AI for Cold Storage: One-Year Payback, 400,000 Data Streams | Amrit Robbins, CEO of Axiom Cloud

Axiom Cloud also helps grocery stores and cold chain storage companies reduce energy use by 11% and avoid costly maintenance.

🎧 Episode Summary

Amrit Robbins co-founded Axiom Cloud in 2020 to solve the most painful problems facing cold chain operators and unlock a massive climate opportunity: reducing refrigerant leaks (refrigerants are greenhouse gases that are up to 4,000x more potent than CO2).

Axiom Cloud helps grocery chains and cold storage companies solve their most significant maintenance, compliance, and energy challenges through AI and automation.

No new hardware or sensors are required; the solution can be installed across many facilities quickly (fully remote installation), and the initial payback is <1 year.

Prior to Axiom Cloud, Amrit was the CEO and co-founder of Axiom Exergy, a hardware company that commercialized thermal energy storage retrofits for grocery-store refrigeration systems.

He sold the first pilots to Amazon/Whole Foods and Walmart and led Axiom Exergy through multiple rounds of venture fundraising.

Before Axiom Exergy, Amrit worked at Clark Energy Group (CEG), where he co-led the sales, development, and engineering of a $100M energy-efficiency retrofit project for a national supermarket chain.

Amrit earned his B.S. in Atmosphere/Energy Engineering at Stanford University. He is a father of two girls and a jazz/reggae/funk/salsa/R&B trumpet player. (Obviously!)

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