Skeleton offers one of the first commercialised technologies to use graphene, a ground-breaking and Nobel prize-winning material. This Estonian company develops, manufactures and sells ultracapacitor energy storage cells, modules and systems based on patented advanced materials and designs.
Founded in 2009, Skeleton is a young and ambitious company. To date it has raised more than EUR 40 million in investments and has spent considerable time and resources developing its technology into a product suitable for commercial-scale production and use. With roots in a private research institute conducting contract work for Toyota Motors, the two young Estonian non-tech founders Oliver Ahlberg and Taavi Madiberk from the University of Tartu, in collaboration with scientists Jaan Leis and Anti Perkson, started Skeleton with a technology and IP base focused on advanced materials.
Once Skeleton had been set up, the management was able to swiftly translate the technology into a commercial product. In 2011, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Skeleton, which gained the company a lot of publicity and recognition. Investors were attracted, and in the period 2013 – 2014, a pilot manufacturing plant was built in Tallinn with money invested by UP Invest (an Estonian venture capital and private equity firm). By 2015, a full manufacturing plant was up and running. The last milestone in the commercial production scaling was reached in 2017 with the finalisation of another plant in Saxony, Germany, to meet growing customer demand.
PATENT PORTFOLIO 15 patent families, including EP2633532, EP2614512
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