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C-Motive Technologies is expanding its team in preparation for scaling motor development and commercial efforts in late 2025 and throughout 2026.

C-Motive’s high-efficiency machines completely shatter the status quo. Learn how this is possible in the article by Steve Bush, technology editor at Electronics Weekly.

C-Motive Technologies has successfully closed a $13.5 million fundraising round. With this funding, C-Motive plans to catalyze the next phase of commercial development and move to pilot production.

The Wisconsin Investment Fund, a $100 million public-private venture capital initiative launched in 2024, has already backed 12 innovative Wisconsin companies to help them grow and stay in the state.

C-Motive was chosen by Grid Catalyst to complete a demo project with Summit Brewing in Saint Paul.

C-Motive is bringing Benjamin Franklin’s 18th-century idea of an electrostatic motor into the 21st century with proprietary fluid and power electronics—technology now being piloted by FedEx and Rockwell that experts say could be truly disruptive for industrial automation.

Christopher Mims from the Wall Street Journal covers C-Motive’s motors and their influence from Ben Franklin’s early work with electrostatic machines.

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are developing a new kind of electrostatic machine that could finally make it practical to harness the immense, untapped energy of ocean waves and tides.

C-Motive Technologies is pioneering large-scale electrostatic motors—built from abundant, sustainable materials—that could rival conventional magnetic machines while eliminating reliance on rare-earth elements and costly metals.

C-Motive Technologies Inc. disclosed that Milwaukee’s Rockwell Automation participated in the Middleton electrostatic motor company’s latest capital raise, which totaled about $5.5 million.

C-Motive proudly unveiled the world’s first electrostatic motor platform at the Rockwell Automation Fair in Boston, demonstrating how high-efficiency, sustainable motors can transform industrial applications while eliminating reliance on critical materials.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s EPIC Prize awarded over $160,000 to five clean energy startups—including C-Motive—for pioneering innovations that move breakthrough technologies from the lab to market.

C-Motive, a Madison startup that’s building a new kind of electric motor, announced it has raised a new round of funding to help it grow.