The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Sion Power Corporation: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $75.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Tucson-based developer of next-generation Licerion® lithium-metal battery technology for electric vehicles, defense, and aerospace. Founded in 1989 as a spin-off from Brookhaven National Laboratory, the company holds 430+ patents and operates a 115,000 sq ft R&D and production facility. Its Licerion® platform delivers up to 500 Wh/kg — twice the energy density of conventional lithium-ion — with strategic investment from LG Energy Solution and Eric Schmidt's Hillspire.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Sion Power Corporation has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Mühlbauer Group1× joint
Most recent
- Sion Power x Mühlbauer Group2025-03-31with Mühlbauer Groupoperating
Sion Power Corporation on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Sion Power Corporation's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (5)
- Pamela Fletcher CEOsecondary-verified
- Tracy Kelley President & Chief Science Officer, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Job Rijssenbeek CTOsecondary-verified
- Mitch Hourtienne Chief Commercial Officersecondary-verified
- Liz Rojewski COOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Tracy Kelleysole
Safety record
No incidents on record for Sion Power Corporation.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Sion Power Corporation2 deployments
Recent coverage
Sion Power Corporation in third-party press
World’s first 400 MW commercial fusion power plant could power over 200,000 US homes
Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034
Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley on bringing fusion to the grid at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
Mentioned on (6)
Registry pages whose text names Sion Power Corporation.
Robots and products (1)
People (5)
Liz Rojewski, Job Rijssenbeek, Tracy Kelley, Mitch Hourtienne, Pamela Fletcher
Financial state
- Total funding
- $75.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Sion Power Corporation has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Sion Power x Mühlbauer Group2025-03-31with Mühlbauer Groupoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Mühlbauer Group1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Sion Power x Mühlbauer GroupwithMühlbauer Groupmanufacturing2025-03-31operating
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2024-01-23
$75M(reported) · $450M post
Investors: LG Energy Solution (lead), Bricks Capital Management (strategic), Euclidean Capital (follow), Hillspire LLC (strategic)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Sion Power Corporation’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipSion Power x Mühlbauer Group
2025-03-31Mühlbauer Group developed and installed Sion Power's fully automated large-format lithium-metal battery cell production line, capable of producing 75MWh of 56Ah cells annually. Mühlbauer invested over 100 million euros in battery production technology over five years.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-01-23Series A raising $75000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 26, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Licerion at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Licerion at Germany, Europe
Sources (1)
- verification source · https://sionpower.com/
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Sion Power Corporation.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Sion Power Corporation from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
World’s first 400 MW commercial fusion power plant could power over 200,000 US homes
The US has set its sights on developing the world’s first commercial fusion power plant,...
Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034
Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it with $200 million.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley on bringing fusion to the grid at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
CFS' Brandon Sorbom and Helion's David Kirtley join the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the breakthroughs moving fusion forward, the challenges that…
University of Birmingham and EPRI Launch £2.63 Million Transatlantic Fusion Materials Partnership to Accelerate Commercial Fusion Energy Development
(IN BRIEF) The University of Birmingham and EPRI have launched a £2.63 million UK-US research partnership through the FURESHMA programme to accelerate the development of advanced…
Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid
Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.
Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable?
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Japan funds experimental stellarators in $400M push for continuous fusion power
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Tennessee grants first fusion license, clearing path for 400MW stellarator plant
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Thea Energy Extends Series B for Stellarator Fusion Power
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Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast
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Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device
Fusion power startups are turning to Kyoto Fusioneering to supply components for future power plants. The Japan-based startup just received a grant to build a part of the fuel…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/sion-power.md
- RSS feed: /companies/sion-power/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/61c7b365-6c99-4f62-aa54-c6bab2dd0881
- Revision history: /companies/sion-power/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
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
Sion Power Corporation draws attention at the 97th percentile but verifies reality at the 36th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +61.9, 14th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 56.1M video views. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category 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: Oct 18, 2026