The world is racing towards electric vehicles, but the biggest bottleneck isn’t the car itself. It is the battery.
Batteries are essentially expensive, highly volatile black boxes. For fleet operators, battery-as-a-service providers, and EV manufacturers, a battery degrading unpredictably doesn’t just mean a shorter range — it means millions of dollars in premature replacements, ruined unit economics, and massive safety risks.
We are flying blind on the most critical component of the electric transition.
Coulomb AI is turning the lights on.
Founded by Khushboo Shrivastava and Santanu Mondal — both IIT Bombay alumni who previously led electric vehicle and autonomous system development at General Motors — Coulomb is building an AI-driven battery observability platform.
By ingesting millions of data points across various battery chemistries in real-time, their deep learning models act as a predictive health monitor. They automatically identify anomalies, prevent deep discharge issues, and optimize charging strategies to significantly extend the lifespan and safety of the hardware.
The market? Any fleet operator or automotive OEM that wants to maximize battery utilization and stop guessing when their assets will fail.
Backed by Y Combinator, Khushboo and Santanu realized that to truly solve the climate crisis, we don’t just need more batteries — we need smarter ones. They are building the critical intelligence layer for the global EV ecosystem right out of Bengaluru and San Francisco.
We are incredibly excited to see deep climate-tech builders like them.
Let’s celebrate the builders.
w/ Jay Ingle & Dikshant Joshi
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