Location
Headquarters: Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France, Europe
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Country: FR
Continent: Europe
About
Verkor is a French-led company focused on accelerating the manufacture of low-carbon lithium-ion batteries in Europe. It aims to build a large European gigafactory and scalable production for cells and modules to support electric mobility and stationary energy storage. Founded to strengthen regional battery supply chains, Verkor emphasizes sustainable, local production and industrial excellence in France and Europe. The company collaborates with national and European partners to advance a sovereign, decarbonized battery ecosystem.
Verkor is a French manufacturer specializing in the industrialization of low-carbon lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and stationary storage. The company is constructing a gigafactory in Dunkirk to mass-produce battery cells and modules, aiming to support sustainable mobility within Europe. It collaborates with partners like Renault and Schneider Electric to build a sovereign battery sup
Verkor SAS
2020
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Manufacturing
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series C
1900000000
1m-10m
private
Investors
Founders
Benoit Lemaignan
Christophe Mille
Philippe Chain
Sylvain Paineau
Leadership
Maxime Morand — Head of strategy and partnerships
Philippe Chain — Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer
Charline Baechele — Chief Financial Officer
Iona Moog — Active materials Lead
Christophe Mille — CTO and Co-Founder
Benoit Lemaignan — Co-Founder and CEO
Sylvain Paineau — Co-Founder and Head of Sites and Infrastructures
Technology Stack
Products
Verkor Innovation Centre (VIC): A research, development, pilot production, and training center for lithium-ion battery cells and modules.
Gigafactory: A large-scale industrial facility for mass production of lithium-ion battery cells with an initial capacity of 16 GWh per year.
Lithium-ion Battery Cells (Pouch and Cylindrical): Technologically developed lithium-ion battery cells in pouch and cylindrical formats designed for electric mobility applications.
Battery Modules: Battery modules composed of multiple cells, designed with flexible specifications to meet diverse application requirements.
Battery Pack Development Partnership with Startec Energy: A collaboration to develop and industrialize battery packs using Verkor's cells for light electric mobility and other applications.
VerTQ TurboQuant LLM Inference Accelerator Silicon IP: VerTQ is Verkor’s TurboQuant-based LLM inference accelerator silicon IP that compresses KV cache and accelerates attention for edge AI hardware.