Company Description
infiniRel started out by developing inverter health diagnostics for renewable energy plants to improve efficiency and profitability. Similar to an EKG for heart failure prediction, our high-resolution measurements creates unique data with unprecedented insights for improving output, optimizing maintenance, and extending the life of critical assets. With lessons learned in the field having deployed our EKG for data ingestion, we are now transforming the technology into a chip, a neuromorphic power management processor that embeds AI for Neural Network processing. By providing fail-safe power from grid to GPU, from 35,000V to 1V, the infiniChip(tm) integrates tested IP cores to satisfy the intense appetite of Tier-IV AI data centers for fail-safe power at ever increasing power densities, reducing the footprint for redundancy to unlock more compute revenue.
Since 2019 the company has raised two million Dollars, including a finalist award from the Department of Energy-sponsored, and NREL administered American-Made Solar Challenge (2020), the prized Monterrey Bay start-up of the year award (2020), a grant award from the California Energy Commission (CalSEED, 2020), Cleantech Open Western Region Winner (2021), and was selected as one of eight hardware-based startups funded and supported by Chicago's mHUB accelerator.
Founded by Bert Wank, a semiconductor veteran who launched 14 successful power and battery management product lines for companies including Dallas Semi (acquired for $2.5bn by Maxim, then by Analog Devices for $21bn) and Burr-Brown (acquired by Texas Instruments for $7.6bn), the team includes Andreas Schneider, former Director of Global Services for a leading inverter manufacturer (acquired by Siemens), and Marco Marazzi, VP Software Engineering, who came from JP Chase Morgan, before architecting and implementing a cloud infrastructure for a start-up that sold to Chicago-based Envestnet for over $30m.
infiniRel's global leadership team are alumni from Thunderbird, the first U.S. school of international trade, founded in 1946. Jim Gagnard serves on infiniRel's board of directors, a 5-times CEO who sold his last data-centric start-up to GE for $140 million.