The company was part of the 2022 cohort of the “Innovation Crossroads” program at ORNL.Yesterday afternoon in Green Bay, WI, ahead of the National Football League’s annual draft of college football players that began at 8 p.m., there was another competition that was also held in the city, and one of the two winners was a member of the 2022 cohort of the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Ateios Systems, whose tagline is “building better batteries for a better world,” captured a $1 million investment in TitletownTech‘s first-ever start-up draft competition along with $350,000 in Microsoft Azure credits to accelerate its growth. Ateios is pioneering an approach to manufacturing next-generation, high-energy-dense, environmentally friendly battery electrodes. The company has developed a revolutionary chemistry-agnostic platform for manufacturing battery electrodes without toxic solvents or forever chemicals. Its RaiCure™ Electrode Coating technology enables dramatically faster, cleaner, and lower-cost battery production, poised to transform industries reliant on advanced energy storage.