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The Accelerator That Bets on Atoms, Not Apps
Everyone wanted to fund the next app. N15 built a workshop for the people who make things you can hold - and turned Korea's biggest electronics market into a startup factory.
Sam Dai
Sam Dai is the co-founder and CEO of Enpower Greentech, a battery cell maker building semi-solid-state, lithium-metal, and silicon-rich cells. Trained as a physicist at Tsinghua and a materials scientist at UT Austin under Nobel laureate John B. Goodenough, he started the company in 2012 with fellow post-doc Che Yong. The company has shipped over 3 million solid-state cells, holds more than 100 patents, and runs facilities across the US, China, Japan, and Germany. Dai was selected for Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific 2024.
Scalvy
Scalvy is an Austin-based power electronics company building a modular, software-defined platform called the Power Neuron that distributes power conversion and control to the edge of each battery pack instead of routing it through a single centralized block. The approach targets three power-hungry markets - AI data centers, grid-scale energy storage, and electric mobility - promising higher usable energy, ultra-high efficiency, and faster development cycles. Founded in 2022 by Mohamed Badawy, the company raised a $13.9M Series A in March 2026, bringing total funding to roughly $17M.