Mana Battery

International Battery Company (IBC), founded in 2022 in Silicon Valley, designs and manufactures prismatic lithium-ion cells and packs (mainly NMC, plus NCA/LFP/silicon-graphite anodes), producing cells in South Korea and building a lithium-ion gigafactory in Karnataka, India via IBC India, a JV with Mahanagar Gas. Target markets include electric two/three-wheelers and EVs, data center & AI backup power and storage, telecom, defense and drones.

Apollo Atomics is an MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering spinoff redesigning the largest component of a conventional pressurized water reactor - the steam generator - into a person-sized Compact Steam Generator, shrinking overall reactor footprint by roughly 40x. It is developing three factory-built, truck-transportable systems (10 MW A-10, 50 MW A-50, 300 MW A-300) deployable in under 24 months, using existing NRC-licensed commercial-grade fuel and supply chains rather than novel reactor technology. Target customers are data center operators, industrial offtakers, and utilities, aiming for roughly 3 cents per kWh.

Seed · $31M · 2026-08

Hammerhead AI, founded in 2024 in Redwood City, California, uses reinforcement learning agents to optimize power, compute, and cooling orchestration in AI data centers.

Seed · $10M · 2025-11

DeepCtrls, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Shenzhen, is one of the earliest teams globally to focus on physical AI. The company builds electromechanical energy system physical AI models grounded in fundamental physical laws using its proprietary physical AI engine, enabling real-time device simulation and optimized control. Its products are deployed in intelligent computing centers, semiconductors, and new energy sectors, with customers including TSMC advanced process fabs, ByteDance computing centers, and national supercomputing centers. Operations span over ten countries across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America.

Series B · 2026-09

Wuhan Superconductor, established in September 2025 in the Wuhan Chegu area, is a superconducting equipment company that has mastered proprietary and controllable superconducting strong magnetic key technologies. Its products target industrial heating, power grid phase adjustment, and single-crystal manufacturing. It plans to jointly establish a joint laboratory with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, relying on the National Major Scientific and Technological Infrastructure of Pulsed Strong Magnetic Field. In July 2026, it completed a seed round of nearly 100 million yuan funded by two local state-owned enterprises.

Seed · $14M · 2026-07

KiWi New Energy Inc. (奇異果新能源), founded in Taipei in May 2019 by Dr. Steve Huang with an office in San Mateo, runs AI-EDC, an AI-driven platform that forecasts load and matches distributed solar/wind supply with multi-site retail and SME demand on a 15-minute planning loop, with storage control and traceable green-power certificates. Its flagship deployment spans 1,000+ FamilyMart stores in Taiwan integrated with Tesla Energy storage; Decathlon is also a customer.

Founded in 2019 in Cambridge, UK, Nyobolt develops high-power, ultra-fast-charging battery systems for robotics, autonomous machines, and AI infrastructure.

Series C · $160M · 2026-05 · Valuation $1.0B

Axle Energy is a London-based energy flexibility software company founded in February 2023. Its single API connects distributed energy assets — EVs and chargers, home batteries, heat pumps and solar — to electricity and balancing markets, acting as B2B back-end infrastructure for virtual power plants. It sells to device OEMs, energy suppliers and fleet/charging operators such as SolarEdge, myenergi, Pod Point, GivEnergy, Easee and Monta, who pass earnings back to households. The platform coordinates over 300,000 connected devices and more than 2GW of shiftable capacity.

Series A · $34M · 2026-07

Rabot Energy (formerly Rabot Charge), founded in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany, offers dynamic electricity tariffs to households and SMEs and aggregates home batteries, wallboxes and heat pumps into a virtual power plant, using machine learning and data analytics to shift consumption to cheaper, greener hours. It serves 200,000+ households and ~15,000 business customers.

Series B · $5M · 2026-10

Firmus Technologies, founded in 2018 in Australia, builds renewable energy-powered data centers and infrastructure designed for AI compute workloads, branded as 'Green AI Factories'.

Strategic · $2.8B · 2026-04 · Valuation $5.5B

Amber Electric is a Melbourne-based energy retailer whose AI-driven SmartShift platform gives households wholesale electricity pricing and automates home batteries, solar and EVs, holding over 50% of Australia's automated residential battery market and licensing its technology to E.ON Next in the UK.

Series D+ · 2026-09

ASUENE Inc., founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, is an AI sustainability (climate-tech) SaaS company serving manufacturers and supply chains. Its flagship ASUENE platform automates GHG (Scope 1-3) data collection, calculation, reduction and audit-ready disclosure aligned with CDP, CSRD, CBAM and SBTi, alongside supply-chain emissions management, third-party assurance, a carbon-credit exchange (Carbon EX) and AI energy management (NZero), serving 60,000+ customers.

Series D+ · $161M · 2026-07