New Atlas · May 2026
Profiles Earth AI as an Australian-founded, US-headquartered exploration company using AI and proprietary low-disturbance drilling to find critical minerals and earn revenue from successful projects.
Predictive Explorer and Driller for Critical Metal Deposits
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Overview
EARTH AI is a vertically integrated critical-minerals exploration company that uses its proprietary Mineral Targeting Platform (MTP) plus in-house drilling and lab operations to discover, validate, and advance mineral projects, mainly in Australia, and then monetize successful projects through partnerships and royalties.
Primary product
Mineral Targeting Platform (MTP) / Mineral Discovery Engine
Founded
2017
Headquarters
San Mateo, California, United States (some public profiles list San Francisco)
Team size
11-50
Industry
Mining
Sub-industry
critical minerals exploration and mining technology
Offices
San Mateo, California, United States
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Stanmore, NSW 2048, Australia
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
project discovery and validation
project partnerships / alliances
royalty participation from mine revenue
Funding
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$51M
Latest round
Series B · Jan 2025
Latest amount
$20M
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO/CTO
Chief Operating Officer
Independent Director and Executive Advisor / Non Executive Director & Investor
Chief Financial Officer
Serhii Kliuchkovskyi
Lead Engineer
Holly Davine
Head of Business Operations
Work & culture
Public materials describe a fast-paced, collaborative, vertically integrated team that mixes AI, geology, drilling, and hardware, with an explicit emphasis on employee wellbeing and a supportive, friendly work environment.
Compensation
Public job ads mention pay such as AUD 80,000 for a Junior Geologist and AUD 80,000-95,000 for a Graduate AI Engineer, plus quarterly performance bonuses and other benefits; some roles also highlight competitive pay.
Benefits
competitive salary
quarterly performance bonuses
team lunches
company retreats
professional development support
relocation opportunity to Sydney
fast-tracked career growth
hands-on field exploration experience
outdoor / remote field work
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; Earth AI appears to monetize through project discovery, partner/alliance development, rights transfer or sale of successful discoveries, and royalties from mine revenue.
Differentiators
- —Proprietary MTP trained on 400 million geological sites
- —Vertically integrated discovery-to-development workflow
- —Own drilling fleet running year-round
- —In-house lab analysis to cut turnaround time
- —Low-disturbance, modular drilling systems for remote environments
Technology
Mineral Targeting Platform (MTP)
machine learning / AI models trained on geological data
400 million geological sites as training data
geophysical drones
diamond core drilling
modular low-disturbance drilling systems
in-house geochemical / lab analysis
QGIS
ArcGIS
Competitors
KoBold Metals
Vention
Jetti Resources
Fathom Radiant
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Latest news
TechCrunch · Apr 2026
Reports that Earth AI is bringing lab analysis in-house to reduce sample processing time from five months to five days, while still using third-party validation for final mine-economics decisions.
PRNewswire · Jan 2025
Earth AI announced a $20M Series B led by Tamarack Global and Cantos Ventures; proceeds were aimed at AI and drilling technology development and project discovery.
Latitude Media · Jan 2025
Covers the Series B and the company’s vertical integration strategy for faster mineral discovery.
TechCrunch · Aug 2019
Describes an earlier financing round and notes previous seed backing from AirTree Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, and angel investors before the Y Combinator cohort period.
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