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MatSource is a Suzhou-based AI-for-Materials company built around a data-and-intelligence dual-driven materials development platform. Founded in April 2025 in Suzhou Industrial Park with a joint R&D center at Gusu Laboratory, it combines a million-scale real-world materials database, 120+ proprietary physics and chemistry models and LLMs into materials AI agents, coupled with a high-throughput automated experimental platform to close the loop from data to physical model to agent to experiment. It focuses on catalytic and energy materials for solid-state batteries, photovoltaics and hydrogen, serving industrial clients through process optimization, custom materials R&D, dedicated databases and AI research assistants, and monetizing via technical services, materials IP licensing and self-developed materials production.

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.

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.

Founded in 2020 in London, Materials Nexus applies AI and quantum mechanics to accelerate discovery and development of sustainable, cost-effective materials for renewable energy generation and storage.

AcouBatt is a 2025 UCL spinout based in London that pairs acoustic-emission sensors with proprietary AI to act as a stethoscope for lithium-ion cells, detecting internal electrochemical and mechanical activity during the manufacturing formation stage and in deployed battery systems. Its sensors are piloting at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), targeting up to 30% faster formation and earlier fault detection ahead of a planned 2027 commercial rollout.

Novele is a Stamford, Connecticut-based building energy company pairing its AI-powered energy software BoardOS with EnergyBoard, a roughly 2-inch-thick, wall-mounted, fire-safe lithium-ion battery, deployed in offices, hospitals and big-box retail. BoardOS predicts demand spikes and switches buildings between grid and battery power to cut demand charges. The company traces to a 2015 net-zero buildings venture and relaunched in its current form in 2023; customers include several Fortune 50 companies.