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Symbium is a San Francisco-based company that is reinventing the citizen-to-government experience, with an initial focus on permitting for residential decarbonization projects (e.g., installation of solar panels, energy storage, heat pumps). Using Symbium's instant permitting service, homeowners and contractors can instantly understand and visualize what's possible on a property, scope out projects such as solar panel installation, reroofing, heat pumps, and electrical panel upgrades, and then submit and manage permit applications. Key to this disruption is Symbium’s proprietary Complaw® technology, which enables a TurboTax-like mechanization of regulatory analysis and was initially developed by the founding team at Stanford AI Lab. Symbium is an awardee in the esteemed Third Derivative, Uptake Alliance, and IMPEL cohorts of climate tech companies, the winner of the 2023 Association for Corporate Growth Awards in San Francisco, was a finalist in the 2022 ALP Alain Colmerauer Prolog Heritage Prize, has been recognized as a GovTech 100 company in 2023, 2022, and 2021, is a 2021 American Bar Association Women of Legal Tech award recipient, and is a 2020 Ivory Prize awardee for innovations in regulation and policy to achieve housing affordability. Symbium is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For press inquiries, contact press@symbium.com.

The company was founded by Leila Banijamali, Abhijeet Mohapatra and Artificial Intelligence Professor Michael Genesereth during their work at Stanford University’s CodeX and the Computer Science Department.