Breathe is a supplier of adaptive charging software for batteries, with Volvo Cars as its most recent customer. Testing, said Breathe, indicates that its algorithms will reduce electric Volvo charge time by 15-30% between 10 to 80% state-of-charge, while maintaining the same energy density and range.
Cordonnier has joined Breathe from private-equity backed technology companies Native Instruments and Deezer where he served as CFO, and before that he was an investor at Access Industries and an investment banking associate at Morgan Stanley.
“He has two decades of experience in financial leadership,” according to Breath. Cordonnier’s “experience at Native Instruments, which blends software, hardware and creativity to create experiences, positions him perfectly to drive similar outcomes for Breathe”.
The rest of the management team are the company’s founders: CEO Ian Campbell, CTO Yan Zhao and chief scientist Professor Gregory Offer.
The company was spun out of Imperial College in 2019 with battery charging intellectual property that controls battery current in real-time. It describes its products as physics-based, and responding to both state-of-charge and state-of-health.
It has $10m series A funding led by Lowercarbon Capital, with participation from Speedinvest who led Breathe’s seed round in 2019. Volvo Cars Tech Fund invested in March.
Cordonnier began his career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers after earning an MSc in mechanical engineering at San Jose State University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
