With Tony Fadell’s help, Advano is building battery components to power an electric future
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/with-tony-fadells-help-advano-is-building-battery-components-to-power-an-electric-future/
Using scrap silicon as its feedstock, a New Orleans-based company called Advano has raised $18.5 million to manufacture battery components to enable more powerful, smaller, and longer lasting batteries.
The technology was innovative enough to earn the Lousiana-based startup a place in Y Combinator’s famed accelerator and has now attracted the attention of Mitsui Kinzoku, which is investing in the company as a strategic partner, and Tony Fadell, the famous product designer known as ‘the father of the iPod’ and the founder of the smart thermostat company, Nest .
With Tony Fadell’s help, Advano is building battery components to power an electric future
Jan 28, 2020, 2:35pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/with-tony-fadells-help-advano-is-building-battery-components-to-power-an-electric-future/
> Using scrap silicon as its feedstock, a New Orleans-based company called Advano has raised $18.5 million to manufacture battery components to enable more powerful, smaller, and longer lasting batteries.
> The technology was innovative enough to earn the Lousiana-based startup a place in Y Combinator’s famed accelerator and has now attracted the attention of Mitsui Kinzoku, which is investing in the company as a strategic partner, and Tony Fadell, the famous product designer known as ‘the father of the iPod’ and the founder of the smart thermostat company, Nest .