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Iontra and Spectralink Partnership

Thought Leadership

By Madeleine Stump

Iontra and Spectralink to bring ultra-long-lasting enterprise smartphones to market.

Iontra, a leader in advanced battery charging technology, and Spectralink, a pioneer in enterprise communication solutions, today announced a collaboration to bring extended cycle-life battery charging technology to Spectralink’s ruggedized enterprise smartphones.

Iontra’s technology significantly improves battery lifespan, reducing Spectralink’s warranty and service costs, while enhancing the end-user experience and lowering customers’ total cost of ownership. While Spectralink products already support superior battery life that significantly outlasts consumer devices and outpaces competitors, this partnership with Iontra unlocks truly unrivaled battery performance, further expanding the gap versus competition. Iontra has successfully demonstrated that its charging technology extended the Spectralink battery life to over 1800 cycles to 80% capacity (state of health), or three times longer than the current state of the industry.

“Spectralink is an ideal partner for Iontra as we refine our technology for the demanding cell phone market,” said Jeff Granato, CEO at Iontra. “Their ruggedized devices and commitment to quality align perfectly with our vision for extending battery cycle life in applications where this is mission critical.”

“At Spectralink, we are constantly looking for innovative ways to grow our position as an industry leader with exceptionally well-made, sustainable products that keep our customers coming back,” said Andrew Duncan, Vice President of Product and Marketing at Spectralink. “Iontra’s battery charging technology has the potential to be a game-changer for our ruggedized smartphones. By extending battery cycle life, we can ensure our customers maximize their investments and return on our products. We are excited to collaborate with Iontra on this initiative and look forward to showing the industry what is possible.”

Upon successful completion of both development phases, Iontra and Spectralink intend to take Iontra’s technology to market in specific Spectralink products.

Iontra and Salom Partnership

Thought Leadership

By Madeleine Stump

Press Release: Salom Partners with Iontra to Integrate Iontra’s Revolutionary battery charging Technology into Salom Products 

Centennial, CO & Hungerford, UK April 2nd 2024 – Iontra Inc, a leader in next-generation battery charging technology, and Salom Europe Limited, a global leader in power supply solutions and battery chargers, today announced a strategic partnership to bring Iontra’s revolutionary charging technology in Salom charger designs to market.  Salom is a leading global power solutions manufacturer and a trusted partner to many Fortune 100 companies, and has supplied more than 3 billion power products in its history. 

This collaboration signifies a major step forward in the broad adoption of Iontra’s charge control technology. The two companies are actively exploring the integration of Iontra into Salom’s OEM customer solutions, whether in the charger products or directly in the end customer devices. Iontra’s charging technology has demonstrated the ability to more than double the useful life of commercially available Lithium batteries and to charge them more than twice as fast and with greater overall safety. As an early power supply solution partner of Iontra technology, Salom continues to expand on its leadership in next-generation charger solutions. 

“We are excited to adopt Iontra’s charging technology to unlock the full potential of Lithium-ion battery performance for millions of consumers,” said Andy Richardson, Vice-President of business development at Salom Europe Limited. “Combined with Salom’s proven portfolio of innovative power supply and charger solutions, we will begin to offer significant advantages to our customers by maximizing battery charge performance and cycle life, as well as enabling our customers to accelerate their corporate sustainability goals cost-effectively.” 

“We are thrilled to be collaborating with an established leader and globally respected company like Salom,” said Jeff Granato, CEO at Iontra. “This is an important milestone to make Iontra’s charge technology broadly accessible by partnering with Salom to begin the charging technology revolution.” 

About Salom: 

Salom is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of power supplies and battery chargers. The company’s products are used by millions of consumers worldwide and are known for their innovation, quality, and reliability. Salom Europe Limited is headquartered in Hungerford, UK.  To learn more, visit https://www.salomeurope.com/ 

About Iontra: 

Founded in 2013, Iontra is a deep-tech Colorado-based fabless semiconductor and software solutions company that dramatically improves the charge speed, cycle life, capacity utilization, cold weather charging, and safety of all Lithium batteries. The company has offices in Denver, CO, Dallas, TX, and Bangalore, India. To learn more, visit iontra.com. 

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Iontra and Ionworks Partnership

Thought Leadership

By Madeleine Stump

Iontra and Ionworks Partnership Speeds Up Time to Market With Faster, More Accurate Battery Performance Simulations

Iontra, a leader in innovative battery charge control technology, and Ionworks, a pioneer in the battery modeling and simulation space, jointly announce a strategic partnership to deliver the industry’s most accurate and fastest simulations of Iontra’s groundbreaking battery charge control technology.

Through this partnership, Iontra will utilize Ionworks’ technology, adopting their industry-standard open-source PyBaMM framework, co-developed by the Ionworks team, and leveraging their advanced parameterization technology.

“We are thrilled to partner with Ionworks to expand the development of our next-generation battery charge control technology. This collaboration enables our customers to reduce their development time and cost to implement Iontra Charge Control protocols in their products” said Manoj Koul, Chief Technology Officer for Iontra.

“Partnering with Iontra allows us to further refine our simulation and modeling technology for real-world battery charging applications,” said Valentin Sulzer, Ionworks Co-Founder and CEO. “By working with the Iontra team and technology, we can ensure our tools are the best in the market, tailored to the industry’s growing needs.”

By combining two world-class technologies, the companies are poised to unlock the full potential of existing and future battery systems.

 

About Iontra:

Founded in 2013, Iontra is a Colorado-based battery innovation company that dramatically improves the charge speed, cycle life, capacity utilization, cold weather charging, and safety of all Lithium batteries. The company has offices in Denver, CO, Dallas, TX, and Bangalore, India. To learn more, visit iontra.com.

About Ionworks:

Ionworks is a battery software company founded in 2023 by members of the core development team of the leading open-source battery modeling solution, PyBaMM. The company’s mission is to accelerate battery R&D using physics-based modeling and machine learning, with applications from materials development and cell design to BMS and digital twins. Ionworks can significantly reduce the high time and cost associated with R&D by enabling scientists and engineers to replace real experiments with accurate simulations that are a fraction of the cost and far quicker to run. Ionworks’ open-core platform built around PyBaMM is positioned as the go-to tool for battery R&D due to its cutting-edge physics and ease of integration with cloud infrastructure, machine learning, hardware-in-the-loop and endless configurability.

Iontra Closes $67 Million Series B Following Additional $29 Million Investment to Accelerate Launch of Next-Gen Battery Charger MCU

Thought Leadership

By Jeff Granato

Iontra’s charge control technology dramatically improves battery performance, cycle life, and safety, and eliminates plating due to fast charging without requiring battery cell or pack redesign

Iontra Inc, a Colorado-based innovator of next-generation battery charging technology, today announced it has raised an additional $29 million, bringing its Series B fundraising total to $67 million and $80 million raised to date. The additional Series B funding is led by prominent energy sector investors Volta Energy Technologies and Riverstone with additional support from Flag Asset Management and others. JPMorgan Chase assisted Iontra by acting as the placement agent for the financing.

This funding will advance Iontra’s position as a fabless supplier of a low-cost and small-footprint battery charger microcontroller (MCU) for battery-powered consumer products such as power tools, smartphones, hearables, and wearables. With Iontra’s MCU, product manufacturers will be able to integrate Iontra’s technology quickly and easily into their products to unlock the full potential of their batteries while reducing their Bill-of-Materials (BOM) costs. Iontra has opened chip design centers in Dallas and Bangalore, India to develop the initial MCU, and is collaborating with leading companies in the semiconductor supply chain to deliver a robust and reliable solution to customers.

To facilitate easy adoption in current battery-powered applications, Iontra offers a proven firmware solution that can run seamlessly on MCUs in products today. This enables Iontra’s customers, including those in industrial and electric vehicle (EV) applications, to realize superior battery performance with a significantly lower carbon footprint and reduced total cost of ownership.

Iontra: thinking outside the battery

Iontra’s unique advanced battery sensing and charging method is predictive and responsive, proactively protecting the battery while charging and discharging. Iontra eradicates the most concerning failure modes of batteries, plating and dendrite formation, which cause safety issues and limit battery performance.

Iontra is chemistry agnostic and proven to concurrently increase battery cycle life and charge speed by greater than 200 percent, support cold weather charging to -20°C, and create a safer charge overall, without changing the design of battery cells or packs.

“A more secure and sustainable energy future depends on the ability to maximize the use of the limited critical supply of battery minerals, materials, and other components, and Iontra helps to stretch those finite resources,” said Jeff Granato, President and CEO, Iontra. “Fulfilling our mission to remove the greatest hurdles facing this global energy transition, we are on the path to make Iontra’s affordable charging solution available to the industry and are encouraged by the excitement and continued support of our customers and investors.”

Solving a global challenge

Globally, private industry and governments are investing billions of dollars to research new battery technologies in support of electrification and a lower carbon footprint, representing one of the greatest energy transition efforts in history. However, these investments struggle to meet the urgent need to address short and long-term supply chain issues associated with the dramatic increase in the demand for battery minerals and materials, nor do they address plating and dendrite formation, as Iontra does.

Exacerbating these challenges, current charge management solutions from companies such as Analog Devices, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments are simply unable to deliver the kind of substantial performance improvements the market needs, and which Iontra’s approach enables.

Validation

Iontra’s breakthrough charge control technology is validated by approximately three million cycling hours performed in-house, testing dozens of battery types and the stability of the system under various charge conditions for quality, reliability, and durability. Iontra’s technology has also been tested by four independent research labs, including National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Novonix, UL Solutions, and University of Michigan.

“Incremental efficiency improvements will not address our climate and energy supply chain challenges, which is why Volta is again throwing its support behind Iontra’s transformational battery charge control technology,” said David Schroeder, CTO, Volta Energy Technologies. “The way batteries are charged has largely been overlooked in the race to improve battery performance, but Iontra represents a radically new, and proven, approach that policy makers and product manufacturers should pay close attention to.”

“The economic and environmental math is simple,” said John Staudinger, Managing Director, Riverstone. “By replacing the existing charge control chip in a product with Iontra’s at the same or lesser cost, the increase in cycle life, charge speed, and other performance benefits are realized instantly. Iontra not only improves your product but removes the need for vast amounts of new battery materials.”