Bedrock Materials

Bedrock Materials was a Chicago-based deep-tech startup founded in 2023 by Spencer Gore (CEO, previously Tesla and Enovix) and Rafael Vila (CTO, Stanford battery scientist) to manufacture engineered sodium-ion cathode active materials as a low-cost, easy-to-source alternative to lithium-ion — built from abundant sodium, manganese, iron and aluminum, and designed to drop into existing lithium-ion cell manufacturing lines for low-voltage, starter-lighting-ignition, micromobility and industrial-traction applications. It raised a $9M seed round led by Trucks Venture Capital with Refactor Capital and Version One Ventures. In April 2025 the company wound down and returned the majority of that seed capital to its investors: CEO Spencer Gore concluded that sodium-ion could not be produced cheaply enough to beat lithium iron phosphate (LFP) after lithium oversupply collapsed prices, and that energy-density gains carried steep trade-offs. Bedrock Materials was a materials-science manufacturer and never operated a developer program, public API, or developer portal; both bedrockmaterials.com and its former bedrock.inc website are now parked/for-sale domains with no company content. This profile is retained as a verified-defunct record in the API Evangelist network — there is no API surface to enrich.

Bedrock Materials is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Deep Tech, Batteries, Energy Storage, and Materials Science.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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aid: bedrock-materials
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name: Bedrock Materials
description: 'Bedrock Materials was a Chicago-based deep-tech startup founded in 2023 by Spencer Gore (CEO, previously Tesla
  and Enovix) and Rafael Vila (CTO, Stanford battery scientist) to manufacture engineered sodium-ion cathode active materials
  as a low-cost, easy-to-source alternative to lithium-ion — built from abundant sodium, manganese, iron and aluminum, and
  designed to drop into existing lithium-ion cell manufacturing lines for low-voltage, starter-lighting-ignition, micromobility
  and industrial-traction applications. It raised a $9M seed round led by Trucks Venture Capital with Refactor Capital and
  Version One Ventures. In April 2025 the company wound down and returned the majority of that seed capital to its investors:
  CEO Spencer Gore concluded that sodium-ion could not be produced cheaply enough to beat lithium iron phosphate (LFP) after
  lithium oversupply collapsed prices, and that energy-density gains carried steep trade-offs. Bedrock Materials was a materials-science
  manufacturer and never operated a developer program, public API, or developer portal; both bedrockmaterials.com and its
  former bedrock.inc website are now parked/for-sale domains with no company content. This profile is retained as a verified-defunct
  record in the API Evangelist network — there is no API surface to enrich.'
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- version-one-ventures
- trucks-venture-capital
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-date: 2025-04
x-defunct-note: Wound down and returned the majority of its $9M seed funding to investors; sodium-ion could not compete on
  cost with lithium iron phosphate.
x-defunct-sources:
- https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/bedrock-materials-sodium-ion
- https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/04/07/bedrock-materials-stops-batteries
- https://sodiumbatteryhub.com/2025/04/10/us-sodium-ion-battery-start-up-bedrock-materials-shuts-down/
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x-founded: '2023'
x-headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
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- Deep Tech
- Batteries
- Energy Storage
- Materials Science
- Sodium-Ion
- Defunct
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
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  note: Searched and probed; company verified defunct (April 2025) with no API, docs, developer portal or live web presence.
    No artifacts are derivable without fabrication.