Entrepreneurial Fellowships
The Faraday Institution Entrepreneurial Fellowship programme supports researchers across the UK looking to create new businesses and commercialise battery technologies. These fellowships have been set up to facilitate the creation of new business opportunities that have emerged from Faraday Institution research programmes and elsewhere from the broader UK battery research community. The programme provides seed funding, business support and mentoring to maximise the potential of success and accelerate the spin-out process.
Ongoing Fellowships
Ampoxe
Ampoxe is developing a solid-state battery technology that exploits the heat of the battery pack to heal interfacial defects for optimum solid-state battery operation.
MetCycle
MetCycle, a spin-out opportunity from the University of Cambridge, is developing a patented, sustainable, zero-waste process to recover metals from lithium-ion batteries at end-of-life.
E-Rebat
E-Rebat, a planned spinout from Imperial College London, is developing a patent-pending electro-recycling process to recover critical materials from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries.
ENV Energy
ENV Energy, a spin-out from the University of Warwick, has developed a novel next-generation cathode material capable of improving the performance of current lithium-ion batteries and reduce manufacturing costs.
Ocrea Energy
Ocrea Energy is developing a scalable coating technology used as artificial solid-electrolyte interphase layers to improve interface stability and ion transport efficiency in next-generation battery technologies.
DandeLiion
DandeLiion Technologies Ltd is spinning out from the Universities of Southampton and Portsmouth and is developing high-performance, physics-based battery modelling software delivering scalable, cloud-based simulations of complex battery systems.
Completed Fellowships
Protoqin
Protoqin has developed a water-based energy storage that could have multiple benefits (low cost, high safety, high sustainability) and could potentially deliver competitive energy densities.
Enough Energy
Enough Energy is leveraging modular multilevel converter technology with batteries to develop a battery buffered EV charger enabling high-power EV charging from any location.
IONETIC
Ionetic is developing and delivering a one-stop solution for battery pack design, test, and manufacture, leveraging vertical integration and its battery platform Arc, to achieve a cost savings of up to 90% in the development of automotive battery packs.
Molyon
As part of the LiSTAR project, researchers at the University of Cambridge have demonstrated the use of innovative lithiated metallic molybdenum disulfide nanosheets to increase the energy density of lithium-sulfur batteries. Spin-out Molyon has been set up to commercialise the IP-protected cathode material.
Recovolt
Recovolt is developing a cutting-edge battery discharge system deployed on end-of-life lithium-ion batteries to ready them for battery recycling, safely and at speed. The innovation addresses a productivity area that the recycling industry has identified as needing urgent action.
Taisan Energy
TaiSan Energy is developing a quasi-solid-state sodium-ion battery based on an innovative gel polymer electrolyte & a sodium metal anode. The entrepreneurial fellowship will allow the company to supply prototype pouch cells to customers for preliminary cell tests.
Ionworks
Ionworks is a battery modelling software startup built around the physics-based modelling software PyBaMM. The Fellowship is enabling it to ramp up development of professional interfaces to transform their prototypes into attractive, widely usable products.
Sention
Sention has developed a sensitive mapping technique that monitors reflected pulses of ultrasound to evaluate the physical properties of batteries with high special resolution. The Fellowship will allow a demonstration unit to be built.
Illumion Illuminates the Inside of Batteries
A novel, low-cost technique for looking inside lithium-ion batteries and pinpointing potential defects is being commercialised to help speed up the development of promising new battery materials.
About Energy
About:Energy was set up to help commercialise the battery modelling capability developed by the Faraday Institution’s Multi-scale Modelling Project. The company aims to facilitate the use of battery modelling by UK industry, increasing the speed of battery prototype development and giving the organisations it works with a competitive advantage.
Cognition Energy
Cognition Energy is taking a physics-based approach to developing high performance batteries with a particular focus on thermal management to extend life and reduce cost of ownership.
Gaussion
This fellowship aims to propel a patented charging-enhancing technology with demonstrated charging time reductions of over 60% into commercial battery applications, from cordless power tools to electric vehicles.
Breathe Battery Technologies
By adapting the charging process to the unique, evolving health of every battery Breathe believes it can unlock substantial latent performance leading to a step reduction in charging with the potential to increase battery lifetime and decrease battery cost.
Solveteq
Solveteq is developing a new, low-energy, low-pollution, potentially low-cost chemical alternative to current smelting processes for lead-acid battery recycling. A lead acid battery is present in hybrid and electric vehicles.
QDot
While QDot’s heat transfer technology was originally developed for application in a nuclear fusion tokamak this University of Oxford spin out is applying its know how to battery applications with the aim of achieving a step change in the recharge rate of Li-ion batteries.
Last updated April 2026.