With the emergence of sodium-ion batteries in many subdivisions such as two- and three-wheeled electric vehicles, home energy storage, industrial and commercial energy storage, and new energy vehicles, investment in the sodium battery track continues to be hot, and since 2024, a number of sodium battery-related companies have obtained financing.
Author: Barley Typesetting: Diandian Starting Point Sodium Electricity Attention, on March 5, Shenzhen Jia Na Energy Technology *** hereinafter referred to as "Jia Na Energy") announced that it has recently completed a round of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Zigong High-tech Investment, followed by Chaowei Group and Suzhou Xiangcheng Financial Holdings, and the old shareholder Shunwei Capital continued to invest. The financing will be used for the investment and construction of 10,000 tons of cathode material production line, product research and development and market expansion, and continue to promote the industrialization process of sodium-ion batteries. 
Founded in April 2022, Shenzhen JiaNa Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech company focusing on the research, development, production and sales of high-safety, long-life and low-cost sodium-ion battery systems, which can provide a complete set of solutions from cathode, anode, electrolyte, auxiliary materials to battery technology. Professor Cao Yuliang, chairman and chief scientist of JiaNa Energy, began to study sodium-ion batteries as early as 2009, and the company has more than 100 invention patents, and is one of the few enterprises with core competitiveness in the field of sodium-ion batteries. In terms of technical routes, Jiana Energy mainly takes the technical route of polyanionic cathode. Fan Haiman, general manager of Jia Na Energy, said in January this year that the polyanion route will occupy a large market share in the future, and the company mainly focuses on the subdivision route of compound sodium iron phosphate, and sodium iron sulfate is also in the layout. Among them, sodium iron sulfate products are mainly used in terminal fields such as electric two-wheeled vehicles, tricycles, and low-speed vehicles, and composite sodium iron phosphate is mainly used in industrial forklifts, mining trucks, household energy storage, large-scale energy storage power stations, communication backup power supplies, industrial and commercial energy storage and other terminal fields. Compared with the other two routes of sodium-ion batteries, layered oxide and Prussian blue, polyanionic compounds have stable structure, high cycle life, high thermal stability and high working voltage, making them the most suitable routes for long-term energy storage. In terms of production capacity layout, in October 2023, the integrated project (Phase I) of Pu'er Jia Sodium Energy's sodium-ion battery material production and battery cell and energy storage equipment manufacturing has officially started; In December of the same year, Jia Na Energy also signed a 100,000-ton sodium cathode material and industrial chain extension production base project with Zigong High-tech Investment Group, with a land area of about 300 acres and a planned total investment of about 5 billion yuan. In addition, since its establishment, JiaNa Energy has completed three rounds of financing. They are the angel round financing of tens of millions of yuan exclusively invested by Shunwei Capital in May 2022, the tens of millions of yuan of pre-A financing exclusively invested by Lightspeed China in January 2023, and the A round of financing led by Primavera Capital and followed by Shunwei Capital in August 2023. With the emergence of sodium-ion batteries in many subdivisions such as two- and three-wheeled electric vehicles, home energy storage, industrial and commercial energy storage, and new energy vehicles, investment in the sodium battery track continues to be hot, and since 2024, a number of sodium battery-related companies have obtained financing. On December 20, Huacai (Hefei) New Energy Technology completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, and this round of financing funds is mainly used for the expansion of mass production lines. On January 2, Zhejiang Carbone New Materials received a strategic investment of 37.6 million yuan, which was mainly used for the mass production of 5,000 tons of high-performance anode coating materials and 10,000 tons of hard carbon anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. On January 8, Anhui Xinchen New Materials announced the successful completion of the B1 round of financing, which will be used for capacity construction, product research and development and market development. At the end of January, Wuxi Ana Energy Technology completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, which will be used for R&D investment, capacity expansion and market expansion. In February, Wuhan Tianna Technology completed tens of millions of yuan angel++ round of financing. The financing funds are mainly used for the construction of production lines. Hunan Natech New Materials has completed the Pre-A round of investment, and this round of financing will be mainly used for R&D innovation, capacity expansion and talent introduction. 
According to the incomplete statistics of sodium electricity at the starting point, since the beginning of the year, the financing news in the field of sodium electricity has continued, and the industrialization of sodium-ion batteries is expected to be further accelerated under the support of capital, and the process of commercial application of sodium-ion batteries will also be accelerated. 