Reinventing Battery Manufacturing: Dry Printing, Domestic Supply Chains & the Future of Energy Storage, Hosted by ffVC Fund #7
Webinar #3 – Reinventing Battery Manufacturing: Dry Printing, Domestic Supply Chains & the Future of Energy Storage
Join us for the third installment of our exclusive energy investment update series as we spotlight a transformative shift in how batteries are made. This session features Robert Bagheri, Founder and CEO of Sakuu, a leading provider of commercial-scale equipment and technologies to the battery manufacturing industry that is reimagining how energy storage systems are built at scale.
Sakuu is pioneering a multi-material, dry-printing process that slashes manufacturing steps, reduces material waste, and significantly lowers costs, offering a breakthrough approach for the future of battery production.
Key Takeaways
🧪 The Next Frontier in Battery Manufacturing
Explore how Sakuu’s dry-printing platform reduces factory footprints by 60%, cuts capital costs by 20%, and slashes material waste to <1%.
📦 Rethinking the Supply Chain
Learn how fully U.S.-based production and a redesigned supply chain model can strengthen domestic energy independence.
🔋 Why Incumbents Hesitate—and Why Innovation Matters
Understand the tension between legacy manufacturers and next-gen approaches—and why the transition is inevitable.
📈 Market Trends & Investment Opportunities
Hear insights from a founder on the frontlines about where the battery market is headed, and what investors should be watching.
🌍 Sustainable and Scalable
See how rethinking manufacturing can reduce carbon emissions by over 50%—without compromising performance or profitability.
Don’t miss this conversation with one of the most innovative leaders in the battery space.
About our speakers:
Robert Bagheri, Robert Bagheri, CEO and co-founder of Sakuu, brings over four decades of leadership in the technology
industry, specializing in semiconductors. With a successful track record, including three IPOs and four high-value sell-side acquisitions, Robert has held top executive roles in seven startup teams.
Prior to Sakuu, he served as CEO and chairman at Telewave, an international radio technology company. Earlier, as COO of EoPlex, he played a key role in developing 3D High Volume Additive Manufacturing (HVAM). His extensive experience also includes EVP positions at Zenverge, Applied Micro Circuit, Silicon Image, and SiRF Technology.
With a focus on disruptive product positioning, Robert leads Sakuu’s growth in additive manufacturing equipment for battery innovation and global energy storage. His proven ability to bring complex semiconductor products to market efficiently has resulted in billions in revenue and successful turnarounds, as seen during his tenure at EoPlex. Under his guidance, Sakuu aims to be the global leader in additive-manufactured energy storage production technology.
John Frankel, Founding Partner at ff Venture Capital
John Frankel is a technology investor. He is passionate about working with founders that are building the big businesses of tomorrow.
He founded ff Venture Capital in 2008 to work with founders who share this vision, which has since funded over 150 seed and early-stage companies that have in turn created thousands of jobs and impacted the lives of millions. While ff Venture Capital’s investments span a number of industries, John is currently fascinated by applied artificial intelligence, encompassing drones, robotics, and financial services technology.
Over the years, John has served on the boards of over sixty companies as well as the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, to help in further fostering the New York City ecosystem.
Prior to founding ffVC, John had a long career at Goldman Sachs in a variety of roles that involved technology development, business reengineering, and capital markets. He has had the unique opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading investors, and as a result has developed a keen understanding of emerging technologies and portfolio risk/return management.
After graduating from New College Oxford in 1982 with a Masters in Mathematics and Philosophy, John worked at Arthur Anderson and qualified as a Fellow Chartered Accountant. Today, John enjoys traveling and is blessed with a large and growing family.
Moderator: Michael J. Woods, President & Managing Member of Woods Capital, LLC
Woods Capital, a global financial advisory firm, is exclusively focused upon institutionally based financial structures and modeling, capital solutions and real estate development. Innovation, Infrastructure and Impact are Woods Capital’s three business verticals of expertise.
Michael is a partner of Carbon Quest Solutions, an environmental credit advisory firm based in Chicago and Dubai. Michael is a board member of Roman DBDR, a SPAC specialist focused on structuring projects for innovative technology companies and also a board member of the CROVER Group, based in Sri Lanka, a global real estate firm focused upon building resort communities. Michael is also a Senior Advisor of KingsRock Advisors in New York City, a network of former Deutsche Bankers focused on capital and financial solutions, structural complexity and originating unique investment opportunities.
Michael previously served as the CEO & COO of Rothschild & Co. Asset Management U.S., Inc., and Global Partner of Rothschild & Co. Prior to Rothschild & Co., Mr. Woods served as CEO of DWS Investments and Head of the Americas, Global Client Group, for Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.
Mr. Woods is the Chair of the Long Island Chapter for Tiger 21, a global peer-to-peer learning community of entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and investors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors, and the Chair of the Finance Committee for the Business Council for International Understanding based in New York City and Washington, DC, and a Board Member and Chair of the Development and Communications Committee of The Korea Society based in New York City. Mr. Woods is a member of both The Leadership Council and the Small Business Technology Council for the National Small Business Association (NSBA) in the U.S., and a member of the Global Executive Consultation Group of the Blue Dot Network, a division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris. Mr. Woods is a 2018 honoree of the “New York Responsible 100 Award” and a member within the “Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs Magazine” for 2023. He previously served on the Board of Directors of The New York Metropolitan Opera, The Children's Village in New York City and The Big Brothers Big Sisters Organization of Massachusetts Bay. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Taylor University located in Upland, Indiana, where he is a member of their Board of Visitors. Mr. Woods resides on Long Island, NY, with his wife, Jennifer, and twin daughters.