Overview
European battery manufacturer; sustainable lithium-ion cells for automotive and industrial. Major funding from VW and BMW. Restructured 2024/2025.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Backerssee investors →
Stage
Swedish asset acquisition
Battery manufacturing continuity
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Northvolt has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Northvolt on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Peter Carlsson CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Peter Carlssonsole
Former / Previously (1)
- Paolo Cerruti Co-foundersecondary-verified
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Northvolt.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Northvolt in third-party press
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Northvolt.
People (2)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $12.4B
- Employees
- 1,700
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Northvolt has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- northvolt x googlewithGoogle19technology—just announced
- technology—operating
Funding rounds (6)
Northvolt’s 6 disclosed rounds, $12.3B in total, oldest to newest.
- Debt Financing2024-01-01
$5.0B(reported)
- Private Placement2023-08-01
$1.2B(reported)
- Private Placement2022-07-01
$1.1B(reported)
- Private Placement2021-06-09
$2.8B(reported)
Investors: Goldman Sachs (co_lead), Baillie Gifford
- Private Placement2020-09-29
$600M(reported)
- Debt Financing2020-07-01
$1.6B(reported)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Northvolt’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundDebt Financing funding round
2023-01-01Debt Financing raising $5000000000
Funding roundPrivate Placement funding round
2023-01-01Private Placement raising $1200000000
Funding roundPrivate Placement funding round
2022-01-01Private Placement raising $1100000000
Funding roundPrivate Placement funding round
2021-01-01Private Placement raising $2750000000
Funding roundPrivate Placement funding round
2020-01-01Private Placement raising $600000000
Funding roundDebt Financing funding round
2020-01-01Debt Financing raising $1600000000
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2018-01-01Series B raising $120000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2017-01-01Series A raising $12000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
Northvolt logo
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Northvolt.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Northvolt from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Lyten ties data centers to lithium-sulfur push using Northvolt assets, executive says
Luxembourg’s Lyten to build $5bn battery empire on Northvolt’s ashes
SFA pivots to AI robotics as DY Holdings’ stock-backed loans test stability - CHOSUNBIZ
Lyten: Northvolt Revolt Battery Recycling Plant Acquisition
Volvo pauses Novo battery project as partner search drags on
How to overcome the hidden holdup of the battery revolution
The Automotive Update: Northvolt files for bankruptcy
Battery manufacturer Northvolt nears the end as it files for bankruptcy in Sweden
ANALYSIS – Rise and fall of Northvolt
Northvolt lays off 1,600 workers, but it’s not the end for Europe’s battery champion
Giga-scaling low-carbon batteries: A chat with Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson
Meet the future of energy: Johanna Grauers, Automation Engineer Specialist
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/northvolt.md
- RSS feed: /companies/northvolt/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/71200e7f-f255-4b18-9bc3-80e23fc41efb
- Revision history: /companies/northvolt/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Northvolt draws attention at the 43rd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 4, 2026