{"id":711091,"date":"2010-04-07T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2010-04-07T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:03:14","slug":"khosla-re-invests-in-battery-startup-sakti3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711091","title":{"rendered":"Khosla Re-Invests in Battery Startup Sakti3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Khosla Ventures is putting more money\u00a0into Sakti3, the discrete battery developer based in Ann Arbor, Mich,\u00a0as a returning investor in a $7 million Series B funding round, led by Beringea.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7477\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sakti3 was founded in 2007 as a spin out from the University of Michigan by mechanical engineer professor Ann Marie Sastry. Two years ago the company raised $3 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., and $2 million from Khosla Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Sakti3 develops high performance lithium batteries for the automobile sector. The company remains tight-lip about what makes its technology unique compared to other lithium devises.\u00a0 One thing that&#8217;s known is that the company is trying to develop batteries that do not use carbon-based cathodes. Overtime carbon erodes, which can\u00a0significantly alter performance.<\/p>\n<p>Sastry says Sakti3 is\u00a0a few years from going commercial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/l1u6in8sF9s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khosla Ventures is putting more money\u00a0into Sakti3, the discrete battery developer based in Ann Arbor, Mich,\u00a0as a returning investor in a $7 million Series B funding round, led by Beringea. Sakti3 was founded in 2007 as a spin out from the University of Michigan by mechanical engineer professor Ann Marie Sastry. Two years ago the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YZd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}