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June 12, 2024
Swift Solar announces $27 million Series A funding round
San Carlos, CA – June 12, 2024 – Swift Solar, a pioneering American solar technology company, today announced the close...
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May 16, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy selects Swift Solar for $7M award
Swift Solar was selected for the largest award for perovskites under the Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics funding program—$7M to...
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April 24, 2024
Leading U.S. solar manufacturers seek new tariffs
Swift Solar joined Qcells, First Solar, and other leading solar manufacturers in a new antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petition filed with...
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March 5, 2024
TIME names Swift Solar one of the Top Greentech Companies in America
We’re proud to be listed as the top solar technology company and among the top 15 of 250 leading climatetech...
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January 15, 2024
MIT Tech Review highlights Swift Solar in race to bring next-generation solar technology to market
MIT Technology Review chose “super-efficient” perovskite tandem solar cells as one of its top 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024. Their...
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October 6, 2021
Swift Solar awarded CA Energy Commission BRIDGE grant to power next-generation electric vehicles with solar
On October 6, the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced new funding awards under its “BRIDGE 2020: Bringing Rapid Innovation Development...
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April 22, 2021
Swift Solar highlighted in MIT climate symposium on research collaborations to decarbonize the energy system
This engagement forum, “Research collaborations to decarbonize the energy system,” was conceived as an opportunity for the MIT community to...
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December 15, 2020
PV Magazine: Swift Solar secures financing to expand its perovskite R&D
Solar PV technology company Swift Solar said it secured more than $8 million in Series Seed 2 funding, with an...
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Press Releases
December 15, 2020
Swift Solar Secures Over $8M in Series Seed 2 Funding with Climate Tech and Deep Tech Investors
SAN CARLOS, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Solar PV technology company Swift Solar announced today that it secured more than $8 million in...
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Blog Entries
December 15, 2020
With Series Seed 2 Round, Climate Tech Leaders Advance the Future of Solar
This month Swift Solar is closing a Series Seed-2 financing round, with expected new investments totaling $9.6M. In this Seed-2...
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November 18, 2020
Three Swift co-founders named on 2020 Global Highly Cited Researchers list
Swift co-founders Tomas Leijtens, Giles Eperon, and Sam Stranks were named on this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list. The list,...
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October 13, 2020
E&E News: This solar panel can go on drones, car roofs
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have come up with a new solar photovoltaic technology. It uses materials...
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October 8, 2020
PV Magazine: Swift Solar looks to reinvigorate and push the perovskite market forward
Currently, several other companies are targeting single-junction perovskite panels and perovskite-silicon tandems, but Swift Solar is the only one developing...
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September 30, 2020
Swift Solar and NREL receive 2020 R&D 100 Award for lightweight perovskite solar technology
National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s all-perovskite tandem technology could open up an entirely new solar-energy application: vehicles powered directly by photovoltaics...
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September 1, 2020
Swift co-founder Sam Stranks: How a new solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation
The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in...
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May 20, 2020
MIT Energy Initiative: Startup with MITEI roots develops lightweight solar panels
Joel Jean PhD ’17 spent two years working on The Future of Solar Energy, a report published by the MIT Energy...
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April 30, 2020
BBC News: A breakthrough approaches for solar power
According to Max Hoerantner, co-founder of Swift Solar, a San Francisco start-up, there are only about 10 start-up firms in...
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April 29, 2020
Swift Solar, NREL, and other perovskite industry players launch US-MAP consortium for U.S. perovskite manufacturing
“Perovskites have the potential to become a game-changer for solar and many other fields,” said Martin Keller, director of NREL....
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January 16, 2020
Swift co-founder Max Hoerantner featured on leading Austrian startup and technology news site
(Translated from German) Swift Solar: How an Austrian builds a solar startup in Silicon Valley He was at ETH Zurich,...
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June 26, 2019
NREL awarded $745K for DOE Technology Commercialization Fund project with Swift Solar
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received more than $3.2 million from the Technology Commercialization Fund within the U.S. Department...
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