Tech Company Financing Transactions

ESS Funding Round

BASF Venture Capital America, Cycle Capital and InfraPartners Management joined a $13 million Series B funding round for ESS. This VC investment round was announced on 12/13/2017.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/13/2017
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$13,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

BASF Venture Capital America (Lead Investor) (Markus Solibieda)

Cycle Capital (Andrée-Lise Méthot)

InfraPartners Management

Pangaea Ventures (Andrew Haughian)

Presidio Partners

Proceeds Purpose
The new funding will be used to expand and automate the manufacturing process of the company's iron flow battery, the Energy Warehouse.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Electronics
Mailing Address
26440 SW Parkway Ave. 83
Wilsonville, OR 97070
USA
Email Address
Overview
ESS Inc. manufactures low-cost, long-duration all-iron redox flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications requiring 4+ hours of flexible energy capacity.
Profile
ESS LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
ESS Company Twitter Account
Company News
ESS News
Facebook
ESS on Facebook
YouTube
ESS on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Craig Evans
  Craig Evans LinkedIn Profile  Craig Evans Twitter Account  Craig Evans News  Craig Evans on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Amir Moftakhar
  Amir Moftakhar LinkedIn Profile  Amir Moftakhar Twitter Account  Amir Moftakhar News  Amir Moftakhar on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Julia Song
  Julia Song LinkedIn Profile  Julia Song Twitter Account  Julia Song News  Julia Song on Facebook
VP - Bus. Development
Hugh Mcdermott
  Hugh Mcdermott LinkedIn Profile  Hugh Mcdermott Twitter Account  Hugh Mcdermott News  Hugh Mcdermott on Facebook
VP - Operations
Donald Humphreys
  Donald Humphreys LinkedIn Profile  Donald Humphreys Twitter Account  Donald Humphreys News  Donald Humphreys on Facebook


 

 

Browse more venture capital transactions:

Prev: 12/13/2017: Linear Health Sciences venture capital transaction
Next: 12/13/2017: MindTickle venture capital transaction

 

Share this article

 


About Database of VC Transactions

We report on every notable VC transaction. VC transactions reported here are sourced from news reports and company announcements. The information comes to us via our partnership with VentureDeal.com, an affiliated venture.

 


Additional Resources for Entrepreneurs

Lists of Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms

Franchise Opportunities

Contributors

Business Glossary