Atana Elements Raises $27.5M Seed for Critical Minerals
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Atana Elements, a critical minerals exploration company based in Houston, Texas, has announced a $27.5 million Seed round. The financing was announced on June 2, 2026, and was led by Lowercarbon Capital.
A long list of investors joined the round, including Borusan Ventures, Earthshot Ventures, Overture Ventures, Redwoods Climate Capital, Sunna Ventures, Verve Ventures, Volta Energy Technologies, and WovenEarth, among others. The capital will fund Atana’s continued acquisition of qualified, high-quality mineral assets around the world. The company has already licensed prospective lithium resources exceeding 100 million tonnes LCE across the EU and the Americas.
Atana focuses on flowing mineral systems, including lithium brines, hydrogen, helium, and emerging extraction methods for copper and uranium. It combines advanced geoscience, AI and machine learning, and operational expertise drawn from the oil and gas and technology sectors to identify and de-risk large-scale mineral resources in jurisdictions that meet Western security and investment requirements.
CEO and founder Tom Wilson’s team previously drove the discovery, appraisal, and divestment of a top-10 global lithium brine asset in 2025, realizing a nearly 5x return on investment in three years.