Ampulse, Corp.

Ampulse is a “virtual” company that has been spun out of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to commercialize flexible thin-film photovoltaic technologies. Battelle Ventures and its affiliate fund, Knoxville, Tenn.-based Innovation Valley Partners (IVP) provided more than $1 million in pre-seed funding and IVP General Partner Glenn Kline is interim CEO. (See deal announcement.)