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Scoop: Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

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Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.

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Former Tesla CEO Drew Pagliano has founded a new heat pump company called Sadi Thermal Machines, according to TechCrunch. This is Pagliano's second company in the two years since leaving Tesla. Sources have confirmed the company's existence, and its filings have been reviewed in Delaware and California. Sadi was founded in June 2025 and is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, sharing office space with Heron Power, another company Pagliano…

Drew Baglino, the right hand of Elon Musk for almost two decades and father of the ‘Octovalve’ (the innovative thermal management system that allows Tesla cars not to lose autonomy in cold climates), has founded a new startup called Sadi Thermal Machines. The company, formed in June 2025, will share headquarters in Scotts Valley (California) with Heron Power, another company of Baglino dedicated to solid state transformers. The name of the new f…

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TechCrunch broke the news in United States on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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