Sealed made its first acquisition, buying sensor startup InfiSense to sharpen predictions

Sealed finances and oversees home electrification upgrades like heat pumps and insulation, charging a fixed fee based on predicted energy savings.

Sealed bet owning a sensor company — granular in-home energy and air-quality data — would make its savings predictions accurate enough to keep fixed fees profitable.

Sealed, headquartered in Manhattan, built a business around predicting energy use and getting homeowners to ditch fossil fuels, replacing oil or gas heaters with electric heat pumps and adding insulation.

Its algorithms ran on monthly energy data from utilities. In January 2023 it made its first acquisition: Burlington, Vermont-based InfiSense, whose sensors and software monitor energy use and air quality in buildings, for undisclosed terms.

It is Sealed's first acquisition, and it targets the company's core input — energy data — rather than customer acquisition or installation capacity.

The fixed-fee model makes prediction accuracy a direct profit lever, so deeper data has measurable value.

Air-quality monitoring opens a second customer-facing product line beyond energy savings.

When your revenue depends on a forecast, buy the data source: Sealed's first acquisition bought the exact input its predictions lacked.

As of the January 2023 announcement, Sealed planned sensor installations in some customers' homes, deeper data for its prediction algorithms, and a future customer-facing view of energy usage and air quality.