# Standard Energy

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/standard-energy

- Industry: Energy Storage & Batteries
- Headquarters: Daejeon, South Korea
- Website: www.stndenergy.com/
- Total disclosed funding: $27M
- Latest round: Series C (Apr 10, 2026)
- Investors on record: 9

## About

Based in Daejeon, South Korea, and founded in 2013 by researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standard Energy Inc. operates as a developer of vanadium ion batteries. The is shipping batteries to an electric vehicle charging station in South Korea. In April 2026, Standard Energy Inc. raised KRW 5 billion in venture funding from new investor Forest Partners.

Standard Energy combines vanadium with lithium-ion batteries, thus creating a vanadium ion battery that helps extend battery performance replacing stationary energy storage, it also includes less risk of ignition and ease of sourcing vanadium.

The company will use the April 2026 funding to to build facilities for mass production of its products.

## Funding rounds

- Series C, Apr 10, 2026, $4.1M — Forest Partners
- Series C, Apr 14, 2021, $22M — LB Investment, SBVA, Korea Technology Finance Corporation, Magna Investment, Hana Securities, KNet Investment Partners, Mirae Holdings
- Seed, Dec 1, 2015, $0.4M — Korea Tech Incubator for Startup, Mirae Holdings

## Investors

- Korea Tech Incubator for Startup — Seed
- Mirae Holdings (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/mirae-holdings) — Seed, Series C
- LB Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lb-investment) — Series C
- SBVA (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sbva) — Series C
- Korea Technology Finance Corporation — Series C
- Magna Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/magna-investment) — Series C
- Hana Securities (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hana-securities) — Series C
- KNet Investment Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/knet-investment-partners) — Series C
- Forest Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/forest-partners) — Series C