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SILICTECH

Company

Built at the point where the science meets the factory.

Silic Tech was created on a specific conviction: a breakthrough material is not commercially meaningful until it can be manufactured reliably, integrated into real production systems, and deployed economically at scale.

Mission and vision

Mission

Accelerate the global transition toward high-energy-density energy storage by making silicon anodes commercially viable, reliable, cost-effective, and scalable.

Vision

A world powered by silicon; where electric vehicles travel farther, devices operate longer, aircraft carry more energy, and renewable electricity can be stored more efficiently.

Philosophy

Eight perspectives on the same material.

Battery innovation fails in the gap between disciplines. A material can be electrochemically excellent and mechanically hopeless; mechanically sound and impossible to synthesise at tonnage; perfectly manufacturable and dependent on a raw material nobody can source.

We evaluate every decision against all of these at once:

  • Electrochemical performance
  • Mechanical stability
  • Materials architecture
  • Interface engineering
  • Manufacturing compatibility
  • Raw-material availability
  • Process scalability
  • Commercial viability

Co-founders

Three gaps. Three people who have crossed them.

A battery material must move from experimental insight to repeatable process, from process to defensible technology, and from technology to an industrial customer. Silic Tech was built around that full path.

Ebrahim Feyzi, co-founder of Silic Tech

01 / Bench → repeatable material

Ebrahim Feyzi

Co-founder · Materials & electrode development

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A battery researcher and materials engineer connecting silicon-anode science to the discipline of repeatable manufacturing.

  • PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering at Concordia University
  • First author of a 2024 Next Energy review of silicon anodes for high-energy lithium-ion batteries
  • Hands-on work across material architecture, electrode formulation, coin-cell assembly, cycling, and characterisation
  • Double Master's background spanning materials engineering and chemistry
  • Industry experience in quality control, quality assurance, manufacturing inspection, and project environments
Prof. Karim Zaghib, co-founder of Silic Tech

02 / Material → protected, licensable technology

Prof. Karim Zaghib

Co-founder · Battery science, IP & scale-up

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A battery scientist and technology-transfer leader with more than four decades of experience moving electrochemical innovation toward industrial use.

  • CEO of Volt-Age and Professor at Concordia University
  • Former Director of Research at Hydro-Québec, where he helped build the lithium-ion battery programme
  • Associated with more than 600 co-invented patents and 62 licences
  • Deep experience in battery materials, industrial partnerships, licensing, and scale-up
  • Recipient of Quebec's 2019 Lionel-Boulet Award for industrial research and development
Dr. Sarah Sajedi, co-founder of Silic Tech

03 / Technology → industrial customer

Dr. Sarah Sajedi

Co-founder · Industrial commercialisation

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An entrepreneur and environmental-technology executive with three decades of experience building technical products for industrial customers.

  • Co-founder and CEO of ERA Environmental, established in 1995
  • Built and commercialised compliance software used across manufacturing industries
  • Experience serving major industrial organisations including automotive manufacturers
  • Leads R&D programmes spanning environmental data, software engineering, and applied AI
  • Concordia alumna and PhD candidate with a career centred on industrial qualification and customer delivery

How the team works

One development path, with ownership at every gap.

The roles are distinct, but the decisions are shared. Material design is evaluated against IP, manufacturability, qualification, and customer value from the beginning.

  1. 01

    Make the material repeatable

    Turn a promising formulation into a controlled material and electrode process that can be reproduced, measured, and improved.

    Primary owner · Ebrahim Feyzi

  2. 02

    Make the technology defensible

    Translate experimental learning into an IP and scale-up strategy that can survive technical diligence and support licensing or manufacture.

    Primary owner · Prof. Karim Zaghib

  3. 03

    Make an industrial customer say yes

    Build the qualification path, commercial relationship, and delivery discipline required for an industrial buyer to adopt a new material.

    Primary owner · Dr. Sarah Sajedi

Values

What we hold ourselves to.

Scientific integrity

Targets are labelled as targets. Estimates are labelled as estimates. The distinction is not negotiable.

Innovation

Material architecture is the lever. We work at the length scale where the problem actually lives.

Performance

Capacity that does not survive cycling is not capacity. We optimise for what remains after hundreds of cycles.

Scalability

A material that cannot be made at tonnage is a publication, not a product.

Execution

Research discipline paired with the quality and process thinking that industrial manufacturing demands.

Collaboration

Cell manufacturers, OEMs, and material partners hold knowledge we need. We build with them, not around them.

Sustainability

The climate case for this material is energy density.

Batteries are how electrification and renewable generation actually get delivered. Storing more energy in less material is the contribution we can credibly make; so that is the one we claim.

  • More energy in less material

    A higher-capacity anode stores more energy per unit of mass and volume. That can mean fewer cells, less inactive material, and a lighter pack for the same delivered energy.

  • An abundant material base

    Silicon and carbon are among the most abundant elements available to industry, and are less exposed to the concentrated supply chains that constrain some battery materials.

  • Built for existing factories

    Designing for conventional electrode coating and roll-to-roll lines means adoption need not require building new plant; avoided capital is avoided embodied impact.

  • Supporting electrification

    Transport electrification and renewable integration are both constrained by storage. Improving the anode is one lever on that constraint.

  • Scalable, not laboratory-only

    A material that only works at gram scale changes nothing. Process scalability is treated as a design requirement from the start, not a later problem.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal sits inside one of the more deliberate battery-materials ecosystems in North America; hydroelectric power, an established research base in electrochemistry, and active public investment in the battery supply chain.