The company
mission & history
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Our story
Spectro Inlets was founded in November 2016 by a team of engineers from the Technical University of Denmark. The core technology, the microchip inlet system for mass spectrometers, was a result of 10 years of research and development, which we have subsequently commercialized and incorporated into our products.
Since the company’s inception, the team has steadily grown as well, while we have commercialized the microchip technology and carried out the first initial prototype sales to research facilities. In 2018, we completed the EC-MS, a turnkey analytical instrument used for electrochemical studies. Sales of this instrument have steadily increased since then.
Besides providing analytical instruments, the company has started pilot projects utilizing the technology for biogas and wastewater applications.
Vision
To make real-time, quantitative analysis accessible to everyone, everywhere, so no reaction is a black box.
Mission
Spectro Inlets builds high-performance mass spectrometry instruments that give electrochemistry and battery researchers real-time, quantitative insight into their reactions, and we are extending that same capability into industrial bio-manufacturing processes through in-line mass spectrometry, enabling researchers and engineers to push the boundaries of green energy and sustainable manufacturing.
History
2026
Commercialization of the microchip
First prototype sales to research institutions
2025
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2024
Now 47 scientific publications based on the EC-MS. See them all in our publication list: Publications
2023
The EC-MS Premium is launched and is a EC-MS for both electrochemistry and battery research
2022
More than 25 research publications have been made using the EC-MS
2020
Development of commercial version of analytical instrument for industrial process monitoring
2019
Successful pilot projects in biogas and wastewater
Vækstfonden and a consortium of private investors invest
2018
Development of analytical instrument for R&D applications
Spectro Biogas coowned with E.ON is established
2017
Commercialization of the microchip
First prototype sales to research institutions
2016
Based on discovery by the founders and DTU professors Ib Chorkendorff, and Peter Vesborg
Academic validation and patent application
Investors
Spectro Inlets investors and partners include leading Danish and international funds supporting our mission to accelerate real-time electrochemical analysis.