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Redwood Materials Revenue, Valuation, Funding & Investors
Redwood Materials is valued at $6B as of October 2025, a 30.0x revenue multiple. Redwood Materials revenue was $200M, as disclosed with its latest round.
Last Redwood Materials valuation
$6B
Series E · Oct 2025
Last Redwood Materials funding round
$425M
Series E · Oct 2025
Redwood Materials revenue
$200M
Series E · Oct 2025
Key investors in Redwood Materials
Capricorn Investment Group
Goldman Sachs
T. Rowe Price
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Climate Pledge Fund
Fidelity
About Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials is a Carson City, Nevada company that recycles lithium-ion batteries and battery manufacturing scrap, refines the recovered metals and produces battery materials, and has expanded into grid-scale energy storage built from retired electric vehicle batteries. It was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, a co-founder and former chief technology officer of Tesla, and processes scrap from Panasonic's Nevada battery plant. Customers buy recovered cobalt, nickel, copper and lithium and cathode active material produced at its Nevada and South Carolina sites. Investors include Capricorn, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, T. Rowe Price, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Baillie Gifford, Eclipse, NVentures and Google. It raised a Series E of 425 million dollars that closed in January 2026 at a valuation reported above 6 billion dollars, and it reported about 200 million dollars of revenue in 2024. In 2023 it bought the German recycler Redux Recycling to start European operations.
Founded
2017
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Services
Revenue
$200M (Oct 2025)
Valuation
$6B (Oct 2025)
Redwood Materials Valuation
Redwood Materials is currently valued at $6B, based on its Series E in October 2025. Read the announcement ↗
The $425M round was led by Eclipse Ventures, with participation from NVentures, Goldman Sachs, Capricorn Investment Group and Alphabet.
Redwood Materials' valuation has grown 1.6x from $3.7B at its Series C in July 2021 to $6B in October 2025, across 3 priced rounds.
Redwood Materials valuation by funding round
Revenue multiple| Date | Stage | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Series E | $6B | 30.0x |
| Aug 2023 | Series D | $5B | 25.0x |
| Jul 2021 | Series C | $3.7B | - |
Redwood Materials Revenue
Redwood Materials' latest recorded revenue is $200M, as of its Series E in October 2025. At a $6B valuation, that implies a 30.0x revenue multiple.
Revenue moved from $200M in August 2023 to $200M in October 2025, while the revenue multiple moved from 25.0x to 30.0x.
Redwood Materials revenue by funding round
| Date | Revenue * | Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | $200M | $6B | 30.0x | Series E |
| Aug 2023 | $200M | $5B | 25.0x | Series D |
* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.
Redwood Materials Funding History
Redwood Materials has raised a total of $2.2B across 5 funding rounds.
Redwood Materials' first fundraising round was a $2M seed round in April 2017. The most recent completed round was a $425M Series E in October 2025.
Redwood Materials funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Series E | Eclipse Ventures (lead); NVentures; Goldman Sachs; Capricorn Investment Group; Alphabet | $425M | $6B | Redwood Materials, founded in 2017 by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel and headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, specializes in battery recycling, cathode production, and materials for the electric vehicle supply chain sustainability, while expanding into energy storage solutions. The company recovers over 70% of used or discarded battery packs in North America, stockpiling more than 1 gigawatt-hour of batteries for repurposing as of June 2025, with plans to deploy 20 gigawatt-hours of grid-scale storage by 2028. Its new Redwood Energy business ties retired EV batteries to renewable sources like wind and solar to power AI data centers and industrial sites off-grid or connected to the grid, natural gas, or future nuclear. On October 23-24, 2025, Redwood Materials raised $350 million in an initial Series E funding round, led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from Nvidia's NVentures and others like T. Rowe Price, achieving a post-money valuation of $6 billion—up from $5 billion previously according to some reports. The company later announced a final close bringing the total Series E to $425 million. Funds are allocated to accelerate energy storage deployments, expand refining and materials production capacity, and grow engineering and operations teams amid the AI data center power boom. Redwood, with over 1,500 employees, entered unicorn status in 2021 and positions itself in the CleanTech sector to meet surging demand for scalable, reliable power from repurposed EV batteries. This round underscores investor confidence in its execution, supply chain innovations, and pivot to high-growth energy storage for AI infrastructure, differentiating it from pure recycling peers by creating value from battery second-life applications. |
| Aug 2023 | Series D | Capricorn Investment Group (lead); Goldman Sachs (lead); OMERS Private Equity; Future Positive; Caterpillar; T. Rowe Price; Deepwater Asset Management; Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund; Leitmotif | $1B | $5B | Redwood Materials, a battery recycling and materials company founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, closed a Series D funding round raising over $1 billion on August 29, 2023. The round was co-led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund, with participation from T. Rowe Price Associates, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Deepwater Asset Management, Caterpillar, and others including OMERS and Future Positive (per investor lists). It achieved a post-money valuation over $5 billion, bringing total equity raised to over $2 billion plus a $2 billion DOE loan commitment. The funds support expansion of Redwood's U.S. battery supply chain, including a 175-acre recycling facility in Sparks, Nevada for anode copper foil production starting end-2023, and a 600-acre campus near Charleston, South Carolina for cathode and anode materials remanufacturing. Panasonic is an early customer for copper foil from Tesla Gigafactory scrap recycling since 2019. The round aligns with U.S. efforts to onshore battery production amid electrification growth. |
| Jul 2021 | Series C | T. Rowe Price (lead); Baillie Gifford; Emerson Collective; Fidelity; Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Thirdbase Capital; CPP Investments; Goldman Sachs; Valor Equity Partners; Climate Pledge Fund; Capricorn Investment Group; Franklin Templeton | $775M | $3.7B | Redwood Materials, founded in 2017 by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, focuses on battery recycling and creating a sustainable, closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicle battery materials in the US. On July 28, 2021, the company announced a Series C funding round of more than $700 million (reported as $775M in some sources), led by T. Rowe Price with participation from Baillie Gifford, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, Climate Pledge Fund, CPP Investments, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Putnam Premier IT, Thirdbase Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. The post-money valuation reached $3.7 billion according to sources familiar with the deal, enabling expansion of operations from Carson City, Nevada, including tripling facility size and building a new site, creating over 500 jobs. This funding built on prior rounds, including a $40M Series B in 2020, positioning Redwood to scale production of battery materials domestically amid growing demand for EV supply chains. |
| Sep 2020 | Undisclosed stage | Climate Pledge Fund (lead); Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Amazon; Capricorn Investment Group | $40M | - | Redwood Materials is a battery recycling company founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel that develops and commercializes technologies for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and e-waste into high-value metals and chemicals including cobalt, nickel, lithium, and copper. The company's mission is to build a closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicle batteries that reduces environmental impact and feeds recycled materials back into battery production. In September 2020, Redwood Materials received its first major investment from Amazon's newly launched Climate Pledge Fund as one of five inaugural companies. The company also raised $40 million in the same period from Capricorn Investment Group and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an environmental fund backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. The company had recently emerged from stealth mode and was testing its recycling process with scrap materials from Panasonic's operations at Gigafactory Nevada while establishing recycling partnerships. |
| Apr 2017 | Seed | - | $2M | - | Redwood Materials received its first outside funding in 2017, the year JB Straubel founded the company after serving as chief technology officer of Tesla. The early money funded the start of work on recycling lithium-ion batteries and the scrap generated by battery manufacturing, a business that grew out of Straubel's experience building the Gigafactory supply chain. Redwood began with a small team in Carson City, Nevada, processing battery production scrap and end-of-life cells to recover cobalt, nickel, copper and lithium for reuse in new cells. Over the following years it signed supply and recycling arrangements with Panasonic and other cell makers and raised increasingly large rounds, including $40 million in 2020, more than $700 million in July 2021 and more than $1 billion in 2023. The company describes its aim as a closed-loop domestic supply chain for electric vehicle battery materials. |
Who has invested in Redwood Materials?
22 investors have backed Redwood Materials across its funding rounds, including Capricorn Investment Group, Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund and Fidelity.
Lead investors include Eclipse Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price and Climate Pledge Fund.
Redwood Materials Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Lead | Sep 2020 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Jul 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2020 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Jul 2021 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Sep 2020 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Jul 2021 | ||
| 1 | Lead | Oct 2025 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Jul 2021 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2023 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2023 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Jul 2021 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Sep 2020 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Oct 2025 | ||
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Start Free TrialAcquisitions by Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials has acquired 1 company to date.
Last acquisition by Redwood Materials was on September 19th 2023. Redwood Materials acquired REDUX Recycling for undisclosed valuation.
Latest Acquisitions by Redwood Materials
| Description | REDUX Recycling is a German specialist in lithium-ion battery recycling, processing end-of-life cells from smartphones, electric vehicles, e-bikes, and power tools. The company recovers valuable metals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel through hydrometallurgical methods at its facilities in Nordenham. REDUX serves battery producers and electronics manufacturers across Europe amid rising electric mobility demand. |
| HQ Country | |
| HQ City | Bremerhaven |
| Deal Date | 19 Sep 2023 |
| Valuation | undisclosed |
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Redwood Materials Competitors
Redwood Materials competitors include listed companies like Canmax Technologies, Jinko Solar, Ecopro and Tongwei, and private ones like EcoCeres and SVOLT.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | - | - | $1.5B | - | ||
| Publicly listed | $1.1B | $163M | $4.2B | 2.1x | ||
| Publicly listed | $9.8B | $35M | $5.8B | 1.0x | ||
| Private | $273M | - | $6.7B | 24.5x | ||
| Publicly listed | $2.6B | $62M | $7.3B | - | ||
| Publicly listed | $13B | $464M | $7.5B | 1.5x |
Redwood Materials Public Comps
Redwood Materials is still privately-owned, but its public comps include Casella, Jinko Solar, EnerSys, Baosight, Grupo FCC, Enagas, Royal Vopak, Kingfa Sci & Tec Co, Umicore and Ecopro.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $1.8B | $369M | 4.0x | 3.6x | 19.9x | 15.7x | |||
| $9.8B | $35M | 0.9x | 1.0x | 242.1x | 12.4x | |||
| $3.8B | $511M | 1.7x | 1.6x | 12.3x | 9.1x | |||
| $1.6B | $283M | 3.4x | 3.1x | 19.6x | 17.0x | |||
| $11B | $1.5B | 0.9x | 0.8x | 6.5x | 5.4x | |||
| $1.1B | $818M | 7.5x | 8.2x | 9.9x | 11.3x | |||
| $1.5B | $1.3B | 7.1x | 6.7x | 8.0x | 8.6x | |||
| $9.8B | $723M | 0.8x | 0.8x | 11.4x | 11.9x | |||
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Common questions about Redwood Materials
| When was Redwood Materials founded? | Redwood Materials was founded in 2017. |
| Where is Redwood Materials headquartered? | Redwood Materials is headquartered in Carson City, NV, United States. |
| Is Redwood Materials publicly listed? | No, Redwood Materials is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Redwood Materials' valuation? | Redwood Materials was last valued at $6B in its Series E in October 2025. |
| How much funding has Redwood Materials raised? | Redwood Materials has raised $2.2B across 5 funding rounds. |
| What was Redwood Materials' last funding round? | Redwood Materials' last funding round was a $425M Series E in October 2025, led by Eclipse Ventures. |
| Who are Redwood Materials' investors? | Redwood Materials' investors include Capricorn Investment Group, Goldman Sachs, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Climate Pledge Fund, Baillie Gifford, Eclipse Ventures, Emerson Collective, OMERS Private Equity, Future Positive and 12 others. |
| What is Redwood Materials' revenue? | Redwood Materials' latest recorded revenue is $200M (October 2025). |
| What is Redwood Materials' revenue multiple? | Redwood Materials' latest valuation implies a 30.0x revenue multiple ($6B valuation on $200M of revenue). |
| Which companies are comparable to Redwood Materials? | Companies comparable to Redwood Materials include EcoCeres, Canmax Technologies, Jinko Solar, SVOLT, Ecopro and Tongwei. |
| How many companies has Redwood Materials acquired? | Redwood Materials has acquired 1 company, including REDUX Recycling. |
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