While headlines tend to focus on batteries, gigafactories, and AI infrastructure, a quieter constraint is tightening: the discovery of the raw materials that make them all possible.
Paris-based startup Lithosquare, which has just raised $25 million from World Fund, Kindred Capital, Daphni, and Omnes Capital, is positioning itself at that exact pressure point. Its promise is ambitious: use AI to significantly accelerate the discovery of new mineral deposits.
The question is whether software can meaningfully shift one of the slowest, most uncertain processes in the industrial world.