The Bill Gates-backed startup uses AI to comb through massive data sets in an attempt to find more critical minerals.

KoBold, a US mining startup backed by billionaire investors including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, raised $537 million in its latest funding round, the company said. The funding round, co-led by ...

KoBold, which has raised $1bn to date, is among the western mining companies seeking to compete with Chinese rivals to produce metals such as copper, lithium and nickel. The metals are used in ...

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• Efficient Resource Utilization: AI optimizes resource extraction, ensuring minimal waste. For example, ore sorting ...

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CES 2025 showcased AI as the headline theme, but tangible innovation was scarce. Infinite Reality raised $3B, KoBold Metals ...

with Zambia receiving the lion's share," KoBold's CEO and co-founder Kurt House said to the Financial Times. With 60 active projects across continents, including partnerships with mining giants ...

To date, it has raised $1 billion. In February, KoBold teamed up with Canada’s Midnight Sun Mining (TSXV: MMA) to explore the Zambian Copperbelt. Midnight Sun’s project lies just a few ...

KoBold Metals, the US-based mining startup backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has raised $537m in a Series C funding round. Led by Durable Capital Partners and T. Rowe Price funds ...

Few industries are as ripe for technological disruption as mining. The business is famously risky: only about three in every 1,000 potential deposits are commercially viable. KoBold, which was ...