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Jin-Myoung Lim and the small crack with a factory-sized answer
Jin-Myoung Lim spent years studying how battery materials come apart. At ACT-ion, the co-founder and CTO is working on the other half of the problem: how to make better ones at a cost that can travel beyond the laboratory.
The Machine That Makes Hydrogen Boring
EVOLOH began with a grand hydrogen promise. Its more interesting idea is smaller: redesign the stack, the factory and the power connection until an electrolyzer behaves like ordinary industrial equipment.
6K
6K is a North Andover, Massachusetts advanced materials company that uses its proprietary UniMelt microwave plasma technology - which reaches roughly 6,000 degrees, hence the name - to produce battery cathode materials and additive-manufacturing metal powders faster, cleaner, and with fewer processing steps than conventional methods. Spun out of research at MIT and the University of Connecticut, the company operates through two divisions, 6K Energy (battery cathode active materials) and 6K Additive (sustainably sourced metal powders), and is building a domestic U.S. supply chain for critical materials backed by federal grants and more than $348 million in venture funding.
Neion Bio
Neion Bio is a New York biotech company that genetically engineers chicken eggs into factories for complex biologic drugs. Its Raptor platform aims to make monoclonal antibodies and other glycosylated proteins at a fraction of the capital cost and carbon footprint of conventional cell-culture bioreactors. Founded in 2024 and emerged from stealth in March 2026, the company raised an oversubscribed $23 million Series A in June 2026 and signed an early multi-product biosimilar deal with a major global pharmaceutical company.
ForwardEdge ASIC
ForwardEdge ASIC is a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based integrated circuit design house and wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. It designs 100% domestically traceable custom ASICs and FPGAs - plus silicon IP and turnkey products - for defense, aerospace, space, cybersecurity, and commercial customers. Built by a team of veteran engineers who have worked together for more than 30 years, the company pairs startup speed with Fortune 100 stability and holds DMEA Trusted IC vendor status, positioning it as a secure onshore alternative for mission-critical microelectronics.
Quino Energy
Quino Energy is a clean-tech startup commercializing aqueous organic flow batteries that store electricity in water-soluble quinone molecules instead of vanadium or lithium. Spun out of Harvard University in 2021, the company makes a low-cost, non-flammable organic electrolyte - derived from inexpensive coal-tar dyestuff chemicals through a zero-waste, continuous-flow process - that drops into existing vanadium flow battery hardware. The result targets long-duration grid and commercial energy storage at roughly a quarter the cost of vanadium, with a degradation rate about ten times slower than lithium iron phosphate.
SOLARCYCLE
SOLARCYCLE is an advanced solar panel recycler turning America's mounting pile of retired solar panels into raw materials and new solar glass. Using patented technology, the company recovers more than 95% of the value in a panel - silver, silicon, copper, aluminum and glass - and feeds it back into a domestic clean-energy supply chain. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mesa, Arizona, it runs facilities in Texas and Georgia and has signed long-term recycling deals with more than 40 of the largest solar companies in the U.S.