Our Company
Sakuu® is a leading provider of commercial-scale printing equipment and technologies to the battery and supercapacitor industries, such as those supplying AI data centers. Sakuu’s dry-process platforms enable rapid innovation while reducing waste and avoiding toxins. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Sakuu’s team is transforming manufacturing to power a more sustainable future.
Our Mission
To be the gold standard for sustainable manufacturing of next generation batteries.
Timeline
2025
Sakuu announces that International Battery Company (IBC) is using multiple Kavian Platforms for dry-printing sustainable batteries for 2W/3W mobility market and for supercapacitors in AI data centers.
Sakuu wins Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award for Kavian™ dry electrode printing process.
Kavian dry printing electrode platform is available for commercial orders.
2024
Sakuu's groundbreaking Kavian™ platform named in TIME list of best inventions of the year in the Materials & Manufacturing category.
Sakuu named FII Innovator 2024 at FII8 global investment conference.
Sakuu announces a joint development agreement with ELEQTRION, a Quebec-based innovator in aluminum-ion battery technology, to advance aluminum-ion battery technology for energy storage and other applications.
Sakuu announces a joint development agreement with global manufacturer SK On, one of the world’s leading suppliers of EV batteries, to bring commercial-scale dry process innovation to electrode manufacturing.
UN38.3 certification completed on Sakuu's li-metal Cypress™ battery cell chemistry.
2023
Manufacturing: Sakuu validates Kavian® dry printing process in its Cypress™ Li-Metal cells.
Company: Sakuu debuts High Energy Li-Metal Cypress™ Battery Cell Chemistry for Manufacturing License.
Manufacturing & Battery Technology: Sakuu is the first company of record to 3D print fully functional batteries in custom shapes and sizes with patterned openings for thermal management in a fully dry process.
2022
Manufacturing: Kavian D-1000 platform prints advanced active device.
Sakuu opens 79,000 square foot Kavian platform development facility in San Jose, California.
2021
Battery Technology: 3Ah cells ship to clients worldwide in Q4.
Battery Technology: 1000mAh battery powers drone flight.
KeraCel rebrands to Sakuu.
2020
Battery Technology: First company of record to 3D print a ceramic battery.
2019
Battery Technology: First known multi-material, multi-process printing of an electrical device.
Manufacturing: Developed first known multi-material, multi-process platform.
2018
Materials: Sakuu's first material set for electro-chemical device developed.
2017
Battery Technology: Sakuu's first patent filed for solid-state battery structure.
2016
KeraCel is founded by CEO Robert Bagheri in San Jose, California—later to become Sakuu. Bagheri infuses the process and rigor learned from multiple successful ventures in the semiconductor industry into pioneering mass-scale state-of-the-art battery technology and printing.
Senior Leadership
Board of Directors
Partners and Investors
We partner with established and emerging leaders to bring our vision of high-volume, sustainably printed batteries to industries worldwide.