A startup that innovated a breakthrough technology to enable precision nano coatings at scale for manufacturing of products including Li-Ion battery materials.

Thornton, CO
Joined September 2016
Forge Nano 🤝 @AbNanexa We’re expanding the possibilities of Atomic Layer Deposition into pharmaceutical manufacturing. Together, we’ll develop scalable, GMP-compliant ALD manufacturing technology for Nanexa’s PharmaShell® long-acting injectable platform. Atomic-level precision. New applications. globenewswire.com/news-relea…
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AI is only as powerful as the data behind it. Forge Nano is expanding our partnership with @Voltaiq to bring AI and advanced battery analytics deeper into our U.S. battery development and manufacturing operations. The foundation is built. Now we scale. globenewswire.com/news-relea…
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We’re heading to SEMICON India 2026, September 17–19 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi! 🇮🇳 📍 Connect with the Forge Nano team to learn how our advanced ALD technologies are helping enable the next generation of semiconductor manufacturing — from advanced packaging and silicon photonics to the infrastructure powering AI. As India continues to expand its semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, scalable, high-performance process technology will play a critical role in moving from silicon to systems. Forge Nano’s ALD platforms are built to address some of the industry’s most difficult manufacturing challenges, including high-speed conformal deposition in structures with aspect ratios up to 1000:1, while enabling improvements in device performance, reliability, and manufacturability. 👉 Attending SEMICON India? Meet with our team to learn how Forge Nano is helping manufacturers scale increasingly complex semiconductor architectures: hubs.li/Q04wZZdY0 We look forward to seeing you in New Delhi! #SEMICONIndia #Semiconductors #AdvancedPackaging #ALD #SemiconductorManufacturing #ForgeNano
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Critical technologies require critical supply chains. Forge Nano has broken ground on America’s Battery Gigafactory. Up to 3 GWh of annual U.S. battery cell production. ~150 million cells per year. Built for defense, aerospace and the technologies America cannot afford to source elsewhere. #ForgeNano #MadeInAmerica #BatteryManufacturing
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Forge Nano has secured an additional $23 million in PIPE financing, bringing total PIPE commitments to $123 million, while successfully closing its $97 million Series D financing ahead of its planned NASDAQ listing. Highlights include: • $23M in new PIPE commitments priced at $10.00 per share • Samsung SDI invested $20 million, including $10M in the PIPE and $10M in the Series D • With approximately $367 million in pro forma cash (assuming no redemptions), Forge Nano expects to accelerate commercialization of its Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) semiconductor equipment platform and expand domestic manufacturing of advanced lithium-ion battery materials. "This is a strong vote of confidence from both strategic and financial investors as we prepare to become a public company," said CEO Paul Lichty. As demand grows across AI semiconductor manufacturing and defense battery applications, this milestone strengthens Forge Nano's position to scale manufacturing and execute on its commercial pipeline. Read the full announcement: hubs.li/Q04prBGt0 #Manufacturing #Semiconductors #AI #BatteryTechnology #AdvancedMaterials #NASDAQ #CleanTech #Innovation
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What if better batteries, faster chips, and stronger advanced materials all came down to coatings nearly impossible to see?   On ProCo 360, Forge Nano founder Paul Lichty explains how Atomic Armor® and atomic layer deposition are helping transform material performance at the atomic scale.   The episode covers Forge Nano’s CU Boulder origin story, its early garage-built days in Westminster, and how the company grew into a Colorado deep-tech leader working across batteries, semiconductors, aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing.   Paul breaks down the science in plain English — from longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries to advanced chip packaging and more efficient AI hardware — while also sharing what it takes to scale breakthrough technology from lab concept to industrial production. hubs.li/Q04nYQNw0
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The conversation about AI is almost entirely about software, data, and compute.   Almost nobody is talking about the atoms.   Here is the physics:   Gate-all-around transistors at 3nm and below cannot be manufactured without Atomic Layer Deposition.   The geometry demands it.   No alternative deposition process achieves the conformality and thickness control the device requires.   This is not a market preference. It is a physical constraint.   Every AI accelerator at leading nodes. Every advanced memory chip. Every next-gen processor.   ALD across gate dielectrics, work function metals, diffusion barriers, spacer layers, advanced packaging interconnects.   ALD steps per chip increase with every node transition.   Advanced packaging for AI chiplets creates new ALD requirements at the interconnect layer.   Materials complexity per leading-edge chip: compounding, not stabilizing.   As AI drives demand for more advanced chips at higher volumes, precision surface engineering inside fabs becomes a structural constraint.   Not a commodity input. A structural constraint.   Forge Nano's Atomic Armor systems are built for exactly this environment.   The gate surrounds the channel on all four sides. Atomic Armor surrounds the opportunity. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #Semiconductors #ALD #AI #GateAllAround #CHIPSAct #AdvancedNodes
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The battery materials industry is full of claims.   Here is what the data actually shows when you coat battery materials with Atomic Layer Deposition:   CYCLE LIFE Coatings on cathode powders, anode materials, and conductive additives suppress parasitic surface reactions that consume active lithium. That is where most capacity fade originates. Addressing it at the surface changes the long-term performance curve fundamentally.   RATE CAPABILITY Atomic Armor-coated materials maintain better capacity at high C-rates. The surface barrier reduces kinetic losses at the electrolyte interface under high-rate stress.   THERMAL STABILITY Exothermic reactions that initiate thermal runaway are surface-mediated. A conformal atomic-scale barrier delays onset and reduces severity.   TEMPERATURE RANGE ALD coatings reduce impedance growth at the electrode surface. That is the primary mechanism behind cold-temperature capacity loss.   Same process at lab scale and production scale. Equivalent coating uniformity. Equivalent performance improvement.   Not incremental. Not marginal.   The difference between a battery that meets the specification and one that does not. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryData #ALD #CathodeCoating #EnergyStorage #BatteryPerformance #AdvancedMaterials
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Forge Nano and Samsung SDI are partnering to bring advanced battery cell manufacturing to the United States. Today we're proud to announce a landmark strategic partnership with Samsung SDI to establish U.S. production of Samsung SDI-designed advanced battery cells at Forge Nano's planned North Carolina Gigafactory. Under the agreement, Samsung SDI will purchase production from the facility, creating a long-term manufacturing relationship that combines Samsung SDI's cell technology with Forge Nano's domestic manufacturing platform. In the near term, Forge Nano is also serving as a distributor of Samsung SDI battery cells, helping customers access proven, high-performance cell technology while we prepare for domestic manufacturing. Together, these efforts support a more resilient U.S. battery supply chain and provide customers with a clear path from today's supply to future U.S.-manufactured production. Manufacturing at our planned North Carolina facility is expected to begin in 2028, further strengthening domestic battery manufacturing capabilities and expanding U.S. production capacity. Thank you to the teams at Forge Nano and Samsung SDI whose hard work made this milestone possible. Read the full announcement: hubs.ly/Q04mCPtF0
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Three pieces of landmark legislation.   One platform at the intersection of all three.   CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT $52B+ toward domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Every advanced fab funded under CHIPS requires ALD. Every wafer start is a demand signal.   INFLATION REDUCTION ACT $370B+ toward clean energy manufacturing. Domestic content requirements favor US-based ALD-coated battery materials. The IRA made the Forge Nano battery model structurally advantaged.   NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT Funds the war platform programs that create materials requirements no commercial market produces. Unmanned systems. Soldier electronics. Satellite constellations. All ALD-intensive.   Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform sits at the intersection of all three.   Not correlated policy risks. Different end markets. Different procurement timelines. Different appropriations.   Genuine demand diversification underwritten by government policy.   Three tailwinds. One Atomic Armor platform. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #CHIPSAct #IRA #NDAA #IndustrialPolicy #ALD #CriticalInfrastructure
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ALD was built for flat things.   Wafers. Panels. Films.   Forge Nano made it work for powders.   Here is what that means:   Conventional ALD fails on particles. Precursor flow, purge cycles, temperature distribution: none of it designed for high-surface-area particulate materials.   We solved it.   Industrial-scale ALD for powders. Same angstrom-level precision as planar ALD. Conformal. Uniform. At production throughput.   Our rotary drum and fluidized bed systems process kilograms to metric tons per hour.   Coating quality at production throughput equivalent to research-scale results.   That equivalence is the hard engineering problem we solved.   Applications: battery cathode powders, anode materials, conductive additives. Pharmaceutical ingredients. Energetic materials. Industrial catalysts. Advanced ceramics.   Every one has particle surfaces that determine end-use performance.   Every one benefits from atomic-level surface engineering.   This capability did not exist a decade ago.   Forge Nano built it. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #PowderCoating #ALD #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech #ManufacturingParadigm #DeepTech
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SpaceX goes public today. Reportedly the largest IPO ever. We have a small confession: our atoms got to orbit before the shares did. June 2021. A SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare. On board: a Spire Global LEMUR-2 satellite powered by lithium-ion batteries with a few things worth noting: → Protected by Forge Nano’s Particle ALD technology, applied one atomic layer at a time → Built with 100% domestically sourced electrode materials → As far as we know, the first ALD-enabled battery technology ever sent to space Space is the world’s worst warranty environment. → No repairs. → No replacements. → No mercy. In orbit, battery degradation doesn’t mean a maintenance ticket. It means reduced mission life. That’s why surface engineering matters. Today, our Atomic Armor® platform helps critical materials perform longer, survive harsher environments, and unlock better products, one atomic layer at a time. So while the market values the rocket, we’ll keep working on the materials that make advanced technology tough enough for the job. To everyone celebrating the IPO: congratulations. Genuinely historic. To everyone building what goes on those rockets: let’s talk.
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Another milestone for Forge Nano's semiconductor equipment business.   We're excited to announce that a leading commercial photonics technology company has selected our TEPHRA™ semiconductor wafer fabrication platform to support the manufacturing of advanced integrated photonic devices.   This order reflects the growing role of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) in commercial photonics manufacturing, where precision, repeatability, reliability, and scalability are critical to bringing next-generation technologies to market.   As integrated photonics continues to gain momentum across AI infrastructure, optical communications, data centers, sensing, and emerging computing applications, manufacturers are increasingly seeking production-ready platforms that can meet demanding performance and manufacturing requirements.   TEPHRA was built for exactly this challenge – delivering high-throughput ALD processing with exceptional film uniformity, process control, and scalability for advanced semiconductor applications.   We're proud to support innovators shaping the future of photonics and look forward to continuing to expand Forge Nano's presence in this rapidly growing market. Read the full press release here: hubs.li/Q04l3_vB0   #Photonics #Semiconductors #ALD #AdvancedManufacturing #IntegratedPhotonics #OpticalCommunications #SemiconductorEquipment #AIInfrastructure #ForgeNano
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Most deep tech companies are built around one market.   The Atomic Armor platform was built around a process.   That is a fundamentally different kind of company.   Atomic Layer Deposition is a process technology, not a product.   The same capability creates transformative value across five markets independently.   SEMICONDUCTORS AI demand. CHIPS Act. Gate-all-around architecture. ALD is required.   BATTERIES War energy requirements. IRA domestic content. Defense energy systems. The full stack.   ALD POWDER COATING Atomic-scale surface treatment on particulate materials at tonnage scale.   WAR AND DEFENSE Performance over cost. Qualification over commodity. Program revenue visibility.   AEROSPACE Hypersonics. Advanced UAVs. Space systems. Legacy coatings cannot compete.   One technology core. Five independent growth vectors. Zero correlated downturns.   Platform companies that serve multiple markets from one process technology command premium multiples for a reason.   That reason is Atomic Armor. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #ALD #DeepTech #CapitalMarkets #InvestmentThesis #CriticalInfrastructure #IndustrialTech
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Every AI chip manufactured at leading nodes requires Atomic Layer Deposition.   There is no physics workaround.   Gate-all-around transistors at 3nm and below cannot be made without ALD.   The geometry demands it. The self-limiting monolayer-by-monolayer mechanism is the only deposition physics that achieves the conformality the architecture requires.   As AI drives demand for more advanced chips:   ALD steps per chip increase with every node transition. Advanced packaging for AI chiplets creates new ALD applications at every interconnect layer. Materials complexity per chip is compounding, not stabilizing.   The CHIPS Act fabs in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, and Idaho are each ALD-intensive.   Every wafer start in every one of those fabs is a demand signal for Atomic Armor.   The AI infrastructure story is a nanotechnology story.   Atomic Armor is the atomic layer underneath it. #AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #Semiconductors #ALD #AI #GateAllAround #CHIPSAct #AdvancedManufacturing
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