Today marks a significant milestone as we announce the closing of our $20 million Series A funding. This funding will allow us to scale global operations to meet the growing demand for EV batteries and accelerate our cutting-edge GenAI and battery development roadmap. From day one, we adopted an AI-first, data-first approach and created our own battery lab. In less than three years, our team has curated a vast amount of data through extensive physical experimentation to fully leverage cutting-edge GenAI. This AI flywheel that combines GenAI highly automated experimentation high volume and quality proprietary data will continuously allow us to rapidly discover and optimize novel material formulations and battery configurations tailored for diverse EV verticals. We’re grateful to share our mission with a remarkable team of investors, including Ursheet P., Jeff Peters, PhD, Jake Simon, Gabriel Alvarado, Yann Lagalaye, Olivier Warnan, Matthieu Soulé, Brian Flucht, Tomonori Nishina Thank you to Michelle Ma via Bloomberg for sharing our news today. https://bit.ly/44hPZUO The full press release with more details about the funding announcement is available here - https://lnkd.in/gha8psuY #GenAI #EV #Battery #Funding CC: Mayfield Fund, Ibex Investors, Porsche Ventures, BNP PARIBAS SOLAR IMPULSE VENTURE FUND, KDDI Corporation, Berkeley SkyDeck, Urban Innovation Fund, Radical Ventures, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Chemix, Inc.
Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
Sunnyvale, California 6,309 followers
Illuminating the Battery Black Box with GenAI
About us
Chemix is using AI to develop breakthrough EV battery technologies. Today’s battery development is slow, labor-intensive, and expensive. With AI, Chemix can reduce development time by 10x. Chemix’s battery designs are compatible with existing Li-ion battery manufacturing capacity, enabling a seamless transition of customers’ battery R&D to volume production. Chemix’s mission is to accelerate the development of the most sustainable battery chemistry by first eliminating the use of cobalt, and ultimately the reliance on nickel and lithium, all without compromising vehicle performance. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Chemix’s team comprises researchers and business leaders from Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and industry-leading battery and AI startups. Chemix is currently backed by a group of fantastic strategic partners and VC firms, including Mayfield, Radical Ventures, and Ibex Investors.
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http://www.chemix.ai
External link for Chemix, Inc.
- Industry
- Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
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Primary
440 Oakmead Pkwy
Sunnyvale, California 94085, US
Employees at Chemix, Inc.
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Ursheet P.
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Srinivas Nimmagadda
CXO | Entrepreneur | Business Strategist | Advisor | eMobility | Energy Storage | Climate Tech | Sustainability Advocate | Deep Tech AI/ML
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Jeff Peters, PhD
Partner at Ibex Investors || Head of Global Mobility VC
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Daniel Mulet
Investing in AI since 2015
Updates
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It has been a busy summer for Chemix, and we have some exciting updates to share! We’ve recently moved to a 20,000 sq. ft. facility in Sunnyvale, CA to support our growing operations (see below). We’re also excited to welcome the following talented individuals to our team: Thomas Schumann joins Chemix as a Director of Intelligent Hardware Engineering with 35 years of experience. He’s developed solutions for battery management systems for automotive EV and residential battery storage markets. He has collaborated with major European OEM automakers to advance the state-of-the-art battery management systems in the EV market. Anirudh Suresh, Ph.D. joins Chemix as a Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and deploying our AI models. He has extensive experience in deep learning and optimization algorithms and has previously worked on applications in materials science. Da Yang Ph.D. joins Chemix as a Senior Software Engineer. He has a Ph.D. in computational physics and a comprehensive technical background, with extensive experience developing software for systems that interface with the physical world. Alan Kuo joins Chemix as a Research Engineer with a background in autonomous battery data collection, failure analysis, chemical engineering and materials science. He has degrees from Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley. Yifan Ma Ph.D. joins Chemix as a Battery Scientist with 8 years of R&D experience in energy storage materials and electrochemistry. She holds a Ph.D. with a focus on improving rechargeable battery performance and sustainability and a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Chemix continues to drive vertically integrated innovation to “AI-fy” the energy storage industry. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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Today, Chemix welcomes Anirban D., Ph.D., as our Vice President of Quality and Industrialization! Anirban brings over 20 years of extensive experience in manufacturing, product development, quality, and supplier engineering across multiple industries, including consumer electronics, energy, and advanced materials. He has successfully managed contract manufacturers and suppliers for renowned companies like Apple and Tesla, and played a pivotal role in the supplier industrialization for Tesla’s batteries and electrodes. Anirban recently spearheaded the industrialization of one of North America's earliest LFP Gigafactory. His impressive expertise in product industrialization and quality improvement, along with his PhD in Materials Science, makes him an invaluable addition to our team. #AI #Innovation #batteries #NewHire
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It was a lot of fun to discuss a few technical aspects of our approach to faster next-gen battery development with AI at Chemix, Inc. Thanks Heather Couture, PhD for inviting me on the Impact AI podcast.
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Batteries are arguably the most important technological innovation of the century, powering everything from mobile phones to electric vehicles (EVs). Unfortunately, most batteries have a significant impact on the environment, requiring increasingly scarce and valuable resources to manufacture and typically not designed for easy repair, reuse, or recycling. Today on Impact AI, I'm joined by Jason Koeller, PhD, Co-Founder and CTO of Chemix, Inc., to find out how his company is leveraging AI to create better, more sustainable EV batteries that could reduce our reliance on elements like lithium, nickel, and cobalt, all without compromising vehicle performance. For a fascinating conversation with a data-driven physicist working at the intersection of software, machine learning, chemistry, and materials science, be sure to tune in today! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to be notified about new episodes every Monday. https://lnkd.in/dkGNmRbh #ImpactAI #machinelearning #deeplearning #battery #EV
Better EV Batteries with Jason Koeller from Chemix
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🌎 Happy World Environment Day! Today, we celebrate some of our very special founders who are working tirelessly to push the boundaries for a better tomorrow. We are proud to have such visionary founders within our Porsche Ventures Family 💚 1KOMMA5° Bcomp Ltd cylib AM Batteries South 8 Technologies Chemix, Inc. Laka &Charge Sustainability lies at the heart of our investment strategy, and we're proud to witness the impactful strides made by some of the remarkable people in this industry. At the same time, we also have to acknowledge how much more work we have ahead of us, so let's keep pushing!👊 #WorldEnvironmentDay #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #PorscheVentures #Pioneers #VentureCapital Consumption Data: Taycan (WLTP): Electrical consumption combined: 20.0 – 16.7 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A; Status 05/2024
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We recently wrapped up our 3rd Mobis Mobility Day with Hyundai MOBIS! ⛱️ This event focused on cutting-edge advancements in Green Mobility, featuring presentations from innovative startups changing the future of mobility, including Niron Magnetics, Inc., Chemix, Inc., and Ouster. A special thank you to Hyundai MOBIS, Honda Innovations, Volvo Cars, and Mercedes-Benz USA for making this event a resounding success! 🎉 #GreenMobility #OpenInnovation #VentureCapital
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The quest for groundbreaking #EV battery technology is underway, and what if the answer to the best batteries isn’t just in the chemistry, but rather harnessing #AI? 🔋 At Chemix, we use AI to efficiently refine battery chemistry by analyzing data and chemistry at unparalleled speeds. 🎙️Dive into Michael Dunne's latest Driving With Dunne podcast episode featuring our co-founder & CTO, Jason Koeller, PhD, as he discusses how AI is setting the stage for the next wave of battery advancements: https://bit.ly/497BiWd
Driving with Dunne: Leveraging AI For Battery Breakthroughs. Jason Koeller, Co-Founder and CTO, Chemix on Apple Podcasts
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Thank you Insider for including me in the inaugural AI 100 list. At Chemix, Inc., we’re using AI to accelerate the development of next-generation batteries for EVs. It's an honor to be listed among major AI pioneers who are pushing boundaries and shaping the future of this transformative technology. Congratulations to everyone on the list! Learn more about the list and its winners here: https://lnkd.in/e9RG9Jxn #AI100 #ArtificialIntelligence #BatteryInnovation #BatteryIndustry #Chemix
The AI 100 2023: The top people in artificial intelligence
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What can AI do to help combat climate change? I discussed this topic last week on a panel at POLITICO's AI and Tech Summit in Washington DC. Fundamentally, AI systems have four main capabilities: (i) improving forecasting, (ii) designing new things, (iii) designing new processes and control algorithms, and (iv) extracting information from unstructured data. These capabilities make AI a powerful tool for battery development. Better forecasting of battery remaining useful life and state of health is critical for improving manufacturing yields and for enabling mass deployment of battery assets with long lifetimes but large up-front costs. Better material designs, from cathode and anode active materials, to electrolyte salts, solvents, and additives, to the formulations of these and dozens of other materials that comprise a full cell, are essential for making batteries more energy dense, safer, and cheaper. Better control algorithms built into battery management systems will enable faster EV charging and higher battery utilization. And extracting battery usage and performance data from raw field data will direct future product development cycles. AI is most useful for problems where (i) there is a large "design space" of possible solutions, (ii) human knowledge frameworks, e.g. fundamental science or empirical "rules of thumb", are insufficient for finding optimal solutions, and (iii) lots of high-quality data mapping possible solutions to outcome quality already exists or can be created. Not all problems satisfy these requirements; but for those which do, the opportunity for using AI to help accelerate humanity's transition to sustainable energy is enormous. (This is what we do every day at Chemix, Inc..)