Presently, electrical devices are used everywhere. If you visit any place, you can see half of the place is decorated with electrical devices. Additionally, the Indian government is focusing on promoting the use of electric vehicles all over India by 2030. Electric devices like Electric vehicles are shaping the future. However, the functionality of these devices is depending upon the battery. We can say that the battery is the heart of any electrical device. Therefore, battery management is most important for its better functionality. ION Energy is a well-known platform for advanced battery management for powering energy storage systems. Especially, electric vehicles. Also, it focused on technology that is essential to improve the performance and life of lithium-ion batteries. However, ION Energy is the culmination of Akhil Aryan’s childhood fascination with electrons as well as energy.
What is ION Energy?
ION Energy is an energy management company. Especially, it focused on electric battery management. Also, work on technologies that help to increase the life of lithium-ion batteries. In fact, ION energy provides the complete tool kit to build and manage world-class batteries. However, its main purpose is to provide high-performance batteries all over the world. Indirectly enabling electrical mobility and boosting the sustainability of clean energy.
Recently, the company launched UDYR. It’s their flagship battery that is built around Electro-Mechanical assembly and their proprietary BMS.
The backstory of ION Energy foundation
Since childhood, Akhil Aryan is very fascinated by electrons and energy. He is always curious about the fact that everything we can see or not is made up of atoms. Also, he was well-known to the fact that electric energy is the future. However, the Indian government was promoting the use of Electrical vehicles all over the country. So, it was a great opportunity to set up a business in this field. But he realized that rather than developing electric vehicles, it is important to make them sustainable and efficient. As a result, he set up an energy management company called ION Energy in 2017.
Akhil Aryan is a well-known serial entrepreneur. Because he successfully handled the establishment of miscellaneous companies across three continents. He founded ION Energy back in 2017 with the vision of eco-friendly energy management.
Early Life
Akhil Aryan- ION Energy founder
Akhil Aryan is Born and brought up in Mumbai. In fact, he spent most of the time at a young age amongst Mumbai’s ambitious hustlers. During the teenage, he was one of the children that could not remain idle for a minute. He was fascinated with technical stuff. In mid of the 90s, his father brought a computer for him. So, it was the golden opportunity that helped his curious mind to learn technology. After a very short time, he built production software. At that time, Akhil was just 14 years old. He earned a degree in financial markets from Mumbai University.
Career
At the age of 16, he did an internship at L Nagpal Developers. During the internship, he helped to generate one-million-dollar sales with his innovative idea. After that, he wanted to work at IGSL. This company was well-known for its advisory and trading services in cash. Also, derivatives equity & debt market, commodities as well as currency futures. However, his mother felt that he should complete his education first. Thus, to work with IGSL, Akhil had to promise his mother that he will complete his graduation. Akhil represented during the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO). In fact, its IPO was oversubscribed 4.5 times.
Other start-ups of Akhil Aryan
Akhil is the successful founder of several miscellaneous companies across the world. In fact, he co-founded the first company at the age of 18. Presently, he is handling many businesses successfully. Other than ION energy, he actively runs his other start-ups in various fields. Includes, technical training, finance as well as software developments.
ION Education
It is an education space technology company. Akhil co-founded the company in 2010 with the help of Shanay Shah. In fact, it is the first interactive training institute in India that provides training in the Financial market and real-estate. Also, ION education promotes entrepreneurship as well as provide training. At starting, the company successfully trains more than 1300 students in one year. In addition, Ion education helps students to get industrial exposure by means of an internship.
OneShop
In 2013, he started working on OneShop. OneShop provides a platform to add store to blogs or websites. It is started in San Francisco. But after the company won a SIRIUS program, it shifted to London. However, it helped Aryan to set his network in Europe.
Haptik
In 2015, Akhil returned to his motherland India. That time, he was consulting with some of the start-ups related to the ecosystem. He realized, conversational AI has scope in the future. As a result, he co-founded Haptik to provide a service of conversational AI. Today, it is the largest conversational AI platform in the world. Presently, it handles more than 3 million AI conversations per month.
Jayshri is an Electronics Engineer, but her passion towards writing made her to be in this field. Apart from content writing, she loves reading, writing and surfing on various topics. In her free time, she likes to watch TV series and news. Sherlock Holmes is her all time favorite show. Jayshri loves cooking various Indian-western dishes.