California Catalysts, formerly H2U Technologies

California Catalysts, formerly H2U Technologies, is the world’s premier developer of advanced materials for electrolysis. Our company was founded to commercialize the $122M of DOE grants to Caltech and other research institutions that made up the ambitious JCAP program. In exclusively licensing the high-throughput catalyst discovery engine (CDE) from Caltech, our founder Prof. Nate Lewis sought to bring next-generation catalysts from the lab to the field. Over the past four years we’ve accomplished that goal by entering joint development agreements with leading electrolyzer manufacturers, growing IP through AI and experimentation, and bringing novel non-iridium OER catalysts and PTL coatings to market under our own brand.