Start-up Safion signs licensing agreement

“Everybody can make nice slide decks. I’d rather offer resilient data” says Alexander Gitis, one of the co-founders of SAFION GmbH, an RWTH spin-off who recently signed an exclusive licencing agreement with RWTH Aachen University.

Together with Georg Fuchs, Hendrik Zappen and Arne Hendrik Wienhausen, Alex founded a company during their PhDs at the Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies (ISEA) / RWTH Aachen University.

This is one of our favourite kind of start-ups: RWTH researchers meet at the lab, create inventions within their research and are brave enough to develop their innovations into a business. Here they are with Prof. Dirk-Uwe Sauer, who supported the RWTH entrepreneurs along the way.

Safion’s new diagnosis technology can predict the lifespan and the potential failure of a lithium ion battery precisely. This largely expands the capacity of a battery, reduces risks and cost – no matter where it is being used (i.e. in the e-mobility sector).

We’re proud to have accompanied Safion full circle within the last 3 years on their way from first inventive step to EXIST scholarship and to licensing agreement.