Chaitanya Sharma

Nascent Materials

BIOGRAPHY

Chaitanya Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Nascent Materials, a battery materials company developing next-generation cathode technologies. He previously served as the CEO of iM3NY, where he led the build-out of a lithium-ion gigafactory and raised over $160 million. Earlier, he held leadership roles at Tesla, contributing to Gigafactory design and manufacturing optimization.

Chaitanya brings deep expertise across the battery value chain, with a background in energy systems, project development, and scaling industrial operations.