Holyvolt buys US battery pioneer Wildcat Discovery for $73M

"Wildcat is today the world leader, hands down the best in the world, in battery chemistry. They have focused for 18 years on battery chemistry and become world leaders in anodes, cathodes, electrolytes, and essentially everything around a battery."

"Wildcat's HTP is, at its core, a materials discovery engine. It runs combinatorial experiments in parallel, a methodology originally developed for pharmaceutical drug discovery, and can identify optimal battery chemistries up to ten times faster than conventional research methods."

"The gap between discovery and production has long been one of the defining bottlenecks of the clean energy transition. The transaction brings together two technologies that have been developed on parallel tracks for years: Holyvolt's screen-printing and water-based manufacturing process, and Wildcat's High Throughput Platform."

The battery industry faces a critical bottleneck: translating laboratory discoveries into commercial production without excessive time and cost. Holyvolt, a Swedish battery startup backed by Volvo, addresses this challenge through its $73 million acquisition of Wildcat Discovery Technologies. Wildcat's High Throughput Platform synthesizes and screens thousands of material combinations simultaneously, identifying optimal battery chemistries ten times faster than conventional methods. The platform generates structured, terabyte-scale materials datasets suitable for machine learning applications. Holyvolt contributes screen-printing and water-based manufacturing processes. This combination merges Wildcat's 18 years of battery chemistry expertise across anodes, cathodes, and electrolytes with Holyvolt's manufacturing capabilities, bridging the discovery-to-production gap that has hindered clean energy advancement.

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