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Mangrove Lithium, a Vancouver based Company, has developed a breakthrough platform for the most cost-effective production of battery grade lithium hydroxide from diverse input streams and assets. Mangrove’s modular solution can be scaled to any capacity and co-located with upstream lithium producers or cathode and cell manufacturers. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water.

Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by harnessing advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. Our groundbreaking technology platform leverages customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and other essential minerals with unprecedented selectivity while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. By tailoring our adsorbent to bind selectively to individual elements, even at low concentrations in complex mixtures, Alta is positioned to expand access to the building blocks of electric vehicles, advanced electronics, defense technologies, and more. Altas approach is built on technology licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and co-developed with collaborators including researchers at Pennsylvania State University. With support from top investors including DCVC and Voyager, government agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense, and the state of Colorado, Alta aims to catalyze a mining technology revolution, secure critical mineral supply chains, and enhance U.S. competitiveness in the 21st-century economy.

Oneka develops and commercializes autonomous desalination systems that use the power of the waves to make fresh water. After seven generations of systems, we have demonstrated the functioning and performance of the technology. A demonstrator is currently installed and producing fresh water at our test facility of the shore of Port Saint-Lucie, Florida. Join the subscription list on our website or add us on LinkedIn to stay tuned.

Our Next Energy (ONE) is paving the way for an electric future, innovating energy storage technologies that will rapidly expand the world’s ability to access sustainable power for vehicles, renewables, and the grid. We are showing the world what’s possible, rapidly clearing hurdles that stand in the way of mass clean energy adoption: extending range, increasing safety, lowering cost and, of course, using the cleanest chemistries.

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Electra is decarbonizing iron and steelmaking to eliminate 3.7 gigatons or 10% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Leveraging proven industrial-scale electrochemical and hydrometallurgical processes, and backed by leading sustainability-focused venture capitalists, our team is developing lower cost, scalable solutions utilizing renewable energy to forge a cleaner, greener future for the trillion-dollar steel industry. With a uniquely collaborative culture, endless passion for developing disruptive technologies, and the opportunity to revolutionize carbon-intensive manufacturing industries, careers at Electra offer challenge, reward, and the chance to bring to market solutions that dramatically improve the health of the planet.

Ohmiums mission is to accelerate the adoption of green hydrogen to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors and enable a low-carbon future.   Ohmium designs, manufactures and deploys modular, scalable proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems that enable cost-competitive green hydrogen production. Ohmium’s systems are vertically-stackable and integrate advanced power electronics, delivering superior value for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications in terms of safety, energy density, scalability and ramp rate. The human-scale electrolyzers are efficient to manufacture, quick to transport and easy to maintain. This versatility enables cost-effective plug-and-play operations that can scale rapidly. Ohmium has a global green hydrogen project pipeline across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Asia.

Founded in January 2020, Carbonwave (previously C-Combinator) is the worlds leading developer of ultra-regenerative, plant-based, advanced biomaterials from seaweed. It transforms Sargassum seaweed, a resource long considered waste and that doesn’t need land or other typical aids to grow, into biomaterials which replace derivatives from oil and other harmful industry inputs. Carbonwave is part of a new wave of companies that are building the next-generation economies that will heal the planet through materials that regeneratively sourced from our oceans. Carbonwave is focused on collecting, processing and growing seaweed profitably at scale. We are marketing seaweed extracts to the agricultural industry as organic fertilizers and biostimulants; plant-based (vegan) leathers for fashion and interiors; and broad-spectrum emulsifiers with a wide range of applications across cosmetics and skin-care products.

Finding the materials of the future with AI and HI: KoBold Metals discovers the materials critical for the electric vehicle and renewable energy revolutions.

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Checkerspot is a biotechnology company designs materials and ingredients at a molecular level to enable more sustainable and high-performing products. By optimizing microalgae, Checkerspot’s vertically integrated WING™ Platform biomanufactures unique oils that are designed to not only replace commodity oils and petroleum-based inputs, but also improve performance properties in targeted hardgoods, textiles, and personal care products. Checkerspot continues to develop new biotech innovations and expand the reach of its commercialized next-generation polyurethanes and algae-derived materials to improve the performance and sustainability of consumer products.

Urban Electric Power (UEP) is a Pearl River, NY-based clean energy spin-out company of the CUNY Energy Institute, commercializing the advanced zinc anode rechargeable battery technology first developed under the direction of distinguished professor of chemical engineering, Sanjoy Banerjee, Ph.D. The UEP technology uses safe, non-toxic, 100% recyclable materials without lead, heavy metals, or flammable electrolytes, and offers substantial cost benefits compared to existing battery chemistries because of the extended cycle life, high capacity at high charge/discharge rates, and low cost of starting materials. Manufacturing UEPs line of batteries is substantially less expensive and more energy efficient than conventional lead acid battery production.

Mosaic Materials is dedicated to reducing the costs and environmental impact of fossil fuels. Mosaic utilizes proprietary metal-organic frameworks, first developed at the University of California, Berkeley, to selectively remove impurities such as CO2 from gas mixtures. Mosaic has developed a highly tunable platform, which via a novel adsorption mechanism, can be optimized to significantly improve the performance and cost of CO2 removal for a range of applications and scales, from controlling power plant emissions to pulling CO2 from the air via direct air capture

BFV is a venture capital and family office fund that works with innovators and entrepreneurs to address pain points in climate sensitive and resource limited markets in: 1. clean and efficient energy generation, infrastructure, and storage; 2. water treatment and conservation; 3. air quality; 4. food security and sustainable agriculture and 5. health care diagnostics and therapeutics. BFV’s investment strategy is based on the hypothesis that population growth up to a peak of 11 to 12 billion people (vs. 7+ billion currently) will place a tremendous burden on resource availability for a growing earth population having increasing amounts of discretionary spending capability. All nations must have access to energy, food, and water free from threat of shortages and with minimal impact on the environment. BFV defines the superordinate limitations in each market we address. BFV also applies both impactful and multidisciplinary technologies to transform the way people do things or think about things. The outcome is to realize potential for growth, crisis resilience, and strong returns. We believe that competently organized and executed multidisciplinary technologies are usually four times more likely to achieve disruptive outcomes by also changing the context, and the way we do things. An individual technology more often does not disrupt than does disrupt. When multidisciplinary technologies are combined, it is disruptive when the outcome results in new ways of making products, new businesses, or services.

Mangrove Lithium, a Vancouver based Company, has developed a breakthrough platform for the most cost-effective production of battery grade lithium hydroxide from diverse input streams and assets. Mangrove’s modular solution can be scaled to any capacity and co-located with upstream lithium producers or cathode and cell manufacturers. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water.

Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by harnessing advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. Our groundbreaking technology platform leverages customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and other essential minerals with unprecedented selectivity while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. By tailoring our adsorbent to bind selectively to individual elements, even at low concentrations in complex mixtures, Alta is positioned to expand access to the building blocks of electric vehicles, advanced electronics, defense technologies, and more. Altas approach is built on technology licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and co-developed with collaborators including researchers at Pennsylvania State University. With support from top investors including DCVC and Voyager, government agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense, and the state of Colorado, Alta aims to catalyze a mining technology revolution, secure critical mineral supply chains, and enhance U.S. competitiveness in the 21st-century economy.

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty, students and staff seek answers to complex questions, discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future. Caltechs 124-acre campus is located in Pasadena, California.

Orion Resource Partners is a global alternative investment firm dedicated to creating investment solutions for metals and materials critical to sustainable economic growth. Our in-depth sector knowledge, global operations, and extensive network uniquely position us to create tailored investment solutions across the liquidity spectrum for our institutional partners.

The U.S. Department of Energys primary national laboratory for energy systems research and development.