Skeleton Technologies

Skeleton Technologies is an energy storage developer and manufacturer for AI data center, transportation, grid, and defence applications.

Skeleton is developing a novel raw material, curved graphene,[1] to produce solutions for the energy storage market, including high-power supercapacitors.

Skeleton was established in 2009 by Oliver Ahlberg, Taavi Madiberk, Dr. Jaan Leis, and Dr. Anti Perkson when they began developing graphene-based supercapacitors.

[3] Currently, Skeleton is a supplier to a number of global OEMs in automotive, transportation, grid, and further industrial applications such as Siemens,[4] Škoda,[5] and Hitachi.

The company has received media attention in outlets such as Bloomberg News, The Economist, Sifted, and Financial Times for their German production,[8] battery expertise,[9] and development of novel technologies.

In 2011, the company started the development of SpaceCap, a capacitor based on Skeleton's proprietary carbide-derived carbon material, as a part of a commission from the European Space Agency.

[26] As an energy storage medium, supercapacitors can deploy electricity instantaneously to manage demand surges and power quality issues such as flickers and interruption events.

For Transiidikeskus, one of the largest container terminals in the Baltic Region, the company developed a crane equipped with a graphene supercapacitor-powered kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), reducing the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 34%.

Skeleton Technologies and Class8 Energy, a Canadian equipment distributor, have signed an €11.6 million contract to supply supercapacitor modules to the North American trucking and retail industries.

[36] As with tram applications, Skeleton's technologies have been shown to improve train efficiency by increasing energy savings to reduce costs and CO2 emissions.

[57] Skeleton Technologies CEO and co-founder Taavi Madiberk initiated discussions to establish a €20 million support fund from the European Innovation Council for Ukrainian deep tech startups after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.