Sustainability Directory · Sep 2025
A 2025 article describing Maple Materials’ electrolysis approach to battery-grade graphite and its claimed cost and carbon advantages.
We turn CO2 into battery-grade graphite and oxygen.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Maple Materials is a Richmond, California-based cleantech/manufacturing company that turns carbon dioxide into graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries using an electricity-based CO2-splitting process. Its public messaging emphasizes lower cost, cleaner production, and a potential path to carbon-negative graphite when powered by renewables.
Primary product
Carbon-dioxide-derived graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Richmond, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Manufacturing
Sub-industry
Battery materials / synthetic graphite
Offices
14 jobs at Maple Materials
Business model
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$6.3M
Latest round
Series A · Aug 2024
Latest amount
$6.3M
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Chief Business Officer
Christopher Eonta
Chief Operating Officer
Niklas Mundhenk
Lead Chemist
Investors
Mission-driven cleantech culture centered on abundance, sustainability, and delivering graphitic materials profitably from CO2.
Pricing
B2B contracted materials sales / offtake-based supply agreements
Differentiators
Technology
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$440K ARR (estimated)
Sustainability Directory · Sep 2025
A 2025 article describing Maple Materials’ electrolysis approach to battery-grade graphite and its claimed cost and carbon advantages.
USPTO Patent Gazette · Mar 2025
Patent grant tied to Maple Materials and co-inventor Drew Lawrence Reid for carbon production and purification methods.
CB Insights · Oct 2024
Profile notes Richmond HQ, 2019 founding, $9.41M total funding, seven patents, and investor/collaborator names including Greentown Labs, C2V Initiative, 8090 Industries, Y Combinator, and NSF.
Greentown Labs · Sep 2024
Official cohort announcement naming Maple Materials as a Year 4 C2V participant and describing its CO2-to-graphite electrolysis process.
PR Newswire / Greentown Labs · Sep 2024
The Carbon to Value Initiative’s Year 4 cohort included Maple Materials as a CO2-to-graphite startup.