CO2Stats
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
CO2Stats (also called Enernetics) was a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch that provided social and environmental web analytics. It calculated the greenhouse gas footprint of visits to a website - based on visitor and server locations, device types, screen sizes, local fuel mixes and download sizes - and each month purchased Green-E certified renewable energy certificates to offset its customers' carbon footprint. Customers included IBM.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Prototype
Co-founder and CTO Alexander Wissner-Gross launched a prototype of CO2Stats in October 2007; the business officially launched in August 2008.
- YC and angel round
CO2Stats joined Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch and raised an angel round of less than $1 million in September 2008, with investors including Paul Buchheit, Alexis Ohanian, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker.
- Acquired
Y Combinator records that CO2Stats was acquired in December 2016; PitchBook later listed the company as out of business.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
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Raised an angel round of under $1 million in September 2008.
- 02
The company was acquired in December 2016 and later listed as out of business.
- 03
No audited loss figure was publicly disclosed.