Vanta for carbon compliance
Offstream is Vanta for carbon compliance. We have grown 20+% MoM since joining the YC batch and have 10 clean energy developers using our platform to get and stay compliant with regulations. Today, every new infrastructure project, from data centers to biomass power plants has a complicated mess of local, state, federal, and private sector standards that they must understand and comply with to make their projects profitable. Offstream solves this by using LLMs to parse regulations, generate technical reports for customers, and manage 100,000+ operational data points on project’s lifecycles. We cut the time customers spend on compliance by 90% and at 1/5th of the cost of alternatives.
Active Founders
Zach Janicki
CTO and cofounder of Offstream. CS from Notre Dame. Previously 1st engineering hire at Repool (YC S21) building hedge fund software, and early engineer at Pathpoint building insurance brokerage software. I've spent my career turning paperwork into software
Varsha Ramesh Walsh
CEO and co-founder at Offstream. HBS '23. Previously business lead at Indigo Ag where I launched a traceable cotton business where I closed contracts that got the business to $50M revenue bookings in a year. At Indigo, I experienced the pain point we are now solving at Offstream first-hand. We hired 80 ppl and spent 50M to just get carbon compliant.
Company Launches
We’re Varsha and Zach, the co-founders of Offstream. We’re automating carbon compliance for project developers.
👥 The Team
5 years ago, Varsha struggled through carbon compliance as a project developer at Indigo Ag. While she was at HBS, she spoke to hundreds of developers with the same challenges she faced, who all asked for a solution to their compliance bottleneck.
Zach brings many years of full-stack software engineering experience at early-stage startups across compliance, legal, and accounting. He brings much-needed insight into building scalable products that replace people-intensive workflows.
❗The Problem
Despite a growing amount of funding (to the tune of $2T annually) flowing into new decarbonization projects, it is incredibly challenging for project developers to complete the paperwork needed to access that funding.
Today, carbon project developers navigate a complex web of credits, regulations, and market standards. This information comes from local, state, and federal governments, NGOs, industry coalitions, and investors.
Tracking and reporting on compliance data is time-consuming, opaque, and expensive. The standards are dense, and most teams manage millions of data points in Excel and emailed PDFs, creating admin headaches.
🏆 The Solution
Offstream is a one-stop shop for carbon compliance, making it simple for carbon project developers to get compliant and stay compliant with regulatory and voluntary market compliance standards.
Users set up and generate life cycle assessments (LCA), which are a core component of all compliance standards. Offstream builds off the LCA to generate compliance documentation at a fraction of the cost and time of alternatives.