The details of investment proposals are not generally made public so we can only provide approximate details here. Please contact us for a full prospectus.
Background
Following unexpected investment offers from viewers of our video with Ziroth, we are considering offering additional shares for sale around mid 2026. We’re grateful for expressions of interest.
BatteryIQ is a UK private standalone limited company. We received pre-seed investment in 2025, to offer our BMS mostly to B2B partners and explore the market opportunity. The video with Ryan / Ziroth was part of our communications plan as many of Ryan’s videos are also engineers and business owners and Ryan has been a great supporter.
Recent opportunities
Our initial funding at the current rate of spend will last us all of 2026 (as the team is generally funded on a per-day basis and does not need a permanent team.) However, new opportunities have emerged in the last few months and additional investment would allow us to work faster.
- Multiple projects with the European Space Agency & Open Cosmos.
- Potential partnerships in New York
- Confirmed partnerships with battery swapping locker providers in Berlin, who also have projects running in London, Amsterdam & Canada, which we would support.
- Releasing versions of our BMS for maker/amateur engineers who might like to explore the technology in their projects. This has been shown as a great way to introduce new technology to the very people who will later create professional products. We have contacted ThePiHut about selling on their platform and will consider other maker platforms including robotics. This is not expected to be profitable, it’s more about getting engineers using the parts.
- 5s – 10s / 40A BMS – already in use in Boost Bike batteries, this BMS could be released to makers quickly from existing stock. Work is required in documentation.
- 5s – 16s / 200A BMS with CAN – Bigger version of the above, featuring isolated CAN enabling multiple packs to be stacked. This BMS is designed but not yet built.
- 5s – 16s / 200A BMS with CAN with prototyping, GPIO & relay driving capability and the ability to host an Arduino Nano circuit board, enabling makers to add their own Arduino application code to control a BMS on the same board. This requires further work from the non-prototyping version above.
- Creating a Home Assistant module to scan BatteryIQ batteries so that BMSes sold to makers can be integrated into HA.
The fundraising process
Opening and executing an investment round usually costs at least £2,000 in fees plus the same again in time, so given we wouldn’t want to spend more than 5% of a round on fees, the minimum viable round is about £50,000. This would be a useful amount to deliver the above opportunities while carrying on our original plans.
High numbers of investments below £5,000 are difficult to manage and lead to a very busy cap table, and generally speaking the effort required per investor is about the same, so for practical purposes we can only accept tickets about £5,000.
We can accept investments from residents any non-sanctioned country and to avoid future conflicts of interest we may choose not to accept investment from certain countries. UK investors may be able to benefits from SEIS.
If we have sufficient interest to proceed with a round, we will likely require funds by end of June 2026. For approximate guidance, the total minimum round size as above would issue approximately 2.5% additional shares in the company.
The potential upside
The goal of BatteryIQ is to help customers distingish between safe and unsafe batteries, using a combination of auditing, our trademarked brand, and our technology.
If BatteryIQ becomes a prominent recognisable brand in even just the EU and US, the company valuation would likely grow by several hundred times. There are several multinational companies compatible with BatteryIQ’s independent ethos who would be potential purchasers, including Siemens, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon and Google.
Investment notice
As part of offering investments, we have to remind potential investors that early stage businesses are extremely high risk and you may lose all money invested. This and other information is information only and not an invitation to invest.
If you are a UK investor, the FCA requires you to declare yourself as a ‘Restricted Investor’ or ‘Self-Certified Sophisticated’ which includes agreement to the high-risk nature of early stage investment. Crowdcube has a useful page to explain these categories.
https://www.crowdcube.com/explore/investor-categories
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding usually involves investment minimums of under £5,000 and often involves a more B2C approach to marketing shares via platforms with mailing lists of retail investors, such as Crowdcube. Crowdcube typically charge around 17% fees to operate a round, plus require you to have already raised 50% of a round so they can show interest to their retail investor mailing list, and their minimum fee per round is about £15k (last time I talked to them in 2023, so may have increased.) For rounds below about £250k, crowdfunding isn’t really viable, especially if we already have a good network of supporters.
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