About us
A wireless-energy company.
We develop technologies and products that capture the energy already around us and turn it into electricity to power devices — reducing the dependence on cables and batteries, and changing the way devices are designed and used.
Founded in 2018, Antiwire has a technology validated at industrial scale and protected by intellectual property in several countries, and offers the KIWI chip family to the companies building the products of the future.
Free humanity from cables and batteries.
To be the global standard in wireless energy for small devices.
Our thesis
The constraint
The era of small devices is already here.
And with it, an energy problem.
Watches, bands, earbuds, glasses, sensors, tags, cameras, mice, keyboards — billions of them, and no going back. They all still depend on a battery and a cable, and that is what holds back their design and stops full mobility at scale.
125 billion devices
Connected devices are expected to reach 125 billion globally by 2033. Every one of them needs power that never runs out.
The battery is a design problem
The battery sets the size, the shape, the weight and the lifespan of the product — and adds a hatch, a charging port and a replacement schedule. At this scale, it also becomes an impossible maintenance cost.
The cable is a design problem too
Cables decide where a device is allowed to exist. Good design cannot start from the nearest outlet.
The answer
Energy that is already there.
Machines generate electromagnetic fields. Spaces are lit. Objects are in motion. We are surrounded by energy that, until now, has barely been used to power electronic devices.
We believe the next generation of devices will be powered by harnessing the energy available all around us.
So we developed technologies and chips that capture, convert and reuse that energy — making it possible to build devices that run without cables, without chargers, without frequent battery changes and, in many applications, without any battery at all.
Milestones
- IBBX is founded to solve a problem that had no solution — with a new equation for the electromagnetic near field. First patents filed.
- The measurement method is published at IEEE ARGENCON and IEEE EMC Europe. First rights granted.
- Proof at industrial scale, solving real problems: thousands of self-powered devices at 100+ companies, plus self-powered public lighting on poles, highways and tunnels.
- From a board to a component: KIWI ONE, a 10 × 10 × 3 mm part that takes the place of the voltage regulator.
- Antiwire becomes a pure technology company: we no longer run operations — we develop technology. The chip, the licence and the R&D core remain.
- Onto monolithic silicon, with higher power envelopes and the next KIWI generations.
Intellectual property
The Antiwire™ platform — capture, resonance, conversion and energy management — is protected as a patent portfolio built since 2019.
- Electromagnetic energy capture and conversion
- Virtual ground — capture efficiency
- Resonance generator — field tuning
- Electrically small antenna
- Near-field transmission and reception
- DC switching and storage optimisation
Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, plus PCT filings. ANTIWIRE is registered under the Madrid Protocol; KIWI ONE® and Antiwire™ are trademarks of IBBX LLC. The full register, with numbers, status and terms, is available to partners and investors on request.
Leadership
The people who built the technology — and stay with it.
Luiz Fernando Destro
Co-founder & CEOInventor and researcher in applied electromagnetism. Author of scientific papers, IEEE member and holder of 8 patents.
Guilherme Prado
Late co-founder · StrategyFounding partner of Citrino Gestão, the reference investor in IBBX. He now devotes most of his time to IBBX: company and product-portfolio strategy, capital structure, investor relations and technology licensing.
Manuel Perez
Head of HardwarePhD in Electronics, former UNICAMP professor. Deep expertise in semiconductors and hardware.
André Stigliani
Head of SoftwareExperience in large-scale software platforms, IoT and embedded-to-cloud integration.
A team of engineers and scientists with doctoral and master's degrees in electromagnetics, RF, semiconductors and firmware.
Board
A board built for a semiconductor licensing company — it pairs semiconductor and global-market operators with investors who have built and scaled technology companies in Latin America.
Rafael Steinhauser
Former CEO, Qualcomm and Cisco (LatAm)Semiconductors and global technology markets — the closest analogue to the business IBBX is becoming.
Marcelo Cabral
Partner, Citrino VenturesInvestor and shareholder, with global market experience across the fund's portfolio. Former director and CEO of large corporations and Brazil's Secretary of Agricultural Policy.
André Penha
Founder, QuintoAndarBuilt one of the most valuable technology companies in Latin America from scratch.
Carlos Filgueiras
Among LatAm's top CEOs (Forbes)Serial entrepreneur with extensive operational leadership experience in large organisations.
