{"id":19580,"date":"2025-06-25T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosv.com\/?p=19580"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:24:18","slug":"nascent-materials-emerges-from-stealth-with-2-3m-to-make-lfp-batteries-better-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosv.com\/nascent-materials-emerges-from-stealth-with-2-3m-to-make-lfp-batteries-better-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Nascent Materials emerges from stealth with $2.3M to make LFP batteries better & cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries are powering the electric world. But behind the scenes, the supply chain is fragile, costly, and overwhelmingly reliant on China, which produced 77% of the world\u2019s batteries in 2022, with the U.S., in comparison, just 6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019re excited to back Nascent Materials<\/a><\/strong>, a HAX graduate rethinking how battery materials are made in America. The company just closed a $2.3M Seed round led by SOSV, with participation from the NJEDA Innovation Evergreen Fund<\/strong> and UM6P Ventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nascent is scaling a new, pCAM-free method for manufacturing cathode materials, one of the most critical (and expensive) parts of a lithium-ion battery. Unlike traditional methods, their approach is modular, flexible, and energy-efficient, designed to lower costs, cut emissions, and enable supply chain resilience by using multiple input materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While lithium-ion battery chemistry was originally invented in North America (New Jersey, in fact), China now leads not only in production but also in battery R&D. The country has recently tightened export controls on key battery technologies, leaving the U.S. increasingly reliant on \u201clast-gen\u201d imports to build new domestic facilities. That\u2019s not a sustainable strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nascent is tackling that head-on. The company is currently building out a bench-scale manufacturing line capable of multi-kilogram batches, with early product already in the hands of potential customers as the demand from U.S.-based battery makers is growing fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udcac \u201cEven with proposed rollbacks to battery manufacturing incentives under the current administration, the core challenge of battery production remains: the U.S. must compete with Asia on cost, speed, and scale. Nascent is meeting that challenge with a step-change in manufacturing productivity and a clear path to reshoring battery supply chains. This is exactly the kind of high-impact battery innovation the U.S. needs right now,” said SOSV’s <\/a>Duncan Turner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company was founded in 2024 by Chaitanya Sharma<\/a>, a cleantech veteran with over a decade of experience across gigafactory construction (including Tesla), advanced materials, and supply chain design. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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