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Ionworks

Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveIndustrialsEnergy

What they do

Problem

Battery companies spend tens of millions on physical experiments because simulations are difficult to build and run at scale, limiting design exploration.

Solution

Ionworks helps engineers create simulation models from their own data and run large-scale cloud simulations to explore battery design space.

Who it's for

Battery and automotive engineers at enterprise battery manufacturers and automotive companies.

Founders

Valentin Sulzer
Founder

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
Founder

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.

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