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The son of legendary Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell, Zach has already made a name for himself in his own right. Just weeks before turning 30 later this month, his company Base, which Dell co-founded in 2023, has raised another $1 billion in a Series D funding round. The new round revealed that Base\u2019s valuation has spiked to $13 billion from $4 billion in less than a year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe want to bring Base to every neighborhood in America over time,\u201d Zach Dell told Fortune<\/em>, noting that the residential retail electricity market in the U.S. is about $200 billion. \u201cThe scale of the opportunity is just massive and, of course, we do have global ambitions. We think markets like the U.K., Germany, Australia, and potentially others are attractive as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The three-year-old company has gone from installing one battery system daily to over 100 per day\u2014more than 30,000 total customers and rapidly rising. Earlier this year, Base opened its own battery manufacturing plant, Base Factory 1, in Austin, Texas, and a much larger second factory is under construction and slated for completion in 2027.<\/p>\n

Austin-based Base started out in its home state of Texas and recently expanded to Illinois. The plan is to expand to additional states next year, either working in deregulated electricity markets or partnering with monopoly utilities.<\/p>\n

Base\u2019s business model is focused on offering a one-stop shop for the home: electricity and backup power courtesy of a battery storage system, not a standard gas generator. Instead of paying for a backup power system that can easily cost $15,000 or much more, Base offers electricity services and charges an installation fee\u2014no more than $695\u2014and a flat monthly membership fee of $19\u2014call it the Costco model. Dell argues overall electricity charges are typically cheaper on average because of the money saved by the batteries giving power back to the grid.<\/p>\n

And, when there\u2019s a power outage, the battery (or the upcharge for a dual-battery system) keeps the lights on\u2014so long as it isn\u2019t a prolonged outage beyond two or three days.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur business model, which is very unique, is that we\u2019re really an infrastructure company,\u201d Dell said. \u201cWe own and operate the assets in the wholesale power markets. That\u2019s really where we make our money, not by trying to sell the consumer something at a really high-margin upfront cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Series D round featured four co-leads in fundraising: Ribbit Capital, Addition, Valor Equity Partners, and JP Morgan Chase\u2019s Strategic Investment Group. Dell said Base\u2019s other major existing investors are re-invested, including Thrive Capital, a16z, Lightspeed, Trust Ventures, CapitalG, and more.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll the investors are really long-term oriented thinkers, given the size of the opportunity and the time it will take to kind of execute into it,\u201d Dell said. \u201cWe\u2019ve made a lot of progress but, in the grand scheme of things, we\u2019re really just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dell\u2019s famous father, Michael, is not involved in Base, but does serve as a mentor and, certainly, the name recognition doesn\u2019t hurt with fundraising. After all, Michael Dell is currently the fifth-wealthiest person in the world behind Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Google co-founders\u2014and just ahead of Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

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Prior to this year, Base was forced to rely on installing third-party batteries. Now, Base is building its own systems designed specifically for powering homes and providing electricity back to the grid\u2014not like the systems primarily intended for charging electric vehicles in garages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis battery is designed to be a grid resource,\u201d Dell said. \u201cIt\u2019s bigger, it installs faster, it switches over cleaner, it\u2019s more powerful, it has more duration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Base keeps its options simple: one or two-battery home systems. \u201cMost people actually want two, but not everyone has room on the side of their house for two,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The new battery can store 39.2 kilowatt-hours of electricity, significantly more than most of its competitors.<\/p>\n

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In this age of rapidly rising electricity demand from the AI boom\u2014and strained electric grids nationwide\u2014Dell argued that Base is benefiting customers both by strengthening the local power grids and by keeping the electricity going in the event of a grid failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re charging the batteries when prices on the grid are low, and we\u2019re discharging the batteries with demand when prices on the grid or high,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With the new entry into Illinois, Base is even offering some potential customers battery installation costs of $95\u2014versus the standard $695\u2014to gain greater market penetration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll likely experiment with pricing based on market signals as we enter different markets,\u201d Dell said.<\/p>\n

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