Addionics raises $27m for battery electrode production
Battery material startup Addionics has raised $27m in its first major round of funding.
“It’s a very exciting time,” Dr Moshiel Biton, CEO of Addionics (above, far left) toldeeNews Europe。“这一系列赛对我们来说是一大步，将有助于与以色列和英国的团队一起商业化技术，并扩展到德国和美国。”
Addionics已开发了技术和基于AI的软件，可以使用3D结构在铜和铝中创建更高的电极，这些结构可以滴入现有的电池生产线中 - 锂 - 尼克尔 - 尼克 - 甲状腺 - 甲状腺果实氧化物（NMC），磷酸锂（LFP）（LFP）（LFP）），硅，锂聚合物电池化学或固态电池（SSB） - 以提高性能。
The company’s core IP, developed in Israel and the UK, is its patented and scalable electrode fabrication process that significantly lowers manufacturing costs, enabling mass market adoption of 3D electrode structures for the first time.
资金回合由Deep Insight与Catalyst Fund，Delek Motors和Boaz Schwartz博士一起领导。额外的投资包括Novelis，Magna International，JX Nippon Mining＆Metals，Union Tech Ventures，8090 Partners，Gitv，Gitv，Talcar Corporation，Bridges Impact Impact Impact Investment Investment Fund，Doral Energy Tech Ventures（Doral Energy Ventures（Doral Energy CVC）和Dr.大卫·迪克（David Deak）。参加本轮的现有投资者包括NextGear Ventures和Vasuki Global Tech Fund。
Investment from copper and aluminium supplier is key, he says. “All of that is in order to be in the market as fast as possible, to be in the market in a year’s time,” he said. The plan is to build a pilot line first.
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这一轮还将特斯拉前高级工程经理和锂美洲CTO的前高级工程经理戴维·迪克（David Deak）带入了董事会。Nio Capital的前执行董事Yair Shacked最近还加入了Addionics的顾问委员会。
“We don’t need to produce at commercial scale and then ramp up to support mass volume and demonstrate the integration of our product into client pilot lines and we are in discussion for that and hopefully start preparation for that very soon for automotive OEMs and battery OEMs,” he said.
“我们的目标始终是生产房屋中的第一批产品，并在评估和释放产品后，我们将要在不同的位置生产，以更接近供应链，并减少运输的所有物流和困难以及我们开始做的事情是将合作伙伴带入全世界的合作伙伴，并与铝和铜投资者一起，他们可以在以后的大规模生产中帮助我们进行合作，并与合资或其他关系进行合作，以规模生产。
Next: Solid state battery plans
Pouch cells is the main focus with plans to diversify to other formats but that’s not in the roadmap for the next two years, he says. The company uses a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to accelerates battery development time, optimizing electrode designs to meet any battery application and performance requirement.
他说：“我们有2023年的目标非常详细。”“这不仅是硬件路线图，而且要获得AI软件，我们会使用更成熟的方式，并更好地了解如何将其用于外界。我们不想在[电池制造商]的生产线上进行任何更改，现在我们希望使用对现有资本的大量投资，均用于3D铜的阳极和阴极的3D铝。”他说。
“Solid state is the holy grail as there are lots of advantages but some technical issues remain. We believe in that technology for the long term and we have a project in the US to develop a solid electrolyte,” he said. “ The key is that our structures match the capacity of the lithium metal anode to a conventional cathode. Without our technology there is no cathode that can match the capacity of the high energy anode material, so you are trapped. What we can do is increase the electrode and load more active material on the cathode to match the capacity,” he said
Biton说：“在我们受人尊敬的投资者和战略合作伙伴的支持下，Addionics为市场中断开辟了一条清晰的途径，并具有良好的位置，可以在大规模上提供更高的性能，较低的成本电池。”“我们期待加速我们的产品开发，并为商业化奠定必要的基础，因为我们仍然致力于通过建立市场上最好的电池架构来改变电池行业的使命。”
“Addionics’s battery electrode technology promises to expedite the commercial viability of new and future chemistry configurations such as solid-state and silicon, while also optimizing batteries that are already widely adopted, including LFP, NMC, and other Li-ion based technologies,” said Dr. Eyal Kishon, Chairman at Deep Insight. “As the world races towards electrification to mitigate the impacts of climate change, we must support solutions that address both near-term and long-term challenges. Addionics tackles both under the leadership of world-class battery experts – which is why we’re so confident in this investment.”
“At Catalyst Fund, we align closely with Addionics’ mission of revolutionizing the energy storage industry and supporting a net zero future,” said Yair Shamir, Managing Partner at Catalyst-Fund. “With its unique physics-based approach to battery technology, Addionics stands above the competition in terms of mass market potential. The company is not only an exciting climate tech investment opportunity, but we foresee it as a key enabler of the electric transition.”
A系列投资遵循下一步齿轮风险投资的最初耗资900万美元的种子回合，其中包括250万美元的赠款，作为欧盟Horizon2020计划的一部分。
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