Home appliances waste more energy than you might think. Incandescent light bulbs consume 20 percent to 80 percent more electricity than energy-efficient alternatives, like compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). A single dishwasher, meanwhile, can draw over 1,800 watts per cycle.
That’s why Hasty Granbery, former director of software engineering at PayPal, in 2015 founded , a Palo Alto startup devoted to creating that reduce energy consumption. In November 2018, fresh off a $7 million funding round,
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