Wildcat Discovery Technologies

Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a company that produces high-performance, US-made cathodes and leverages 15 years of materials development to help customers achieve the best integrated battery cell. The company utilizes a unique high-throughput platform that enables materials experiments to be conducted 10 times faster than conventional methods. Wildcat manufactures a portfolio of nickel-and cobalt-free cathodes aimed at enabling the widespread adoption of clean energy. The company operates a state-of-the-art lab with a footprint of approximately 45,000 sq. ft. in San Diego, CA, equipped with over 10,000 R&D battery channels and the capability to run 15-20 research programs simultaneously. The lab includes a dry room, a conventional pouch cell line, conventional analytical equipment, and a fully equipped machine shop and engineering center, with plans to add a second dry room and a larger format pouch cell line in 2023. Since 2008, Wildcat has completed over 225 customer collaboration projects with over 80 unique customers and has received its 100th patent for battery materials innovation and technology. The company announced plans to build a U.S.-based plant to produce a portfolio of safe, sustainable, and abundant cathode materials and has raised more than $90 million in Series D financing for the commercialization of an EV ‘Super Cell’. Wildcat uses proprietary high-throughput methods to rapidly develop new battery materials and collaborates with global leaders throughout the battery industry to align and integrate all elements of the full battery cell for optimal performance. The company has developed a parallel, high-throughput research platform specifically for battery material research and has successfully completed over 300,000 experiments across more than 215 projects since 2009. Utilizing combinatorial chemistry, Wildcat accelerates battery material discoveries and has a high-throughput synthesis lab that enables scientists to synthesize hundreds of unique materials daily. The company can scale up the production of new materials from grams to kilograms in-house and has developed proprietary software and analytical tools that allow scientists to quickly mine meaningful insights from large volumes of data.