Tyba Co-Founder and CEO Michael Baker
Michael Baker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tyba, which builds the software that models and operates energy storage assets so developers, owners, and operators can optimize performance in increasingly complex power markets. Emily spoke with Michael about his path from growing up across several continents, where he first saw how energy shapes opportunity, to discovering storage and the gaps in the industry’s tools that ultimately led him to start Tyba. Since then, the company has grown from early prototypes to working with customers ranging from global energy companies to leading solar-plus-storage developers, and is now on track to manage two gigawatts of customer assets by the end of the year.
Watt It Takes · Michael Baker, Emily Kirsch, Chris McGovern, Julia Ranney
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Show Notes
As load growth pushes the grid to its limits, the energy transition increasingly depends on one technology: storage. Batteries are becoming the backbone of reliable, clean power, and according to a recent UBS analysis, AI-driven data centers are set to trigger a “boom cycle” for energy storage in the next five years.
As more clean energy comes online and global energy demand surges, batteries are proving essential to a flexible and resilient grid. But operating them is complex. Unlike wind or solar projects driven by long-term contracts, storage assets must constantly make decisions about when to charge and discharge, how to capture value across multiple markets, and how to stay profitable in an increasingly volatile energy system.
Michael Baker, Co-Founder and CEO of Tyba, is working at the center of this shift. His team builds the software that helps batteries make smarter decisions in real time, turning storage into a reliable and profitable part of the grid. Powerhouse Ventures is fortunate to be an early investor in Tyba, first backing them in their seed round in January 2023.
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