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Circu Li-ion cofounder and CEO Antoine Welter says his startup’s upcycling machine can diagnose batteries in seconds.

Recyclers usually shred cells into black mass and recover valuable metals via smelting or leaching.

Circu Li-ion claims that “more than eight out of ten cells in an end-of-life battery are actually not end of life.”

In their past lives, so to speak, Welter worked as a B2B investor and consultant, while co-founder and CTO Xavier Kohll helped produce a “soft total artificial heart” at ETH Zurich, a Swiss research university.

The startup said the combined $9 million or so in seed funding would help it scale its machine-as-a-service business model.

Circu Li-ion said it also intends to build the “world’s largest” repository of battery recycling data.

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