{"id":3387,"date":"2026-02-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:30:00","slug":"zero-homes-nabs-16-8m-to-go-big-on-easier-heat-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"Zero Homes nabs $16.8M to go big on easier heat pump\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201c<\/span>We want to \u2026 be nationwide,\u201d said Gunnison, a\u00a0former general contractor and an MIT-trained engineer who once worked on satellite communications and remote imaging at\u00a0NASA<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To achieve that scale, Zero Homes relies on partnerships with independent installers that it subcontracts with. Currently, the company operates in Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Illinois, and California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zero Homes\u2019 approach has gained some traction. The U.S. Department of Energy validated the startup\u2019s remote assessments in 2024<\/span>, Gunnison reported. The Air Conditioning Contractors of America also that year approved<\/a> the startup\u2019s software as a\u00a0tool to perform the organization\u2019s trademark Manual J\u00a0calculations remotely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gunnison declined to share whether the company was profitable, but he did say that its revenue had grown by a\u00a0factor of 10<\/span> from 2024<\/span> to 2025<\/span>. Customer service calls on the installations it has managed are \u200b\u201c<\/span>very low,\u201d he added. And Zero Homes\u2019 installer network has expanded to nearly 100<\/span> contractor businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>We get rid of a\u00a0lot of the overhead that costs them a\u00a0lot of time and heartache, so that they can be successful,\u201d Gunnison noted. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We don\u2019t charge them for leads , [we] fill their calendars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A number of utilities and power co-ops, including ComEd, Great River Energy, and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, have hired Zero Homes to deploy heat pumps in their service territories. A\u00a0couple of local governments have also expressed confidence in the company: Chicago partnered<\/a> with Zero Homes as part of its Green Homes program<\/a>, and Colorado is giving the business a $745<\/span>,000<\/span> boost<\/a> through its economic development office to expand its Denver-area operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Several other startups around the country are specializing in heat pump installations, such as Elephant Energy, Tetra, Forge, Quilt, and Jetson \u2014 which recently raised<\/a> $50<\/span> million to get its in-house-designed heat pump<\/a> into more buildings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gunnison plans to use the new infusion of capital to double his company\u2019s 25<\/span>-person headcount this year and improve its software capabilities, he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It used to take Zero Homes several days to provide a\u00a0quote to a\u00a0homeowner who had submitted a\u00a0scan. Now that process is complete in about one day. By the end of 2026<\/span>, the startup aims to slash that time to 30<\/span>\u00a0minutes, Gunnison noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>Once we can consistently deliver that, then we will very, very rapidly expand geographically.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe want to \u2026 be nationwide,\u201d said Gunnison, a\u00a0former general contractor and an MIT-trained engineer who once worked on satellite communications and remote imaging at\u00a0NASA. To achieve that scale, Zero Homes relies on partnerships with independent installers that it subcontracts with. Currently, the company operates in Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Illinois, and California. Zero Homes\u2019 approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}