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Cobaltry

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Battery health passports for second-life EV packs

Climate & energyScaleGermany
Active users
60
Paying customers
320

The problem

Used EV batteries are scrapped or sold blind because buyers can't verify how much capacity is left in each pack.

The solution

Cobaltry gives them a simple product that fixes this end to end, priced for small teams and live within a day of signing up.

Who it's for

Small and mid-sized organisations in our home market first.

Market

Bottom-up: ~40k target customers at ~$1,500 a year.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Spreadsheets and enterprise suites that are too heavy for this segment.

Why this team wins

Founders lived this problem for years and already have the first customers lined up.

The team

Lea spent years on the customer side of this problem; Emre built the technical core at a previous company.

Worked together
1–3 years

About the founder

Lea Hoffmann

CEO & co-founder · Germany · 6 years of experience

Previously built products in climate & energy for six years; started Cobaltry after seeing the problem first-hand.

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