Mariana Minerals
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Category: Professional
Status: Presently engaged; Series B
Problem
Every leap in human flourishing has been unlocked by a critical material crossing from scarce to abundant. Cheap steel built the industrial world, cheap aluminum gave us flight, cheap energy illuminated the night. Today the materials that matter most for electrification, energy storage, defense, and computing are still scarce, expensive, and locked behind brittle supply chains. The constraint on the next era of abundance is the cost of the inputs.
Solution
Mariana is building the autonomous supply chain for critical metals. We design software-first, vertically integrated mines and refineries that drive down the cost of the metals the modern world runs on. We apply the same wedge across all of them: autonomy and software collapsing the cost and complexity that have always kept these metals scarce and costly. Make the inputs cheap and the flourishing follows.
I am the Head of Special Projects, reporting to the CEO. I own end-to-end execution of the company's high-stakes, ambiguous, future-oriented problems.