The 2022 Evonik Venture Forum is opening collaboration opportunities for startups with a focus on battery solutions.
Goal: to create synergies with Evonik’s innovation activities and business lines active in battery materials and to explore investment opportunities with the Corporate Venture Capital unit.
More specifically Evonik is planning to collaborate or invest in companies with a high level of differentiation and strong value proposition in the areas below.
Synergies with Evonik’s business lines active in battery materials:
Evonik is looking for additives applied to any of the battery components that will ultimately boost battery performances, processing capability, sustainability or thermal management. The process and chemistry associated with the fabrication of electrodes is also of high interest.
Additives can be under various forms: particles, polymers, liquids. All battery technologies are considered, from the more mature to the longer-term concepts.
Sustainability and Recyclability
Evonik wants to explore potential collaborations with startups working more specifically under the sustainability angle, offering additives that will facilitate the recycling and reuse of the battery materials. Sustainable binders for electrodes are important as well. Evonik seeks to initiate partnerships with companies active in recycling with a focus on critical metal recovery in battery recycling.
More opportunities
Evonik is also looking for investment opportunities in startups that can bring significant improvement in electrode fabrication process, explore new electrolytes or new cathode materials for non-cobalt batteries. Innovative battery architecture such as Lithium-metal is also of interest as well as the digital approach where AI is used to enhance the battery performance.
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