Group14 Engineering, PBC Competitors

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. Our ambition: We want to be the preferred chemical company to enable our customers’ green transformation. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 108,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises, as core businesses, the segments Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, and Nutrition & Care; our standalone businesses are bundled in the segments Surface Technologies and Agricultural Solutions. Optimism is what drives all human beings. At BASF, this motivates us every day to develop solutions for the greatest challenges of our time – so we can better protect the climate, make optimal use of limited resources and provide food, energy and clean water for a booming world population. Our Research Focus: Overcoming the challenges of our time As a global leader in chemical R&D, BASF develops solutions for a sustainable future. Our research helps secure safe, high-quality food, advances cleaner and safer mobility through battery materials, and supports a circular economy with biobased products and new recycling processes. We also drive climate-smart production by improving energy efficiency, expanding renewable energy use and developing CO2-free technologies such as methane pyrolysis. Across hundreds of projects worldwide, our researchers help customers meet changing needs, regulations and sustainability goals. BASF generated sales of around €60 billion in 2025. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the United States. Credits: https://www.basf.com/global/en/legal/credits Data protection information: https://www.basf.com/global/en/legal/data-protection-at-basf.html

Lyten is powering critical infrastructure. A sovereign energy platform powering everything from gigawatt-scale AI data centers to physical AI at the edge for defense. Founded in 2015, Lyten is a global leader in manufacturing lithium-sulfur batteries and advanced three-dimensional graphene supermaterials. It has raised over $625 million in equity funding and has signed letters of intent for $650 million in financing from the Export-Import Bank of the US. Lyten is a private company with over 1,000 investors, including Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, Prime Movers Lab, the European Investment Fund and the Luxembourg Future Fund. No external investor holds more than a 5% stake in the company, and all significant investors are based in North America and Europe. Lyten’s board comprises members from the US and Europe. The US headquarters are in San Jose, California, and the European headquarters are in Luxembourg. The company holds over 1,000 granted or pending patents and currently manufactures lithium-sulfur batteries from domestic raw materials in San Jose, California, for customers in the drone, autonomous systems, and defense sectors, whilst also operating Europe’s largest energy storage systems manufacturing facility in Gdańsk, Poland. Lyten has a growing portfolio of products utilizing the 3D Graphene supermaterials platform across the concrete, additive manufacturing, motorsport and defense sectors. Lyten was ranked by *Fast Company* as the 8th most innovative energy company and featured on *Time* magazine’s list of the best US green technology companies in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and in 2025, for the third consecutive year, it was included in the Silicon Valley Defense Journal’s list of the 100 best national security companies.

QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower-carbon future.