In 2024, when Stephen Lake walked away from Google after selling North, the smart glasses company that grew to 400 people before its 2020 acquisition, he did not go looking for another shiny gadget....
In 2024, when Stephen Lake walked away from Google after selling North, the smart glasses company that grew to 400 people before its 2020 acquisition, he did not go looking for another shiny gadget. He went looking for friction. He found it in basements, utility rooms, and monthly gas bills that refuse to die quietly. Residential heating was still burning fossil fuel like it was a birthright. Jetson was born out of that irritation, not nostalgia, with Stephen Lake reuniting with Aaron Grant and Matthew Bailey to take on the least glamorous, most stubborn piece of home infrastructure.
Jetson planted flags in Denver and Vancouver, with operational roots stretching into Boston and a planned Kitchener-Waterloo presence, because this problem is continental, not coastal. 46% of households across the United States and Canada still rely on gas furnaces, and every winter that number leaks money and carbon. Jetson did not arrive with slogans. It arrived with a vertically integrated answer that owns the entire experience, from a three minute online quote to a one day install, with rebate paperwork handled before the homeowner even thinks to ask.
Jetson Air is the proof point. A fully electric, smart central heat pump that slides into existing ductwork, runs without gas backup down to minus twenty two Fahrenheit, and costs about $15K before incentives. Sensors track pressure, temperature, refrigerant, airflow, and filter health. Software tunes performance in real time. The system ships with WiFi, a mobile app, and the quiet confidence of hardware designed by a team that already learned how to ship at scale.
The market noticed. TIME Magazine named Jetson to its 2025 Best Inventions list, not for theory but for execution. 1k+ systems are already installed across Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and British Columbia. Monthly revenue crossed $4M CAD within roughly a year of launch. That is what happens when friction is priced out of the process instead of explained away.
Jetson locked in a $50M Series A led by Eclipse Capital, with 8VC, Activate Capital, Garage Capital, Active Impact Investments, and Daniel Debow participating. Total funding now sits at fifty five million dollars. Ryan Gibson at Eclipse Capital backed the scale. Mike Winterfield at Active Impact doubled down. The mandate is expansion, deeper software, and more boots on the ground installing systems, not decks.
Jetson plans to move next into new states, with Seattle on the map, and to broaden the lineup into electric vehicle chargers and heat pump water heaters. The ambition is not to sell a furnace replacement. It is to make gas feel obsolete without asking homeowners to become energy experts. The name fits. This is not about the future flying car. It is about lift, thrust, and getting homes off the ground while the rest of the industry is still warming up.