LiquidPiston

First wholly new combustion engine / cycle in 85+ years

Last Funded March 2019

$2,188,466

raised from 1,201 investors
Entering UAV market with rotary engine for drones
Last updated December 2018

Highlights

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Raised $1.29M from 727 investors on Wefunder in 2017. 
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Since then, DARPA awarded a Phase 2 $2.5M development contract in October 2017, a follow-on to our 2 DoD contracts, totaling $5.5M in non-dilutive funding. 
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New engine architecture could improve fuel efficiency by up to 2x over a gasoline engine while reducing size and weight by up to 10x over a diesel engine.
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45 patents issued or pending in the U.S. and internationally.

Our Team

Entrepreneur, R&D technology developer/program manager, and technical specialist, with experience in applying his knowledge to living neuronal networks to robots to internal combustion engines.
Nikolay ShkolnikCTO
Ph.D., Physics, General Relativity. Winner of Motorola Award for Creativity. Former clean energy program manager and TRIZ specialist, at GEN3 Partners.

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