Impact Science Ventures

2024 WORLD MATERIALS FORUM: and the winners of our Start Up and Scale Up Challenges are 😀: - START UP CHALLENGE Grand Prix to Aepnus Technology - Lukas Hackl and Bilen Akuzum, Ph.D. Coup de Cœur to Pure Lithium Corporation - Emilie Bodoin - SCALE UP CHALLENGE Grand Prix to Brimstone Energy - Hugo Leandri Coup de Cœur to ZetaEnergy, LLC - Tom Pilette and Michael Liedtke Philippe Varin, stephane Mangin and I would like to thank the Grand Est Region - Franck Leroy and Valerie Debord - for contributing to the higher amount of the Scale Up Awards this year and of course all our jury members for their time and super valuable insights - especially these who were with us in Paris: Bronwyn Fox, Gervais Jacques, Shirley Meng, Martina Merz, Hartwig Michels and Bernard Pinatel. Finally our thumbs up to all 2024 Scale Up and Start Up nominees: you are "just great" and we wish you the best - https://lnkd.in/e42MQaet

We are thrilled to announce that Activate has accepted a record 62 new scientists with 50 groundbreaking companies into our fellowship! Chosen from an impressive pool of over 1,000 applicants, the 2024 #ActivateFellows have been selected for their pioneering work across critical sectors such as energy, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture. Stay tuned for updates on what these exceptional scientists and engineers are up to! Read more about our newest cohort: https://lnkd.in/gWhtyucB

We just executed two PPAs with one of the nation’s largest utilities. ✅   Southern California Edison (SCE) will purchase enough power from Fervo’s 400 MW Cape Station project for the equivalent of 350,000 homes across Southern #California.    We are excited to support California’s commitment to clean, zero-carbon electricity by providing a dependable and adaptable solution. More here: https://lnkd.in/dTkRDs2P #geothermal #EGS

Circularity is they key to industrial sustainability and profitably recycling battery manufacturing waste streams (rather than just the battery itself) is a massive and growing market. Because of that, we're thrilled to announce our investment into Aepnus Technology, led by the dynamic duo Lukas Hackl and Bilen Akuzum, Ph.D. ! This team will lead the way in sustainable battery manufacturing. https://lnkd.in/gZH9NVJx

Big news in EV battery safety! We are pleased to announce that by utilizing our proprietary AI-driven materials discovery platform, Sepion has developed a non-flammable liquid electrolyte that can greatly reduce the risk and severity of fires in EV batteries. With this achievement, we move closer to safely unlocking a 40% increase in range together with fast-charge capabilities for the next generation of EVs – accelerating their adoption worldwide. Our researchers subjected the newly discovered liquid electrolyte to flammability testing against standard commercial lithium-ion battery electrolytes, demonstrating its efficacy and safety features. Its flash point exceeded 70°C, and its self-extinguishing time (SET) was 25 times better than that of standard lithium-ion battery electrolytes. Thank you to our dedicated scientists and researchers for this significant milestone! Check out the electrolyte flammability test video here: https://lnkd.in/guVMzKVQ #AI #machinelearning #lithium #batteries #safety #emobility #sepion

This is big. Brimstone was selected for a transformational $189 million investment by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Industrial Demonstration Program. No one knows more about decarbonizing our economy, or about what it will take to achieve global impact than DOE. By backing Brimstone’s commercial demonstration plant, the DOE has offered jet fuel to accelerate our scale-up and path to market. Since Day One, we’ve believed that decarbonizing cement requires developing a product identical to the industry-standard portland cement that builders everywhere know and trust. The process would need to be extremely low-carbon, and cost-competitive at full scale. DOE’s investment in Brimstone is a powerful validation of this approach and our work. After a highly competitive process, we’re thrilled to be among the 33 companies chosen to be part of the largest industrial decarbonization effort in U.S. history, one that will create clean jobs, transform sectors, and help spur an American-led clean industrial revolution. Let’s build. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eiWR3fup Read U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s press release here: https://lnkd.in/ev8AY3_v DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations #IndustrialDecarbonization #DecarbonizeCement

Impact Science Ventures has 4(!!!!) companies in the top 18 of TIME's list of top 250 Greentech companies of 2024, and 2 in the top 8. Congrats to Antora Energy, Brimstone , Fervo Energy, and Twelve and thank you for the work that you're doing. https://lnkd.in/egG4P3Gx

We are pleased to announce today that we have raised $244 million in a new funding round led by Devon Energy. Galvanize Climate Solutions, John Arnold, Liberty Mutual Investments, Marunouchi Innovation Partners, Mercuria, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries also joined the round alongside existing investors Capricorn Investment Group’s Technology Impact Fund, Congruent Ventures, DCVC, Helmerich & Payne, and Impact Science Ventures.   Demand for around-the-clock #cleanenergy has never been greater, and enhanced geothermal is the best technologically and commercially viable resource capable of satisfying these power needs. With this additional investment, Fervo is prepared to continue accelerating the geothermal decade.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Antora has raised $150 million in Series B funding, led by Decarbonization Partners, to slash industrial emissions and rapidly scale our technology. As featured in The Wall Street Journal, this funding will enable Antora to ramp production of our factory-made thermal batteries to deliver billions of dollars of zero-emissions energy to industrial customers. We are at a turning point: Cheap renewable energy is fundamentally reshaping the world we live in. And it is poised to trigger a transformation like those spurred by coal in the early 1800s, oil in the early 1900s, and natural gas in the early 2000s. Industry is the next trillion-dollar decarbonization opportunity. And thermal batteries are the key to electrifying how we make everything, converting ultra-cheap wind and solar power into the always-on energy that drives our economy. For the first time in human history, we can generate heat and electricity—reliably and cost-effectively—without burning something. At Antora, we’re working to usher in this future, building a product that we’ve proven at commercial scale: a modular, road-shippable, U.S. factory-made thermal battery that we’re deploying at industrial sites across America and around the world. "Antora represents the next era for wind and solar,” says Meghan Sharp, global head of Decarbonization Partners, in the Wall Street Journal. “They’re bringing renewables to industry.” Thank you for being a part of Antora’s journey. This is just the beginning. https://lnkd.in/gaMzYd3X