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| 03.02.2026 | VulcanForms Secures $220M: Fuels US Digital Manufacturing Surge | VulcanForms, an advanced digital metal manufacturing firm, raised $220 million in Series D funding. The capital fuels expansion of its integrated U.S. production platform. This move strengthens domestic supply chains. It reduces reliance on... |
| 02.02.2026 | 1Buy.AI Fuels AI Revolution in Electronics Supply Chains with $3.9M Seed Round | 1Buy.AI secured $3.9M in seed funding for its AI electronics procurement platform. This AI operating system streamlines complex global supply chains. It optimizes sourcing, reduces BOM costs, and liquidates excess inventory. The Delhi-based... |
| 02.02.2026 | Redwood Materials Secures $425 Million, Powers Domestic Battery Future | Redwood Materials finalized its $425 million Series E funding round. This substantial capital infusion accelerates its energy storage platform. It bolsters integrated battery recycling and critical minerals operations. New investor Google j... |
| 02.02.2026 | Сын Трампа участвует в раунде инвестиций $220 млн для 3D-печатного стартапа VulcanForms | Стартап VulcanForms продает детали компаниям в таких отраслях, как здравоохранение, аэрокосмическая и оборонная промышленность, делая акцент на производстве продукции в США. Компания использует процесс, известный как аддитивное производство... |
| 30.01.2026 | 1Buy.AI Raises $3.9M in Seed Funding | 1Buy.AI, a Delhi, India-based provider of an AI-first electronics procurement platform, raised $3.9M in Seed Funding.
The round was led by 100Unicorns, with participation from FJ Labs (USA), Gruhas (founded by Nikhil Kamath and Abhijeet Pai... |
| 30.01.2026 | Redwood Materials Finalizes $425 Million Series E To Scale Energy Storage Platform | Redwood Materials announced it has completed the final closing of its Series E financing, bringing the round’s total proceeds to $425 million as the company accelerates efforts to scale its energy storage platform and broaden its role in th... |
| 30.01.2026 | Redwood Materials Raises $425M in Series E Funding | Redwood Materials, a Carson City, Nev.-based company recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components, raised $425M in Series E funding.
Bakers included existing investors, Capricorn and Goldman ... |
| 15.01.2026 | Automakers like Ford and GM are jumping into a whole new business where Tesla is a serious player | Automakers are increasingly investing in energy storage businesses as demand for EV batteries falters.
Ford said in December it plans to convert one factory meant for EV batteries to energy storage products, spending $2 billion on top of th... |
| 27.10.2025 | U.S. Battery Giant Redwood Materials Secures $350 Million for Energy Future | Redwood Materials secured $350 million in Series E funding. Eclipse Ventures led the round; Nvidia's NVentures joined as a key new investor. This significant capital infusion will accelerate Redwood's expansion across U.S. energy storage op... |
| 27.10.2025 | Redwood Materials: $350 Million Series E Raised To Advance U.S. Energy Storage Expansion | Redwood Materials announced the close of its $350 million Series E funding round, led by Eclipse with participation from new strategic investors, including NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm. The oversubscribed round underscores strong... |
| 26.10.2025 | Crusoe Secures $10 Billion Valuation to Fuel AI Infrastructure Dominance | Crusoe secured over $1.3 billion in a Series E round, pushing its valuation past $10 billion. The company transforms wasted energy into critical infrastructure for massive AI data centers. Its vertically integrated model delivers gigawatt-s... |
| 24.10.2025 | Crusoe: $1.375 Billion At $10 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Future Of AI Infrastructure | Crusoe, known as “the AI factory company,” announced the initial close of its $1.375 billion Series E funding round, valuing the company at over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners,... |
| 24.10.2025 | Redwood Materials Raises $350 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation | Redwood Materials is a leading energy storage company that is growing its new business to power the AI data center boom. The company focuses on developing and scaling energy storage solutions designed to support the significant power requir... |
| 23.10.2025 | Battery recycling firm Redwood raises $350 million from Eclipse Ventures, Nvidia | Battery recycling firm Redwood Materials said on Thursday it has closed a $350 million funding round led by venture capital firm Eclipse Ventures, with participation from new investors including Nvidia's investment arm, NVentures.
The fundr... |
| 07.10.2025 | MIT Technology Review Reveals 2025 list of 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch | The annual list highlights the world's most promising innovations tackling climate change and features an exclusive essay from Bill Gates on why climate tech investment matters now more than ever.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/... |
| 05.08.2025 | Tesla co-founder JB Straubel is using old EV batteries to power AI data centers | As demand for energy skyrockets amid the rise of AI, one of Tesla’s co-founders is betting on a new solution: giving old electric vehicle batteries a second-life.
JB Straubel, who helped launch Tesla and served as its tech chief until 2019,... |
| 13.07.2025 | In rare earth metals power struggle with China, old laptops, phones may get a new life | To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec
The need for rare earth metals is growing and critical in making everything from fighter jets to power tools.
U.S. manufacturers have typically purchased essential me... |
| 27.06.2025 | Crusoe launches prefabricated modular AI factory | Crusoe, the industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of Crusoe Spark™, a turnkey, prefabricated modular AI factory designed to bring powerful, low-latency AI compute to the network’s edge.... |
| 02.12.2024 | A Tesla Founder Started an EV Battery Recycling Company That's on Pace to Make $200 Million a Year Tesla co-founder JB Straubel launched Redwood Materials in 2017 to help the industry shift away from ... |
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Tesla cofounder JB Straubel said his electric vehicle battery-recycling startup, Redwood Materials, will make hundreds of millions in revenue this year.
Straubel disclosed Redwood Mater... |
| 29.08.2024 | Wary of Trump, US minerals projects rush to close government loans | Land Use & BiodiversityCircular Economy
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| 23.05.2024 | GM Teams Up with Tesla Co-founder's Company to Recycle EV Batteries | By Quincy Jon
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General Motors unveiled its collaboration with Redwood Materials to recycle EV battery ... |
| 03.05.2024 | Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024 | Climate tech startups raised $8.1 billion in the first quarter, near record amounts of money that suggest 2023’s quiet close might have been more of a blip than the sign of a protracted downturn.
The figure, contained in a new report from P... |
| 17.04.2024 | Tesla has spent $200K advertising on Elon Musk’s X so far | Tesla has spent around $200,000 on advertising through February on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, after the CEO caved to shareholder pressure last year and said his company would “try a little advertising.”
Since then, Tesla ads have... |
| 16.11.2023 | Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials | Battery cells produced at Toyota’s future North American EV factory will someday contain a little Redwood Materials DNA.
The two companies announced Thursday that Redwood Materials will supply Toyota with cathode material and anode copper f... |
| 20.09.2023 | JB Straubel talks Tesla, Redwood Materials and keeping a startup mentality at any scale | JB Straubel has worn many hats in his career: co-founder of Tesla, Tesla board member, and more recently, founder and CEO of battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials.
But in his heart, he’s a engineer, he said during a fire... |
| 13.09.2023 | Total supply chain revamp is vital to fulfilling the climate potential of EVs | Internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs) both have supply chains that generate significant environmental impacts. Experts argue that circular economy principles—based on reducing, reusing and recycling materials... |
| 30.08.2023 | Redwood Materials Raises $1 Billion in Series D funding at $5.25 Billion Post-Money Valuation | Redwood Materials, a Carson City, Nev.-based company recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components, raised $1 billion in Series D funding.
The round, which post-money valued at $5.25 billion, ... |
| 29.08.2023 | Redwood Materials raises $1B to expand US battery supply chain | Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel, has raised over $1 billion in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of over $5 billion, according to a source familiar with the ma... |
| 29.08.2023 | Goldman Sachs co-leads over $1 billion investment in unicorn startup Redwood Materials to expand its US operations | Redwood Materials, a sustainable battery startup founded by former Tesla executive JB Straubel, has raised more than $1 billion in a Series D funding to expand its operations in the United States. The round was co-led by Goldman Sachs Asset... |
| 06.03.2023 | Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| 03.03.2023 | Redwood sources 95 per cent of metals from old batteries | Redwood Materials has released an interesting update on its electric and hybrid vehicle battery recycling programme, launched about a year ago in California with partners Ford and Volvo. Redwood has collected and recycled 1,268 end-of-life ... |
| 10.02.2023 | Redwood starts manufacturing anode copper foil | The recycling company Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has started producing anode copper foils. In addition, Redwood has received a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy for a $2 billion loan fo... |
| 09.02.2023 | Redwood Materials lands $2B conditional loan from DOE | Battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials has secured a conditional commitment for a $2 billion loan from the Department of Energy as part of the Biden administration’s bid to build up a supply chain for EVs in the United St... |
| 15.12.2022 | Redwood is building a ‘Battery Materials Campus’ in Charleston | The recycling company Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has announced the construction of a new ‘Battery Materials Campus’ near Charleston in South Carolina – for battery recycling, but also for the production of n... |
| 14.12.2022 | Redwood Materials establishing operations in Berkeley County with largest economic development announcement in state history | COLUMBIA, S.C. – Redwood Materials, a producer of anode and cathode battery components for electric vehicles, along with Governor Henry McMaster, today announced plans to establish operations in Berkeley County. The company’s $3.5 billion i... |
| 06.09.2022 | Just outside of Munich, a startup plans a new process to recycle Lithium-ion batteries | Companies like Redwood Materials (raised $792M), Li-Cycle, (Canada, raised $667.7M) and Green Li-ion (Singapore $15M) have made a name for themselves in recycling batteries. The activity of recycling existing lithium batteries remains one o... |
| 13.07.2022 | Redwood & VW sign battery recycling cooperation | Volkswagen Group of America has entered into a wide-ranging collaboration with recycling start-up Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, to establish a supply chain for recycling electric car batteries in the US.
Redwoo... |
| 07.07.2022 | Four Essentials For A Stronger American Clean Energy Supply Chain | Suresh Sunderrajan, Associate Laboratory Director for Advanced Energy Technologies at Argonne. |
| 22.06.2022 | Redwood Materials announces cooperation with Toyota | The recycling start-up Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has gained another major partner from the automotive industry. Together with Toyota Motor North America, Redwood will collaborate on the collection, reproces... |
| 21.06.2022 | Toyota Partners with Tesla Co-Founder to Recycle Old EV Batteries | April Fowell, Tech Times 21 June 2022, 07:06 pm
Toyota will start collecting and recycling vehicle batteries in partnership with Redwood Materials, a company that is headed by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel.
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| 18.02.2022 | Redwood Materials sources batteries from Ford & Volvo | Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has launched a recycling programme for electric and hybrid vehicle batteries in California. Ford and Volvo Cars are the first car manufacturers to support the programme with their batt... |
| 07.02.2022 | Redwood Materials to build two plants in Europe | Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has announced its expansion into Europe. While Redwood remains rather vague about its plans for Europe in a corresponding official announcement, JB Straubel was more specific in an int... |
| 21.01.2022 | Redwood to launch anode copper foil production | Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, plans to start up its anode copper foil production facility at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Nevada in the first half of 2022 and begin shipping to customers.
It had already beco... |
| 14.12.2021 | Amazon com : backs Amogy and Hippo Harvest's sustainability technologies | Emissions-free power system and greenhouse agriculture are part of The Climate Pledge Fund's latest investments.
Lettuce that requires up to 95% less water to grow and an ammonia-to-power processing system that may eventually power a cargo ... |
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| 27.10.2021 | Amazon backs new companies focused on low-carbon technology | The Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion investment program, announces new investments in Resilient Power, CMC Machinery, and Infinium.
Amazon has announced that The Climate Pledge Fundis investing in three more companies working to develop su... |
| 23.09.2021 | Ford & Redwood announce strategic recycling partnership | Ford and Redwood Materials are forming a strategic partnership to drive the recycling of electric vehicle batteries in the US and create a closed battery loop. Ford has also invested 50 million US dollars in Redwood.
Ford and Redwood say th... |
| 22.09.2021 | Ford Is Making a Different Kind of EV Investment. What to Know. | U.S. auto giant Ford Motor is diving deeper into electric vehicles in an unexpected way.
Ford is investing in battery recycling start-up Redwood Materials, which is run by Tesla (ticker: TSLA) co-founder J.B. Straubel. |
| 15.09.2021 | Redwood Materials wants to expand beyond recycling | Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has announced an expansion beyond pure battery recycling. Starting from next year, Redwood itself wants to produce battery materials on a large scale from recycled materials.
As Redwoo... |
| 14.09.2021 | JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials is expanding into the battery materials business | Redwood Materials, the company started by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel that aims to create a circular supply chain for batteries, is expanding its business. While it has been known primarily as a recycling firm, Redwood plans to simp... |
| 29.07.2021 | Redwood gathers $700 million in investment | The battery recycling start-up Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has raised more than 700 million US dollars from a group of strategic investors. The money is to be used to finance expansion.
Among other things, the mo... |
| 28.07.2021 | Redwood Materials, Inc. announced that it has received $699.999997 million in funding from a group of investors | On July 28, 2021, Redwood Materials, Inc. closed the transaction. On the same date, the company amended terms of the transaction and raised $699,999,997 in the transaction. The company received $694,464,246 in its second tranche. The transa... |
| 28.07.2021 | Redwood Materials raises $700M to expand its battery recycling operation | Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel shared his aspirations last year to turn the startup he co-founded in 2017 into one of the world’s major battery recycling companies. Now, the former Tesla co-founder and CTO has the money to accelerate tho... |
| 14.04.2021 | Battery recycling innovations must advance to propel a truly clean energy transition | Solar panels and lithium-ion batteries (“LiBs”) are the pillars to the world’s transition to ‘clean’ energy because of their clear fit in a zero-carbon world. End of life, however, is an area both technologies will need to improve to become... |
| 18.02.2021 | Amazon’s ‘Restless Nights’ Center On Achieving Net-Zero By 2040 | An Amazon.com Inc. Mercedes-Benz AG electric vehicle at a BP Plc Pulse charging station in Milton ... [+] Keynes, U.K., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. BP aims to cut its oil and gas production by 40%, increase low-carbon spending to $5 billion a... |
| 17.02.2021 | DuPont and VCs see lithium mining as a critical investment for the electric future | “Mining” has become synonymous with crypto the past few years in the tech industry, what with Bitcoin piercing the $50,000 barrier and GPUs and ASICs worldwide scrambling to hash functions in a bid for distributed crypto manna. That excitem... |
| 26.01.2021 | Amazon com : invests in Infinium to support decarbonization efforts in transportation sector | Infinium's decarbonizing technologies have the potential to help Amazon and other companies reach net-zero carbon by 2040.
Nearly a quarter of global carbon emissions come from the transportation sector, posing a major challenge to industry... |
| 11.01.2021 | Recycling startup Redwood Materials is now accepting your old smartphones | Redwood Materials, the recycling startup founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has quietly opened up its enterprise to everyday consumers and all of the old electronics sitting in their junk drawers.
The move expands upon the Carson City... |
| 17.12.2020 | Amazon com : invests in ZeroAvia to support the development of sustainable aviation | Latest Climate Pledge Fund recipient is on a mission to transition the world to zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled flights.
We are continually looking for ways to make our business more sustainable as we work to meet The Climate Pledge, a commi... |
| 17.12.2020 | Energy storage investments 2020: VC and equity firms put more than $500 million in these 25 battery startups | With U.S. energy storage growing a lot this year, and poised to accelerate next, conditions are fertile for VC investors to look for startup innovation.Source: Wood Mackenzie
Here’s a long and incomplete list of where venture firms are putt... |
| 31.08.2020 | Clean energy funding: Ex-Tesla CTO raises $40 million to recycle batteries, plus nuclear fusion and fission | $40 million for recycling batteries
Redwood Materials, the startup founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel raised a reported $40 million in venture capital from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Capricorn Investment Group. Redwood raised $2 mill... |
| 30.08.2020 | Energy Jobs: JB Straubel’s battery recycling startup, Powerhouse, Total, Broad Reach Power, Span, Facebook, Clean Energy for Biden | David Danielson, managing director at Breakthrough Energy Ventures (and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy), is listed as an investor in Redwood Materials, the startup founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Stra... |
| - | JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials raises $700 million to accelerate EV battery recycling business | Battery recycling is key to making electric vehicles sustainable, and Redwood Materials, a company founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, is a leader in the space.
Today, the company announced a $700 million capital raise to accelerate it... |
| - | Redwood Materials | “Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.” |
| - | Redwood Materials scores a new $2 billion loan to build out battery recycling facility in Nevada | The Department of Energy has committed $2 billion in a new, conditional loan to help Redwood Materials build out its battery recycling campus in Nevada.
Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel in 2017, takes end-of-life elect... |
| - | Redwood Materials | “Redwood is delivering low-cost, fast, and scalable energy with lithium-ion batteries we already have.” |
