KoBold Metals

KoBold Metals (operating via koboldmetals.com) is a pioneering artificial intelligence and mineral exploration powerhouse engineered to accelerate the discovery of critical battery metals necessary for the global transition to clean energy. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the enterprise fundamentally disrupts traditional mining by deploying proprietary AI models, predictive data systems, and novel hardware sensors to locate deep, concealed deposits of copper, lithium, nickel, and cobalt. Moving far beyond the manual, capital-intensive exploration techniques of yesteryear, KoBold natively unifies world-class data scientists, software engineers, and renowned geoscientists to guide decisions across its owned-and-operated exploration programs. The company has rapidly scaled to become both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the leading exploration technology developer globally, managing a massive portfolio of over 60 active projects across four continents—including the world-class Mingomba copper deposit in Zambia. Backed by a historic consortium of top-tier institutional investors and technology venture capitalists including Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, T. Rowe Price, and BHP, KoBold operates with over $1 billion in funding. Under the hood, its technology core utilizes machine learning architectures, statistical subsurface modeling, and a massive centralized database of the Earth's crust to reduce exploration uncertainty and drastically lower the capital required for new discoveries. Capturing massive market acceleration, KoBold Metals remains a definitive cornerstone of the electric vehicle and renewable energy supply chain, transforming mineral exploration from a high-risk guessing game into a predictable, repeatable science.