Fintech & Payments
1849 bio
Engineering microbes for miners to unlock billions in trapped metal
1849 bio designs microbes enabling cheap metal extraction allowing miners to unlock value from low quality copper and gold ores. Surprisingly, the mining industry is one of the largest scale users of biotech in the world with biomining processes accounting for ~1% of global copper production. Biomining is ultra-low cost, running around…
- Industrials
- Hard Tech
- Synthetic Biology
- Website
- 1849.bio
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Team size
- 2-10 people
- Founded
- 2024
- Demo
- 15 min demo
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