SPIN Storage Systems

SPIN produces high efficiency flywheels that provide more economical and less environmentally harmful grid storage capacity than Li-ion or flow batteries.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Burlingame, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2011
  • Employees 4
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website spinstorage.systems

Company Summary

SPIN is an energy storage company. Our 1st product is a high-speed, low-cost, carbon fiber flywheel, spinning on a non-contact magnetic suspension inside a vacuum chamber. Over the past 7 years we have invested $5M to complete 5 generations and are starting the design and fabrication of production units. Unlike all competing products, it requires zero maintenance, contains no toxic or strategic materials, is nonflammable, and is 100% recyclable.

Team

  • Roy McDonald
    CEO

    Experienced and successful serial entrepreneur. My technical partner, Jon Garber, and I launched the world's first private rocket (Dolphin, 1984), webcam (QuickCam, 2005) and virtual server (tied with VMWare and now MSFT HyperV). Now we are building the first high-efficiency flywheel for grid storage

  • Jonathan Garber
    CTO

    Experienced and successful serial inventor. My business partner, Roy McDonald, and I launched the world's first private rocket (Dolphin, 1984), webcam (QuickCam, 2005) and virtual server (tied with VMWare and now MSFT HyperV). Now we are building the first high-efficiency flywheel for grid storage.

  • Frank Levinson
    Chairman of the Board

    Frank is the founder and former CTO of Finisar and the lead investor through Small World Group,

Previous Investors

  • Jonathan Garber
    Unconfirmed

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