026
Added Asana to stack Sep 2026
Added Error Budget to stack Sep 2026
Added Digital Twin to stack Sep 2026
Added Ray to stack Aug 2026
Added OpenCV to stack Aug 2026
Added NumPy to stack Aug 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Aug 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Miami
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Miami United States
HQ
7 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 10-50 est. staff $208k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, QA
seen since Sep 2024 job postings
Austin United States
Plant / site
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Field & Service
seen since Jan 2026 job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
Get in touch
1205 Willow Creek Blvd, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94107
company site

Jobs

≈ $123k – $226k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
MATLAB
KiCad
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≈ $145k – $276k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Miami
MATLAB
Simulink
AI/ML
Transformers
Chips/EDA
LTspice
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$155k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Miami
Python
Rust
C++
InfluxDB
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
Amazon CloudWatch
IoT
MQTT
OPC UA
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Financials

Total raised
$120M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $50M Details
Series A 2025 $70M Details