ChargeUp portfolio companies represent a growing pipeline of investment-ready battery startups advancing technologies across the energy storage value chain. After completing the six-month accelerator, founders remain connected through an active alumni network that convenes at industry conferences, pitch events, and strategic partner meetings.
ChargeUp companies have secured follow-on capital from private investors and the NSF Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York while continuing to engage with ChargeUp’s team and ecosystem. Interested in learning more or meeting a founder? Connect with us to explore collaboration and investment opportunities.
Meet the Companies of ChargeUp Cohort 1 and 2
Helping battery OEMs assemble better batteries by increasing the production of critical components and decreasing CAPEX and OPEX costs.
Scaling sodium-ion system and material technologies for sustainable energy storage.
Manufactures a drop-in hybrid polymer modifier that is used to toughen and lighten parts using epoxies and thermoplastics.
Developing and scaling up low-cost and sustainable cathodes for high-energy automobile batteries.
Cleaning up the battery manufacturing process by removing toxic solvents and forever chemicals from cathode production.
Utilizes a 100% American-based supply chain to improve lithium balancing in any lithium-ion cell chemistry, achieving even greater energy density and performance.
Uses earth-abundant materials to innovate multiple energy storage technologies from sodium to zinc to solid state batteries.
Speeding up the charging capabilities for cells while setting new standards of temperature control within batteries.
Solving the decades-old problem of lithium dendrite deposits by developing the patented Advance Metal Anodes for lithium metal batteries, guiding extra ions away from battery separators.
Innovating lithium-sulfur batteries with superior safety, performance and sustainability for industries like aerospace, defense and electric vehicles, without the use of toxic NMP solvents.
Created a universal, reliable tool to create comprehensive battery health reports for any used electric vehicle in just two minutes.
The ChargeUp Accelerator is being made possible from an innovation grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award ITE-2334103, and is modeled after NextCorps Luminate—the world’s largest accelerator for startups developing deep tech enabled by optics, photonics and imaging—and the NextCorps Manufacturing Accelerator. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. NSF.
