Forge Nano, Inc.

Forge Nano has secured $123 million in PIPE commitments:

Forge Nano has secured an additional $23 million in PIPE financing, bringing total PIPE commitments to $123 million, while successfully closing its $97 million Series D financing ahead of its planned NASDAQ listing. Highlights include: • $23M in new PIPE commitments priced at $10.00 per share • Samsung SDI invested $20 million, including $10M in the PIPE and $10M in the Series D • With approximately $367 million in pro forma cash (assuming no redemptions), Forge Nano expects to accelerate commercialization of its Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) semiconductor equipment platform and expand domestic manufacturing of advanced lithium-ion battery materials. "This is a strong vote of confidence from both strategic and financial investors as we prepare to become a public company," said CEO Paul Lichty. As demand grows across AI semiconductor manufacturing and defense battery applications, this milestone strengthens Forge Nano's position to scale manufacturing and execute on its commercial pipeline. Read the full announcement: https://hubs.li/Q04pslKN0 #Manufacturing #Semiconductors #AI #BatteryTechnology #AdvancedMaterials #NASDAQ #CleanTech #Innovation

What if better batteries, faster chips, and stronger advanced materials all came down to coatings nearly impossible to see?   On ProCo 360, Forge Nano founder Paul Lichty explains how Atomic Armor® and atomic layer deposition are helping transform material performance at the atomic scale.   The episode covers Forge Nano’s CU Boulder origin story, its early garage-built days in Westminster, and how the company grew into a Colorado deep-tech leader working across batteries, semiconductors, aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing.   Paul breaks down the science in plain English — from longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries to advanced chip packaging and more efficient AI hardware — while also sharing what it takes to scale breakthrough technology from lab concept to industrial production. https://hubs.li/Q04nYbmx0

The conversation about AI is almost entirely about software, data, and compute. Almost nobody is talking about the atoms. Gate-all-around transistors at 3nm and below cannot be manufactured without Atomic Layer Deposition. The geometry of the architecture demands it. No alternative deposition process achieves the conformality and thickness control the device requires.   This is not a market preference. It is a physical constraint.   Every AI accelerator made at leading nodes, every advanced memory chip, every next-generation processor requires ALD across gate dielectrics, work function metals, diffusion barriers, spacer layers, and advanced packaging interconnects.   The number of ALD steps per chip increases with every node transition.   Advanced packaging for AI chiplets creates new ALD requirements at the interconnect layer that did not exist at previous generations.   The materials science complexity per leading-edge chip is compounding, not stabilizing.   As AI drives demand for more advanced chips at higher volumes, the precision surface engineering inside those fabs becomes a structural constraint, not a commodity input.   Forge Nano's Atomic Armor ALD systems and processes are designed for this environment: production throughput, research-grade precision, purpose-built for the most demanding deposition requirements in the history of manufacturing.   The gate surrounds the channel on all four sides.   Atomic Armor surrounds the opportunity.   #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #Semiconductors #ALD #AI #GateAllAround #CHIPSAct #AdvancedNodes

The battery materials industry is full of claims. Here is what Atomic Armor treatment delivers, measured against uncoated baseline. Cycle life. ALD coatings on nearly every battery material, cathode powders, anode materials, separator surfaces, solid electrolytes, and conductive additives, suppress the parasitic surface reactions that consume active lithium over cycles. That degradation mechanism is where most capacity fade originates. Addressing it at the surface changes the long-term performance curve fundamentally.   Rate capability. High-rate discharge stresses material surfaces in ways that accelerate degradation. Atomic Armor-coated materials maintain better capacity at high C-rates because the surface barrier reduces kinetic losses at the electrolyte interface.   Thermal stability. ALD-coated battery materials show improved stability under abuse conditions. The exothermic reactions that initiate thermal runaway are surface-mediated. A conformal atomic-scale barrier delays onset and reduces severity.   Temperature range. ALD coatings improve low-temperature discharge performance because the coating reduces impedance growth at the electrode surface, the primary mechanism behind cold-temperature capacity loss.   These improvements are measurable, repeatable, and scalable. The same Atomic Armor process that improves a laboratory sample improves a production batch, with equivalent coating uniformity and process control.   Not incremental. Not marginal. The difference between a battery that meets the specification and one that does not.   #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryData #ALD #CathodeCoating #EnergyStorage #BatteryPerformance #AdvancedMaterials

Last week we shared details of our partnership with Samsung SDI and why we expect it will have such an impact on Forge Nano and the future of U.S. battery manufacturing. It's been exciting to see the conversation continue to grow beyond our own channels. A big thank you to the Volta Foundation for featuring the news in their "This Week in Batteries" roundup. When organizations that connect the global battery community highlight developments like this, it's a good reminder that the industry is paying attention. This isn't just another factory announcement. It's another step toward building a more resilient domestic battery supply chain and scaling the advanced manufacturing needed to support the next generation of energy storage. We're grateful for everyone who has shared, commented, and helped amplify the story. The momentum around U.S. battery manufacturing is real and we're excited to keep building.

Forge Nano and Samsung SDI are partnering to bring advanced battery cell manufacturing to the United States. Today we're proud to announce a landmark strategic partnership with Samsung SDI to establish U.S. production of Samsung SDI-designed advanced battery cells at Forge Nano's planned North Carolina Gigafactory. Under the agreement, Samsung SDI will purchase production from the facility, creating a long-term manufacturing relationship that combines Samsung SDI's cell technology with Forge Nano's domestic manufacturing platform. In the near term, Forge Nano is also serving as a distributor of Samsung SDI battery cells, helping customers access proven, high-performance cell technology while we prepare for domestic manufacturing. Together, these efforts support a more resilient U.S. battery supply chain and provide customers with a clear path from today's supply to future U.S.-manufactured production. Manufacturing at our planned North Carolina facility is expected to begin in 2028, further strengthening domestic battery manufacturing capabilities and expanding U.S. production capacity. Thank you to the teams at Forge Nano and Samsung SDI whose hard work made this milestone possible. Read the full announcement: https://hubs.ly/Q04mCXQP0

Three pieces of landmark legislation. One platform at the intersection of all three. Here is why that convergence matters. The CHIPS and Science Act directs $52B+ toward domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Every advanced fab funded under CHIPS requires ALD for critical process steps.   The Inflation Reduction Act directs $370B+ toward clean energy manufacturing. Domestic content requirements create structural demand for US-based battery material processing and ALD-coated cathode materials.   The National Defense Authorization Act funds the war platform programs that create materials requirements no commercial market generates. Unmanned systems. Soldier electronics. Satellite constellations.   Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform sits at the intersection of all three.   These are not correlated policy risks. CHIPS, IRA, and NDAA address different end markets, operate on different procurement timelines, and draw from different appropriations structures.   For a platform technology with genuine exposure to all three, the result is demand diversification underwritten by government policy, not by market cycles.   Three tailwinds. One Atomic Armor platform. One Forge Nano.   #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #CHIPSAct #IRA #NDAA #IndustrialPolicy #ALD #CriticalInfrastructure

ALD was built for flat things. Forge Nano made it work for powders. That is a manufacturing capability that did not exist before we built it. For decades, Atomic Layer Deposition was a technology for flat substrates.   Wafers. Panels. Films. The semiconductor industry built ALD around planar geometry, and the equipment, precursor chemistry, and process knowledge all evolved around that constraint.   Forge Nano changed that.   We developed industrial-scale ALD for powders and particulate materials: the ability to coat three-dimensional particles, granules, and complex geometries with the same angstrom-level precision as planar ALD. Conformally. Uniformly. At production throughput.   Our rotary drum and fluidized bed ALD systems process kilograms to metric tons of material per hour. The coating quality achieved at production throughput is equivalent to what is achieved in research-scale systems.   That equivalence, maintaining atomic precision at industrial volume, is the hard engineering problem we solved.   The applications span battery cathode powders, anode materials, and conductive additives. Pharmaceutical active ingredients. Energetic materials. Industrial catalysts. Advanced ceramic feedstocks.   Every one of these markets has particle surfaces that determine end-use performance. Every one benefits from the ability to engineer that surface at the atomic level.   This manufacturing capability did not exist a decade ago.   Forge Nano built it. Atomic Armor delivers it.   #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #PowderCoating #ALD #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech #ManufacturingParadigm #DeepTech

SpaceX goes public today. Reportedly the largest IPO ever. We have a small confession: our atoms got to orbit before the shares did. June 2021. A SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare. On board: a Spire Global LEMUR-2 satellite powered by lithium-ion batteries with a few things worth noting: → Protected by Forge Nano, Inc.’s Particle ALD technology, applied one atomic layer at a time → Built with 100% domestically sourced electrode materials → As far as we know, the first ALD-enabled battery technology ever sent to space Space is the world’s worst warranty environment. → No repairs. → No replacements. → No mercy. In orbit, battery degradation doesn’t mean a maintenance ticket. It means reduced mission life. That’s why surface engineering matters. Today, our Atomic Armor® platform helps critical materials perform longer, survive harsher environments, and unlock better products, one atomic layer at a time. So while the market values the rocket, we’ll keep working on the materials that make advanced technology tough enough for the job. To everyone celebrating the IPO: congratulations. Genuinely historic. To everyone building what goes on those rockets: let’s talk.