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Private Market Battery Investments The capital market continues to pull back focus from batteries due to high interest rates, tough IPO/M&A exit markets, and an overall shift away from climate investing in the volatile equity market. Although there were a few sizeable returns in the space, the slowdown in EV adoption has kept many on the sidelines. BATTERY INVESTMENT BY TYPE OF INVESTMENT
Source: Pitchbook
Battery related investing peaked in 2023, but dropped sharply in 2024 and has not seen a recovery in 2025:
VC investment has declined as less new dry powder is available for early-stage battery startups to test their designs
Capital still flows into real assets and infrastructure development to support later stage build out
Although investments in EV-applications have slowed significantly, there’s an uptick in battery investments towards high-margin applications such as robotics, defense, aerospace, heavy duty, as well as ESS, especially supporting AI data center infrastructure (UPS, peak shaving)
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