We are here to change things
Our Vision
E-mobility freedom for all
Electric mobility is great. But it’s no fun if everyone can’t benefit. With empty performance promises, high costs and vague sustainability claims, earlier hype in electric mobility has left people feeling a bit, well, underwhelmed. Electric mobility simply had to step up.
So, since 2018 we have been putting the greatest minds in Europe to the test and out came Innolith.
Our battery cells are set to make EVs more affordable and powerful and make all new forms of e-mobility a reality. Our batteries will empower the world to move faster and to tread lighter.
And we won’t stop until everyone’s moving electric.
Our Mission
We champion sustainable battery cell innovation to liberate e-mobility
From the start, we meant business.
Our ambition is bold – we target 99%+ of the battery market.
We have pioneered an entirely new battery technology, now independently validated (because claims are nothing without fact), that is already compatible with the future.
For us, it means reliable and pragmatic innovation – delivering world’s firsts, costing less, lasting longer, being faster and far safer, greener and performing whatever the weather – it’s the least our battery cells can do.
We are a multi-talented team of people, on a mission to make electric mobility a universal reality. Putting the skin into the game, every day.
OUR
JOURNEY
It has started in 2000 with the inventors of our technology – Dr. Laurent Zinck and Markus Borck, who had a vision of the world’s universal electric mobility, enabled by a high energy battery innovation.
After 18 years of researching inorganic liquid electrolyte technologies and working in the multiple battery start-ups, in 2018 they decided to set up their own – and Innolith was born.
In 2019, Innolith’s technology – a new class of electrolytes, an entirely new battery platform – demonstrated a breakthrough that opened a new path for a host of existing and emerging e-mobility industries.
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, we have an advanced Innovation Centre in Bruchsal, Germany.
We have come a long way, delivering full cell B-samples to the
world since January 2022.
Locations
2
Basel (Switzerland), Bruchsal (Germany)
INVESTED CAPITAL
120
million dollars
COLLECTIVE R&D EXPERIENCE
1000
years
Our Innovation Centre in Germany – making history
Innolith has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory line in our Innovation Centre in September 2021, with full R&D facilities and a complete manufacturing cycle to deliver on our dream. Six months after full installation, we have a team of 70 with a millennium of collective industry experience and brilliant energy, already certified full cell samples and received outstanding independent validation results.
Furthermore, we are actively collaborating with multiple industry partners, who are putting our full cell B-samples through the toughest internal testing protocols with very exciting results.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Our journey to market leadership is backed by more than a 1000 years of our collective experience in R&D and business. By harnessing a millennium of understanding, we’re challenging the status-quo and charging the future. Today.
Konstantin Solodovnikov
Chief Executive Officer
Konstantin Solodovnikov
Chief Executive Officer
Konstantin Solodovnikov is the CEO of Innolith, joining the Board of Directors in October 2019. He brings 25 years of experience in international business development, sales and marketing, having held leading management positions across a number of multibillion mining and agro commodities trading businesses in Switzerland, Cyprus, Latvia and Russia.
Konstantin has an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business.
Anna Kolonchina
Board Director
Anna Kolonchina
Board Director
Anna Kolonchina joined Innolith AG Board in September 2018. She has a unique blend of leadership experiences, with over 15 years’ of investment banking, serving on the Boards across multiple global industries as well as 12 years with the global financial markets, working at Deutsche Bank AG and Bankers Trust. Before joining Innolith AG Board, Anna served as an independent board member of Alacer Gold Corp. till its merger with SSR Mining. Currently, she is a CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Rigmora Holdings Ltd.
Dr. Laurent Zinck
Chief Scientist
Dr. Laurent Zinck
Chief Scientist
Dr. Laurent Zinck is Chief Scientist behind Innolith’s breakthrough battery technology, co-MD of Innolith’s Innovation Centre in Germany and a member of Innolith’s Board of Directors since April 2020. Laurent is the original I-STATE technology inventor – he has dedicated last 20+ years to break-through concepts of inorganic non-flammable lithium battery chemistries, with numerous patented inventions under his name already.
Laurent completed a doctorate in electrochemistry at the University of Witten-Herdecke, focusing on rechargeable devices that utilize inorganic components – proven to be much safer and longer lasting than any predecessors. This research led directly to the first non-flammable lithium accumulator and has now reached production readiness as patented I-STATE technology. Meanwhile, Laurent is continuing applied research into electrochemistry and, together with his team, works continuously to further improve Innolith’s technology.
Markus Borck
Chief Engineer
Markus Borck
Chief Engineer
Markus Borck is a co-inventor of many technological breakthroughs in Innolith’s products. He serves as Chief Engineer and co-MD of Innolith’s Innovation Centre (with R&D laboratory and pilot production) in Germany as well as a member of the Board of Directors since April 2020.
Markus has extensive experience in battery industry – over 20 years in engineering, battery formation and testing, cell design and application, electrical and thermal management and related evaluation for rechargeable lithium batteries across several start-ups as well as an electrical engineering degree from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences with primarily focus on lithium-ion and lithium-ion polymer systems.
Yuri Bogdanov
Non-Executive Director
Yuri Bogdanov
Non-Executive Director
Yuri Bogdanov is a Non-Executive Director at Innolith AG and joined the Board in August 2021. During his 20+ year career, he has worked with both Arthur Anderson and Ernst & Young and led complex M&A and massive restructuring projects across several industries. Yuri holds a Certified Public Accountant qualification from the New Hampshire State Board of Accountancy and Master degree in Corporate Finance. He works as an Advisor to the Trustees and Tax and Risk Management Officer at Rigmora Holdings Ltd. and serves as a Non-Executive Director for Monaco Football Club.