From the Eli team
Perspectives on clean energy, incentives, and the infrastructure behind electrification.
March 14, 2026
The Deployment Gap
Hardware is abundant. Deployment capacity is scarce. My thoughts on how to fix the friction that's undermining the American building upgrade. For the past year at Eli, we've been doing two hard things at once: scaling our Contractor Instant Payments product (which took off way faster than we expected — good problem to have) and, quietly, rebuilding our core platform. Along the way we also helped more than 6,400 U.S. households and businesses afford heat pumps and other efficient electric tec
March 22, 2024
Meet Eli, the startup aiming to supercharge the IRA
On February 20, 2024, we announced the $6.8M Series Seed financing of Eli Technologies, providing contractors and installers with a long-awaited solution to accessing incentives that will put clean energy and electrification within reach for millions of U.S. households. Just over a year ago, I wrote my first and only blog post, detailing both my profound excitement as well as my concerns about the transformative potential of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It was (and is!) the most promisin