Mana Battery Inc.
The University of ColoradoConnection
Mana BatteryInc. (Mana) was founded as a spinout of Chunmei Ban’s laboratory (CU BoulderPaul M. Rady Mechanical Engineering)in October 2023 to commercialize best-in-class sodium battery technology. Sodium-based batteries have the potential to displace lithium-ion batteries in a variety of applications based on their promised low costs, abundant supply chain, and safety, but they have been limited to date due toinsufficient cycle lifetimes and energy density. Mana addresses these issues and delivers on the promise of the sodium-ion battery with a proprietary low-cost, safe material and battery cell design platform, providing similar energy to Li-ion battery cells at 35-75% of the cost. Founded with a team and advisory board of veteran energy storage entrepreneurs and technologists, Mana is beginning prototypingits first-generation technology.
Funding Status and Investment Opportunities
- Industry: Environmentalism and Sustainability, Cleantech, Advanced Materials
- Funding Stage: Pre-Seed
- Contact for Investment Inquiries:Tyler Evans, CEO, tyler@manabattery.us
In the News
- Sustainable Spinouts: Innovation in Action (2025, Colordan Magazine)
- 5 CU Boulder startups to watch in 2025 (2025)
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- OEDIT announces grants to University of Colorado startups and researchers in the advanced industries (OEDIT, 2024)
- We went to a startup symposium at the University of Colorado. We saw these nine cool startups. We said “wow” a lot. (CPR, 2024)
- (DOE, 2024)
- Pressing energy challenges and potential solutions at the center of CU Boulder’s Renewable Energy and Storage Solutions Summit(2024)
- Pitch competition celebrates and funds new CU Boulder ventures founded on scientific discoveries(2024)
- (ARPA-E, 2023)
- State and university partner to award over $1.5 million in funding to University of Colorado innovations(2023)
- Lab Venture Challenge announces finalists in funding competition for leading innovations(2023)
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