$6.6M raised in oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Anzu Partners

BROOKLYN, NY, November 2, 2016 — Voltaiq Inc., a pioneer in battery intelligence software, has raised a $2M seed funding round.

High-profile battery failures have become all too familar in the news of late. In the last month alone, two major consumer electronics vendors have seen exploding batteries derail their product  ( 1 , 2 ). Several other industries have suffered significant battery catastrophes in recent years.  (Aerospace, Medical, Automotive, Grid-Scale Energy Storage).

Voltaiq is the only comprehensive battery intelligence platform purpose-built to track energy storage devices from early R&D through their lifetime in the field. Voltaiq will help you increase productivity, drive innovation, and improve battery performance and reliability.

From the Organizaers: The Expo for Advanced Batteries (http://www.thebatteryshow.com/)

Arbin Instruments generously decided to let us do a side-by-side comparison of their newest line of battery testers, the LBT series, with their traditional BT-2000 series test systems. This new generation of testers, along with the new HPTCE series (capable of meaningful high-precision coulomb counting), are the result of Arbin’s collaboration with Ford Motor Company and Sandia National Lab through the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program.

At Voltaiq we’re often asked for recommendations on how to best set up and record data from a battery or capacitor test. If you’re like us, you probably built your first test program using a template created by someone else — without first thinking through the implications of each recording step. At the end of this post we'll provide some best-practice cycling procedures to produce rich data sets with minimal noise, delivering powerful insights from your battery data.

Devices powered by batteries are all around us. Think of how many batteries are within arm’s reach as you read this! There are single-use alkaline batteries in our TV remotes and wireless mice/keyboards, and rechargeable lithium batteries in our cell phones and laptops. These devices can be tiny, like pacemakers, or large like the batteries powering electric vehicles or storing energy on the electric grid.