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Watt It Takes
with Nikhil Vadhavkar

Nikhil Vadhavkar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Raptor Maps. Raptor Maps is positioning itself as the system of record for the solar industry, building trust between developers, operators, and owners through software and standardization. In this episode, Emily sat down with Nikhil on Watt It Takes to hear his story and the story of Raptor Maps, from its early days as an ag-tech startup to how their platform has become an industry standard.

 
 
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Nikhil Vadhavkar

Co-Founder & CEO
Raptor Maps
 
 
 

Nikhil Vadhavkar is the CEO and co-founder of Raptor Maps, the leading provider of solar lifecycle management software. Under his leadership, the company has delivered critical data analytics to over 50 GW of solar PV plants in 40 countries. Nikhil is an MIT engineer, and his graduate research was thermal control systems for next-generation spacesuits in the Aeronautics and Astronautics program. He met his co-founder in graduate school, and took Raptor Maps through Y Combinator in 2016. Nikhil holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and MS in Engineering Management from the Johns Hopkins University.

 
 
 
"We're at that point where every solar farm represents a billion dollars of solar assets. And when you have that much capital at stake, being able to be standardized, efficient, transparent, and auditable, having an ecosystem to plug into really starts to matter."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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