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AI for Energy & Industrial Compliance

Rimba is building the AI-native operating system for industrial compliance—replacing legacy giants like SAP. As industrial companies face mounting regulatory complexity, legacy ERP and compliance systems fail to keep up. We're building a vertical platform that ingests operational data (ERP integrations, SCADA, PDFs, meter logs) and uses AI to scrub, reconcile, and generate audit-ready reports for regulations like LCFS, RFS, air permits, and prevailing-wage filings. Core value props: avoidance of multi-million-dollar fines, detection of data inconsistencies/mistakes early, and 80% cut in prep time. Integrations with legacy IT systems create one-click exports for state/federal portals and auditors. Revenue model: annual enterprise subscriptions priced per facility.
Active Founders
Timothy Daniel
Timothy Daniel

Timothy Daniel, Founder

AI for energy and industrial compliance reporting + audit. Ex-head of compliance, legal counsel, and policy advisor.
Akshay Sharma
Akshay Sharma

Akshay Sharma, Founder

- Cofounder / CTO @ Rimba AI - Simplifying compliance for industrials - CS @ Columbia, Applied Maths @ IIT Varanasi - 3+ years of experience in building AI for document analysis @ Klarity (YC S18)
Rimba
Founded:2024
Batch:Spring 2025
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Tom Blomfield
Company Launches
Rimba - AI for Energy & Industrial Compliance
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Hey everyone, we’re Tim and Akshay – cofounders of Rimba 👋

TL;DR
AI, transportation, electricity... All run on massive amounts of energy, and America is running heading to an energy crisis. It’s incredibly difficult to build or operate energy projects, and REGULATORY COMPLIANCE requirements made it even harder. Energy companies are slapped with $$$ tens of millions in penalties while buried in a mountain of spreadsheets, PDFs, and forms to stay compliant.

We’re building Rimba to fix that.

**Ask:**
Know someone or work in energy (mom, dad, aunt, grandpa)? Introduce us timothy@rimba.ai or send them our LinkedIn Launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNWA6gVa6Y

❌ The Problem

Compliance today is manual, error-prone, and incredibly expensive. From low carbon fuel reports, like

LCFS, RFS, to air permits, from tax credit filings to prevailing wage documentation, and more.
A look at the numbers:

  • $23B+ is spent annually on energy compliance in the U.S.
  • $2B+ in annual fines
  • Not to mention the missed incentive and tax credit revenue. Plus 1,000s of hours lost spent on copy-pasting values across spreadsheets, data cleaning, and filings.

And yet—there are no modern tools built for how energy producers actually operate: across spreadsheets, legacy software, and passing data back-and-forth.

💡 Our Solution:

One Platform for Energy & Industrial Compliance Automation

Rimba is building the compliance operating system for the industrial sector.

  1. We monitor and extract operational data from any source—ERP Data, meter data, PDF—and turn it into clean, structured, and report-ready data.
  2. Verify data and reports for regulations, such as:
  • LCFS / RFS / Air Permits
  • Prevailing Wage
  • Sustainability Certification
  1. Catch issues early and avoid mistakes that lead to costly penalties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph3RtlbTy64

✅ The Result

  • Millions avoided in fines
  • 80% reduction in time and resources on monitoring, data cleaning, and reporting.
  • Reduction of risk through visibility


🚀 The Team
Both Tim and Akshay worked in regulatory compliance, and bonded together through the struggle and their love for burgers.

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  • Tim (CEO) was formerly Head of Compliance and Legal Counsel at a mining and energy company. He spent years navigating a maze of regulations, environmental certification, and audit prep across spreadsheets, PDFs, and on-the-ground operational data. He didn’t just witness the problem. He lived it.
  • Akshay (CTO) was an AI Engineer at Klarity (W18) where he focused on transforming unstructured documents into structured data, streamlining compliance processes for finance and accounting teams. His experience includes building high-reliability systems at Goldman Sachs and Adobe; now he’s applying them to energy compliance.

    📩 Email us at timothy@rimba.ai