Startup World Cup 2024 Awards $1 Million Grand Prize to EarthGrid On October 4, 2024, ten startup company finalists, chosen from thousands of startups around the world, pitched in front of a panel of Silicon Valley venture capital investor judges for a $1 Million...

EarthGrid Announces Groundbreaking Joint Venture with EnerTech, a KIA Entity, to Deploy $18B in U.S. Underground Utility Projects “On average, it takes 10 to 20 years to develop, permit, and build new overhead transmission lines, making it evident that an alternative...

EarthGrid CEO Troy Helming talks climate tech, death threats and Ninja Warrior EarthGrid is enlivening the boring industry. Its laser wielding robots make tunneling faster and cheaper and CEO Troy Helming is taking the company to the Startup World Cup. Read the full...

Startups to Watch: EarthGrid is using a plasma tunneling robot to bore holes through the Earth This startup is building a tunneling robot that uses plasma torches that look like lightsabers to bore tunnels for renewable energy projects. Read the full article here:...

Icelanders Offered the First Torch-Drilled Tunnel in Europe The Icelandic government is in talks with an American pioneering company in the field of torch drilling to drill tunnels much cheaper and faster than previously known. The company offers to start drilling...

Netcapital Funding Portal Facilitates $3.3 Million Capital Raise by EarthGrid PBC (Click to be redirected to WSJ) Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL, NCPLW) (the "Company"), a digital private capital markets ecosystem, today announced the successful completion of a capital...

The EarthGrid team is humbled and honored to have won the SAC investment competition this year, and we’re proud to be sharing it with Harvest Thermal.

EarthGrid founder, Troy Helming, adds another chapter to his green legacy. EarthGrid has a colorful origin story — and a promising future — which the California Business Journal caught wind of.

Pepperdine Business School Names EarthGrid™ ‘Most Fundable Company’ — Out of 4,000 Companies!

EarthGrid was featured in a WIRED Magazine article on underground excavation. Tunneling experts agree the industry is crying out for technological solutions to lower costs and heighten efficiency. Troy Helming, Founder and CEO of EarthGrid, emphasizes the need to put power lines underground — this is what his company aims to do.

We’re excited to announce that EarthGrid has been granted utility status with a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) in more states.