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BorgWarner bets on what turns the wheels
The badge belongs to the carmaker. The machinery underneath tells another story. BorgWarner’s expensive electric transition shows what happens when engineering moves faster than demand.
Bala Ramamurthy and the trouble with waiting
Balachandar Ramamurthy helped prepare Falcon 9 to carry astronauts. At Critical Loop, he is applying the same systems engineering discipline to factories and infrastructure waiting for electricity.
Critical Loop
Critical Loop is an industrial power company founded in 2023 by former SpaceX, Tesla and Palantir engineers. It deploys modular, relocatable battery-storage microgrids - paired with its software-defined controller, Cygnus - to give factories, data centers, airports and other grid-constrained sites reliable power in weeks instead of waiting years for utility upgrades. The company raised a $26M Series A in April 2026, bringing total committed funding to $49M, and operates a fleet of control nodes across California.
Nanna Nielsen
Nanna Nielsen is the Chief Business Officer of Critical Loop, a Los Angeles-area industrial power company that helps factories, airports and data centers get electricity in days instead of years by pairing battery storage with autonomous control software. A Danish-born operator who once ran banking operations for fintech unicorn GoCardless - overseeing more than $52 billion in transactions for 93,000+ businesses - she now applies that same operational rigor to fixing America's grid bottleneck. The company raised a $26 million Series A in April 2026.