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Meet Pravah

Pravāh builds machine-learning and physics-based software for electric power systems. Its technology helps utilities, data-center developers, hyperscalers, chip companies and power-market participants model grid conditions, forecast demand, generation, weather and electricity prices, automate electrical studies, assess reliability and congestion, and identify how existing infrastructure can support more load. The company works with utilities serving tens of millions of consumers across India, Germany and the United States. Its public research includes models and benchmarks for power-flow optimization, distribution grids, weather forecasting and graph neural networks.View more

Pravāh builds machine-learning and physics-based software for electric power systems. Its technology helps utilities, data-center developers, hyperscalers, chip companies and power-market participants model grid conditions, forecast demand, generation, weather and electricity prices, automate electrical studies, assess reliability and congestion, and identify how existing infrastructure can support more load. The company works with utilities serving tens of millions of consumers across India, Germany and the United States. Its public research includes models and benchmarks for power-flow optimization, distribution grids, weather forecasting and graph neural networks.

Founded
2025
Company size
11-50 employees
Company stage
Seed
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

Pravāh offers candidates the opportunity to work on technically difficult problems at the intersection of machine learning, power systems, optimization, weather and large-scale infrastructure. The company reports $7M in funding from Khosla Ventures, Pear VC and Conviction and works with utilities serving tens of millions of consumers across multiple countries. Its team publishes research and open-source work, while products such as Indus and Pachira put forecasting models into operational use. Current engineering roles involve utility-scale geospatial and time-series data and offer significant architectural ownership; some published roles also include equity. As an early-stage company, responsibilities are likely to be broad and the operating environment fast-moving.Read more

Pravāh offers candidates the opportunity to work on technically difficult problems at the intersection of machine learning, power systems, optimization, weather and large-scale infrastructure. The company reports $7M in funding from Khosla Ventures, Pear VC and Conviction and works with utilities serving tens of millions of consumers across multiple countries. Its team publishes research and open-source work, while products such as Indus and Pachira put forecasting models into operational use. Current engineering roles involve utility-scale geospatial and time-series data and offer significant architectural ownership; some published roles also include equity. As an early-stage company, responsibilities are likely to be broad and the operating environment fast-moving.

Industry
Artificial Intelligence / Energy / Power Systems
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Tech stack

Python

Programming Language

TypeScript

Programming Language

React

Frontend

PostgreSQL

Database

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud

Docker

Infrastructure

D3.js

Data Visualization

Key people

4 people
Mohak MangalCo-founderView bio

Co-founder and CEO of Pravāh. Mangal has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and an MA in International and Development Economics from Yale. Before Pravāh, he worked as an economist with the World Bank and J-PAL. He co-founded Pravāh to apply machine learning to grid planning and operations.

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Dhruv SuriCo-founderView bio

Co-founder and CTO of Pravāh and an energy scientist and machine-learning engineer. Suri earned a PhD in Energy Science & Engineering and an MS in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford, where he was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. His work focuses on machine learning, optimization and modeling for electric power systems.

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Helgi HilmarssonFounding MLEView bio

Founding machine-learning engineer at Pravāh. Hilmarsson studied at Stanford and previously led AI initiatives at Zoom spanning graph machine learning and generative-AI products. At Pravāh he contributes to machine-learning research and engineering for grid and weather models.

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David SykesChief Strategy OfficerView bio

Chief Strategy Officer at Pravāh. Sykes works on strategy around electricity markets and energy systems and has published analysis on topics including India's electricity market, demand flexibility and energy transition. He is part of Pravāh's current leadership team.

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Latest company news

3 stories

Idiosyncrasies of IEX

Pravah on LinkedIn

Pravāh detailed its work on Pachira, a price-forecasting model for India's electricity market. The system forecasts Indian Energy Exchange day-ahead prices at multiple horizons and is intended to support electricity-market decision-making.

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Pravāh launches Indus-wx for India's electric grid

Pravah on LinkedIn

Pravāh launched Indus-wx, a weather-forecasting system designed for India's electric grid. It combines satellite, ground-station and numerical-weather data and produces frequently refreshed high-resolution forecasts for variables relevant to renewable generation.

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Andhra Pradesh’s DISCOM is using AI to push power losses below 5%

The Times of India

Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company approved a pilot with Pravāh to use AI-driven grid intelligence and load-flow analysis to identify electricity losses. The project was reported as being funded under the Ministry of Power's Powerton program.

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