Ionworks

Ionworks

Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies

5 employees
Pre-seed · $500K

About Ionworks

Every battery company spends tens of millions of dollars a year on experiments. Simulations that replace experiments reduce these costs but are currently underutilized in industry because they are hard to create and run. We make simulations accessible to every engineer, by helping them to create models from their own data, then run large scale simulations in the cloud to explore the full design space.

Company details

Team Size5

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Kima Ventures
BBatch Ventures
Lobster Capital
OOxford Saïd Business School

Founders

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Valentin Sulzer

Creator of PyBaMM, the world's leading open-source battery simulation software. PhD in Mathematics from Oxford, with engineering research experience at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon.

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Tom Tranter

Physicist, electrochemist, and software developer. PhD background in Chemical Engineering.

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Rob Timms

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.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.