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Groq

Groq is a California-based fabless chip designer that focuses on designing chips for developers and enterprises to deliver AI inference. Groq is known for designing the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a novel architecture purpose-built to accelerate AI inference.

Tyfast

Tyfast are a US-based company developing a vanadium oxide anode for long cycle life, high-rate Li-ion batteries.

Pivot Bio

Pivot Bio is an American agritech start up focusing on developing nitrogen-fixing microbes to improve plant nutrition. The company's PROVEN 40 and RETURN can be used to replace traditional nitrogen fertilizer for corn, wheat, and other small grains.

Carbon Blade

Start-up Carbon Blade is developing direct air capture and point source capture technologies based on an electrodialysis pH swing. In January 2025, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Eve Pope spoke with CEO Kalle Marsal.

Westwood Aerogel

Westwood Aerogel is a spin-out from UCLA. It is using its patent-pending ambient pressure drying process to scale aerogel manufacturing.

PolyPlus: An Update to Lithium Metal and Seawater

IDTechEx spoke with PolyPlus, a developer of lithium metal batteries using its patented Protected Lithium Electrode (PLE).