Joi Scientific Closes Series-A Funding To Commercialize Next-Generation Hydrogen Fuel Technology

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Joi Scientific™ Inc., a clean energy company that produces hydrogen gas safely, affordably and with no carbon emissions, today announced the recent closing of its Series A Round funding. The company raised more than $5 million in the over-subscribed round.

“Joi Scientific’s Hydrogen 2.0 technology is a new approach to make hydrogen a practical, clean and cost competitive energy source. It is no longer just an energy carrier.”

The funds will be used to advance the product development and commercialization of its proprietary Hydrogen 2.0™ technology. Hydrogen 2.0 is the world’s first on-demand hydrogen production process based on the clean and cost-effective extraction of hydrogen from water at the point-of-use.

“Hydrogen has proven too costly and carbon-intensive to extract, and too expensive and cumbersome to safely transport and store. Until now, the production and use of hydrogen as a fuel have been neither practical nor very clean,” explained Traver Kennedy, Chairman and CEO of Joi Scientific. “Joi Scientific’s Hydrogen 2.0 technology is a new approach to make hydrogen a practical, clean and cost competitive energy source. It is no longer just an energy carrier.”

Lead investor in Joi Scientific is Silicon Valley veteran Dean S. Woodman, who opened Merrill Lynch’s first satellite investment banking office in San Francisco in 1965 and co-founded investment bank Robertson Colman Stephens and Woodman in 1978. More recently, he was a co-founder and seed round investor of his son’s sports camera company, GoPro, Inc. Woodman has been joined by a number of private capital sources in Joi Scientific’s multi-million, Series-A funding

“As an impact investor, I seek to back organizations with potentially disruptive ideas that can fundamentally change the world,” states Dean Woodman, of Woodman Family Investments LLC, “Joi Scientific is a company that can change the world quite significantly. It is inevitable that hydrogen will be the fuel of the future, as it is abundant and clean. But to get there, we needed to solve the major challenges of delivering economical, on-site production—and Joi Scientific has done exactly that.”

Additional information about Joi Scientific, the company’s technology and its customers will be available later in 2016. Learn more about the team behind Joi Scientific and Hydrogen 2.0 at www.joiscientific.com/the-team

About Joi Scientific

Joi Scientific was founded by a group of global business leaders, technologists and social entrepreneurs who believe that plentiful hydrogen holds the key to giving the world a viable, no-compromise energy alternative. The company’s Hydrogen 2.0 solution is the world’s first hydrogen production process that is on-demand, economically competitive, and environmentally neutral. The company is licensing its Hydrogen 2.0 technologies to a wide range of major power industries including electrical generation, heat generation, transportation, and specialty power. Joi Scientific is headquartered at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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