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If you can’t beat them, join them: Europe’s new wave of battery startups partner with China as sun sets on Northvolt

Energy Storage News

We hear from startup Volklec which, like another European battery company Elinor, will build its batteries with a Chinese technology and manufacturing partner. They both say this will get around the challenges that ultimately doomed Europe's first wave of battery startups, with Northvolt today declaring bankruptcy in Sweden.

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5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on

GreenBiz

5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on. This week, we announced five startups pitching June 17 at Accelerate at Circularity 21. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. Sherrie Totoki.

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Startup Form Energy’s ‘100-hour’ iron-air battery tech attracts another US utility’s attention

Energy Storage News

Another utility agreement has been signed by Form Energy, the US startup which claims its iron-air battery can provide sufficient stored energy to ride through multiple days of low solar or wind production.

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As demand for lithium explodes, battery recycling startup Tozero sprints to scale with $11.7M seed

TechCrunch: Climate

Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up to scale. The startup just closed an oversubscribed €11 million seed round (around $11.7M) to step up production by building its first industrial deployment (A.K.A first-of-a-kind or FOAK) plant.

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Sodium-ion startup Peak Energy closes Series A, targets mass production in 2027

Energy Storage News

Peak Energy, a startup claiming to be the ‘first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems,’ has raised US$55 million in a Series A funding round.

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What battery swapping could mean for corporate fleets

GreenBiz

Co-founder and CEO Khaled Hassounha believes startup Ample will succeed where others have failed thanks to the modularity of its car batteries.

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Thermal energy storage startup Antora raises US$150 million for industrial decarbonisation

Energy Storage News

US$150 million has been raised in a Series B by Antora Energy, a US-based startup with a novel ‘thermal battery’ technology claimed to be suitable for decarbonising industrial processes.

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