# Tal Sholklapper

> Tal Sholklapper is the CEO and co-founder of Voltaiq, the company that coined the term 'battery intelligence' and built the de facto standard software for making sense of battery data. A UC Berkeley-trained materials scientist who once finished an engineering PhD in two and a half years, he started Voltaiq in 2012 after years designing batteries and fuel cells convinced him the hardest part wasn't building cells - it was figuring out, fast, whether they were any good. Today his platform analyzes data from manufacturing and validation labs at Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Meta, and Amazon.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Voltaiq
- **Organizations:** Voltaiq, Point Source Power, CUNY Energy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley
- **Education:** BS in Physics and Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley, MS in Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (completed in 2.5 years), UC Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded Voltaiq and coined the term 'battery intelligence', Built software now used by Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Meta, and Amazon, Completed an engineering PhD at UC Berkeley in two and a half years

## Career timeline

- **—** — Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, developing fuel-cell technology
- **—** — Co-founded Point Source Power, a low-cost fuel-cell startup
- **—** — Lead engineer on a DOE ARPA-E funded grid-scale battery project at the CUNY Energy Institute
- **2012** — Co-founded Voltaiq in New York City with Eli Leland
- **2021** — Voltaiq raised a Series A round
- **present** — CEO of Voltaiq, the de facto standard in battery analytics

## Achievements

- Co-founded Voltaiq and coined the term 'battery intelligence'
- Built software now used by Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Meta, and Amazon
- Completed an engineering PhD at UC Berkeley in two and a half years
- Co-founded a second deep-tech company, Point Source Power, before Voltaiq
- Lead engineer on an ARPA-E grid-scale battery program at the CUNY Energy Institute

## Latest updates

- **2024** — Spoke at The Battery Show on the accelerating manufacturing competition with China and the need for more analytics and automation.

## Links

- Website: https://voltaiq.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/talsholklapper

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Last updated: 2026-06-04