Skeleton Technologies has announced its Round D3 with 37.6 million euros of equity investments. The Round was led by Taavet Hinrikus, from Taavet+Sten with Nidoco AB, EIT Innoenergy, Bengt Wahlqvist, co-founder of battery charging specialist CTEK, a group of founding team members of Adyen and others joining.
The investments will be aimed at further scale-up of supercapacitor production in Saxony, Germany, to meet customer demand and continuing the development of supercapacitor and curved graphene technology in new battery products.
Skeleton Technologies’ supercapacitors can be charged in a matter of seconds and have 1 million charge cycles. This, coupled with high efficiency, has made them the supplier of choice for blue-chip companies from automotive to grid and industrial applications said Taavet Hinrikus. He added: It's exciting to support the company’s growth through its next phase of supercapacitor manufacturing scale-up and continued development which will see their core materials and technology used in new battery products. I am convinced that the next generation of battery technologies the ones that will allow us to achieve our climate goals will be enabled by materials innovation. Skeleton’s team has a proven track record of bringing R&D to real-life products, which is why investing in the company was an obvious choice for me.
As the battery and energy storage market is currently completely dominated by Asian companies, Europe has no choice but to step up and accelerate if it wants to claim the leadership in the key enabling technologies for the race to net zero. We must not only invest in the technologies that already work today but in the breakthrough innovations we need for many decades to come, explained Taavi Madiberk.