Circu Li-ion

Circu Li-ion is a battery upcycling company with a goal of upcycling three billion batteries by 2035. The company builds fully-automated battery disassembly and diagnostics equipment for OEMs in the automotive, electric vehicle, micromobility, power tool, and energy storage system industries. Using AI and a growing “battery library,” Circu Li-ion’s proprietary algorithm quickly diagnoses batteries to determine which cells can be reused and which can’t. The hardware then separates the healthy cells from other materials like plastic housing and PCB boards for reuse. The solution maximizes the value of every battery, saving money, people, and the planet: extending batteries’ lifecycles reduces both the CO2 emissions and human rights violations often associated with lithium mining and battery production.

The company provides two as-a-service models. Circu Li-ion’s disassembly-as-a-service model offers disassembly and diagnostics in its facility in Karlsruhe, Germany, so customers don’t have to operate the company’s equipment themselves. Under their machine-as-a-service (MaaS) model, on the other hand, customers get access to their own dedicated machine, through which they can feed their own data into the company’s proprietary software and collect battery insights through a dashboard to make more data-based decisions.