Critical Materials
Materials for the Next Era
Building resilient access to the minerals and advanced materials that underpin modern life, industry and invention.
Investment Partners
Ideas for a world
worth living in.
We partner with high-agency people building the foundations for humanity to thrive, create and imagine what comes next.
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Back the builders.
Enable possibility.
Progress begins with people who refuse to accept that the future is fixed. We invest in high-agency founders and essential systems—from critical materials and energy to tools that expand human creativity.
01High agency
People with the clarity, courage and will to turn difficult ideas into reality.
02Essential foundations
Materials, energy and infrastructure that make human progress possible.
03Human flourishing
Technology in service of creativity, abundance and lives well lived.
Areas of focus
The foundations
of possibility.
Growth equity
Energy
Abundant Energy Systems
Backing technologies that make reliable, affordable and cleaner energy available wherever human ambition takes root.
Human Potential
Tools for Creativity
Investing in the platforms and technologies that give people greater agency to imagine, create and build.
Ideas & insights
Our latest
thinking.
Perspective 01
Agency is the scarce resource
Why the people who see possibility and act on it are the foundation of meaningful progress.
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The material foundations of human progress
Critical materials and abundant energy are not ends in themselves—they are what make invention possible.
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Investing in a world worth living in
A long-term view of technology, creativity and the systems that allow human beings to flourish.
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Let's build what
comes next.
We welcome conversations with founders, management teams and long-term partners.
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