Lyten Scores $200 Million Investment

<p><strong>SAN JOSE &amp&semi; LUXEMBOURG<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Lyten&comma; a supermaterial applications company and leader in lithium-sulfur batteries&comma; has secured more than &dollar;200 million in additional equity investment&period; This brings total investment to date in Lyten to more than &dollar;625 million&period; The additional investment is provided primarily from current investors&period; Lyten intends to accelerate its acquisition strategy and expansion plans in both the US and Europe with the additional capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; Lyten announced it has acquired the rights to Northvolt’s energy storage products&comma; Voltpack Mobile Systems &lpar;VMS&rpar;&comma; Voltrack&comma; and future BESS products currently in development&period; This is Lyten’s third Northvolt-related acquisition since November 2024&period; The VMS product is already in its third generation&comma; with commercial installations throughout Europe&period; The core members of Northvolt’s energy storage engineering team will be joining Lyten in Stockholm&comma; Sweden&comma; and VMS and future BESS products will be manufactured in Gdansk&comma; Poland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lyten previously announced the acquisition of two Northvolt assets&period; In November 2024&comma; Lyten announced the acquisition of Northvolt’s Cuberg battery manufacturing facility in California and earlier in July announced its plans to acquire Northvolt Dwa&comma; Europe’s largest Battery Energy Storage System &lpar;BESS&rpar; manufacturing facility&comma; located in Gdansk&comma; Poland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are thrilled by the investment community’s response to our expansion strategy&comma;” said Dan Cook&comma; Lyten CEO and Co-Founder&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lyten is seeing immediate demand for its battery products in support of energy independence and national security initiatives in the US and Europe&period; Drones&comma; defense&comma; datacenters and BESS are all markets seeking battery solutions independent of Chinese supply chains&period; This capital is focused on rapid&comma; capital-efficient expansion of manufacturing and onboarding world-leading talent in both the US and European markets&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zia Huque&comma; Lyten investor and General Partner at Prime Movers Lab&comma; added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We continue to be impressed by Lyten&&num;8217&semi;s ability to grow through acquisitions&period; This is a testament to both Lyten&&num;8217&semi;s technology and its leadership team&&num;8217&semi;s experience in private equity&comma; which is unique in the battery industry&period; The ability to efficiently scale manufacturing capacity is critical for Lyten right now to meet the rapidly growing demand for its products&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lyten intends to immediately restart BESS manufacturing in Gdansk&comma; Poland&comma; upon the close of the previously announced acquisition of Northvolt Dwa and targets product deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2025&period; Deliveries will initially target existing European customers and then quickly expand to a wide range of global markets&comma; including AI datacenter&comma; industrial&comma; commercial&comma; and grid applications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>David Ku&comma; Lyten Investor and former Microsoft Corporate Vice President of AI and CTO of the Artificial Intelligence &plus; Research division&comma; stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Success in AI is determined by the ability to deliver abundant&comma; reliable power&period; Battery energy storage is a critical piece of AI data center infrastructure&period; Lyten&&num;8217&semi;s lithium-sulfur batteries are uniquely positioned to deliver the performance and supply chain independence necessary to meet AI&&num;8217&semi;s insatiable need for batteries&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lyten and Northvolt intend to close the transaction of the Northvolt Dwa facility in Poland and Northvolt System’s BESS product portfolio in Sweden in the third quarter of 2025&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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