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Manufacturing · Berkeley, California · Formation stage

RareTerra

Transforming rare earth production with biotechnology, delivering low-cost, American-made minerals that power national defense, energy, advanced communications, and consumer technologies

Review noteUC Berkeley spinout using engineered microbes to recover and separate rare earth elements without acid hydrometallurgy; grant-funded (Activate fellowship, NSF SBIR Phase I of $303,808 confirmed on sbir.gov and USAspending) and little known.

Edge

13#144 · ▼18 in 7d

1 of 8 families

Why now

  1. First federal award on record, $304K NSF SBIR Phase I: Assessing and Enhancing Microbiological Rare Earth…

    Capital · Aug 12

People

  • Nathan GoodSearch ↗

    Principal investigator, NSF SBIR Phase I

Score

Momentum19

 

Capital

Thesis fit96

× 0.97

Matched on critical mineral, defense, energy, industrial, manufacturer

Earliness100

× 1.00

Almost no public footprint

Team–

× 0.85

1 named person, none from a top lab or company

19 × 0.97 × 1.00 × 0.85 × 0.85 one family only = 13

Edge, 12 weeks