Imara

Imara Corporation was a lithium-ion battery technology startup founded in 2006 in Menlo Park, California, that grew out of research at SRI International. It designed and manufactured high-power lithium-ion battery cells and packs based on patented cathode materials science, targeting power tools, outdoor power equipment, hybrid electric vehicles, specialty applications, and power-grid energy storage. Backed by Battery Ventures and Nth Power, it raised roughly $15.65M and reached commercial cell production in 2009 before shutting down around 2010-2011 for lack of manufacturing funding. It is a hardware company with no public API, developer portal, or documentation surface, and is now defunct.

Imara is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Batteries, Lithium-Ion, Energy Storage, and Clean Technology.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyBatteriesLithium-IonEnergy StorageClean TechnologyHardwareElectric VehiclesDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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  trial: false
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  label: Unknown
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  method: derived
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name: Imara
description: Imara Corporation was a lithium-ion battery technology startup founded in 2006 in Menlo Park, California, that
  grew out of research at SRI International. It designed and manufactured high-power lithium-ion battery cells and packs based
  on patented cathode materials science, targeting power tools, outdoor power equipment, hybrid electric vehicles, specialty
  applications, and power-grid energy storage. Backed by Battery Ventures and Nth Power, it raised roughly $15.65M and reached
  commercial cell production in 2009 before shutting down around 2010-2011 for lack of manufacturing funding. It is a hardware
  company with no public API, developer portal, or documentation surface, and is now defunct.
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
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x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Hardware (lithium-ion battery) company, shut down ~2010-2011; no API surface exists to enrich.
x-enrichment-outcome: no-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Batteries
- Lithium-Ion
- Energy Storage
- Clean Technology
- Hardware
- Electric Vehicles
- Defunct
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
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