
Mitra Chem is building a North American battery materials champion focused on innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to accelerate mass-market electrification in transportation and energy storage. They differentiate themselves by being the first to integrate machine learning into battery product R&D and manufacturing, significantly reducing the time and cost to market. This approach has already reduced their lab-to-production timeline by over 90% for iron-based cathodes. Mitra Chem is dedicated to establishing a sustainable, North American battery materials supply chain, addressing the current geopolitical imbalance where non-Western countries dominate cobalt and nickel processing, and all iron-based cathodes are currently produced outside the United States. Their focus on iron-based cathodes offers advantages in safety, supply chain resilience, and cost competitiveness, aligning with America's clean energy goals.

Mitra Chem is building a North American battery materials champion focused on innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to accelerate mass-market electrification in transportation and energy storage. They differentiate themselves by being the first to integrate machine learning into battery product R&D and manufacturing, significantly reducing the time and cost to market. This approach has already reduced their lab-to-production timeline by over 90% for iron-based cathodes. Mitra Chem is dedicated to establishing a sustainable, North American battery materials supply chain, addressing the current geopolitical imbalance where non-Western countries dominate cobalt and nickel processing, and all iron-based cathodes are currently produced outside the United States. Their focus on iron-based cathodes offers advantages in safety, supply chain resilience, and cost competitiveness, aligning with America's clean energy goals.
Headquarters: Mountain View, California
Focus: AI/ML-enabled development and manufacture of iron-based lithium-ion cathode materials (LFP/LMFP)
Employees: 61
Total funding reported: USD 227,650,000
Notable investors: Social Capital; General Motors (GM Ventures); Alpha Wave Ventures
Battery materials supply chain; accelerating lab-to-production timelines for cathode active materials.
Battery materials / advanced materials
USD 20,000,000
USD 60,000,000
USD 100,000,000
Department of Energy award reported
USD 15,600,000
Reported as amount raised toward a planned USD 50,000,000 round in a 2025 regulatory filing
“Strategic and institutional support including corporate strategic investors (GM), venture firms (Social Capital, Alpha Wave), and government funding (DOE)”
Mitra Chem is developing and scaling-up manufacturing of battery cathode materials for markets spanning electric vehicles, storage systems and other applications critical for energy and national security. Mitra Chem’s has a 3 pronged thesis:
We recently were awarded >$125M in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Michigan to develop our first domestic manufacturing asset. With teams located in our Mountain View HQ as well as offices in Asia and the USA, Mitra Chem is constantly looking for motivated team members across a variety of functions. Join our team and be part of the growing battery revolution.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to help architect, design, and implement Mitra Chem’s software infrastructure and data pipelines. A few highlights of the role:
Mission: Enable the energy transition by accelerating new material development for mass market EV batteries.
Ownership: Make key software design decisions as we develop and scale our infrastructure and be responsible for architecting powerful, cost efficient, and secure solutions.
Agility: Work at the crossroads of data science, chemistry, and manufacturing - building software that bridges the gap and empowers collaborative innovation.
Impact: Drive rapid decision making and continuously accelerate product development timelines by integrating data from a variety of hardware and software tools.
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Mitra Chem is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Company policy prohibits discrimination based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We take steps to provide our employees, applicants, and others with whom we do business with an environment that is free of any form of discrimination and harassment (including harassment based on any of these characteristics). Mitra Chem is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job applications procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
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