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Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies

Summer 2024Founded 20235 peopleRemote

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Every battery company spends tens of millions of dollars a year on experiments. Simulations that replace experiments reduce these costs but are currently underutilized in industry because they are hard to create and run. We make simulations accessible to every engineer, by helping them to create models from their own data, then run large scale simulations in the cloud to explore the full design space.

Founders · 2

Valentin Sulzer
Valentin SulzerFounder
Carnegie MellonOxfordMichigan🎓 University of Michigan

Created PyBaMM, the world's leading open-source battery simulation software. Now building Ionworks to make it accessible to every single battery engineer around the world. Previously PhD (Maths) at Oxford + 4 years engineering research at University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon

Rob Timms
Rob TimmsFounder
Oxford

Co-Founder and CTO at Ionworks, building the modern software stack for batteries, powered by PyBaMM. Core developer of the leading open-source battery modelling package PyBaMM. Ex-Oxford mathematician.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Jul 2024
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Digitize your battery experiments to accelerate R&D.

Ionworks provides battery-simulation-as-a-service built on PyBaMM to help battery engineers accelerate design cycles by replacing experiments with physics-based, cloud-based simulations; targets engineers in battery companies and academic labs to digitally explore designs and operating conditions.

Formerly Ionworks Technologies Inc

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