📍 1 Triton Square, London NW1 3BF
From circular economy breakthroughs to sovereign supply chain design, a new generation of startups, researchers and policy makers are rewriting the rules of how we source, recover, and reuse the materials underpinning everything from clean energy to quantum, nuclear, and advanced manufacturing.
Join us to discuss how demand for critical minerals is opening up opportunities for innovation.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Our Thursday Gatherings are for you to make serendipitous connections and make things happen!
There will be meaningful networking opportunities throughout the night, accompanied by a selection of refreshments and activities:
Fun Zone
Get to know your fellow change-makers in a fun, interactive, and exciting way!
Take a quick break from changing the world and recharge by pinning your hometown on our giant map.
Conversation Corner
Looking to connect beyond the name tags?
Drop into our relaxed Conversation Corner, a cosy space where founders, ecosystem builders, and global thinkers come together to share stories, swap lessons, and innovate. Grab a drink, pull up a chair, and jump into the discussion.
Meet startups working at the forefront of critical minerals, including:
ENV Energy - a drop-in, cobalt-free cathode material that solves the performance, safety, and supply chain bottlenecks facing current-generation Li-ion batteries
Metal Morph - recovers spent aluminium and iron-based chemicals from water and wastewater treatment for recycling back into treatment
Universal Atmosphere Processing (UAP) - UAP's Atmospheric Processor® uses plasma-based electromagnetic separation to extract target species by mass, directly from ambient air.
LanthaGen Bio - a Manchester-based deep-tech biotechnology company developing sustainable, synthetic-biology-enabled methods to recover rare earth and other critical metals from waste streams.
Welcome remarks from Venture Café London and partners
Join us to hear from Felix Martin about his work on the 'National Bill of Materials for Net Zero' Project.
The project has aimed to figure out the material requirements of the UK's energy transition and what risks and opportunities these generate for the UK economy.
He will present some of thier outputs and findings, including a tool to visualise material requirements for the UK's energy infrastructure across a range of scenarios.
Join us for our feature panel to explore how insights into what minerals are a bottleneck or risk-point for startups, how current founders are working to secure the future of UK minerals and materials, and how organisations such as ARIA are funding potential opportunities within the material world.
Chloe is an interdisciplinary scientist turned investor, backing research-intensive companies in life sciences and deep tech at pre-seed to Series A.
Felix is a Lead Engineer at Warwick Manufacturing Group which in an academic faculty of the University of Warwick and a member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult Network. My background is in Industrial Decarbonisation, Energy Efficiency and Energy Systems Modelling
José has been working in deeptech startups since the age of 15, with a core interest in materials integration and manufacturing resilience. He spent 8 years in a startup he co-founded, taking a dual-use material technology from TRL 0 to 6, and driving the deployment of physics-based AI/ML into production lines. He has a PhD in solid state physics from Imperial College London.
📍 1 Triton Square, London NW1 3BF
From circular economy breakthroughs to sovereign supply chain design, a new generation of startups, researchers and policy makers are rewriting the rules of how we source, recover, and reuse the materials underpinning everything from clean energy to quantum, nuclear, and advanced manufacturing.
Join us to discuss how demand for critical minerals is opening up opportunities for innovation.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Our Thursday Gatherings are for you to make serendipitous connections and make things happen!
There will be meaningful networking opportunities throughout the night, accompanied by a selection of refreshments and activities:
Fun Zone
Get to know your fellow change-makers in a fun, interactive, and exciting way!
Take a quick break from changing the world and recharge by pinning your hometown on our giant map.
Conversation Corner
Looking to connect beyond the name tags?
Drop into our relaxed Conversation Corner, a cosy space where founders, ecosystem builders, and global thinkers come together to share stories, swap lessons, and innovate. Grab a drink, pull up a chair, and jump into the discussion.
Meet startups working at the forefront of critical minerals, including:
ENV Energy - a drop-in, cobalt-free cathode material that solves the performance, safety, and supply chain bottlenecks facing current-generation Li-ion batteries
Metal Morph - recovers spent aluminium and iron-based chemicals from water and wastewater treatment for recycling back into treatment
Universal Atmosphere Processing (UAP) - UAP's Atmospheric Processor® uses plasma-based electromagnetic separation to extract target species by mass, directly from ambient air.
LanthaGen Bio - a Manchester-based deep-tech biotechnology company developing sustainable, synthetic-biology-enabled methods to recover rare earth and other critical metals from waste streams.
Welcome remarks from Venture Café London and partners
Join us to hear from Felix Martin about his work on the 'National Bill of Materials for Net Zero' Project.
The project has aimed to figure out the material requirements of the UK's energy transition and what risks and opportunities these generate for the UK economy.
He will present some of thier outputs and findings, including a tool to visualise material requirements for the UK's energy infrastructure across a range of scenarios.
Join us for our feature panel to explore how insights into what minerals are a bottleneck or risk-point for startups, how current founders are working to secure the future of UK minerals and materials, and how organisations such as ARIA are funding potential opportunities within the material world.
Chloe is an interdisciplinary scientist turned investor, backing research-intensive companies in life sciences and deep tech at pre-seed to Series A.
Felix is a Lead Engineer at Warwick Manufacturing Group which in an academic faculty of the University of Warwick and a member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult Network. My background is in Industrial Decarbonisation, Energy Efficiency and Energy Systems Modelling
José has been working in deeptech startups since the age of 15, with a core interest in materials integration and manufacturing resilience. He spent 8 years in a startup he co-founded, taking a dual-use material technology from TRL 0 to 6, and driving the deployment of physics-based AI/ML into production lines. He has a PhD in solid state physics from Imperial College London.