10 Companies to Watch: Energy Storage
10 Notable Startups Tackling These Problems.
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Energy Storage
👉 Smartville | Last Raise Nov 2023, $2.65M (Grant) | [USA]
Taking batteries from EVs and making Energy Storage solutions out of them — how’s that for circular! ♻️
👉 Sparkz | Last Raise April 2022, $5M (Grant) | [USA]
Doing a favor for all battery manufacturers and producing Cathode materials in the US
👉 Inlyte Energy | Last Raise Oct 2023, $7.9M | [USA]
Making grid-scale batteries from inexpensive raw materials (i.e., not supply chain constrained) — who would have thought we could not use the expensive, ultra-rare materials to build batteries?
👉 Altiro Energy | Last Raise Dec 2023, N/A | [Canada]
Using #science to separate oxygen and iron and then rejoin them rapidly to produce a S***load of heat —> Energy Storage
👉 Travertine | Last Raise June 2022, $3M | [USA]
Tossing out “that’s just how it’s done” in producing critical minerals used in batteries (among other things) by ‘recharging’ critical elements (in an electrified way). Ooo—Electrifying!
👉 Sylvatex | Last Raise Sep 2022, $8.4M | [USA]
This company (also a past pod guest) aims to produce cathode materials in the US without water, thus advancing water security and supply chain security
👉 Ouros | Last Raise May 2024, $3M | [USA]
Making batteries that are 10x more dense and 100x more cost-effective than Lithium Ion batteries (with 0… count ‘em 0) performance tradeoffs
👉 Gravity Storage | Last Raise Aug 2019, $10M | [Germany]
Similar to well-known ArcTern-backed Hydrostor, they are aiming to leverage cheap energy during the day to life a big ass weight, and then let it fall down when the sun isn’t shining. Pretty simple but simple is good!
👉 Power Edison | Last Raise Unknown, N/A | [USA]
Providing mobile energy storage solutions so you can literally park a big ass battery near the source of need — useful during natural disasters, grid outages, or pop-up Taylor Swift concerts
👉 Quidnet Energy | Last Raise Nov 2022, $10M (Grant) | [USA]
Producing modular geomechanical energy storage equipment — basically, they pump water underground, and then it is released and spins turbines
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